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Nintendo and Microsoft/Xbox have low margin on each device sold [1] [2]. For Valve, Steam is the only real source of income. Apple on the other hand has a lot of source of incomes. They have a margin of 60 percent just for the iPhone! [3]

[1] https://www.polygon.com/2017/4/5/15195638/nintendo-switch-co...

[2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-not-making-any-money-on...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-iphone/apples-iphon...

Re:Mozilla Server Side TLS – Recommended Configurations on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:57AM (#20312936)
Also, idk why OpenSSL have used underscore this time when all the rest of ciphers use dash!? https://testssl.sh/openssl-iana.mapping.html
Re:Mozilla Server Side TLS – Recommended Configurations on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:07AM (#20312661)
Can someone points me to the commit when OpenSSL changed from TLS13-AES-256-GCM-SHA384 to TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384?
Re:Reinventing Firefox for Android on Thursday June 27, 2019 @03:44PM (#20297878)
Also, they should integrate Firefox Preview into F-Droid if they are serious about privacy/freedom.
Re:macOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions on Saturday June 22, 2019 @02:59PM (#20251123)
Games. Seriously. You have a lot of old (even new) games that depend on 32-bit binaries/libraries. And that’s why the recent “clash” between Canonical’s Ubuntu and Valve’s Steam[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/Plagman2/status/1142262103106973698

I live in Montréal, and I saw the same tendency. Cloudflare has a datacenter here. Waiting for a tangible explanation…
Re:As the U.S. Retreats, Canada Doubles Down on Net Neutrality on Saturday December 16, 2017 @11:02AM (#15940093)
The high prices may be explained (but not entirely) by 1) little market (36 millions) 2) wide area to cover. Only Quebec is like France x 5.
Re:Toward Go 2 on Thursday July 13, 2017 @05:18PM (#14765341)
The leap second problem reminds me of this post[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14121780

Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users on Thursday July 13, 2017 @01:15PM (#14763089)
Sad to see some people taking raw and insignificant benchmarks to evaluate a language[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14479757

Re:Linksys CherryBlossom Advisory on Thursday June 22, 2017 @10:58PM (#14616858)
Sadly true.
Even randomizing MAC seems somehow useless [0]. And all `private` VPNs without logs are pretty much non-free (as in money).

So what's the easiest solution for a lambda user!?

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/10/mac_address_randomi...

No need for a VPN. Maybe using HTTPS wouldn't aloud them to see the data? Hope no MITM. But, you can always change DNS server (or use DNSCrypt).