Yes. “Knowingly” is the hard part here. Reddit will of course say that you agreed to their terms of service and that the terms are reasonable because otherwise they couldn’t operate their service. However it is definitely true that many users didn’t realize that they were giving Reddit permission to sell their content (even if it is the logical conclusion).
People have different definitions of “the fediverse”. To some people fediverse is ActivityPub, but to some people it is any federated protocol.
SMTP is a federated protocol, so some people would consider it part of the fediverse.
POP3 isn’t federated, it is standardized but different POP3 servers don’t connect to each other in regular process of the protocol.
I mean of course they do. Reddit’s job is literally to redistribute those photos and it is well known that they will be used to generate profit.
Maybe there is a little grey around around “selling” but if they have the right to redistribute them I don’t see why they wouldn’t be able to redistribute them directly for money as opposed to just redistributing them with some ads on the page.
Reminds me of birthday fields with manual drop downs. It is always faster to just type, especially for the month number which in the custom dropdowns often can’t be typed with the keyboard.
Plus there are native HTML date pickers now. Please!
This speaks to me. I always have some sort of vague dream about writing a program to do something that is just a physical problem, or like decides how other people think. Writing it down is very confusing because it very clearly made absolutely no sense. But in my dream I felt like a genius and wizard.
Merchants are usually the ones who pay transaction fees, not customers.
And where does the merchant’s money come from? The customers.
So if most customers are using cards the store is making ~2% less money. This will eventually turn into a ~2% price increase to maintain their profit margins. If you pay with a credit card you will get most of this back in rewards, but if you aren’t using a credit card this is just extra cost that you lose.
This is quite different in the EU where there are strict fee limits for credit card transactions so the cost of accepting credit cards is similar to the cost to handle cash. You will also notice that there are basically no credit card rewards in the EU because of this. Canada does have some regulation so isn’t quite as bad as the US is, but in general processing credit cards is more expensive than accepting cash for businesses.
So basically credit card fees cost businesses money, so they raise prices to compensate. If you pay with card you can get rewards to get most of this price increase back. However for those who don’t use cards they just lose this money. It is basically a zero-sum game but you lose if you don’t play. (Especially those who are less wealthy so don’t have good enough credit rating to get a high-rewards credit card.)
This is of course a bit of a simplified view of the situation, not all credit card rewards are directly funded by merchant fees. However at the end of the day the cost of processing cards tends to be higher than the cost of handling cash, so the businesses will have to raise prices to account for that.
I think it would be great if businesses directly passed the cost of accepting cards to customers. That way the customer can decide if the extra cost is worth it for the convenience and rewards. Customers who prefer not to use cards then don’t get an increased price for no benefit.
What I do is have some general mailboxes then signed addresses on top of that.
So if you email blog@ or kevincox@ you will get a fairly high level of spam filtering. I also have a few other “memorable” addresses that get reduced spam filtering. If you use the unique signed address that I use for signing up to services, newsletters or whatever where the address is private to a specific service then you basically skip spam filtering. Of course if you abuse that privilege then I will outright block the signed address.
Basically by allowing friends and “trusted” services through the spam filter I can crank up the difficulty for unknown senders.
Yes. It is pretty easy to work around, but if that is the only tool you have it still can be used to junk a majority of the crap.
If you want a robust solution you can use disposable aliases (which are basically randomly generated) or signed addresses.
I do the latter. So I would generate an email like lemmy-example-59273625@kevincox.ca. If you strip or change the string at the end (which is a small HMAC) your message will go straight to junk. It isn’t perfect because there is only 4 bytes of entropy in the signature but a dedicated attacker will find a better way to spam me anyways.
Perfect is the enemy of good
This is exactly the problem. If they support interoperability then they will allow their users to continue using the Signal app which has high security standards, even if the particular conversation is not as secure as native signal conversations and they can’t control what the third-party app does. This will help grow the Signal network (because now it is easier for WhatsApp users to incrementally switch to Signal) and become more secure.
By rejecting interoperability they may be slightly improving the privacy of the 1% of users where their conversation partner would have switched to Signal, but are harming privacy the 99% of users that will now need to switch to WhatsApp for those converstions and are harming their future network growth (which would bring even more users to a private solution).
Most readers will also do this auto-discovery for you. So typically you can just paste the page or article URL and it will find the feed.
Of course the extension is nicer because you don’t need to guess and check, you get a quick indicator if there is a feed or not.
Personally I use Want My RSS because I like the preview which then lets me know if it is a full-text feed or just summaries. This is also Firefox only. But extensions for other browsers are available.
https://news.google.com/rss will redirect to a feed for the top content in your region.
You can also make a search and paste that URL into your feed reader and it will find the feed to subscribe to that search.
No, you won’t lose anything. However do be aware that unless you specifically configure different data directories using the same DBMS in multiple projects will use the same underlying data files.
Typically this won’t be a problem, and you can just create different logical databases if necessary.
They will probably save more money on reduced road maintenance and upgrades than will be lost on fares.
Everything basically.
it is simply Security Through Obscurity at best.
I think this is a bit too strong. The bit about NAT that people associate with improved security is that it acts as a stateful firewall. This basically means that it allows outbound connections not inbound connections.
A preventing inbound connections does provide a meaningful reduction in attack surface. No longer is every vulnerability scan on the internet going to probe your machine and it is going to be much harder for a remote attacker to get access.
However there are two main flaws:
There are also issues like NAT hole punching and guessed port attacks that can get through NAT. This typically isn’t a major problem because actually getting a connection will be very difficult but if your NIC or kernel has a bug it may be possible to trigger it with a packet or two.
The problem with leaving it blank is that it harms communication if the other party doesn’t have that symbol. You may send it because it exists in your country but then they have no idea what you mean.
Maybe having a “tofu” missing character box is ok, but even then if a substantial amount of the world’s population isn’t going to have this character it maybe be best to leave it out.
That being said, I am still in favour.
In general Nix doesn’t manage persistent data. It will be stored in whatever location the tool writes it to.
nix-shell is a very simple program. Basically it downloads/builds the package you have configured, then sets up environment variables like PATH to include that package. It would be similar to downloading a pre-built tarball run running ./foo inside of that.
For most built-in modules this will be /var/lib/foo for a service foo. If you run nix-shell the service will write data wherever it would normally write data on any other distribution.
Yes, that is also true. Prices are not directly related to cost, but to consumer’s willingness to pay. However in the long term there is a pressure to provide low prices and lowering cost will allow that.