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explain··on Cloud host Vultr rips user data ownership clause from ToS after web outrage
ONLY "for purposes of providing the services to you."

> You hereby grant to Vultr a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, worldwide license (including the right to sublicense through multiple tiers) to use, reproduce, process, adapt, publicly perform, publicly display, modify, prepare derivative works, publish, transmit and distribute each of your User Content, or any portion thereof, in any form, medium or distribution method now known or hereafter existing, known or developed, and otherwise use and commercialize the User Content in any way that Vultr deems appropriate, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or to any third parties, *for purposes of providing the services to you.*

explain··on Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown
Not the same people at all.
explain··on Meta outage
Really?
explain··on [dead]
And they brag about it.

Why is this okay?

explain··on Are You Unvaccinated? It's Time to Make an End-of-Life Plan (2021)
lmao
explain··on What's the point of Elon Musk's AI company?
Hating so hard.
explain··on 6 months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable
> “We’re on Apple News now and in the process of enabling monetization there…I suspect that when we turn it on, we’ll be making $20 to $100 per month"
explain··on 6 months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable
> The four cofounders each own 25% of the company, and at launch each put in $1,000 to cover initial costs. Koebler declined to share current revenue numbers, but said the company is profitable (and that everyone’s been able to pay themselves back the money they initially put in).

Profitable doesn't mean much then.

explain··on Elon Musk's X comes out in favor of pro-censorship law
Context: CEO Yaccarino said she supports the Kids Online Safety Act.
explain··on Tell HN: Cloudflare Hosted Illegal Content on My Domain
They do, but the nameserver pairs aren't unique and there aren't that many combinations (2500, apparently).

It would be easy enough to automate the creation of accounts until you have an account for every nameserver pair, then start serving on unclaimed domains.

explain··on Tell HN: Cloudflare Hosted Illegal Content on My Domain
If you set the nameservers but didn't claim the domain in Cloudflare, then anyone else could claim it and start serving on it. The only real verification that you own the domain is that the nameservers are pointed to Cloudflare.
explain··on Kagi search reached 20k paying members
So they raised $670K (https://blog.kagi.com/safe-round) and spent almost $223K of that on printing dog t-shirts to give away?
explain··on Apple's App Store Tax
> Apple’s biggest critics are big mad

State of journalism.

explain··on Spotify attacks Apple's 'outrageous' 27% commission
Not allowed
explain··on Molly White: Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details
Same with users fleeing all the scary free speech on Twitter, by joining... censorship-resistant alternatives.
explain··on [dead]
> The report, Inequality Inc., finds that seven out of 10 of the world’s biggest corporations have a billionaire as CEO or principal shareholder

That is inherent. You cannot be a principal shareholder of a top 10 corporation without being a billionaire.

Make a homeless dude the principal shareholder of a top 10 corporation and he is instantly a(n evil) billionaire.

explain··on Slashing data transfer costs in AWS
Paying for bandwidth is crazy.
explain··on Ask HN: Do Tech Companies Segment by Gullibility?
The person who believes in no conspiracy theories is the most gullible of all. They believe everything that "authority" tells them, and questions nothing.

The person who believes in a huge amount of conspiracy theories is gullible, but at least is picking and choosing, and not blindly listening to what they are told.

The person who believes in some conspiracy theories and not others is sane, because a lot of former conspiracy theories are now accepted fact.

explain··on GoDaddy claims they will try to broker a deal to acquire "apple.com" for $69.99
And I will try to broker a deal to acquire "apple.com" for just $65.00. HMU.
explain··on How to run a small social network (2019)
This push for everyone to have their own empty social network site (not distinguishable from 1 billion other sites on the same code) is very strange.
explain··on The Google Play Store Ruling Is Bad News for Longtime Android Phone Users
"Developers don’t have to hide pricing, either, so they can take up space to tell you how much money you’ll save if you buy in-app coins through their means versus through Google’s. This could clog up text space in an app already teeming with advertising."

How much did Google pay for this article?

explain··on Ask HN: US LLC and Thailand Taxes
"An LLC is a pass-through company, so if the company is registered with you, you will be taxed on everything you have in the LLC."

Correct by default.

You can elect for the LLC to be taxed as a C Corp (form 8832), and this way the LLC will not be a pass-through entity.

explain··on X: All Tweets Disappeared
You're seeing what you want to see.
explain··on Show HN: Made a forum for depressed founders to confide
I think if you are hanging around forums about depression, then you almost want to remain depressed.
explain··on Elon Musk Signals Alex Jones Could Be Reinstated to X 5 Years After Twitter Ban
Fantastic news.
explain··on Microsoft Outlook Blocking All Email from Tutanota.com as Spam
*marking them as junk

Seems likely that this is in some way related to their rebrand to tuta.com.

explain··on X May Lose Up to $75M in Revenue as More Advertisers Pull Out
> so then he can say "see? I love Jews, please big ad dollars, come back"

He may be playing nice to bring the ads back, sure (and no doubt he wants X generating a lot of revenue). But in your example what he's not doing is taking away anyone's freedom of speech in order to get the ad dollars back. He is trying to bring back the ads without eroding freedom of speech.

If what he does is start banning users who say anti-Semitic things to bring back the ad revenue, then you will be right.

explain··on X May Lose Up to $75M in Revenue as More Advertisers Pull Out
"being unable to close his big mouth and engage brain."

He has values, and he values those over money.

explain··on My Free Speech Means You Have to Shut Up
You'll notice he has not banned them from X.

Free speech does not come without taking legal responsibility for that speech.

explain··on Meta’s approach of ‘pay for your privacy’ is wrong
> Play by their rules

Which they are.

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