> near the North Pole.

Finland is not near the North Pole. Lahti is at 61°, right in the middle between Greece and the North Pole.

But yes, heating needs are higher than in most European or North American populated areas.

Ideal for what problem? Certainly not for reducing Google's data collection and improving privacy. It would only work with tons of small payment providers, but then you are back at square 1 that users need to subscribe with tons of services for just pennies.

I am not unimpressed, I hate with passion to click away intrusive ”Use Copilot" prompts in MS products. AI is deeply unethical shit. Stolen content transformed under massive waste of energy, i.e. heating the planet.

Yes, sometimes the results are impressive. But so are the mistakes it makes. You can't just trust the stuff it produces. I don't see that my colleagues who use it all the time have any better productivity.

Every day Teams gives me the choice to 'add Copilot panel', and the alternative is only 'Maybe later'. No simple "No".

In the past week, I have noticed two things that have "aggravated me" to no end...

Many of my colleagues use a Teams virtual background - I noticed the other day that at least one had the CoPilot logo now injected onto the "blank" wall space behind them... Asked one person if they did that themselves... no, they did not...

Next - NOTEPAD... Yeah, at some point recently that was updated to have a CoPilot button.. No thank-you, that's not why I use notepad... (you can turn it off for now at least)

Today I was using $tool with some dense docs and average forums. In a moment of weakness, I asked an LLM. It said, "just use strpos! :magic_wand:". Of course, strpos didn't exist, but it was in the question for the top result on Google for my problem: "I want to do x with $tool, kind of like strpos in $other_tool". After the impressiveness of the language generation wears off, it's just another bullshit generator and man I've had enough of bullshit these days.

Creating artificial shortage and than charging overprices is not a normal free market process. Businesses should create added value, then they can charge a price for it.

Actors that misuse or unfairly dominate free markets will trigger regulation, that's the way it has always been. Some regulators are weak, so we still have endure cancers like Google and Microsoft.

There is no artificial shortage, there is an inherent shortage. Sufficiently popular entertainers such that a ticket price arbitrage opportunity exists must be, by definition, in short supply.

There exist only so many performance days in an entertainer’s lifetime. And, obviously, venues have capacity limits.

So what is the added value created by those resellers to address the inherent shortage?

In theory they provide market liquidity such that for anyone who REALLY wants to go, at any time prior to and potentially even during the event, there remain some options available for purchase; as opposed to basically spinning the lottery on whether you get to go or not, especially for oversubscribed events.

Hmm, it seems like we've forgotten that we can vote with our wallet. If this practice wasn't desired because it raised prices too much or some other reason, then people wouldn't give the resellers their money.

This assumes the only dynamics are "the seller wants to make as much as possible" and "the buyer wants to spend as little as possible".

There are plenty of cases where the seller (artist, venue, etc) want to keep prices low to allow a wider audience to attend the show.

> There are plenty of cases where the seller (artist, venue, etc) want to keep prices low to allow a wider audience to attend the show.

There are only so many seats in a venue. Suppose there are 1000 seats and 5000 people want tickets. What's your plan on how to allocate them?

First come first serve, or a lottery, or any number of other algorithms. The point being "the people with the most money" isn't the algorithm that everyone wants.

The idea is that if venues can sell tickets at higher prices, to the rich or silly (via resellers or not), you get more venues and more acts, even at the low end where tickets are cheap, because it's bigger business.

Nobody wants an algorithm that leaves them without a ticket, and that includes your proposals.

> the people with the most money

That's not the algorithm employed. The algorithm is "the people who are willing to outbid the others". That is quite different.

Besides, with a lottery you won't know if you got the ticket until the last minute. How are you going to make plans with your sweetie, then? Or are traveling from out of town?

The lottery can happen an arbitrary amount of time before the actual event.

During communist years here in Eastern Europe, we got to experience the "knowing people in the Nomenklatura and Party" resource allocation algorithm.

It was obvious to us that the "people with most money" algorithm was vastly superior since it made people work harder to get those money, thus enhancing the society. Also, the extra cash strongly incentivized and funded people to create more of the scarce resource.

The other algorithms failed to incentivize to such a degree that in the end we were starving and freezing because nobody wanted to work to create food, heat or any other products and services anymore.

In this case you can have concerts 2 or 3 days in a row.

I only use the PWA. Typing is not keyboard friendly, you need to use the mouse for formatting. Some keyboard shortcuts exist, but some don't work if you don't have an English keyboard.

It cannot keep track of what messages you have read, often you need to read the same messages twice. The set of emojis is limited (could be deemed a childish problem, but with 100% remote team emojis are important to have some fun). The layout of threads sucks, sometimes you have only a small side panel to work with. When you want to delete old notifications, it sometimes just says "Cannot delete".

It't the worst application I have to use at work. As soon as I have the possibility I will join a company again hat uses Zulip. Unfortunately those are rare.

When do we see the headline: Removing Javascript for a more secure browser?

So the honest title should have been: Removing XSLT because it cannot serve adds

(Yes, the underlying implementation might be insecure. But how secure would Javascript be with the same amount of maintenance in the last 20 years?)

I guess you could get a (not much) used C2 at that price. Many users have given up. Ask in the forum.

Not following things in great detail, but I would dare to answer: Zero updates to the situation you describe for roughly a year.

The Android environment is completely different now. The old one stopped at 4.4 for many years. The new one is version 13. Problem was the kernel. Not something Sailfish as a small company could really control.

Don't know 100% sure. But would dare to claim most UI apps are still closed source. All the basic libraries and probably most daemons are open source. In the HW adaptation it looks bad again, but there Sailfish is not to blame.