[-] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

Tape is actually doing pretty well.

Not the little cassette tapes, but tape storage tends to be used in big companies for backup long-term storage, and it doesn't seem currently like it's going anywhere.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

I'd prefer fuck-you-fines making it impossible to ignore the security that are actually enforced.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

It's EU's GDPR.

Anything like a newsletter or marketing must be opt-in. And it cannot be bundled with other consent, that is they can't refuse to provide you a service if opt-in isn't absolutely necessary.

To be honest, not sure if any other countries have such laws.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago

Opt-in by default is illegal, so OP has every right to be annoyed.

[-] [email protected] 108 points 4 months ago

But it's not a Spotify client, is it?

IIRC it uses Spotify APIs to generate playlists, but that's all.
Actual music gets streamed from YouTube.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 5 months ago

I guess the data that says they spent too much money on hydrogen tech that is now unlikely to pay off.

[-] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago

Better question, what kind of a scam company charges for redelivery?

[-] [email protected] 65 points 5 months ago

Just because you could use it for knitting it doesn't mean it was its purpose.
There's not a lot of detail, but you can check on the Wiki why it's ultimately an unlikely explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron#Purpose

[-] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago

You know, you chose a bad post to get edgy.

Valve is actually one of the companies that treats fan projects very well, sometimes they'll even let you sell your project on Steam (see Black Mesa remake).

[-] [email protected] 240 points 6 months ago

These volunteers didn't think about it in these terms.
They gave away their work for free to help people learn languages, and for a long time Duolingo seemed like the best platform for that.

Starting your own platform is much more difficult than contributing to an existing one that seems to be operated with some amount of goodwill...

[-] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago

There's no reason an app should be more trustworthy than the email.
It's pretty standard for scummy companies to make the process as annoying as possible.

[-] [email protected] 166 points 8 months ago

They already said they don't want to.

They asked you to install the app on purpose, in hopes that you'll decide it's too much hassle and decide not to delete the account.

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