I envy your world, free of American politics.
xthexder
joined 1 year ago
I've done basically this in the past by encrypting a text file with GPG. But a real password manager will integrate with your browser and helps prevent getting phished by verifying the domain before entering a password. It also syncs across all my devices, which my GPG file only worked well on my desktop.
Unfortunately the answer to that is: Elon's cheap and Radar is expensive. Not so expensive that you can't get it in a base model Civic though, which just makes it that much more absurd.
I'm not arguing against charging based on bandwidth speeds. You're right the total data transfered doesn't really make a difference.
My point is that even just charging per Mbps, internet will always be cheaper within a data center. Just like water utility service is going to be cheaper next to a freshwater river than in the middle of the desert. There's millions of dollars in equipment you're effectively renting to get the internet to your house from the nearest datacenter. Your OVH server in comparison only needs maybe 1 extra network switch installed to get it online, and you're in a WAY bigger pool of customers to split the cost of service to the building.
Fines and taxes are incentives. Companies will do whatever's cheapest, so you can make the good thing cheaper, or the bad thing more expensive. Both will have a similar effect, it's just a question of where the margins are.
If a company is selling something at-cost and gets taxed, then they'll have to raise prices for the consumer, but if they're getting a stimulus from the government it gets covered by tax payers. Which one ends up being the right choice depends on the product and company in question.
I think the strawberry problem is to ask it how many R's are in strawberry. Current AI gets it wrong almost every time.
Yes, there's issues with playing DRM content on linux. Only certain browsers support the encryption decoding extension.
Since most of my viewing is on YouTube and media I have saved on Plex, it's not really an issue.
It's an extension that makes GitHub pages full width: https://github.com/xthexder/wide-github/
Admittedly the usefulness has gone down a little bit in the last couple years now that GitHub themselves have made code diffs and some other things full width by default.
When I first wrote this I had just gotten a giant 4K display at work and was really annoyed I still had to scroll left and right with the page only covering 1/3 of the screen.
I've been doing this for several years now (not specifically that service, since I have my own domains). It's really nice knowing exactly who sold your email to the spam bots, because it's right in the address. Super easy to block once that happens.
Honestly the best thing about FOSS is that money isn't driving all the decisions. Most open-source projects are built because the dev just wants to build something cool or useful, or they're trying to solve specific problems. Most individual devs don't really care if their user count goes up every quarter.
Personally I've been maintaining a chrome extension for about 10 years, and it's sat happily with about 7000 users that entire time. I built it because I wanted to use it, and I've declined several offers to buy the extension and monetize it.
I also got my first computer around then. I saved up for ages and bought the first gen Intel MacBook with an Intel Core Duo (2 cores, no hyperthreading). I still have that laptop somewhere... It blew my mind it could run Windows, and Windows laptops couldn't compare at the time.