I gotta say, that’s a great interactive graph. Not only does it allow you to change regions, you can easily change from a single year to multi-year timespan graph to see how it changes over time.
I just wish the timespan graph would display the values still ordered by age. Because I was wondering if would shift with the/a generation getting older or not.
Me in Germany:
uuuh… fuck
If you - rather than the instance as a whole, and for other reasons - are the target of defederation circumventing that would be sockpuppeting.
If your instance was defederated for reasons unrelated to your behavior and content, then no - you’re simply creating an account on their instance.
Your first link:
42 million user IDs and phone numbers for a third-party version of Telegram were exposed online without a password. The accounts belong to users in Iran, where the official Telegram app is blocked.
How is that a state exploit of Telegram? It’s not even about Telegram. It’s a third party app.
It shows the central content of the site.
No consent is automatically given or anything like that.
Commenter specifically talked about gog and itch. Other commenter then replied you wouldn’t own it [there].
The comment chain specifically moved away from “general trend”.
GDPR:
These types of infringements could result in a fine of up to €20 million, or 4% of the firm’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, whichever amount is higher.
4% can be a lot in absolute numbers for these massive corporations. But it’s such a low percentage that it could indeed be included in operational cost and then be ignored.
What makes you say so?
GoG about page explicitly talks about owning, and terms even explicitly mention advance notification so you can download Dr free versions if they will ever become unavailable.
GoG terms do not qualify purchases as temporary access licenses - only to the degree of servicing downloads as long as possible and without other limitation.
We don’t believe in controlling you and your games. Here, you won’t be locked out of titles you paid for, or constantly asked to prove you own them - this is DRM-free gaming.
because rights that can be taken away on a whim are no rights at all
They’re rights to temporary access. A contacted temporary right.
I agree with your main point that it’s not ownership though.
They would gain more by cooperation or ignoring.
It’s just that you can’t do that when the other party is actively destructive.
Doesn’t make it a gain in my eyes. Labeling it a gain at least requires a contextualized qualification. So saying the EU is interested in prolonging the conflict is very disingenuous.
EU would have far more to gain ffrom Russia leaving Ukraine. Saying the EU wants to prolong the conflict for gains is disingenuous, at least misleading or ambiguous.
The video is a visual spectacle, and a well made peace of art.
It raises various themes, but - I find - in a quite convoluted way. It’s not sharing substance. But it certainly is a spectacle and interesting to watch.
“A.I collaborator” for the artificial persona as “artificial I”
Nice word play
Careful though, the floor is lava
Any recommendation or advice you will get here will only be from a very limited view, from what you shared, and impersonal, as we can’t know many things about you, your personality, and your life and life circumstances.
You say you have a decent job, and you consider focusing on that. Which seems like a good and split idea to me.
You tried more than once to get back into it and finish it, but failed, so that doesn’t seem viable. It’d at least need a break, but if you have the alternative, and good prospects in job etc, then I don’t see why you should have to or would try to force what evidently doesn’t work out at the moment.
Surely you got some things out of your studies already, and job experience counts just as much as studies. You have a job, and surely provide value there, so they depend on you to a degree. It’s not like you’ll be lost.
When it is “okay” to drop out is entirely subjective. As a broad answer to a broad question: it’s always okay. Sometimes people notice it’s not what they were looking for, or doesn’t fit them. Unless there is reasons to follow through, it’s better to cut losses and focus on something more fitting.
Unfortunately not. :p
No it’s not. The west has nothing to gain from it dragging on. Nobody wants it to drag on.
You think it’s only about improving life?
Isn’t usenet a closed - as in non-publicly-anonymously-accessible - platform?
No amount of money would significantly improve my life.
I wouldn’t use it.
Seems to me like free plan is what browsers natively support anyway. (Scam site blacklist. I highly suspect they use the same. They can’t compete with the one Google hosts and all major browsers integrate.)
And instead of paying 15 usd per month, Windows defender is a well funded, well established, well trusted solution.
There’s no practical gain in blockage before download. Windows defender scans upon and after download, before execution.