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I hate to side with big tech, but they’re not wrong… DNS poisoning is ineffective when pirate sites can just change domains, and users can just change DNS provider or use a VPN. It’s a cat and mouse race that’ll be ultimately impossible to win
Damn, I meant quint but put quad by accident. Should’ve known better.
Though Pentafecta is actually way better
The only thing I disagree with here is Win8 being apparently better than Win10.
Win8 was really damn annoying to use without a touchscreen, and while Win8.1 did help, Win10 was by far the better implementation of PC Metro IMO.
Having said that, Win11 is exactly where it needs to be. It’s all of Win10’s worst traits cranked up to 11 with a heaping of it’s own bullshit and spyware on top
Congratulations to Suigi getting the quadfecta! After watching Karl’s videos on Suigi’s 120 and 70 star records, I knew it only had to be a matter of time until he’d conquer them all.
Instead of focusing on external threats and concerns, legal streaming platforms themselves could make the most progress by changing their pricing.
Among all self-proclaimed Norwegian pirates, the most common reasons to stop were more affordable legal streaming services (41%) and the availability of a broader range of content per service (35%).
It’s almost like people don’t like paying more and more for streaming services with less and less shows on them, when the pirates will offer you everything in one much smaller subscription (if not for free).
In addition, analyses with 2,969 false uniform resource locators revealed higher shares and, hence, SwoCs [Shares without Clicks] by conservatives (76.94%) than liberals (14.25%), probably because, in our dataset, the vast majority (76–82%) of them originated from conservative news domains.
Damn, never would’ve seen that one coming /s
Exactly, I’ll take boring over exciting if it means my phone will be more reliable over time.
It’s the same reason that won’t go for a foldable phone. They look cool, really cool, but moving parts means breaking parts - and if they break, they’re bloody expensive to replace.
Considering how historically ineffective age bans have been online, I’m surprised that countries keep trying for this. Telling kids, esoecually teenagers, that they’re not allowed to use social media will only make them want to use it more, and thus bypass any restrictions, defeating the purpose of the ban.
It’s like CoD being 18+ yet somehow still full of prepubescent squeakers who all apparently fucked your mother last night and have Dads who work for Xbox.
Forcing social media companies to put in place appropriate safeguards for kids who do end up on social media like this “digital duty of care” is probably more effective in the long run than playing an endless cat and mouse race.
Honestly. I’d be fine with a touchscreen for things you wouldn’t likely be adjusting on the go anyways - but basic stuff like the radio and AC/Fans should always be easy to distinguish, don’t need to look away from the road to operate buttons. Making basic stuff require touchscreen is inconvenient at best and outright dangerous at worst.
Considering even MySpace and Digg stuck around despite falling into irrelevancy, I doubt Reddit will ever truly die off…
But I suspect that even irrelevancy won’t happen anytime soon, simply because there’s no slot-in replacement for Reddit.
As much as I like the Fediverse, we’re not a slot-in replacement. Decentralisation helps make us more free, but it limits how big we can get as a platform.
You would need a centralised competitor, something like what Xitter is going through right now with BlueSky and Threads. But for as much as Spez is a piece of shit, he’s no Elon Musk just yet.
Microsoft got the grift of a century. Make Win11 so bad that people will literally pay you NOT to force them onto it! /s
Seriously though, fuck Microsoft - $30 per year to roll out the occasional security update is obscene! They can go stuff themselves with their $3 trillion market cap
There’s a really good article on Rentry.co for setting up Win10 LTSC. Though as you say, here’s not the place for that.
It is certainly true that obesity is becoming a bigger and bigger problem every year and that puttting our collective heads in the sand over it isn’t going to help any…
But I can’t say I like the idea of forcing body altering drugs on people who seek unemployment assistance, even if it’s meant to be for the sake of their health. It feels like one hell of a slippery slope.
Don’t remind then that America isn’t the world.
Also, ~999M is a whole lot less than the ~8B population we have now, so that is veritably not true
You could be right about them recycling numbers already, but 330 million < 999 million, so that wouldn’t be why
I’m surprised and concerned that a company with so little infrastructure was even allowed to hold onto so much public data in the first place, seems like they’d be fairly easy to compromise - which I guess is true curtosy of USDoD.
Trolling culture is one of the worst things to come out of the internet. We have a free to access, global encyclopaedia of information, and of course some dickheads start trying to worm AI generated nonsense into it for shits and giggles.
Of all the things to target, did they really have to go for the IA - the organisation that literally got into trouble with the man for helping children get access to books during the pandemic.
Does this hacker kick puppies and steal sweets from babies too?
Exactly this. It’s a completely arbitrary rug-pull made especially repugnant by the fact you can circumvent it quite easily with basically no loss of functionality.
While modding Win11 is a perfectly legit option for home users, it’s not for businesses - as such many, many business-spec computers will be “obsolete” once security updates for Win10 end.
Best you can hope for is that these computers pour into liquidation markets giving people the chance to buy decent quality PCs for cheap - but more likely they’ll become e-waste
Nowadays I barely use Reddit, but sometimes you end up forced to use an app, so I use Infinity with a custom API key