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  Do you think even 1 GW will be built, or will they go bankrupt before?

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  Link to where that sentence appears: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/force-all-app-traffic-into-the-tunnel

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  Holy shit! So for example: Cleopatra II was first married to Ptolemy VI, her brother, and had a daughter Cleopatra III. Then when Ptolemy VI died Cleopatra II was married to Ptolemy VIII, her other brother. Ptolemy VIII also took his niece Cleopatra III as his second wife.

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  Holy shit that's low. So to get even just 8 weeks you need to have worked there for 5 years. And this from a rich company. I work for a small company of 150 people. I've got 3 months of notice period in my contract, though it's going both ways. This protection started immediately after my trial period ended, which was also 3 months long. That's considered normal here in Switzerland for office jobs. The minimum by law after your first year of employment would be 2 months. Just f...

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  The article speaks of a "Windows 365 suite of productivity apps" but that doesn't exist. There is the "Microsoft 365" suite of office apps, and there is the "Windows 365" offer of a Virtual Machine as SaaS. It seems the thing that went down was the former and the ill timed announcement concerned the latter.

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  Is that the "you"-form they use in Spain but not America? Or am I mixing it up with Portuguese? Funny meme either way!

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  webm can contain VP8, VP9 or AV1 video streams. I guess if you mean webm with VP9 inside it could be one solution, though less efficient. Also Google donated VP9 and what they had for VP10 to the development efforts of of AV1, so if AV1 is found to be infringing it's a negative signal for VP9 too... Edit: Sorry I was a bit off-topic. I was thinking of the action that Dolby is currently taking against Snapchat for their AV1 use.

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  > I believe the error was in the AV1 license NOT having a “if you enforce patent-license-fees on this codec, THEN you can’t use this codec” type of coercion… I thought those provisions were usually enforced among the members of a patent pool, to ensure that any licensing customer can trust in the pools word to not be shaken down a second time by an individual pool member later. So since AM1 isn't forming a patent pool to sell licenses, and Dolby isn't part of the Alliance for Open M...