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They are, that won’t stop them going higher.
They are, that won’t stop them going higher.
So fines come with a requirement that a company can’t raise prices to recoup them?
In the real world, fines are a cost carried to the customer. So even with GDPR, the customer is still the loser in the situation.
Messenger apps have do not disturb for a reason. I know many people feel like using that is wrong if you’re actually working, but if your output is a measure of your actual work, reducing interruptions is the only reliable way to ensure it without working even more hours (for free if you’re salary).
They are a threat to humanity as a whole
0.19 allows users themselves to block instances…
Here’sa a functional link to the video. OP’s seems to just redirect back to the post’s page here on Lemmy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUhabLytEes
I really want to believe a rag-tag team of supporters broke him out of prison, and are planning a massive election effort to get him in and Putin out. I know it’s fantasy, but don’t tread on my dreams.
Within reason, yeah. If the video industry came out with a platform that had all you can stream and all the content in one place, but wanted $150/month for it, that would be a pricing problem. My ceiling is more like $40-50/month.
I put a relative’s mobile phone on NextDNS to block ads for them, and the came back a couple days later noting how weird the ad-free experience was. Thankfully they didn’t want to revert, but yeah, most people are way into advertiser Stockholm Syndrome at this point.
I think I’ve been blocking/combating internet ads for 20+ years at this point.
The industry argument for that is “you’re stealing our potential revenue”. I personally subscribe to one streaming service. That’s it. If what I want to watch isn’t on that, I hoist the anchor and set sail.
The predictable way that video streaming services became content islands and actually a worse user experience than cable really shows how the industry would rather provide worse experience and cash grab than attract more customers naturally. By contrast, I can subscribe to one music service, and listen to literally every artist I can possibly want to. As soon as video streaming does that (at a reasonable price), piracy for video will plummet like it did for music.
If the button says"buy", ownership is inferred. That’s a lie, of course.
I’m sure the EU would (re)welcome the UK as a member, but it will almost certainly not be on the same terms they had before Brexit. I do hope it happens, but I’m also a pessimist.
You do know IMDB has porn listings, right? And “friends” includes people you share a library with, in either direction.
Disagree on vCenter/ESXi. Having a competent design, build, and initial deployment are usually the success factors. I’ve had ESXi hosts and vCenter that only need to go offline for mandatory security patching, and even then, it’s easily covered by vMotion.
Agree that VMware Workstation is awful.
It didn’t have to. It had to benefit shareholders and stock prices, that’s it.
That said, you can be damn sure it benefited the executive teams at both companies, very lucratively. Anyone below VP level can get bent, of course, as is tradition with M&A deals.
The “ref” param is clearly a tracking breadcrumb, but not sure what the “th” param is. So this is “better” than nothing, but still has room for improvement. “_encoding” is fine, but UTF-8 should be a default for most users anyways.
I’m not an opponent of fines, I just think they have no deterrence other than getting caught. Negligence at this level of public harm needs to carry jail time for the executives responsible for it.