Yea someone argued that “it’s not impossible to replace YouTube, [x] also stores massive amounts of videos” where I don’t remember what x was, but I’m fairly sure their massive amounts of videos is less than what gets uploaded to YouTube in a day, maybe an hour.
Also technically illegal in EU I believe.
Yes, intentionally.
They’re not going to investigate their owner, why would they? No business ever does.
What gives you the impression they’re worrying about Estonia?
The sting operation was global. They had a network of compromised “secure” phones all around the world, including the US, between 2018 and 2021. Now they share the data they already have with the rest of the world. Likely this data got handed to the prosecutors here a long time ago, but the cases only wrapped up in 2025.
As for why they aren’t frying the bigger fish - idk, if I was American I’d rather they do LESS at home because doing more work at home would mean arresting more minorities lol
Valid question, but this was several countries working together, at least eventually. It’s not like the FBI gets to unilaterally arrest people in European countries. They provide the evidence to the local police.
It also isn’t a new thing, the actual surveillance part was during Trump 1 and I think Biden.
It’s not so much a marvel of engineering as much as “if you make the tech as boring as possible, there’s less to go wrong”.
The Germans will sell you a luxury performance SUV with the same highway fuel consumption as the Corolla. Of course the Corolla will be more simple and reliable.
What are you on about? Which AM5 CPU can you drop in an AM4 mobo?
Oh right, Dativ.
My excuse is that I come from a language background with no articles, so declension on articles are unnatural to me! In fact, articles are unnatural to me!
In Estonian, the noun cases for that word would be
kool
kooli
kooli
kooli
koolis
koolist
koolile
koolil
koolilt
koolini
koolina
koolita
kooliga
kooliks
We have 14 of those so we get to skip prepositions and thus only need to decline the noun itself and any adjectives in front of it (or behind it if you’re writing a poem and it flows better that way, Estonian is very weird when it comes to actually sentence ordering the words in a)
Welllll
WC stands for Water Closet and I think Klo is short for Klosett?
The brits also call it the ‘loo’ which doesn’t sound too far off from ‘Klo’ I think
So it’s not actually that hard to infer what it means
To be fair I did take like 6 years of Deutsch in die Schule, aber ich habe alles vergessen + I’m not entirely sure we ever learned the word “Klo”. Maybe we did.
If she actually regretted any of it, she could’ve retained her seat and voted against MAGA.
Methinks this is much about attention as anything she did that was pro-MAGA.
Aww but I don’t like dong :(
To strike a balance, home values should go up at the same rate as general inflation and/or wages (ideally the latter, really), or at least stay the same over time.
You really don’t want to find yourself in a situation where you need to sell and you’re underwater. At the same time, they obviously shouldn’t be the investment vehicles they are now.
Also some people use the equity from home appreciation to take out an extra mortgage for improvements. I don’t personally think it’s a great idea (as it can put you under water if the market takes a wild swing), but it’s something people can use to get a cash injection for potentially expensive home improvement work.
Netflix may be the last one of the big tech corpos that still has some people that care in positions of influence as it’s newer than the others and their business model isn’t outright spying on their users.
Unfortunately it won’t last forever. People burn out. Corporations burn them out.
It’s cheaper. It’s almost definitely a better seller. The S was supposed to be a luxury car. It’s bigger, has air suspension, etc. But most people don’t want to pay a premium for stuff like that.
“It could take more than 3 months but it definitely will take more than 6”
That’s why I used e.g instead of i.e :) That’s one use case for Apple Pay that you can’t get from the website. Another would be that you don’t share your card details with whoever Patreon’s payment processor is - which might make sense if you trust Apple more than some particular processor
Creators choose if they’re taking the cut or the users are paying extra.
Huh? It’s the businesses that will suffer from that 30% tax. It’s like suddenly seeing your Netflix subscription being more expensive and that triggers this “do I even need it anymore?” evaluation
Has been this way for a long time. You pay through Apple, you pay more. You pay on the website, you pay the regular fee.
If it costs 13€ to support a 10€ Patreon pledge, then how do you expect the company to cover for that? Paying the creator less? Still, that will spawn competition, which again hurts the business
The creators are the ones who choose how they handle this. Either charge their 10€ tier as ~ 14.29€ or receive 7€ instead of 10€ when it comes to Apple users.
The businesses ain’t gonna suffer shit.
You can already pay on the website. If you pay through Apple Pay and therefore pay the extra 30%, that’s kinda on you at this point.
Cunt move by Apple, but the in-app purchase payment processing going through apple only rule has been there for a long ass time, Patreon got pretty lucky that they were given so much leeway for so long.
Wdym non FOSS? It’s MIT. That’s still FOSS even if it’s not the flavor of FOSS you prefer