Um, how the actual fuck are businesses supposed to operate where some regressive dumbfucks have outlawed VPNs?
Hardwire connections in the office. Finally they'll be able to undo all the good things that came from covid!! I mean, who doesn't thrive in an environment where you'll be constantly monitored so they can sell your work behavior for privately targetted ads? (/s, but only partial)
I think the book part is solved through ebook portals. There's a LOT of books on the Kindle store with shitty stories, grammar mistakes and AI cover pics (if not completely wwritten by AI nowadays)
What the all have in common is they're digital products. There is a fixed overhead cost to host on a platform, but almost no cost per sale/visit/download, so you don't need to worry about scaling production and distribution.
You don't to convince everyone, just the biggest porn posters. People will go where the porn is, just ask 4chan!
I'ld describe it more as "reddit, but without a single company owning all the login servers. Anyone (wirh money) can make their own server and make subs on there, even have their own rules, but you can still visit other servers all on one account, so nobody really has control over all the subs to make up stupid rules for them."
It's the dumbed down explanation, but it's essentially the difference for non-nerds.
I hope they're dumb enough to just ban VPNs .... and completely halt half the corporations from working, because any WFH or remote accessing is built on VPNs.
Hell, it might just make using Zscaler illegal, one of the biggest cybersecurity tools in the corporate world!
Oh look, more proof of genocide most of the world isn't doing shit about .....
You can also be for someone's right to live without being racist / hating jews.
This whole "pro-Palestine = antisemite" spiel is getting old.
As a bonus; police will consider anyone with a gun visible as a threat and act before things happen. There is no such possibility in th US due to the rate of civilian gun ownership.
While still scouring the free web parts for training data...
Trinny sounds like a cool name though
Someone in the world tries to make a tiny bit better ....
The ultra-Orthodox community viewed this as a direct attack upon its way of life.
It's almost a meme at this point
While in general the comparison is true, in the specific case of the Kirk circlejerk, people specifically were told to leave their shit outside the venue and TP paid for the cleanup.