Google and Microsoft didn’t “kill” the decentralised e-mail of yesteryear. They beat it fair and square

Sure, they might’ve cornered the market fair and square, but they’re certainly doing anticompetitive things in keeping it cornered.

Just try setting up a mail server not connected to any of the big corpos (Google, MS, Cloudflare or their clients with more niche marketing) and see who will actually recieve your mails. You most likely won’t land into the Spam folder either.

But is there any precedent in selling accounts due to a court decision? Does the social media company get to close the account due to the TOS violation?

In any case, if it does get sold, it’ll create an interesting situation.

Microsoft should go macro-shaft themselves.

Dry snow doesn’t sound like too bad of a proposition on its own.

All math is a lib lie! Just look at those blasphemous arabic numerals!

Was McDonalds ever cheap in the first place?

Yes, but framing is important. Saying “Oh look what our perfect corporate buddies over at Taylor let us do even though it’s their call” (a huge lie btw.) vs. saying “We finally got this victory, we can finally do part of what we should’ve never have been unable to do due to corporate greed, thank you Taylor for getting some sense, it seems like your scrooges still have some semblance of a soul left” is a big difference. As always, the truth is somewhere in between these two extremes. However, I’m inclned to lean towards the latter more than the former on the spectrum.

I’d go with prison sentences as well, especially for foreign nationals. Doesn’t need to be a long one (15-30 days) - just enough to open a international warrant.

Having an open Europol/Interpol warrant against them would hurt their job prospects far more than a ban (fully unenforceable outside the EU).

Their potential new US employer would see the conviction in their background check or the employee would have to tell any potential employer “Hey, I can’t go abroad to 80% of the world”.

Yes. Just as entering through an unlocked door isn’t trespassing.

Most of the sources also have copyright notices the model gobbles up, effectively making it more like trespassing and taking the no trespassing sign home as a souvenir.

In a few years they’ll charge you monthly for the priviledge of using/knowing what it collected on you.

Good thing they didn’t sign.

I get corporate legal counsel are worse than fucking vultures, but this is on another level.

*"We tried to fuck you over big-time but it didn’t work out for us. We’re sowwy. Pwetty pwease come back. But sign away your rights to sue for the little fuck-up that we plan to do (not give you proper treatment due to our clear incompetence), or for the big one that we already did".

I hope the former patient gets a huge windfall and the hospital a good knocking down. The vulture getting sacked also has a nice whiff to it.

Credit cards not issued in the US or UK often lack chargeback protections in non-fraud situations.

This part got me intrigued. Would not honoring a contract (letting you use your ticket) not constitute fraud?

I have two words for you: Slippery slope.

Human rights don’t have a reasonability limit. They’re inherent and inalienable. If it were $0.01 the problem would still be the same. A human rights violation is a human rights violation.

You don’t have a human right to conversion of your property into a form that’s useful everywhere at any time, though.

Sure, you don’t have an inherent right to any and all conversions of property to cash, e.g. real estate or shares. However, if a bank says you have xy of “Money” - the “legal tender” money, the “default”, “physucal” form of money, then a service for holding said money cannot withold it from you - that would make it not your money and that would make their service a fraud.

I’d draw exceptions on reasonable grounds - e.g. if a bank doesn’t work, they don’t have to offer a withdrawal service at the counter. Not allowing transfer into legal tender cash (since cash and credit are defined as equivalent) cannot be overly long or convoluted. That’d be depriving you of your property.

The “e-bank” should at least mail the money to you. It’s really not that hard. Ideally they’d partner with a traditional bank to allow such transfers. Or it could be codified as a basic inter-bank service.

lifted subscription fees

So they’re not charging anything?

God. I can’t believe how the bots are shifting the Overton window and how successful they are.

I’d say “Russian trolls”, but there’s no saying they are Russian. The view on Lemmy a few months ago was pretty homogenous - whatever happens, Kamala is lightyears ahead of Trump on anything related to sanity. Then suddenly the “Jill Stein is a russian shill” narrative came, followed by “A vote for Kamala is a vote for genocide” (while everything points to the fact that Kamala is the best option for deescalation as far as the US ballot box options go).

Oh, if Disney Corp could use the mouse pointer or the one on your desk, or even a living breathing mouse, or whatever else mouse or not rest assured - if killing you somehow benefits them they’ll do it. They might do it from sheer incompetence too and they’ll try to write it off as business as usual. Also, it applies to anyone you know for good measure.

I was wondering, what makes the modem that hard to replace?

I get that the embedded systems in cars are complex works of engineering, but I don’t see why there can’t be some sort of standardized physical interface akin to OBDII to be used to ‘upgrade’ the modem.

Yup, just the ones that don’t produce fruit and mell like rotting flesh…