And if you work for a company that supports causes you don’t agree with… Move on.

I could lend out my old computer with old games installed to somebody else to use, right?

What if instead i lend my hard drive, is it still the same thing? Or what if I lend out my remote access screen sharing password to my old PC. Still the same?

Maybe the legal workaround is to game the system here a bit - forget downloading executables which feels a lot like pirating and just lend access to a system that is legally running the original license.

You are correct. Later drives sometimes had a cable select dip switch/pin or different ports on the motherboard.

Yeah there’s so many manufacturers of various connectors that it can be really tricky to nail down the exact model numbers

Looks a lot like MX23A series

https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/206/B_0094_2E_MX23A-1132557.pdf

The problem with telegram is the recent revelations that there is little to no backend privacy. So I’m not totally sure who your userbase might be?

Open source afficionados who also don’t mind random cops trolling through their contacts and messages? Seems like a rather small overlap.

Or maybe I’ve misunderstood the recent media attention that telegram has gotten or your proposal.

Naturally

I hate that my first thought is insurance will use this as a way to avoid paying out

I sure hope there is some mechanism to compensate content creators because without traffic, there will be no new articles.

Meh, your phone probably is. Also likely whatever else you use for connecting to the internet in the west too.a that irony isn’t lost on the local but we’ll educated in china, they just use a VPN. Those who aren’t educated, well, they just don’t know what’s out there.

There is a Russian captcha solver bot called xevil that costs under $100 (I think, last time I looked) that has been able to solve nearly all captchas for years. You just have to supply it with relatively expensive proxy IP addresses because Google rate limits solve attempts.

So the title of this article has been true for a long long time. Capatchas are absolutely useless except against poor or uninformed script kiddies.

Really? I think a pretty healthy portion of the land above the 30th parallel until the Arctic circle looks something like this

Huh, you’re right. I didn’t know about that. From Wikipedia:

The Chinese startup claims to have the miniature device in the pilot testing stage. Unveiled in January 2024, it is allegedly generating 100 microwatts of power and a voltage of 3V and has a lifetime of 50 years without any need for charging or maintenance.

Wonder if it microwaves your balls when it’s in your pocket too.

Either way we can dream of a future where we never have to plug in to charge again.

Soon as we can figure out micro nuclear reactors it may actually work that way!

I for one would be fine going back to the ini files of win 3.1

Yeah, if they are healthy companies they could snag some market share from one of Google’s products.

Easier to kill them early.

Whack-a-mole. Once banned, a scammer will just sign up with someone else’s ID.

I mean, that’s kinda what they are pros at already, right?

Scientifically speaking, is interesting that the Japanese meteorological department can suggest there’s a heightened risk at the moment. Maybe dangerous construction or nuclear facilities could enact some precautions or delay some activities?

But I don’t understand how that information is actionable. It looks like some beaches were closed where tsunamis could be particularly deadly.

But what are the people supposed to do? And for how long?

The article mentions that a large quake follows a 7.x quake maybe one out of several hundred times.

So is Japan going to issue these warnings hundreds of times before there’s any result? That is kind of the definition of a warning that people ignore.

This poster asked some questions in good faith, I don’t understand the downvotes when there’s a legitimate contribution to the conversation because that stifles other contributions.

It sounds like they’re going to rewrite a bunch of code and decided to not invest the capital into Linux.

That’s a strange problem to have these days since libraries like this are often designed to run on all platforms, but what do I know.

But if it’s true that fewer than 1% of users are on Linux and it’s costing them more than other platforms, it makes no financial sense to keep it going.