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Nemo_bis··on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
They're also just called "pivot tables" in some locales.
Nemo_bis··on Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules
And you know this how, if you're not running banner ads to test? How do you attribute the revenue?
Nemo_bis··on Getting forked by Microsoft
I don't disagree with the general point but in this case we're looking at what (seems to be) a blatant copyright violation. It would not be any more or less of a violation if the infringed license had been a more or less permissive one, because the license has not been followed.

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.

Nemo_bis··on Getting forked by Microsoft
Microsoft did not bother to respect even the MIT license, so clearly the license is not the problem.
Nemo_bis··on Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules
It sounds like a service some company should step up to provide! Make the job of those salespeople easier.

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. :-)

Nemo_bis··on Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules
> Sure, you could just pay $5,000 a month to a website to show a banner ad directly, but a larger % of your money would be wasted

How do you know that the waste is higher with the banner ad?

Nemo_bis··on Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules
"Efficient" in the pursuit of what purpose?
Nemo_bis··on Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules
The FTC had started many cases on the healthcare front. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/12/...

If you want to see more, get Lina Khan to be chair again!

Nemo_bis··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
You don't need to hit a huge number of service providers because the USA market is highly concentrated.

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.

Nemo_bis··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
For hyperscalers, to some EU subsidiary first. Then it depends on the transfer pricing applied. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_pricing

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.

Nemo_bis··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
Indeed. There are many options on the table.

https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-brussels-amazon-goog...

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-trade-bazooka-anti-coerci...

https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/france-singles-ou...

Nemo_bis··on AI bots are destroying Open Access
Diamond open access and fully OA publishers might do that (maybe as an add-on service on top of LOCKSS or Portico), but the Big Five definitely do not want to do that, because they sell bulk access services at lofty prices.

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:

https://archive.org/details/arxiv-bulk

Nemo_bis··on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
Yes. Probably that was wash trading to provide a fake valuation to justify the merger price.
Nemo_bis··on AI bots are destroying Open Access
Someone still needs to assemble those documents to create the torrent collections in the first place. That's harder now that captchas and other access walls are getting more and more hostile to human consumption.

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.

Nemo_bis··on Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62%
Scaleway is a subsidiary of a public company (Iliad), just like AWS is a subsidiary of Amazon.
Nemo_bis··on Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62%
That's already answered in OP's article.

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.

Nemo_bis··on Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62%
First time I hear someone claim RDS is cheap. What specifications do you have in mind?

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-...

Nemo_bis··on Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62%
I'm curious too. I think OVH is ahead of Scaleway in the B2B market. For example in Italy you can only sell to the public sector if you have a local subsidiary passing a number of bureaucratic hurdles. OVH has one, Scaleway doesn't; so OVH seems to have gained about a hundred contracts, while Scaleway got only one years ago (though they're very small numbers in both cases; the Italian government is in the pocket of AWS/Azure/GCP/Oracle).
Nemo_bis··on Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62%
There's gazillion valid managed DB offers.
Nemo_bis··on Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62%
Thank you for sharing! There's no excuse for staying on AWS (or Azure) these days, but it's hard to convince executives because the alternatives are marketed much less.
Nemo_bis··on Tailscale is pretty useful
> I know its local IP address and can ssh into it easily when I’m home, but when I’m outside, that’s not possible as it’s not exposed to the internet.

I never understood this problem. I just create a Tor hidden service when I want to ssh into a machine behind a firewall.

Nemo_bis··on "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
Depends who you ask. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-scores-win-suit-chall...
Nemo_bis··on When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
"Lossy timelines" have already been implemented in ActivityPub and Mastodon by design. Will Bluesky ever catch up? It remains to be seen.
Nemo_bis··on Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
That's the NYT's case. Not necessarily very strong. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/05/openais-motion-to-dismis...
Nemo_bis··on Facebook ban on discussing Linux?
Thanks, added to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341665#10499534
Nemo_bis··on Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected
Yes this whole thread is so depressing. Most commenters here are talking as if electric trains were an oddity. It's like listening to people questioning the benefit of running water over the old school walk to the well.
Nemo_bis··on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
Still they'd need networking in the USA. For example they have 11 peerings (100G or 200G) with Equinix. https://www.peeringdb.com/net/19428
Nemo_bis··on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
The Reuters article says

> 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?

Nemo_bis··on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
It can. https://loops.video/

If it becomes too popular, though, Congress will probably pass a law to force you to use some oligarch-approved alternative.

Nemo_bis··on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
It might be pretty simple, if it's just a protest banner and an information website as Reuters said. You can't see TikTok's issue tracker but you can read the Wikimedia Foundation's tasks to implement the Wikipedia campaigns about SOPA and the 2019 EU copyright directive.

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203095

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_...

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