After all theyโve done to ensure their usersโ privacy, I would be genuinely shocked if they capitulate to just this one country.
Of course they wonโt.
The problem happens when other countries start following the precedent and too many of them make the same ask. There are parallel processes in the UK, and at the EU level.
UNO Reverse Card?
No, you confess and repent.
Originally called Phoenix, since it was Netscape Navigator, reborn.
But Phoenix Technologies disliked that, so they renamed to a descriptive name for the same immortal bird โ Firebird.
The Firebird database people would have none of that, so after a few-months gap between 0.x releases, they found the closest thing they possibly could which was not trademarked. It had nothing to do with the original name idea, fire being a weak link.
And weโve been stuck with that stupid name for two decades.
- ad blockers are not โon youtubeโ, they are on my devices
based
- allowed by whom?
checked
- fuck you
and redpilled
Are these kids real? The entire page is startupy in-jokes. Or?
We help brands on Shopify sell subscriptions (+more in the future).
Trillies, not billies. Unicorn means nothing. We aim for kermit ($1T+ valuation).
Quotes his 2M+ views on yt.
Hacker news people full of โbut iPhone is cheaper on TCOโ
No, itโs not. I buy a good Android, replace the software with a Free ROM, and ride it more than half a decade, updates and all.
Putting your own OS is just an unbeatable feature.
Love the comment!
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It happens in mine with the same combination of sounds, a case of iotation. Many words which have a โchโ sound in them arose as contractions of โt-yโ or โk-yโ, which we write as โฤโ and โฤโ respectively.
Iโd just like to interject for a moment. What youโre refering to as streaming, is in fact, piracy/streaming, or as Iโve recently taken to calling it, piracy plus streaming.
As in, run GPG like you already do on important emails? mind == blown
You can go a step further and do Diffie-Hellman on a pocket calculator for key agreement. Authentication is left as an exercise for the reader tho.
Configure the languages, then:
// LineageOS
Ughhh long storyโฆ
It was the height of the Desktop era. Everything ran locally, and that meant Windows. OS X just got started. Everyone was predicting smartphones, but they were a decade out (note time travellers: drop the fucking stylus). Linux was unbelievably shit. Very few drivers, you had to carefully pick your hardware. External devices were a luxury. Printing mostly didnโt work, USB printing was bragging rights. You had to buy modems with a hardware DAC, else it was done in the driver which worked only on Windows. GTK kinda just went from v1 to v2, everything looked 10 years outdated, and even Firefox had glitchy UI on Linux. If you could insert a CD and get it to show up without manually mounting, you were staring into the future.
The Web was on hold, Microsoft having won the browsers wars pt. 1, and proceeding to stall with Internet Explorer 6, correctly predicting that browsers would compete with their hegemony in the client space. There were no services: GMail and Youtube were just getting started. You ran local programs, and there were barely any for Linux. The choice was between booting Windows and dicking with cracks from Astalavista, and booting Linux to rice your E16, then staring at it. General productivity software was almost non-existent โ you had a dozen compilers and interpreters instead. Where Iโm from, banking required desktop software which required windows, not to mention smart cards, which also required windows.
This was made worse by the proprietary formats, which were the key to maintaining stranglehold. Everyone was emailing .docs around, which you could sometimes open with Abiword or maybe dump just the text and Antiword. Even the PDF viewers were a bit crap. Had to submit a report? You probably booted Windows in a virtual machine to use Office, and the CPU was yet to add instructions helping with that. Media was even worse; everything was MPEG and required royalties. LAME Ainโt an MP3 Encoder because it wasnโt allowed to be. RIAA/MPAA were fighting hard to keep you buying physical shit. Meanwhile, you could only play Tux Racer and Nethack.
Around that time, Microsoft was about to introduce Palladium, an attestation chain rooted in hardware. Everyone was despairing about the same future: in 3-5 years, Microsoft would use it to pull in and segregate an increasing portion of the Internet, until the whole became their walled garden. Hope that sounds familiar.
Meanwhile, older penguins just didnโt give a fuck. They simply didnโt use the shit they couldnโt use, and missed none of it. They worked to extend what they had, the digital commons.
No one could stand TVs, so as an act of disobedience, we invented p2p piracy. Napster, DC, torrents โ which are alive and kicking. Xiph gave no fucks and started working on free media codecs. Vorbis became CELT became OPUS. Tarkin became Daala became (merged into) AV1. Youtube is now serving OPUS and VP9 or AV1; our best codecs trace their lineage to DIY stuff done to avoid proprietary formats. H.266 can, and will, fuck off. PDF is everywhere. Jimbo started Wikipedia. Flash went away. The modern web happened. Linux grew up and I donโt even notice Iโm using it. Free software ate nonfree in most domains; the gardens are now walled through access, not by being built on proprietary stacks. Massive progress happened.
Now that the digital world runs on services โ which were a clever ruse to subvert old free software (Google runs on Linux, remember?) โ someone is threatening to close a few pipes. So what? Just look at the fucking size of those commons that we have created. Someone will claw back some of thatโฆ and? Worst case, we lose a few ways to waste our time, of which we have hundreds. Retract from the mainstream a little, again. Have some difficulties using a few services. Be careful which hardware we buy. Oh noez.
Shit changes constantly. Companies battle relentlessly to undercut one another. We invent workarounds and grow our knowledge. Relax, get yourself LineageOS+MicroG or GrapheneOS or even a Fairphone; get a Framework; use Fediverse; get off those services and sail the high seas where needed; use Linux+Firefox if you arenโt already; touch grass; and if someone tries to force you into extracting rent โ refuse it.
Persist.
It comes in cycles. 20 years ago, it was a struggle to maintain your digital freedom. 10 years ago, when everyone was basking in free software and low interest rates, it was quite easy. The industry is contracting again, so itโs going to be harder to do so while using commercial offerings. But we will find ways and the cycle will repeat.
Persist.
zsh
Occasionally oil for neovim.
OUT.
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And then there are heroes we donโt deserve, but sorely need: git.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan.