letsdothisagain

Yeah that's why I'm expecting another change. When they tried banning Epic the EU said no, and Apple was forced to move to this point. I expect/hope that the EU comes back with a further "clarification" on Apple's contention that they can gate this to 1,000,000 downloads.

It is funny to see American companies scream "that's not fair" when faced with a functional government.

Corporate personhood means that legally they are. If we stripped that away and let the board of governors go to jail for doing blatantly illegal stuff, then they might stop being sociopathic.

I'd also like a pony.

Tell me you're a landlord without telling me you're a landlord.

"How dare this fucker weasel his way out of giving me 50% of his income! That's MY money!"

It's not new either. Teddy Roosevelt ran on trust busting and defeated both the dems and republicans.

I know someone who did that in the Yukon during the winter, just monitor temperatures and crack a window when it got too hot. Seems like a great solution except that they were in a different building so they had to trudge through the snow to close the window if it got too cold.

Welcome to University IT, where organizational structures are basically feudal (by law!). Imagine an organization where your president can't order a VP to do something, and you have academia :)

Yeah in the early 2000s Java was supposed to be the universal platform of write once run everywhere. And then every IT department locked Java out, so we said fuck it and wrote everything in PHP.

How dare you deny their lived experience? The OP clearly stated that it's BAD.

As someone who runs a low code dev shop (I have a low/high mix of frameworks), I've already started reflecting on my BAD behaviour. I will repent and jettison all of my cruds, and web forms, and other dumb little things that provide so much value to my clients.

Yes, it's called consulting and it's great work if you can get a consistent client base.

I genuinely wish you the absolute best of luck getting a consistent client base.

The anti-competitive bit is they have all the sales information that would typically be a trade secret for a company.

Go ahead, call up your local 7-11 and ask them what their sales were for the quarter. They'll tell you to fuck off.

It's not a terrible result tbqh.

99.999% of airport wifi users don't know that their traffic is bridged. So unless WIFI-6 introduced some network segmentation features that I'm not aware of, it's still a good idea for Grandma and Grandpa Jo.

The reason it's ubiquitous on YouTube is because they are gouging the hell out of consumers. Honestly it should be provided by your ISP as a bundled service. Although then it's just Comcast gouging you instead...

I'm honestly seeing little value in asterisks with WFH and the move to passphrases. Feedback is important when you're typing a long phrase with complete precision. Plus shoulder surfing is simply not a thing when my physical security profile now involves a locked front door and a call to the police.

Yeah the cloud is a lovely weapon against the BOFH. They smarten right up when you shrug your shoulders and say "Oh, I guess I'll just buy some cloud."

Oh sure, I can justify this easy.

Labour productivity vs wages doubled since the 1970s and the trend seems to be continuing. It was about 150% in 2000 so we can use Excel as as the benchmark.

This means that an accountant today can wait for Excel to load for 2 whole hours of their 8 hour shift, and still be as productive as an accountant from 20 years ago!

Isn't that amazing! Technology is so cool, and our metrics for defining economic success are incredible.