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by arlcode 3y ago
I can imagine Margrethe Vestager will start flexing her regulation muscles the minute Google even thinks about it.
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by arlcode 3y ago
In that light, industrial processes seem even more impressive. The super power of modern technology is the ability to perform precise steps on a massive scale and basically forever. Obviously it takes a lot of effort to keep the machinery r
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by arlcode 3y ago
And you happen to be in a field that boomed (several times) during your career and was (and to some degree still is) a quite dynamic environment. I'm glad it worked out for you (and me) but we must acknowledge that luck is indeed a sig
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by arlcode 3y ago
I think, as usual, this will not be solved by a technical cat and mouse game (in which the cat can always decide it likes the advertisement money that comes from tracking after all), but with a piece of paper from the local legislative body
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by arlcode 3y ago
Dominant players are in a position to abuse bundling more than smaller competitors. To quote spiderman: "With great power comes great responsibility". I don't think it's unreasonable to have stricter rules for bigger pl
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by arlcode 3y ago
The issue is that MS uses it's market domineering position in the office / OS market to push it's other (unrelated) products. The former is without competition and without any (realistic) chance of there ever being competitio
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by arlcode 3y ago
It looks way different if you include data of the last 14 years though (even inflation adjusted) https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/
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by arlcode 3y ago
I do have private code that I'm working on in my freetime that is not public and most likely never will be. Most of it is an incomplete mess, intentionally over/under engineered or created to learn a new tech / development ph
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by arlcode 3y ago
Offline by meeting people in person. Not everybody has time for that and you won't get all the information out there, but for me it's been always very enlightening meeting smart and knowledable people for a beer a talk. Usually su
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by arlcode 3y ago
It probably depends on your location E.g. gliding is really big in Germany where it gained popularity especially after WWII. It's fairly cheap and usually organised as hobby clubs instead of commercial schools. For example a club in my
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by arlcode 3y ago
Assuming you are a "regular" PPL pilot: If you have the chance (and didn't already do so), make a few flights in a glider with an FI. I thinks it's a different kind of flying and allows you to be more confident in certai
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by arlcode 3y ago
That'll not fly at least not outside of the US. Nobody (in power) want's a (foreign) app that can essentially ban a citizen from live arbitrarily. Regulators are no longer asleep at the wheel when it comes to tech, as can be seen
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by arlcode 3y ago
I was thinking that maybe this is in preparation of the digital services act of the European Union which will come into force next year. The act requires some chat interoperability. It would make sense for Google to try set the standard its
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by arlcode 3y ago
If I recall correctly, randomness is a great way to get people addicted and engaged more. In Pocker there is a clear correlation between your actions and your results. The other people are clearly better than you are and most get the hint a
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by arlcode 3y ago
Thank you very much. That seems to be the original draft of the Commission before the considerable changes added since then by the several committees
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by arlcode 3y ago
In this case I would assume it's void almost anywhere because I don't know of a single place in the world that does not require developers to avoid putting intentionally malicious software into their foss with the ultimate goal to
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by arlcode 3y ago
I probably missed it (or it's in one of the many documents on the ITRE page) but in the quoted Recital (10) on the Github Blog I'm not seeing a disctintion with regards to the use of a product. Commercial or not (within the conte
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by arlcode 3y ago
The cyber resilience act which is worked on in parallel would require software updates (not necessarily new features) for a "reasonable" amount of time (I recall about 5 years for phones).
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by arlcode 3y ago
Thank you. :)
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by arlcode 3y ago
I'd argue that the difficulty in banking is not to get the technology working. Financial software is regular software with additional audits and checks to make sure it's safe against the flood of attacks it will receive. With the
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by arlcode 3y ago
The proverb "The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine" comes to mind. Not always and for anybody but surprisingly many people are caught long after the interest of the public moved elsewhere.
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by arlcode 3y ago
If you are willing to share: How did you end up getting tricked and how can other people avoid the same.
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by arlcode 3y ago
It seems to me that after more than 10 years Bitcoin can be most accurately described as "an investment vehicle hopefully not correlated with the stock market". I guess that's fine and nothing out of the ordinary since peopl
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by arlcode 3y ago
Wrong law though. The GDPR requires data protection and it mostly goes against Metas business interests to do so. It's not required to store or process date in Europe (im quite sure "serving" is not a problem as Mastodon inst
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by arlcode 3y ago
Does that include WhatsApp? You can't really lump that in with Metas other products. Most people don't doom scroll WA ;)
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by arlcode 3y ago
Further distribution can be put under any license they want but any copy anyone received in the past that was Apache 2 licensed remains such and can be used as before. So if anyone wants to put a past release online they are free to do so (
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by arlcode 3y ago
Part of the reason is that the Big Tech companies are great at making money without paying taxes or providing jobs in the EU. They are also syphoning European data for free to the US which weakens the European position in transatlantic nego
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by arlcode 3y ago
That (maybe) would have worked in the olden days of physical disks or catridges. Today it is trivial to keep the game on steam with zero sales (or almost zero). If lawmakers wanted to pass a law that actually made this happen they needed to
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by arlcode 3y ago
I think this isn't their goal simply because they already achieved it. Almost no one in my social circle (except some IT people) types in urls anymore.
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by arlcode 3y ago
Not so long ago some people claimed apple would rather leave the EU market than implement USB-C or open up the app store. They complied (or are in the process of complying) with these regulations. Afaik the proposed battery act allows eithe

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