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josephcsible
28,561karma·8,511submissions·May 26, 2020
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Who has standing to sue them for breach of contract?
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How is that dangerous? Isn't it a good thing, because it stops rug pulls?
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That would be a good argument for Apple showing a warning every time it's powered on or something, but not for it refusing to work altogether.
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"nicer" is too subjective IMO. Both being equally authoritative is an argument to keep the one the original submitter used.
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https://x.com/samhenrigold/status/1964464940049453153
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The follow-up theremin hinge is on X too.
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This can't possibly be true, since the Linux kernel's code is GPL and approximately every tech company uses Linux.
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No, we need to only have option 1, because if option 2 exists, things like banking apps will all only run on it and will refuse to work on option 1.
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Sure, but just the regular GPLv3 would have been good enough to prevent this particular abuse.
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That's often impossible except at super-off-peak times of day when there's no oncoming cars, except if the cyclist pulls over, but for some reason they never seem to do that.
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> In the US gas taxes haven't been upped in decades But the tax is still constantly being collected even though the rate isn't going up. This is like saying electricity must be free if yo…
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It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31... …
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Which part of my post are you disagreeing with?
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Tesla performance trims are physically different, and the Track Mode switch they have can be freely turned on and off at will, so that's not equivalent to what Volkswagen is doing here.
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This seemed suspicious at first, but https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ (the original official site) confirms it's real.…
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Stripe does this to people all the time, through no fault of their own, and never seeming to get fixed. I recommend giving up trying to get reinstated and just moving to one of their competitors inste…
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> Most modern software is built upon libraries that support either Wayland or X (assuming it has a GUI), so they should be blissfully ignorant of whether their application is running under Wayland …