when you just give your content to them. Github is owned by Microsoft. By migrating everything there, you've essentially just given it to them and now they don't have to bother scraping it.

Interesting idea. But this NEEDS to apply to movies as well, or really any digital purchase. How often do we see where you've "bought" a movie and years later the licensing changes. Boom, suddenly you no longer own it, it disappears from your libraries because licensing changed, and you have no financial recourse.

That right there is why I default to buying actual physical copies of media.

I was wondering the same thing. I'm picturing a hail storm with golf ball size hail coming at 10,000+ mph. Ouch! How did the ship manage to not be hit and punctured?!?

TikTok took in $39 billion in 2024. So this is like, what, five minutes worth of revenue?

Nothing will change. That fine isn't even big enough to be a rounding error.

TDS Telecom uses a Tivo box of some kind for their TV+ service. You can tell from because the Tivo symbol on their remotes: https://tdstelecom.com/support... . When visiting a relative with this, I didn't get a chance to see the actual boxes, just that they were Tivo. I was surprised to find they're running a variant of Android because to get new "channels", you have to get them from Google's play store.

It's actually an old idea. Back in the 90s I worked in a school computer lab where on one floor there were Sun workstations students used. On the floor above, there were Tektronix "dumb" terminals that connected over the network to the workstations downstairs providing users a keyboard, mouse, and monitor. The workstations on the first floor were providing "remote desktop" to those terminals... essentially "Desktop as a Service".

The Canadian province is named after the lake, not the other way around.

Because the name pre-dates both countries:

https://ictnews.org/news/trump...

How about car manufacturers ship cars that don't need regular OTA "critical updates"?

I'm curious about what model you got. While I would avoid all their consumer-oriented machines, I have regularly purchased refurbished "business-class" machines over the years and they've served me really well. There's a couple vendors I really like on ebay who seem to get a lot of cast-off inventory from business as they upgrade. I usually pick them up for $200-$300 and maybe add more memory or larger drives. I have a T480 and T580 for my own use and got my parents T590s. I also exclusively run Linux on them.

These are obviously out of warranty with Lenovo, but the ebay vendor has been great... I was unhappy with some marks on a screen and they effortlessly replaced the computer for me.

Man-made climate change, of course. Quick! Someone raise my taxes!

I suspect this is where we'll end up... there will be people/organizations who will become popular because they do a good job of vetting things. Their credibility will come from the fact that they do a good job of recommending good things that people like. It will be kind of like the old days of the internet where people had curated lists of links to other interesting pages and lists.

To me the hoops that smoothbrains will jump through to avoid IPv6 and stay on legacy IPv4, especially when hosting, is pathetic. NAT, port forwarding, tunnels, blah blah blah blah.

I have something like ~1.2 trillion times the number of routable addresses that the entire IPv4 space has. Not all are reachable, of course, just the services that need incoming access and they're each on their own isolated DMZ.

Forgot to add: if you enable IPv6, be sure to use the browser extension IPvFoo. It shows a small 4 or 6 in your URI bar to let you know what protocol you're connecting to. Once enabled, you'll see just how much stuff out there actually is IPv6.

Started the move about 18 months ago when I decided to get off my lazy ass. My ISP gives out a /56 prefix, so that lets me run 256 /64 subnets/VLANs in the house, currently there are ~10 in use. Everything get a GUA through SLAAC and I use RAs (Router Advertisements) to give ULAs to everything. Any external facing services get their own VLAN and /64 for the system(s) as needed. Firewall blocks all incoming as they usually do by default and I punch a hole for the external-facing systems. They can't reach back into the network, they only answer the phone. All the systems update DNS dynamically if the prefix or full address ever change.

I have an SSH bastion set up. In all this time there has not been a single SSH attempt from the internet. On IPv4 it was constant background noice.
For those legacy IPv4-only systems on the internet, I set up NAT64. I have an IoT VLAN and IoT 2.4 GHz wireless network that are only IPv4 because a lot of IoT network stacks are junk.

I'm still farting around with it, but man oh man, there's no way I'd go back to IPv4. It was one of the best moves I've done in ages.