This kind of abusive practice needs to be banned in whichever countries it's still legal.

You can't really aspire to improve the situation if such things continue to be legal.

With WhatsApp, Discord, etc, that server is provided by Facebook, Discard respectively. With XMPP, Matrix, that server is the instance in which you have an account or where the channel is hosted.

With IRC, you use a bouncer. What makes IRC unique is that a bouncer is _optional_. You can even join a channel without an account and without a server which keeps logs while you're offline. This ephemeral level of joining doesn't exist in WhatsApp, Discord, XMPP, Matrix, etc.

And, btw, this is not a new thing: I first saw bouncers 15 years ago and they weren't even new back then.

It seems to be taken for granted — that's something you'd already have in place if you're already serving applications in PHP, but would have to figure out on your own if you haven't served anything in PHP so far in your life.

We don't say "a rogue knife stabbed someone", or "a rogue scalpel botched a surgery". There's a human behind this, who set everything up. They might have lost control at some point, but when someone loses control while driving, we don't say that "a rogue car crashed into some kids" and call it a day. When a surgeon "loses control of their scalpel" we question whether they're qualified to perform surgeries.

The person responsible who lost control is still responsible for losing control, and it's dangerous precedent that we pretend otherwise for these cases.

Do these sanctions also affect anyone working at the ICC?

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I know AWS and similar sites have no such concepts, but other than those, this is an existing option of most kinds of service providers.

Realistically, most providers can't even allow you to consume $10k usage if they don't have the certainty that you can pay up. Prepaid is what gives them that certainty.

I felt like a learnt a lot of details about the entire process. Questions arose during my reading, and searching for the answers led to more learning.

No marketing BS, lots of actual information. And their level of openness is really neat!

When it comes to being mainstream, an approachable UI sells

I didn't even know -r was a thing until today.

As other said: the target audience of the Linux version was never clear.

Apparently this is triggered by walking near a venue of theirs. Apple doesn't classify this as an app, it's a "suggestion". The huge sign at the mall that says "drink coca cola" is also a suggestion, that doesn't make it any less of an ad.

The App Store has had third party ad for years too. And the settings app has first party ads too. iOS is full of ads, it's the exact crap that users expected to avoid with Apple.

The amount of post-processing in them makes them look fake, like somebody took a photo of the background, and then photoshopped the subject on top of it.

In fact, If I were asked to explain the opposite of private, I might give this kind of design as an example.