Most people would be fine with this in the case of a home user duplicating one or two copies for his kids to watch and as backups. But we have seen whenever a rule permits something, someone will work out the MAXIMUM way in which they can abuse it for profit. Give them an inch, and they take a mile.

Ideally, we could have laws that are really finely built to be specific to that first scenario. But I honestly don’t know how you write those.

That remark, while truthful a long time ago, didn’t really apply during the later periods of IE, or the early periods of Edge before it became a webkit clone. When it needed to win back users, there was a lot of focus on standardization, meaning that when I worked on sites, I tested them through MDN Docs, and in Firefox and IE first, made sure my solutions were not using any -webkit- nonsense, and then they would be fine on other browsers. Anytime I did find IE bugs late in its life, it was usually because some other browser coder was not correctly following standards.

The point of the easiness of unsubscription isn’t to make it possible for total idiots. It is to make it frictionless.

Take law - since this technically is on the same subject. So, so much of the legal profession now (unfortunately) involves putting up so many rudimentary roadblocks that people are compelled to settle and agree. Firms suing small companies with single attorneys will send massive archives of paper during discovery. They’ll file an irrelevant “first amendment” claim to defend their actions, all to make sure people’s time is occupied. Even if the opposing council is qualified to respond to and dismiss every single petulant thing, it will take up their precious time, stressing them and reducing how long they have to form an argument.

Law practice has actually similarly introduced legislation to prevent frivolous lawsuits and paperwork overload. On the idea of newsletters, it’s especially important for it to be easy because many people have been erroneously signed up for MASSES of them. It should be; Click, Click, gone.

Not written in a direct, full, and literal sense, only because it’s difficult to legally define a login, but:

“The data subject shall have the right to withdraw his or her​ consent at any time […] It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent.”​

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Articles that interpret this directive also say that one expectation of this wording is that users should not need to log in. Arguably, registering by scribbling a random password is “easy”. Remembering that password later is “hard”.

This is such a tragedy. DisplayName field missing from registry was one of my favorite games growing up.

Consoles tend to have higher power draw than a lot of simple devices. Depends on how much you care about environmental power savings or power bills.

That probably lead to this exchange.

Stack Overflow is useful, but…it needs more than a little parsing for useful answers.

That may not be an option if you’re renting, as many people are.

One large source of liability also sitting on the desk in that picture, in fact.

Ads are fucking annoying, but I’m still not sure how people are answering this question.

What should YouTube’s business model be?

Whether I want to open a document I open once a week, or a program that I use every day, the search takes a minimum of 10 seconds to turn out a result, after first consulting its server for Firefox websites. It is useless beyond useless.

It’s the equivalent of asking “Would you like to cancel? Are you SURE you’d like to cancel? Are you REALLY sure? Take a look at our new features and make sure you’d actually like to not cancel. You said yes - so you’d like to not cancel? Okay!”

An extremely forceful and dishonest way to keep people on the feature. Should require just one No to permanently keep it off.

I’m almost glad my current hardware doesn’t support Windows 11. No matter how much it tries, it can’t force me to have different hardware.

While these price changes can certainly come in part from corporate greed, there may be some other costs at work being applied; the increased difficulty of agriculture in a world where the climate is getting out of control, or as someone else mentioned the war in Ukraine having an effect on agricultural exports from the area.

I’m at least trying to be flexible in my preferences. I try to be aware of the carbon offset associated to the food I buy, or the amount of land needed to produce it. We can also get a bit too used to certain foods actually being subsidized by the government, primarily meats. It doesn’t necessarily mean I can eat cheaply, but sometimes I pick up an option I wouldn’t normally consider that either saves me money or satisfies me even more.

I have a locally-run produce store close to me, and I’ve found even for things like the brand of packaged cookies they sell, there’s a unique texture and crispness to them - it’s made me a bit more aware of the quality standards that individual stores may have.

If I go there, I don’t get my pick of 17 brands for common things like meat or milk, but I end up enjoying the one or two options they have.