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In the meantime both EU and Italy play fast and loose with censorship normatives: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/08/25/online-platfor... - https://www.wired.it/article/pirateria-online-legge-anti-pez... (italian)

I can't tell if it's all posturing or real OSS. Anybody?

This kind of Kinetic Typography was a staple of the Scala Video Titler for the Amiga, first and of Adobe After Effects for the PC, later. After a while it became a bit boring because everyone was doing it everywhere, but to see it now, done so well, so much time before, and with only analog equipment, it is really inspiring.

- not a lawyer here -

I would immediately remove every reference to linkedin anywhere and add a default exclusion of *.linkedin.com in my browser extension. You'll have to decide whether a soft-block or an hard one. (I'd go for the hard block and call it a day.) Then you should probably seek a release (from the injunction).

This should largely put you out of harms way with minimal impact to your baseline.

Interesting but, no Linux version? Or does it run under wine?

This is the typical boneheaded, executive-mandated, policy. Once they get enough backlash they'll probably backtrack.

I discovered that, in real life, it doesn't pay to be too agreeable. Sometimes enough is enough and dwelling too much on it will just hurt you. So you're right: though you admittedly ended up in a good place, you've lost opportunities by biding too long.

Congrats for the new career. Enjoy, and the take hard the lesson with you. :) You paid for it, after all.

If I where you, I'd just ensure the RAM is expandable...

Ah, so I'm not the only one...

Convenience Vs. Control is a mostly lost battle and Everything-as-a-Service is but one of its ugly children.

Yet, it's all up to —and due to— "We, the People", as a group which values convenience way too much.

Gosh! We should know better, but still...

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My solution?

Accept some small sacrifices in order to privilege ownership and control as much as possible — and vote with my wallet.

Care to join me? :)

When you're unjustly bullied by any "big co.", especially with significant money involved, don't waste time.

Immediately escalate to: - Arbitration, if possible. - Court, alternatively.

edit: https://www.google.com/search?q=stripe+arbitration+provision

Because it's disrespectful (non-inclusive and non-welcoming) to willingly bar someone who can obviously hear you, from understanding the conversation.

If you are "out of range", or in another room, then by all means, go nuts. Speak Elvish or even Klingon if that's your fancy. It won't bother anyone.

But in the presence of others, respect demands to let everyone understand. Even if the conversation is completely irrelevant to others.

And if you don't even apply basic respect, and other assume the worst about what you may be saying, than that'll be your fault. You'd have brought it on yourself. Not "them", not HR, which is probably going to be brought into the conversation sooner or later...

I would talk to the manager, explaining what's happening, leaving my personal feelings aside.

Co-workers speaking non-shared languages in each other faces is not useful in any way and it leads to many problems, way beyond a non-welcoming and non-inclusive environment, way beyond just HR...

Moreover, and to answer some strange theories in other comments here, If you're to be excluded from a conversation, the speakers better get a room, where they can speak freely and leave you alone. Just staying around and speaking a language you don't understand is plain rude, a nuisance, and will distract you anyway. (and probably become annoying, in the long term)

Having said that, I would also learn some Mandarin. If not enough to enter the conversation, at least enough to say "Would you, please, be so kind as to speak English for me? I'm learning Mandarin, but I can't understand you well enough, yet."

This worked wonders for me, in more than a few occasions.

Thanks.

Interesting, but would you lay down some brief explanation of what graphs are? For us peones, please? :)

Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used and they listen too. Look how big is the search bar now! :))

We shouldn't accept this dystopia heads down. We all should call for regulation to stop this enormous companies and their algorithms, from treating everyone else as insignificant rounding errors.

In 2023 regulating this aspects of big tech is gonna be nigh inevitable and they have brought it on themselves.

Really. At this point legislature is the only way out.

The main problem is that Google asks you for a recovery email address and then won't actually let you use it for recovery. This gives a false sense of security and creates a lot of gotchas.

While I empathise with the OP, I would add:

- never-ever really trust any company assurances or contracts. Especially if they're way bigger than you are, always assume they WILL fail you and you'll have no recourse outside of litigation—and even then... :-/

Always have a backup plan for important stuff. Always. No exceptions.

More in general, avoid every single point of failure you can afford to.

The article is very opinionated ad I don't agree with some of it, but the problem is real and we should think of how to deal with it for the future.

As I see it, currently the only sure-fire way to deal with unlicensed material is to treat it as "all rights reserved", until it hits the public domain. There are other reasonable approaches, but none universal and they sure imply a fair amount of due diligence and risk assessment.

A good solution could be a universal, retroactive, default-license. Any license would do. Because it's the absence which creates the uncertainty, the traps and the variable interpretations all over the world. Yet, while this would be very useful, I don't see it happening anytime soon...

So, what we can do in the meantime? We could gently ask authors to choose a license for their unlicensed artifacts whenever we stumble upon one. — Which I already do, with a few gratifying successes, if I must say myself. :)

Also, many code-repositories are already helping the problem by pushing for the choice of a license at the creation of new projects, but we all need to push more. Lobbying the code-repos to progressively give stronger nudges to the existing unlicensed stuff, which is indeed the more difficult to address otherwise...

As I see it, the difference between the Tauri approach and Electron becomes visible when you have multiple apps running.

Each Electron app will load its own browser back-end in RAM, while all tauri apps will share the same runtime on disk and in RAM.

This makes for quite a big difference as the number of running apps grows.

LOL! The first time I tried it, there where no announcements Because U-Block was blocking something, and I waited, and I waited... :)

Much better now though, with the announcements. Very soothing.

The only thing missing is the thick Scottish accent I was expecting. ;-P

Yeah, this kind of lossyness can be very bad for serious archival purposes of critical documents, because this small corruption wouldn't be self-evident nor detectable after the fact in an easy way.

Most probably its raison d'être is for non-critical stuff, such as literature, where character flips may be easily detectable during encoding and after the fact (eg. with a spell-checker) and won't possibly subvert the meaning of a whole literary work anyway.

Nice site, interesting.

Not relevant to Italy though, where trains (when they start, which is not a given) never-ever keep their schedule. Sigh!

Libraries are the closest to your idea and they're generally for free.

Dear Mr. what-imright, I'm sorry, but this time you're what-imwrong.

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You chose the provider. (when there were others)

You chose the service profile. (when you could have done otherwise)

You chose to under-utilize a costly service. (not their fault if you have only 30 passwords)

You fucked it up by letting the service expire. (You had all the time to prepare)

You didn't do any backups. (what's it? Five minutes, manually, on a single post-it?)

*You* have a very strange idea of what a service is. (not them)

You apparently didn't even bother reading the first two pages of the contract. (or anything else.)

You don't want to renew... (someone said: "pay up or shut up" and they're right.)

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*You* did it all, and now you're blaming them???

Not Cool man, Not Cool.

Then you discover your bank, your credit card, your shopping mall, watsapp, gmail, facebook and grinder, all have blacklisted sms to VOIP numbers and also, they're phasing out SMS support anyway... So you'll need all their own specific apps anyway... And both your neighbourhood burger king or the whole airport in which you just landed, won't let you order food without a phone, an app and a qr-code... And then you live in Italy where you can't ever buy stuff over 1000€ with cash... And where you need an app to access the nation's many exclusively online services.

No. You can't avoid it. All you can do, with this kind of passive resistance, is delay it for a bit. :/

We (the people) need to push back and be vocal about the stupidity of this trend.