arlcode

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by arlcode 2y ago
There was an interesting reverse engineering talk about tonieboxes on last years chaos communication congress [1] It's in german and I can't speak to the quality of the english translation which is available [1] https:/&#x2F
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by arlcode 2y ago
Buyers in Europe pay full VAT for Star citizen "donations" since that law was introduced many years ago. So at least the EU and UK believe these transactions to be sales.
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by arlcode 2y ago
I mean it makes sense. Everyone can see what ridiculous power apple and Google have gained over "their" developers and the steep fees they demand. TV content producers wouldn't want to put themselves in a similar position if
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by arlcode 2y ago
Just to make it clear: There are a million use cases that don't involve scaling fast. For example B2B businesses where you have very few but extremely high value customers for specialized use cases. Another one is building bully hardwa
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by arlcode 2y ago
The EU uses better terms such as "dominant position" which deal with the fact that although a big vendor(s) can fully steer the market and has no meaningful competition while at the same time not "technically" being a mo
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by arlcode 2y ago
FreeCAD moved from "barely usable for hobby projects" to "yeah maybe if I'm really inclined to try it on a very a simple professional project". At least that's what my engineering colleague told me recently. Wh
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by arlcode 2y ago
I wonder whether it is a about quality control and completeness. Pure Software has a lot slack when it comes to delivering incomplete or (in the FOSS world ) even partially incorrect releases. Many issues can be fixed after the fact (even
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by arlcode 2y ago
Even better thx.
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by arlcode 2y ago
Excellent. Thanks
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by arlcode 2y ago
Quick question. Do you remember any jump scares or the likes? I love the setting and the aesthetics but for my live I can't stand some monster/zombie/etc bursting suddenly out of a cupboard.
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by arlcode 2y ago
Not to use it but to sell it comercially (apparently except for "proffesional use" in the current iteration). And that isn't really that outlandish as you make it (maybe inadvertently) sound. If a wheel falls off of your car
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by arlcode 2y ago
This kind of liability is not new Europe. In fact it applies to a lot of products. Therefore similar (though obviously not identical) questions are already settled law. As a layman it may be similar to the questions of how long a manufactur
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by arlcode 2y ago
I am certain there are already established practices for "freelancer" liability since this kind of employment happens a lot in other industries. However I'd be cautious when it comes to these finer details. It's where bu
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by arlcode 2y ago
Combined with the EU Cyber Resilliance Act they would be required to report security issues back to the original project.
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by arlcode 2y ago
I am not a lawyer (very definitely not) and may have missed context and or other paragraphs but the directive says "(14) Free and open-source software, whereby the source code is openly shared and users can freely access, use, modify a
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by arlcode 2y ago
That really depends. Me and everybody else in my close family doesn't really need that. And we short but not to that far from the average height.
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by arlcode 2y ago
And importantly it's also a question that would need an answer if the alignment should be with "individual groups" rather than "humanity". It won't do Sam Altman and friends any good if they are the richest cor
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by arlcode 2y ago
I'm very happy that the EU got into the game early and started regulating AI. It's way easier to adapt an existing framework one way or the other if the political part is already done. I don't trust the AI industry to be a go
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by arlcode 2y ago
I rather suspect that he saw bad numbers and didn't get the public support he was expecting/hoping for to challenge the law. Probably Brazil can live without Twitter better than Twitter without Brazil
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by arlcode 2y ago
I loved my most recent trip to the US (it's been almost 10 years...wow) for anything but Vegas. Something really didn't mesh with me.Too much focus on fakery and "big" I guess. (Especially all that "Roman" and
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by arlcode 2y ago
At least Apple (and Google as well) have pretty great margins on their mobile offerings. I expect those to go down. It isn't a law of nature that tech platforms are insanely profitable. Plenty of products are "just" moderatel
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by arlcode 2y ago
That process they show in the youtube video is pretty involved and very complex for no other reason than to keep people locked in to the apple store. As a layman I doubt this is compliant with the appropriate EU laws (specifically the DMA)
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by arlcode 2y ago
I certainly agree. And it makes sense (for Enterprise "tech stack" software). A license violator would just crack your software anyway and legitimate paying users pay for it and want less hassle. You probably will save on some sup
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by arlcode 2y ago
Fair. Let's say most office based businesses with at least a handful of employees do absolutely need Office or Windows.
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I cannot speak about when office (and Windows) would be considerd "small" enough to not fall under these law. For now not even Microsoft makes this argument. As far as I know they can innovate on the actual product as much as they
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by arlcode 2y ago
Not necessarily. I drive an EV and don't have a charger at home so I rely on public infrastructure exclusively. Day to day it or (my the usage patterns) don't change much and after the firstof when and where charging would fit in
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by arlcode 2y ago
Everybody needs Office. There really is no practical way around it for businesses Now companies get a "free" (initially) software in addition to what they actually want. Microsoft can only afford that because they already get Mone
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by arlcode 2y ago
Google was just forced to introduce mandatory choice screens for browser, and search engines on android. The DMA also forces them to make all of these apps uninstallable.
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by arlcode 2y ago
yeah me to. The DSA and the DMA doing what they are designed to do (in Europe) It's unfortunate that the regulators and legislators will have to fight over every one of those services individually for a while until mega corps get tired
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by arlcode 2y ago
There is plenty of competition in Spotify's market.Music is a commodity and the market is working Just fine. Btw Netflix also isn't a gatekeeper and neither are Disney, salesforce or Oracle to name a few.

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