It is not "others platforms we have identified", it is "unknown". It can be BSD, but it can also be a bot, someone running anti-fingerprinting extensions, a mobile browser in desktop mode, some embedded system, etc... Anything that doesn't match their rules. There is probably a higher proportion of Linux users than Windows or Apple users in there because Linux users are more likely to have a weird setup, but I wouldn't count on it.

We may have one before the earth no longer exists and the sun has turned into a white dwarf.

Effective antimatter bombs are purely science fiction. They are not only impossible to produce with technology of the foreseeable future, but I don't think they offer a strategic advantage over regular nukes, they are an awfully inefficient way of making a big boom. The only (still sci-fi) potential application for its extreme energy density at a macroscopic level seems to be about powering spaceships. At a microscopic level, antimatter has research applications of course, and for medicine (PET scans are a current day application), maybe for nanoscale engineering (like electronics).

My 90 year old grandparents take passwords seriously, they have them written on a paper notebook in an obfuscated fashion (like fake contacts or appointments). They learned as adults that their credit card PIN code is important and think the same of passwords, also their online presence is very limited, so they have few of them.

Nowadays, it is as if everything requires an account even when it shouldn't require one, and most accounts involve passwords. I have 350 of them in my password manager! They are an annoyance and kids being kids, they will find the quickest, easiest way around the problem, and that's weak passwords. A habit that is likely to be carried over into adulthood. And yes, it is easier to type "123456" whenever there is a password field than to use a password manager, security be damned.

Ok, developers didn't lower their prices to match the reduced commission. Which means more money for the developers, and for some reason, giving more money to developers prevent them from innovating or making their software safer.

And maybe non-EU developers got 86% of the benefits from the reduced commission, which for some reason is worse for the EU than giving it all to Apple, a non-EU company.

Come on Apple, you are out of arguments besides "we want more money".

If the trend continues, Europeans will move about their cities in trains, trams and buses, also on bikes.
Most European cities want cars out, self-driving or not.

It is not about making it impossible for bots, it is about making it more expensive than hiring an army of human captcha solvers in a low-income country.

They will be cracked eventually, and I believe that most of them already are, that's why they are constantly changing them. It is a cat-and-mouse game.

And how about staying on topic instead of digging up dirt on people for no good reason, I didn't realize that Slashdot was that toxic.

His point is relevant. Cheating is a problem recognized by gamers and the industry alike, to the point of driving people away from PC gaming. As a result many people see intrusive anti-cheats as a necessary evil.

And one of the ways for cheaters to work around anti-cheat systems is to run Linux, because anti-cheat systems are either absent or easier to bypass there. And when called out and banned, they will start wining about being banned because they are running Linux and that evil game company doesn't like Linux, not great PR...

So why would a game company publishing a game where cheating is a problem want to support Linux? It is more work for only a tiny fraction of gamers, it will make the cheating problem worse, and when you try to address it, you will only get complaints.

I don't know of a company besides Valve that makes the effort to care about both cheating and Linux compatibility. And Valve is the company behind Proton, the Steam Deck, and is the one most interested in ending the monopoly Microsoft has on PC gaming.

First experience with the Prime free trial and the following cancellation was in 2016 (called Premium at the time), I did several times after that and I never had a problem. I never had a problem with Amazon in general, except for the following, who were mostly my fault:

- Forgot to unsubscribe after my trial period of Audible so I had to pay the monthly fee for a month, didn't get a refund but no problem cancelling, Maybe I could have got a refund by calling support, but I didn't bother and used the voucher I got.

- A single noticeable counterfeit received over about 100 purchases, a fake Samsung charger, but of good quality. I expected that considering I paid well below retail price. Didn't dispute, used the charger for years without problems. Now, I mostly stopped buying from sellers that don't pass the smell test on Amazon. If I want cheap Chinese crap, I usually go for AliExpress, which is significantly cheaper for the same product. In fact, many such Amazon listings are dropshipped from AliExpress.

In your situation, I suspect that someone else used your CC number for their own Prime account. It is possible that whoever stole your CC number had other payment methods, probably other stolen CC numbers, and he paid with them to renew his subscription. The surprising part is that both Amazon and your bank let an obviously fraudulent transaction pass several times, it looks like a big mess.

Not only cancelling Prime is easy, but they will also refund you if you get charged after your free trial ends and cancel before using your paid subscription. I actually never paid for Prime, but took advantage of these free trials several times and cancellation never was a problem.

Of course they will try to make you stay, and you have to click a couple of confirmation buttons. But that's standard commercial practice, everyone does that.

If you think clicking two buttons instead of one is hard, you probably never had a subscription that is hard to cancel. No phone call, no snail-mail, no deliberately broken website,... I remember a time when I was told the best way to cancel your ISP subscription was to ask your bank to stop paying the bills, ignore the threatening letters from your ISP and wait for them to cancel your subscription on their side. In theory, is is illegal to do it like that, but these ISPs knew enough not to get too much attention on their practices by taking it to court.

It could have to do with trademarks.

Mickey Mouse is a Disney trademark, and trademarks don't expire as long as you use them. So if you use Steamboat Willie in an ad, it may suggest that Disney is endorsing the product, violating trademark law. Usually, out of caution, you don't use other's trademarks at all in ads. In some situations, you can, but you have to be careful, and by filing that lawsuit in advance, that's the law firm being careful.

Ticketmaster offers a service to their customers: the bands, the venues... They have different plans, with fixed or dynamic pricing, different level of control on the secondary market, etc.. Their customers choose what they want.

They may have a quasi-monopoly on that service, which is a problem, and it can justify the high fees, but beside that, for pretty much everything they do, their customers asked for it. If tickets are sold initially below market value and resale at above face value is accepted *because that's what the customer asked for*, then there will be scalpers, and there will be bots. And if the event in question is a Taylor Swift concert, there are millions to be made, you are not going to stop the bots. They have botnets with residential IPs, they pay people to solve CAPTCHA, I can't think of any technical solution that won't hurt the fans more than they hurt the scalpers.

If you don't want scalpers, you need to treat the root cause, and it means either dynamic pricing (i.e. auctions) or ban resale above face value, something Ticketmaster can do if you ask them to. All Ticketmaster want is their commission, no matter how they get it.

All this to say that for anything but the fees, Ticketmaster may not be the most to blame. In fact I believe that Ticketmaster is happy to take the blame as to protect the reputation of the artists, evil-as-a-service.

Like Skype != Skype

Skype for business is actually not Skype at all, it is Microsoft Lync rebranded. Well, it was, because Teams replaced it.

I remember I had a Skype (for business) meeting once, tried installing the other Skype, and got all confused about why it didn't work.

Also, (GitHub) Copilot is not (Microsoft) Copilot.

What's wrong with Microsoft branding?

To be honest, beer contains a chemical has been shown to be harmful without a doubt: ethanol. Yes, the reason many people drink beer in the first place. In addition to the obvious bad things that happen when you are drunk, it also causes cancer, birth defects, and a whole lot of other health issues, like cirrhosis. It also affects sperm counts by the way. And recent studies have shows that it is harmful at any dose, though obviously much worse at high doses.

I am not telling you to stop drinking, as long as you are doing it with moderation. I drink too, occasionally, and I have no intention to stop either. But why should I worry about PFAS in by beer when the alcohol essentially does everything bad we attribute to PFAS, but worse and with more certainty?

PFAS is still a problem though, because it is present everywhere. You can easily cut alcohol, not so much with PFAS. And it also very stable and accumulates in the environment (hence "forever chemical"), so if it turns out to be really bad, it will be hard to fix the problem. In fact, that's what the conclusion should be. Not that you should worry about your beer, but instead that it gets everywhere we look, including beer.

When it comes to switching carriers, it is the complete opposite. eSIMs make it easier to switch carrier as it can be done entirely online, and it is particularly good for traveling.

What eSIM makes harder is to switch *phone* while keeping the same carrier. With a physical SIM, you just have to take the card from phone A and put it into phone B. With eSIM, it depends on the carrier, some make it easier than others, and sometimes, you have to pay for it. It may be particularly bad if the phone you are taking the eSIM from doesn't work, which may be the reason why you want to do the transfer in the first place.

So does the Coca Cola company and gardeners.