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acd··on HP have updated their printers to ban ‘non-HP’ cartridges
How does this work with anti competition?

The Sherman Antitrust Act would prohibit printer manufacturers from engaging in anti-competitive practices such as locking out third-party printer cartridges. Under the law, monopolistic or anti-competitive practices are illegal and may be subject to government enforcement.

To quote the sherman act "Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal" (Shermanj Antitrust Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 1).

Sherman anti trust act: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...

acd··on Ask HN: What can I do with my DevOps Experience?
You can work as a developer and have excellent ops skills through work experiance. The dev in devops. This is a skill that employers are looking for. Also since you have worked in operations you will understand better how to write applications that have good operational properties monitoring etc.
acd··on 50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World
We are living with similar computers to the Xerox Palo Alto. Steve Jobs got inspired the Palo Alto.

Then we also have The Mother of all demos which was influental for the Xerox Palo Alto.

The mother of all demos: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos https://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY

acd··on Japan births fall to record low as population crisis deepens
Turn off wifi at nights ;). Increase immigration from highest birth rate countries.
acd··on Airlines have a 4-wheeled problem that’s only going to get worse
Sums up the usefullness of social media. In order to get the social ego treatment by bording first by faking disability. Surely social media algorithms promoted this crap behavior in the first place. I suggest Social media platforms pay for the extra cost.
acd··on Facebook Announces Meta Verified
I would be willing to pay for a dont sell my personal data privacy subscription.
acd··on Windows 11 Sends Tremendous Amount of User Data to Third Parties
You are the product in Windows 10 & Windows 11, Social media platforms like Facebook, Tiktok, Whatsapp and search engines Google. Your behaviours is sold for marketing products.

You can most likely calculate how much your personal data is worth. Take yearly income statements from above companies and divide by platform number of users.

acd··on Correlation between the use of swearwords and code quality in open source code? [pdf]
There has outside coding been correlation studies between swearing and higher intelligence. Where those swearing generally were found to be more intelligent fluent in languages.

May it be that swearing coders are more intelligent? If coders are more fluent in use of languages are they also more fluent in code?

Articles swearing intelligence https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03880... https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-02-higher-language-relat...

acd··on Ask HN: How can Netflix and Amazon Prime be this bad at recommending content?
Recommendation algorithms maximize the time you stay and interact with the platform. As long as you stay on the platform and consume content its working.

Its a bit the same as dating algorithms. If the algorithm was to good there would be no paying users of the service.

acd··on Junkyard computing – repurposing discarded smartphones to minimize pollution
We shall demand legislation with enforces that phones and other devices can be used like normal computers. Ie demand open boot loaders, open specs so that open source software can run well on phone devices.

If we can run open source software the length the devices lifetime last will be greatly extended. This will minimize electronic waste and e-waste pollution.

Its essential that all electronic devices can run open source software. That boot loaders and access to devices are not monopolized or crippled by device vendors.

Vendors have one main interest to is to sell new devices to consumers and maximize profit. Consumers and the government have different intrest in that devices last longer so we minimize the impact on the environment.

acd··on WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage
Was it an BGP border gateway protocol WAN update?
acd··on Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records
Interesting story. This reminds me of "the dude" in The big lebowski movie. The stolen car and The Creedance tape.
acd··on Study finds that buttons in cars are safer and quicker to use than touchscreens
Usability is another reason air cockpits have physicall knobs and buttons.

Physical knobs and buttons are preferred because they are easy to locate and use, even in high-stress situations.

Why sudennly would car dashboards be different? We have had physicall knobs controlling car functions before.

acd··on U.S. moves to bar noncompete agreements in labor contracts
I suggest we also implement open source peer reviewed employment contracts.

Almost always in the end of the recruitment process are you showed the emploment contract fine print.

Been through a non complete clause myself I highly recommend against it. Your skill and work experiance is the most valluable asset to a future employer. Non compete clauses prevent you from seeking jobs in a similar field.

acd··on Existing smartphones will connect with new satellite constellations in 2023
Wonders what kind of change this will have to society as a whole? Global internet from space that is big! What will happen if a sub $50 mobile can receive wikipedia globaly? What payment systems will be built? The whole africa continent will be connected.
acd··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?
Its harder for startups to finance investment due to higher central bank interwst rates. This affect startup valutaion through discounted future interest rate.

Thus you are going to see a sorting. Startups running black numbers and startups running red numbers.

acd··on Ask HN: Do you use noise cancelling headphones?
Use plain old corded with plug headphones.
acd··on The risk of orbital debris and one cheap way to mitigate it
In broader context: Corporations need to pay for the waste they leave behind. The price would be the cost to recover and cleanup the junk.

I believe creating space junk would be rather expensive to clean up. Same thing for ocean waste. if corporations put cheap non bio degradable plastic in the ocean they will have to pay cleanup cost.

acd··on Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
Tired if adtech, applications mining your personal data. Better if one would pay for the content instead.
acd··on Facebook tracking is illegal in Europe
These ad business puts pixel canavas trackers on your browsers. Got my neigbours language course advertisements through my private VPN connection in private browser mode. God luck in preventing it you cannot stop tracking unless you block javascript.

You will get private canavas trackers. All your private data will be sold for advertisement.

To test try amiunique.org on a PC. Hint: You are not unique you are tracked.

This teacking is probably not legal according to GDPR.

acd··on Pulling MikroTik into the Limelight Demystifying and Jailbreaking RouterS
Why do we have to jailbreak thins using opensource software? EU right to repair, should be extended to right to patch, hack, tinker.
acd··on U.S. to spend $1.5B to jumpstart alternatives to Huawei
Ericsson, Nokia
acd··on EU Regulator: Proposal to force websites to pay telcos puts Internet at risk
Commercial lobby groups in politicial setting should be banned. Lobbyism is a form of slow corrruption. Democracy is here to serve the voice of the people not promote corporate interest first.
acd··on UK faces worst downturn of any advanced economy, OECD says
Rejoin eu reverse it
acd··on Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”
Coppa

"Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule ("COPPA")"

If the kids is below 13, targeting would probably not be allowed.

"The act, effective April 21, 2000, applies to the online collection of personal information by persons or entities under U.S. jurisdiction about children under 13 years of age, including children outside the U.S. if the website or service is U.S.-based.[1] It details what a website operator must include in a privacy policy, when and how to seek verifiable consent from a parent or guardian, and what responsibilities an operator has to protect children's privacy and safety online, including restrictions on the marketing of those under 13.[2]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_...

acd··on Researchers generate hydrogen more efficiently from water
Sounds similar to photosynthesis. Light+Water is converted into chemical energy. Interesting that lights boost hydrogen conversion in a similar fashion.
acd··on The gut microbiome helps social skills develop in the brain in fish
Gut microbiome is linked to autism. Eating probiotic l.reuterinmay may help. L.reuteri does this by upregulating host oxytocin levels which rewards social behavior.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27825953/

acd··on Ask HN: Skeptical about my company going “full serverless”. What am I missing?
Try version control an app full of Lambda functions. Try moving cloud provider with provider specific Lambda functions.
acd··on New EU energy regulation could effectively ban 8K TVs in 2023
People cant see 4k resolution from normal sofa viewing distances. Why do we need 8k televisions? Besides the tv industry needing a new resolution to sell more TVs?

Viewing distance calculator https://stari.co/tv-monitor-viewing-distance-calculator

acd··on Ask HN: Where do you escape for non-clickbait thoughtful/informational content?
Paper Books
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