GDPR didn't enforce cookie banners. Sites can simply not track if they actually care about their users. If they don't track they don't need to ask for anything.
And a lot of these dark pattern cookie banners are not GDPR compliant. It should default to not track even if you don't press anything. And clicking 40 different reject buttons isn't allowed either. This needs serious policing.
Even with the link it makes no sense to route Ukrainian traffic all the way back to the US. All they'll do is route to the nearest downlink. Otherwise the intra-sat connections will become a bottleneck, not to mention the added latency.
> This is how I feel about all the bold circumvention of paywalls. It’s a legally fuzzy area in some cases, but to me at least, it is basically people saying, “here, let me help you steal!”
The problem exists because these companies want to have their cake and eat it. They want people to pay for content yet they want it to be freely available to content spiders and for it to be spread on linking sites such as this one. It's like the old wallet joke: Get someone to crouch down to pick it up and then you yank it away.
If I see a link here from e.g. the washington post, I might read it, but I will never sign up for a monthly subscription. I don't even live in America so most of their content won't interest me. So a paywall in that case is only annoying. Bypassing it will not cost them a subscription which I'd never get anyway.
> If you advert suggests you are about to go under, but in reality you are spending money left right and center on various other charities, with only vaguely related mission statements, then you are taking advantage of the god will of your donators, that is the problem here.
This, totally. That's the reason for me too.
They do good work but the way they ask really ticks me off. And it's been like this forever, when they still featured the sad-sam Jimmy Wales pic.
They do great work but I'll rather give to archive.org that also do amazing and important work, need it a lot more and don't cry about it so much.
> But who cares? Why not just let the command figure out the right buffer size automatically?
Well, because it doesn't. At least on the Linux version I used in the past, it defaulted to 512 byte blocks or something similarly small and it commits every block individually, leading to really slow performance with USB sticks with controllers not smart enough to bundle writes together. I wouldn't be surprised if that incurs some heavy write amplification at flash level too. Perhaps it's smart enough to figure a better block size now but this is where that habit comes from.
Another thing, creating sparse files with the seek option (simply put files containing zeros that are not actually written to the disk nor taking space, but do turn up all these zeroes when you read the file). Also something not duplicated with cat or head.
What I like about dd is that it can do pretty much all disk operations in one simple tool. Definitely worth learning all of it IMO.
Yeah it surprises me that 10 euros seems to be the minimum for pretty much every online service now.
For 10 euro you can get Netflix, Spotify. My Ring security subscription is also a tenner. Pretty much everything that has a subscription model targets 10 euro as a minimum. I don't really know why, all these tenners add up a lot. I'm even dropping Spotify now some months (especially because when I drop it, the next month they offer me 3 months for a tenner to come back, which I find a lot more reasonable as I don't use it much).
Kagi does really sound like it is easier to provide and should not cost as much. It feels like they are expecting super-heavy users. Their 50 free searches a month is not enough for me but I could probably do with 100 or 200. But there is no intermediate subscription, it's just 50 free or unlimited for a tenner.
But the fediverse doesn't use any algorithms, it just shows you what/who you subscribe to. This is the way social media should be. If I don't want to see something or someone I can just block them.
It's only gone downhill since the sites started adding algorithmic crap and filtering things out to increase 'engagement'. This made facebook totally useless for me to keep in touch with my friends.
Portable accounts are indeed important and a big thing missing from ActivityPub, I agree there.
But I'm completely over to IM now to keep in touch with friends. Social Media has invalidated its own usecase for me.
The Microserver G10 Plus is not too bad. Replaceable CPU, iLO option, half the size of the G8 (though external power brick)
The regular G10 one is pretty useless obviously. Soldered AMD CPU, cheap design etc. No iLO. It's more of a home entertainment thingy, nothing enterprise-class at all.
I agree I'm looking for something lower power too. I have three G8's but they are each doing 50W idle so I can't run them 24/7. And this is with the lowest-TDP processor that is available for them! (E3-1220Lv2, 17W TDP). The iLO alone is consuming 5W even when it's off.
I'm not sure how much power the G10 Plus draws but I haven't really considered it. It's too expensive still (I bought all my G8's for 175-200 euro each and 2 of them even had a 60 euro cashback on top of that!! So I barely paid more than 100 for them brand new. Crazy cheap pricing for a well-built 4-bay server. Each of the drives inside them cost more than the server itself :)
But 15-20W I think is very ambitious with 4 3.5" drive slots. 30W would be doable I think.
The problem with faulty memory (that could go bad after purchasing) is not knowing about it. ECC doesn't always protect you (it can only fix one bit flip, not more), but at least you will know the memory is bad. You will not keep working with data that is being corrupted.
> France and the netherlands have good roads and yet they dont constantly have to maintain them.
Yes they do. In the Netherlands there's a lot of maintenance going on. Once on a trip to my workplace at the time (75km away) I counted 12 individual speed restrictions due to roadwork. I constantly had to switch between 120, 100 and 70kph. Most of it happens during the night though. I guess Germany doesn't always do this.
> Also renting and the government stepping in to keep rents at a low price sounds like poverty and socialism to me. Not a good sign.
I personally like socialism and many in Europe do. The richest countries have the best welfare systems in general (like Scandinavia). Holland itself is an unfortunate exception with its Anglo-Saxon liberal model.
It's becoming more important as the housing market is out of control and buying a house is near impossible now on a modal salary. Regulation keeps pricing fair to those who need it. It's not a sign of poverty but of the systemic choices we make.
> But speaking of driving in germany i found the constant tailgating and the general aggressiveness and flashing similar to east europe 10 years ago. Horrible driving culture.
This is something we do agree on :) I try to avoid driving in Germany.
Well, if you use gnome/GTK apps, of course it uses gnome-keyring.
If you use Qt apps, it will use KDE's keyring. This is simply caused by the lack of standardisation in such elements of Linux desktop environments.
I tend to use mostly Qt apps, because they look the most 'native' on KDE and have the best integration. They also have the same philosophy (the more user choice and settings the better) which I subscribe to, so I naturally gravitate towards them.
And no the wifi applet always worked correctly for me (I don't use wifi on my main desktop but on laptops it works fine for me)
There's also things I don't like with KDE but there's almost always an option to change it. Whereas with Gnome there is almost never any such option, it could be there is an extension that does it but having too many extensions tends to drag you into a quagmire of version dependencies making it really hard to upgrade.
The one thing I really don't like about KWin is that the virtual desktops of each display can't be switched independently like with i3 for example. They're all stuck together. But this is a minor inconvenience compared to all the things I dislike about Gnome.
> If a Frenchman doesn't like French laws he can move to Germany and haul all his stuff there (and his pension, etc).
A bit offtopic but this is still something I find very lacking in the EU.
For all the good it's brought us, we still have extremely different social security in each country and if you've lived in many EU countries throughout your life it's a complete PITA to reconcile things like pensions. Some countries have state pensions, others only voluntary corp plans.. I have no idea how this will turn out when I retire.
IMO these different systems should at the very least be talking together.
> A political organization like EU has no say in this. EU citizens already make this decision for themselves by voting with money and choosing to buy/not buy an iPhone.
I think it's important to point out that most EU countries do not subscribe to the exact same free-market vision that the US does. And the biggest country that did has recently left it.
Most of Europe is totally happy with a much more restricted free market than the US would ever allow. This is not something imposed on us people. It's what the majority wants, aka democracy.
And a lot of these dark pattern cookie banners are not GDPR compliant. It should default to not track even if you don't press anything. And clicking 40 different reject buttons isn't allowed either. This needs serious policing.