what the actual fuck are you talking about?

i said it doesn't ALLOW the discussion of such things in any way. you can't even tell a story of an historical figure who died.

tiktok is not your fucking nanny, you twat.

The moderation of comments is nothing. After all, it's comments. Youtube's comment section is a cesspool.

You know what's worse? The self-censorship from creators. They want to keep the CCP happy so they censor every single video that may have anything that could be considered even remotely negative. Content found in shorts is mostly made for Tiktok and reposted to Youtube. Tiktok is all about happy, harmless, funny and positive videos. Nothing political. Nothing negative. No discussions about sex, death, suicide. Even the word "blood" is self-censored by creators.

I'm worried about newer generations growing up with that. Thinking those are bad words that shouldn't be ever said.

huh? Proprietary? RADIUS and TACACS+ have been in use for decades and they do all you need. Every single device that can be used as an access controller of some sort, suports at least RADIUS and the most basic thing it can do, besides user authentication & authorization, is usage count.

So no, you literally don't have to do anything to support "data caps". It's all built in. It has been for decades.

have you seen it lately? I had a guy doing mental gymnastics to defend Iran. basically saying "well, yes, they're a theocracy, but they're not forcing it upon people outside their borders".

Who cares at this point? I've been an imgur user since the beginning. but in the past few years it has become a platform for the "radicalized left" to post cringy memes. Calls for eating the rich, kill all CEOs, fuck trump, etc. It's a democrat group jerk at this point. I don't care for american politics. I just want to see funy memes 50% of everything posted to imgur nowadays are screenshots of twitter with political messages.

It's worth money because most of them have been "recycled" (ended up in landfills). Things costed nothing back then because ...well, they were commodity items still being produced. Floppy drives aren't being produced anymore.

I don't consider myself a "collector", but i do own and keep running a couple Commodores, an Amiga, and a CRT text terminal. As far as "retro gaming" goes, I've replaced it with emulation. I have a Super NES and a N64 but I don't plan on buying any more consoles. It's a rabbit hole I have no interest in going into.

I do, however, keep a 29" CRT TV, because those can be found for free or maybe $10, and it's far cheaper than the hardware to try and run "old consoles" on newer TVs.

OK so your argument is that your phones last longer than mine, but it's because you have 3 of them?

Are you serious?

Who claimed it would never work?

the anti muskies. people who love to hate on elon musk. the fun thing about this is that they didn't hate him until around 2020 when he was one of the first to push for back to work. he became the enemy of the woke crowd at that point.

this argument again and again. why are people so obsessed with replacing the phone battery? my phone's are completely busted after 3 years.

But if you started an on-premises job, why do people think they can refuse to come to work?

But if you started as an intern, why do people think they can become executives?

yes it's a stupid decision by google. they decided to " dumb it down" to saying "if you enable bluetooth for this app it's literally giving your location to the developer"

android permissions are broken and users are desensitized to them at this point.

Argentina. For many reasons, Argentina is one of the top countries using crypto, particularly USDT, for a lot of transactions.

There are many factors. First of all, the capital controls and exchange rates. If you receive money from abroad, you get paid, in pesos, less than the "real" value. This happens because the government sets an artificial value for the peso, but it also makes it illegal to exchange to pesos. So the only way to get dollars is going to the black market. And the rate there is higher (used to be 100% higher, now it's around 35%)

Second, the whole system of "sending and receiving money to and from abroad" is designed for companies. If you're a freelancer making, say, $2K a month working for foreign customers, it's prohibitively expensive to receive money. Some banks can charge nearly USD 160 for an international money transfer. Paypal isn't allowed, and the local equivalents of paypal only deal with pesos. Other companies such as Wise provide minimal services to Argentina.

Notice that everything I mentioned is "before tax". Someone making 2K a month is already paying income tax ("rich tax"), and most freelancers make over 3K a month so they're already being hit with the full rate of 35%.

So what people do is just crypto it. It's already illegal to get paid in crypto (legally speaking, you're obligated to exchange your dollars to pesos at the central bank - your bank does it for you), so if you're doing crypto you're already doing a criminal offense. Might as well evade tax while you're at it.

This is a matter of licensing. Japan, with their exceptionalism, needed to invent their own flavor of NFC called FeLiCa, which needs to pay royalties to Sony. Apple just bites the bullet and pays it for every iPhone. Android manufacturers save a couple cents and only pay the fee for JDM phones.

You seem very offended by this, but not by the fact that your pixel phone, like mine, started making shutter sounds in Japan with no ability to turn the noise off, even though it wasn't a JDM phone (and there is NO law in japan requiring this behavior, it's just a "gentlemen's agreement" between manufacturers.

this is the answer. It seems like many a slashdotter here thinks everything is just "hosting a website".

There are a lot of services you need to manage even to publish just a static server. And you have to keep up with security patches.

DDoS on your internet connection? tough luck. Sudden spike in traffic? Tough luck (this IS slashdot, we all remember "the slashdot effect"). need a CDN? better learn how to set one up. and so on.

When your revenue is in the several million and you can keep a dedicated team for IT, you're dumb for not having your own infra in-house.
When you are a 5-person show including the CEO, you're dumb for not using the cloud.

Yes, and these are the worst kind. They are usually also C-level suite (C stands for Cunt) and will try to give orders over the phone to anyone. Everything vague, nothing in record, so when they are found fucking up, they can blame it on their team because they will just straight up lie about deadlines.

With these assholes you need to force them to give you everything in writing, because they WILL backstab you when they need to. They didn't become C-level by just being nice people.