> Like, where were they years ago saying “hey TikTok, we think your design is addictive and probably illegal, you need to change or face penalties.”

That is basically what happened today. No penalties have been issued at this point.

Also Commission had sent various requests for information to TikTok in 2023 before they opened these proceedings in early 2024 (https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...) - this didn't come out of the blue.

On Windows XP this depended on whether you had joined a domain. On joined systems you got the security screen (same as previous Windows NT/2000), on other systems the task manager (same as Windows 9x).

Generally yes.

I guess a phone/app could exist that does convert to MMS instead, though, since the app can make that decision.

> These mobile phone providers do not let the gazillion consumer smartphones act as servers for obvious reasons.

FWIW, I was interested so I tested this on my phone here in Finland (Elisa, the largest carrier here): IPv6 inbound TCP connections work just fine, unlike IPv4 which is behind CGNAT.

On mobile broadband (no calls) plans they also offer optional free public IPv4 address, but not on the regular phone plans.

(I did the test by installing Termux from Play Store, then in it running "pkg install netcat-openbsd" and "nc -6 -l 9956" and then connecting to that port from internet using telnet, while phone was not connected to WiFi.)

When you say no ipv4 on regular phone plan, you mean no routable ipv4 on the internet, or no ipv4 at all?

Regular phone plans on my carrier have a private IPv4 address behind CGNAT.

Right, that makes sense and the way all providers that I've seen, work.

> Doesn't Amazon shipping have to go to the billing address on the credit card?

No, I've had stuff shipped to plenty of addresses.

It looks like the billing address restriction was a "thing" years ago, but is simply too impractical for modern day e-commerce. People want to do gifting, or get things delivered to temporary accomodations like vacation spots. They are relying on approaches like heuristics (sudden purchase for something expensive going to an unusual address), plus CVV verification to help ensure that the purchaser physically has the card (still allows theft, but adds a layer).

No, it was never a "thing," "mark as gift" has always been an option on Amazon to send gifts to family and friends.

Netflix added ad-supported plans in 2022.

On Linux, the maximum length was doubled to 256 in v5.1 (2019-05-05).

Windows95 also doubled the dos limit of a cmdline from 128 to 256 in… 1995.

> In Valorant (similar to Counter Strike), at the start of the game you have 60 seconds to buy your weapons and abilities for the round. Valorant/CS is typically a best-of-13, and before each round is a 60 second "buy" period.

Valorant's buy phase is 30 seconds, with +15sec at start of match and halftime.

No, it is not true, just a common myth.

In the seller documentation they say they can track the source of commingled inventory - they achieve this by never putting them on the same physical shelf location.

Also mentioned by Amazon spokesman in e.g. this article: https://archive.is/ra6RT

> Amazon can also track the original seller of each unit

A fair point and important distinction, but so is the difference between "we CAN" and "we WILL/DO". That "myth" didn't come out of thin air. It's a result of of amazon not doing that unless they felt it financially prudent to do so/until enough people bitched about it.

The OP article is exhibit A for how common of an issue this was.

> Launchpad marked it as "This bug affects 1 person.".

That just means no one has clicked "affects me too" button yet (after logging in).