Send an email to your local council. Attach photos, explain what could solve your horrible situation. Nothing will probably happen, but if many people start asking those things officially, in the long run it may help.
A 10-year-old boy who was swept into a storm drain while helping his family clean up storm debris is being kept on life support so that his organs can be donated, according to his father....
The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google....
As you’ve probably heard, Threads (a fairly new social network from Facebook’s parent company Meta) is testing integration with the fediverse. Depending on how you look at it, it’s a great opportunity, a huge threat, or both!...
Meta has a very bad track record, but on the other hand I would be happy to be able to follow famous people that are only on Threads from my privacy-respecting services.
I see Threads federation something like an RSS feed. It’s not inherently bad per se.
Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....
When you buy something, the seller pays a VAT tax (something about 17% to 23% of your purchase, depending on the country).
If I’m a French company and I sell something to a customer in Finland (we would be both in the EU) taxes would be paid in either France or Finland (it depends on the kind of thing I’m selling and the kind of customer).
If I understand correctly, they want to tax digital services in the place where the work is actually generated. So, in France.
Ahh now I understand the reasoning, and I completely agree.
To be fair, some things are already taxed in the place where work is created, regardless of the company headquarters. E.g. event tickets (VAT is always applied in the country where the event is taking place)
No, domain names are tied to a person and, even if that person register the domain with fake person details, there will be a digital payment associated with the purchase.
My provider uses the same IPv4 for four different customers, and it lets each one of them use a different range of 12000 ports each (of course, the random user on ports 1-12000 is the “luckiest” one because he could theoretically host a website on port 80 or 443).
But this means I can expose my Torrent client or Plex or any other services on a custom port, directly forwarded.
It works really well in my experience. The provider is Free (France).
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT (www.tomshardware.com)
Simple Mobile Tools have a new name: Fossify, an open-source fork (github.com)
We all saw in the news that Simple Mobile Tools got acquired by ZipoApps and they started filling up the free apps with ads....
Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows (about.winamp.com)
‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)
People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities—Until They Live in One (www.wired.com)
10-year-old swept into storm drain to become an organ donor, dad says (abcnews.go.com)
A 10-year-old boy who was swept into a storm drain while helping his family clean up storm debris is being kept on life support so that his organs can be donated, according to his father....
iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/12670977...
The Verge shows how Google search is useless (www.theverge.com)
The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google....
Sony Music opts out of AI training for its entire catalog (arstechnica.com)
Polls on reactions to Threads (lemmy.world)
As you’ve probably heard, Threads (a fairly new social network from Facebook’s parent company Meta) is testing integration with the fediverse. Depending on how you look at it, it’s a great opportunity, a huge threat, or both!...
Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads (www.techradar.com)
Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....
Any sites for downloading GOG dumps?
I can’t find a few games I want on gog-games.to, specifically world box. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thank you! sankara-salute
pick your side (mander.xyz)
science is blue.
Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" (www.eff.org)
Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams (arstechnica.com)
Thunderbird or Betterbird. What is better on Windows?
DuckDuckGo is down. Is there any info about it?? [EDIT: IS BACK] (lemmy.world)
Update: bleepingcomputer.com/…/microsoft-outage-affects-b…...
There are songs we've gone our whole lives without hearing and the best song we've ever heard might still be out there.
Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain (restoreprivacy.com)
Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose (arstechnica.com)