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Sure, the MIT is very permissive so it's very easy for Microsoft to correct their repository so that it's in compliance for the future, but they cannot correct the past. (Unless the original authors allow for it.) The MIT license, being so short, does not have a provision about curing infringements.
So Microsoft seems to be ok with the risk of being sued for infringement etc. That's not something you can correct with your personal decisions as author.
Instead of selling "clicks" and "impressions", just sell the damn banner ad. The advertiser sets their budget and target audience, a few suggestions of websites where to run a banner for (x) days show up, the advertiser picks some of them. On the other side same story and the website picks which ads they want to run.
Many other models are possible.
I wonder why we don't have such competitors. Ah right, because Google abused its monopoly position. :-)
How do you know that the waste is higher with the banner ad?
If you want to see more, get Lina Khan to be chair again!
That's why you read things like «The Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI), a nuclear option that has yet to be deployed, would empower the EU executive to hit U.S. service industries such as tech and banking». https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-trade-bazooka-anti-coerci...
You can just pick the top 10 biggest financial and tech firms and be done with it.
You can tax the "intellectual property" payments that the subsidiaries make to the USA parent, or you can pick some other criterion. Or you can just create a new sales tax for any one part of the transactions you want. It's tricky but it can be done.
There's no use expecting anything from the publishers. Universities and independent archives need to do the job.
https://blog.archive.org/2020/09/15/how-the-internet-archive...
As for arxiv, they already make the full dump available:
https://info.arxiv.org/help/bulk_data.html
Even for works not published on arxiv with a Creative Commons license, the basic arxiv license gives them the right to do so:
https://info.arxiv.org/help/license/index.html
You can torrent the arxiv dump with Internet Archive torrents:
So, yes, torrents help to preserve what has already been archived in the past, but we still need a lot more works to be deposited in open archives like Zenodo or arxiv in the first place.
k8s:
> Good stability.
S3:
> AWS S3 is the premier cloud-based object storage service. It may have higher availability, but it’s three times more expensive than OVH’s S3 storage.
Scaleway costs approximately 51 % less, looking at on-demand postgresql instance with 8 GB RAM (db.t3.large vs. db-dev-l).
https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/pricing/?pg=pr&loc=3
https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/managed-databases/#cost-...
I never understood this problem. I just create a Tor hidden service when I want to ssh into a machine behind a firewall.
> Users who have downloaded TikTok would theoretically still be able to use the app, except that the law also bars U.S. companies starting Sunday from providing services to enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of it.
Are you sure that the website and the native mobile app use different CDNs, or a CDN which won't be affected by the ban?
If it becomes too popular, though, Congress will probably pass a law to force you to use some oligarch-approved alternative.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203095
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_...