Let me answer that question in a lot less words than the article:
Does a high-quality camera phone always come with a high price tag?
- no.
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Let me answer that question in a lot less words than the article:
Does a high-quality camera phone always come with a high price tag?
And they lead to cynicism and a “can’t be arsed” attitude. After all, if I know people are going to complain about my work no matter how much time and energy I put into perfecting it, why would I even bother? And now, every time I get a complaint phone call, there’s going to be a seed of doubt in my mind, maybe this person is just trying to get free shit, at the expense of me
I feel a bit split about this. Seems it is an actual law, and it kind of makes sense. You probably don’t want random components from unknown people and places in your multi million dollar space equipment. But it feels rather arrogant to just demand such things.
Is NASA actually a customer? Did they pay for a license to use curl (genuine question - I’m not familiar enough with it to know if enterprises and organisations require a paid license)? Are they planning on becoming a paying customer? Do they make donations to the project? If not, it feels kind of rude to send a demand letter to the lead developer of a free piece of software straight up demanding a formal letter stating where the free software is being developed and maintained (for free), or if outside the USA, that the free software has been tested in the USA. Oh, and a bonus demand that such information be returned within 5 business days (naturally with an implied “or else”, just to really make sure those pesky people maintaining open source software for free really get the memo)
In any case, why don’t all their scary 3 letter spy agencies go and figure it out on behalf of NASA themselves? It’s open source, they could just like, read the source, test the source, and audit the source themselves. Or fork it and make any modifications they’d like to ensure its safety
I don’t blame the person sending the emails, obviously, they’re just following orders, but the whole email reads as very entitled and arrogant, assuming NASA don’t provide any compensation to the project and projects maintainers for their use of curl
The meal box kit things seem to be the worst for that shit here. They don’t let you cancel your first box, even if you want to do so 10 minutes after you sign up, and you have to cancel a week or sometimes 2 before they prepare (not even send) your box. Then when you do cancel, they have 3 or 4 rounds of questioning where they’ll swap the position of the “yes I’m sure” button, as well as changing the colours to try and trick you into clicking “no I want to stay”.
I also signed up for an online news site once. It was a $1 trial for a month or something like that. Annoying, but I wanted to read an article no other news site had. Then the only way to cancel is to call them. Being ADHD as fuck, it was on my to-do list, but I forgot I even had a to-do list and I forgot. Then the subscription renewed at like 30 bucks a month. They weren’t even transparent about the renewal price, I didn’t see it anywhere when I was signing up, so I assumed it’d be around the same price as Spotify or something.
I’ve heard that these often aren’t accepted, particularly at dodgy places that really really want you to forget about your subscriptions. Also, not available outside of the US
TP link’s Tapo Cares thingy for their camera (basically a subscription for cloud camera storage and a few extra app features) has a 28 day free trial with no card needed. It’s also 28 days per camera, rather than 28 days per account, which I thought was nice
Whatpulse offers free trials sometimes, 14 days and don’t require card details. They’ve given me 2 on the same account
Who looks at this and thinks it isn’t satire lol? I sometimes struggling with telling satire apart, too, but this is the most obvious piece of satire I’ve seen in a long time.
Lame
I know that would’ve been terrifying in the moment, but God that’s a funny mental image
Thanks!
Heya, sorry for the necropost, but would you mind sharing how you’re doing on storage these days? I’m looking at spinning up a Lemmy instance of my own and I’m curious about the storage aspect on small instances
I guess the mods didn’t find this very funny, since they nuked it. Disappointing, because I was able to read it through the magic of caching and it made me crack up laughing
Why’s it a static gif
They do in certain cases. If you sign up through a VPN or Tor, they require you to provide a recovery email. They don’t accept temporary email addresses, and even if you don’t sign up work a VPN, they’ll still collect and be obligated to hand over your IP
I used it for the office suite. I should really look at using it for an OS upgrade one day
Honestly I don’t really care, it doesn’t seem that relevant and I don’t like having irrelevant books quoted at me
I’m not going to read all that
Neat, TIL!