It’s far too convenient for me to be angry at an inanimate object for my coworker’s shortcomings, or some other nonsense that ignores the fact that apathy drives adoption more than anything else.

Damn, what’s c/memes going to post about now?

The lesson I took away wasn’t that open source always wins. It was that once an open platform that people can customize becomes the industry’s center of gravity, no single vendor can match the combined rate of innovation around it.

Isn’t that the main reason why “open source always wins”? What do old industry folk think made open source software so prevalent in the modern software landscape if not explicitly this reason? We can debate security, archival, extended support, but at the end of the day isn’t this the explicitly the main reason? Centralized development efforts for a greater good?

Unfortunately a large part of marketing is people believing that others do not wish to be informed about such things. They just want to see “number move in good direction.” The stats unfortunately prove that. Most marketing material now is basically lying through omission.

There’s still valid concern about this being a foot in the door tactic. Once an OS complies with this request what will the next one be? Why should this even be allowed?

Either way though, the reddit citation is a bit unnerving.

Ah, makes sense it would be targeted twards banking and financial businesses specifically. Better pinch point than some random commerce. In that case audits would be less problematic, though I’m not sure why outsourcing this data is even an option with the current rules. It’s not like a business can be completely hands off in the acquisition or processing of that info.

I’m uninformed about this, but do KYC laws come into effect at some profit point or are they globally enforced. I don’t see how any small businesses could possibly afford a 3rd party audit, or how that would even scale. I agree it’s necessary, but logistically it seems problematic.

Ironically, my first instinct to opening that page and seeing it’s unusual layout and density on mobile was to switch to the reader view. Immediately getting hit with the cyphertext output. Cool, I guess.

And what do you think that polling rate was to fill up a 512 GB SD card? It’s all speculation but this isn’t a super collider, we shouldn’t need sub second polling of a vehicle that can only move 5.6 km/h.

This is so dumb, how could anyone at the FCC even humor such a request?

“Please help us, we overcomplicated billing and don’t want to explain it to anyone”

Honestly surprised nobody has tried to sell some bolt on diffusing/screen mask for this reason

The problem here being these payment processors are global and none of this is illegal in the jurisdictions affected. This regional blocking, while nice, shouldn’t even need to be a “solution” to this. It’s a sledgehammer “solution” to something that was never enough of an issue for actual legislation.

Edit: clarify point

Well, to be fair the 10 series was actually an impressive improvement to what was available. Since then I switched to AMD for better SW support. I know since then the improvements have dwindled.

Those have all been replaced with em dashes (—)

Why? They are just bringing to light the tools already being used by corps behind closed doors.

Edit: Seems the author wants to paint a different picture. Either extreme CYA or you were correct.

Nah man, waterfall technique applies to everything.

I could never write essays by hand. Too often I would write out a paragraph just to read it, break it up, and subsequently rewrite both parts.

Or override the TERM variable in your ssh config. Setting it to an xterm value has been supported by any niche term I’ve used over the years without sacrificing any of the usual functions.

Arch. Started using it in high school. Never had a reason to switch. Now I’m just regularly frustrated by other distros trying to make things easier by abstracting simple configurations behind layers of custom scripts.

AUR, when I can. I run my own binary package repo. App images are an interesting concept, but usually they are compiled against ancient versions of glibc for increased compatibility. Optimizations and CVE patches may or may not be applied, LD lookups are longer, etc.