IcePee

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not so sure that it can't be tailored to big businesses. Regulations carve out exceptions all the time based on employee count, annual turnover, customer count (hits), etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Not gonna lie, this is kinda a refutation of the whole open source model. I was led to believe that it shouldn't matter who writes the code, as long the code is able to be interrogated/corrected.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If this is any guide, maybe there should also be an upper age limit, too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Well the devil is in the detail. However, what appears is being mooted is it will only affect big social media corporations. A Lemmy instance is hardly big business. Not that I'm discounting creeping regulation moving into the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I was told that it was convention to use the highest government title that a person received once they leave government. Personally, I don't think that explanation holds much water. We don't really hear, for example of President Obama any more. Nor do we hear Secretary of State Clinton. On a practical matter, it can cause confusion so outside propaganda, I don't see much utility in it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It's a storage agnostic protocol for sending, receiving and enumerating to/from cloud storage. Think off it like email. Email service providers allow for a number of ways to access your email, be it pop3, IMAP or web. The underlying technology is abstracted away. In the same way cloud storage allows for web, s3 and/or WebDAV. Amongst others. And likewise the back end is abstracted away. The s3 client you use doesn't need to know how the data is actually stored. And there's some pretty whacky storage back ends.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (13 children)

At this point he's just pushing potential users away. I wonder if he's given up on it and is just holding on to it until the election is completed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I wonder if some kind of mesh might work. Maybe like a secret Santa type deal. By that I mean everyone who connects, gets a randomised, anonymous partner or partners. Everyone in the swarm streams for each other.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I think the trade is, you take on the purchase of the house, and the landlord takes on all the downside risk.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure. If that is their strategy they're dancing on a razor. I mean, the market is pretty slim. Basically, you can get a pretty sweet gaming PC for the price they're offering. And if you project the amount of games you'll get and estimate the price differential with prices of the same games on a PC you might be able to uprate the specs a few times. I would say that a PS5 with a reasonable amount of games is probably worth a similar amount to a $1k PC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Without knowing why people change their wallets, it's hard to nail down a solution. But, perhaps a smart contract wallet whose access is controlled by an underlying wallet that can be swapped out may help. In any case, all transfers or smart contract execution attracts a fee. Even sending money between wallets.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

You're right. But, all this good stuff is to obfuscate the central fact that you don't own the property you bought. Sure, Valve has claimed that should they go away, as their last act, they'll provide the ability for users to own their purchases, but who actually believes them?

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