In this specific case, being a European directive, it is translated in 24 languages, and the English version has no particular priority over the others. I'm checking the text in English, French and Italian (which I speak fluently), the Enlish and French text are more ambiguous, while the Italian text is very clear that the "free of charge" applies to everything.

So what do the European judge do when presented with this case? They go and study the motivations underlying, they explain it all over several pages of the judgment motivations. And it is not just a comma, but the fact the "free of charge" was added especially as an "anti circumvention" measure to prevent the gatekeeper to sneak back fees that were deemed anti-competitive.

Of course, in order to know this, the journalist would have to read the several pages of the judgment, instead of just rephrasing the Apple press release.

But the ten-year-old does not lack logic because he lacks brainpower, but because he lacks experience and training. Let him read a couple of books, and he'll catch up. While the LLM has ingested the entire written production of humanity, and still lacks logic.

The main one is Microsoft Office. Also, most games that include anti-cheat or anti-copy kernel drivers (aka compulsory malware)

The criminal masterminds at Elsevier must have squeezed their minions for years to get an argument against SciHub, and this is all they came up with?

It is a fact that the private scientific publishing industry entertains hundred of spoof journals, with corrupted editors, that are all too eager to pass any kind of crap. And ignore reports of blatant forgery for year.

At least SciHub is free.

Lowcost European companies started to charge for overhead hand luggage, maybe ten years ago, and I thought they were just trying to squeeze money out of us.

But to be honest, with time I started to appreciate the new way. You are still free to bring a small luggage which can fit under the seat if it has to, which is enough for a few days trip. And while before ir was always a struggle as the amount of luggage people carried could not physically fit in the cabin, now you're sure that if you pas for hand luggage you'll be able to have it at hand. And boarding is much quicker

The best Android phone ever produced was the Xperia XZ compact. I have one which is 7 years old, and although it isn't my main phone anymore, it is still my favourite one. It was also the last good quality Android phone that wasn't gigantic.

But does it run Linux?

Season pass and Battle pass. As an old gamer grown up with shareware and piracy, I do not really understand how you can compel someone to pay extra for a game they just paid, or for an extension that you have not released yet.

If there is place only for a finite number of distributions, Gentoo is not one of them. Gentoo is an abomination, a waste of energy and a carbon footprint disgrace. There is very little benefit you can get from a locally compiled but vanilla kernel.

First we spent one billion converting all the applications to JavaScript and make them run on a distant server

Then one more billion to integrate the webserver in the browser and make them run in electron

One more billion to have electron run on a server, but this time it's different because it'll send back pictures instead of text

It is the third most common family name in Italy, and an all times classic gives name.

We're not even putting a link to TFA anymore? I enjoyed reading those from time to time, never before commenting of course.

It looks like WP Engine is running a 500M software business while paying the equivalent of a single full time developer. If they fork the project, it'll cost them a thousand time more.

I have an HPE industry grade NAS which, not only, does not require most alphanumeric characters in its password, but also forbids it in the configuration of the SMTPS servers used to send alters! As a result, I have to downgrade the security of a completely different account to accommodate HPE idiocy.

At the moment there is no social media that shares any revenue with content creators. Video streaming services do, but I would argue their social component is marginal