I actually have a HP printer with instant ink. When it first launched it was great, there was a "free" tier that was like up to 10 pages free per month.
I don't print a lot but like having a printer for the odd job so that was ideal for me. Now and again a new ink cartridge would arrive and I just didn't think about it.
But they took away the free tier, so I've been on that £0.99 plan which is like 15 pages a month. I put up with it because it was convenient enough to not have to worry about ink, but I was still pissed off at the rug pull.
If they do raise the price in the UK, I'll just sell the printer and buy a new one that does super cheap ink.
This needs to be higher for visibility. The story of Google killing XMPP is a good one but it's utterly bullshit. XMPP was a mess, Google didn't kill it, it killed itself by having fucked ecosystem that didn't do anything better than numerous proprietary standards at the time.
It's not like XMPP was EVER dominant, nor was Google talk - even man messenger was more popular at the time and that's also dead.
Exactly, content is and always will be king. For better or worse, that "highly curated" front page of Reddit will be curated to draw as many people in as possible. We don't have the luxury of algorithms or a full moderation team to weed out the spam ana the chaff, we only have ourselves. Its our Greatest superpower and we should leverage it where we can.
There's a lot of people in this thread that are either slightly delusional or utterly gaslighting themselves.
Reddit is not going to die over this. Reddit was always full of bots and shills astroturfing, none of that was new. And while many great contributors have left the site for good, the traffic to the site hasn't really dropped. The vast majority of (actual) Reddit users were using the main site and app, despite how terrible both are.
Sure the quality of content has objectively dropped, but do you think Reddit cares as long as traffic doesn't?
We're all here talking about Reddit and saying how shit it is now, how spez can go fuck himself, having ourselves a great little circle jerk, but Reddit gives no fucks.
It's time to get over our ex. She's moved on, she doesn't miss us and it's time we moved on too.
Hashing is "one way" and produces a fixed length output. It's useful for things like knowing if data has been modified or in the case of passwords, it's a way to store a value that lets you check a password is correct without storing the password itself.
You cannot "reverse" a hash by design.
Encryption is reversible, you need to be able to get the original data back.
We do use both together in various ways, wtf encrypt data to protect it and then hash the data to make sure it hasn't been modified. They go hand in hand.
I don't think /u/Telorand was suggesting that. Rather I think they're saying that Fox news is trying to appeal to both trump supporters and non-trump supporters within their base, whatever their base counts as these days.
This is absolutely Sony's fault. Sony owns the platform, Sony took the money, Sony signed the terms and agreements with Discovery that let them pull the content users paid for.
They were already at 283k followers when they said they'd add it in if they hit 300k. Sounds to me like they wanted it to happen.
I'm pretty sure the developers have already planned this out and that "the sex update" isn't going to be anywhere near as hardcore as the article implies. The Sims had sex, remember.
Google makes money from ads that they're going to serve you no matter where they process your data.
Google is going to pull all that metadata from your device regardless of where it was processed.
Servers cost Google money to run. It costs them nothing to run something on your device. They clearly have a vested interest in running it on your device if they can.
Unfortunately that is not a workable solution to me, but I appreciate that it's the best idea for most.