Google docs are pretty clear (https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/robots-txt/robot...):

> Google's crawlers treat all 4xx errors, except 429, as if a valid robots.txt file didn't exist. This means that Google assumes that there are no crawl restrictions.

This is a better source than a random SEO dude with a channel full of AI-generated videos.

Not entirely unlikely this is just a bug on Google's end.

It's fairly common for there to be a very long and circuitous route between cause and effect in search, so a bug like this can sometimes be difficult to identify until people start making blog posts about it.

It seems that this is not happening and even the guy who wrote the article mentions it:

> I don't have a robots.txt right now. It hasn't been there in a long time. Google still shows two results when I search for files on my site though:

The source that he links to is another indian spam channel we've seen a thousand times on YouTube

It does seem unlikely that Google would have a big in basic behavior of its crawler after ~27 years.

Google Adsense docs says that ads.txt is not mandatory and yet I remember having no ads displayed on my website until I added one.

Yeah I thought I got a notification saying to add it for an existing site but it still seemed optional the last time I created a new site?

Indeed. “Unreachable” is very different than “not found”.

If you are planning anyway to break the terms of the license and effectively steal the software, why even bother paying something for the privilege? Just get it for free, surely it has to be available cracked

> break the terms of the license and effectively steal the software

We're all (mostly/some) software people here, you don't need to use terms established by the "anti-piracy" firms to make your point, no one is "stealing" anything here, even if they were getting it for free from TPB or whatever.

> But people are stuck on these archaic unrelated terms for now

Seen it in media for decades at this point, which makes sense, most people can't tell up from down.

What's sad is hearing those things echoed here of all places, a community for hackers, and people are repeating the words of the MPAA.

>luddites cry

oh come on I thought we had gotten past this crap

When I moaned to the Adobe support person about a recent price hike they said "It's a real shame you haven't signed up for a free educational course online, like the ones from Google, that would qualify you for a student plan. Or have you? I'll wait here while you tell me if you are enrolled in one of those free Google courses. Take as long as you need."

So now I'm getting an education too.

Cracked software has risks attached to it, such as malware.

Spare me the morality play. Apple gifted Donald Trump a 24k gold statue! They will gift me an educational discount to Final Cut Pro.

There was no morality play. My point is your copy/use of software is equally "illegal" whether you just download a cracked copy or pretend to be an active college student and pay the student price, when you are not in fact an active college student. Either way, you won't have a valid license. So why bother paying?

This is quite the slippery argument IMO. So it’s not about morality, it’s about legality. But also it’s about paying for a valid license, so they shouldn’t pay at all?

I mean, why not? I barely use FCP, sometimes to trim a movie in places. I'm still going to be subsiding other users. I'd rather not pirate.

won't somebody think of the poor trillion dollar company!

Samsung already makes a bunch of "smart monitors", putting there the same software they use on TVs. Not sure about other manufacturers, but would be surprised if they don't catch up soon.

You might be confusing Switzerland with something else. Switzerland is low tax, private and expensive healthcare and childcare.

> Imagine one day we wake up after the usual yawn-inducing sham elections in Russia and Putin won as usual but a large chunk of the country, probably a plurality of it, is utterly convinced that it was completely fake and that Navalny won. Without anybody using violence to do it.

Exactly this happened in Belarus in 2020. Government wasn't shy of using its power though, many people got long prison sentences, many people had to run, nothing changed wrt to dictatorship. I don't see anything inspiring in this story honestly.

Not for transitioning, for "struggle to achieve transition".

To be honest, both are struggling to achieve the transition, for better or worse.

Looks like you are indeed getting an older page. Try https://archive.is/8aUdC

As German IT news media has retracted the "Synology reverses" story based on the content they are reading in the press release link, I suspect there is some Geo-stuff involved here (I tested this from multiple German IPs now and always get "the other version").

> DS Plus series (DSM 7.3): > HDD > Not Listed > Supported for: > New installation and storage pool creation

This is the main change. Other series (not Plus) are still locked down.

Certainly has nothing to do with "official" drives being crazily overpriced.

The sales team should be able to sell the value proposition using hard facts.

"The official drives have a MTBF which is X longer which saves you Y amount of time and Z dollars, but the choice and the risk is up to you."

If you compare the branded version vs the equivalent model from the manufacturer you'll find that there's a markup but it's minimal.

> Even if they don’t offer it to travelers, it doesn’t mean they themselves do not have Internet connection

It usually does, it requires quite a bit of equipment and it doesn’t make economical sense to install it and not sell it to passengers. Airplanes have other means communicating with the ground and airline offices though.