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- Comment on Mastodon: Our ideas about Packs 41 minutes ago:
I guess in a way that’s what it offers, just that instead of an algorithm it’s human curated. Mastodon is a lot about boosts, so following someone doesn’t mean just following them, but also being subjected to whatever they boost (unless you silence their boosts of course). So if you’re interested in pottery and you follow a pottery starter pack, chances are that feed will end up a curated channel of pottery content.
The great thing is that it has quality control and cannot be abused the same way algorithmic feeds always end up being. The funky thing is, of course, that you also end up being exposed to everything else those people are interested in. But I think that’s part of what makes Mastodon feels so nice.
- Comment on Italy poll finds 15% see attacks on Jewish people as 'justifiable' 4 days ago:
- Comment on What happened near Spokane in BeaconDB? 4 days ago:
There’s a similar weird thing going on just north of Trondheim in the middle of Norway (and the middle of nowhere, really). I have no idea what it’s about.
- Comment on Israel Illegally Boards Humanitarian Flotilla Heading to Gaza 5 days ago:
I don’t think Israel can recover from this.
- Comment on Colombia Expels Remaining Israeli Diplomats Amid Gaza Aid Tensions 5 days ago:
Great. Make sure this becomes a diplomatic incident of major proportions. Gustavo Petro and Pedro Sánchez are the only world leaders I would somewhat trust to have a spine at this point, the rest need to have their arms twisted like the Italian unions are currently hard at work with.
- Comment on Israel Illegally Boards Humanitarian Flotilla Heading to Gaza 5 days ago:
Currently, 11 ships are not yet registered as intercepted, not counting the legal support vessels. The ship Mikeno made it into Gaza territorial waters before contact was lost. In general updates are scarce, so it’s hard to know what is going on - Mikeno also went a long time without updates over night before it suddenly appeared less than 20 km from Gaza.
10 ships are assumed intercepted. 21 are confirmed intercepted.
Fuck Israel and their genocide.
https://globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/ - Comment on I'm looking for a Lemmy post on a website that "would give your CISO a heart attack". In essense it was a specific URL forwarding service but had a very dubious URLs 6 days ago:
… /etc/X11/xorg.conf…
- Comment on I'm looking for a Lemmy post on a website that "would give your CISO a heart attack". In essense it was a specific URL forwarding service but had a very dubious URLs 1 week ago:
- Comment on Massive Attack Turns Live Facial Recognition Into Concert Commentary on Surveillance 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Touché. Gotta admit I didn't think it through properly, there's probably a bunch of other things as well. Point is I think I've provided the music industry with more money than it strictly deserves.
Especially with the price of concerts these days. Jesus.
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Lol, I'm a vinyl nerd
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Easier to let users play music for free when you don't pay the artists I guess
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 3 weeks ago:
Same, except I kinda just cut off a bit here and there as adjustments every now and then. So I never really have a new haircut, it stays somewhat stable.
- Comment on Interesting Intel tech for rendering graphics 3 weeks ago:
"How do you do, fellow scholars"
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
But at least he's self aware! That places him in an intellectual capacity at least somewhere between a giant panda and a house mouse. Not bad for a troll.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
respect, kindness and have principles that I apply uniformly
Not actions that he applies uniformly. Obviously you meet people with different actions. But you can remain constant in principles.
Its possible to respect both your mother and your partner, yet only have sex with one of them. Weirdo.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 5 weeks ago:
I would be very happy if anyone could explain to me in a simple and coherent way why I, as a normal user who am aware of what I am doing on my device and am not targeted by any group that's out to get me, would need a "hardened malloc", "secure app spawning", "vanadium browser and webview", or a "hardened PDF viewer". The last of these four is the only thing that means anything to me, and it sounds dumb. Yeah, I know PDFs can be dangerous if you open random shit, but come on.
If I run Waydroid it's only to get my banking app (trusted source) and Whatsapp (not a trusted source but not directly malware either) working. I hardly need their hardened PDF reader.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 5 weeks ago:
I guess if Google closes down AOSP it would get forked, and the fork would probably be a separate thing from the current Android distributions. So that the landscape would continue to look a bit like today, except that AOSP would be an independent thing.
Then I guess it's possible that Google would seek to make android apps incompatible, gradually making the whole thing kinda pointless. I can't say I'm using Android for the great UX - I'm using it because it supports a few apps I continue to be forced to use. If I can't use them an Android any more I'm switching to Ubuntu Touch or PostmarketOS in a heartbeat.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 5 weeks ago:
I guess the parts of the fediverse that allows adult content. There's a lot of people on the fediverse dedicated to supporting sex workers and stuff like that. None of these sites or users are in a position to sue the UK though.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 5 weeks ago:
Now 4chan becomes the face of my resistance to this shit, and people will think it is only being opposed by a bunch of deplorable incels. It delegitimizes the entire opposition - you can't speak out against it any more without being associated with 4chan and whatever the fuck kiwi farm is.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 5 weeks ago:
Everything takes a long time, but things are happening. If you search for the terms "fine apple EU" or "fine apple EU" in your search engine of choice you'll see there's quite a lot going on.
I have some personal friends who are working with this stuff for the European Commission. It basically takes a long time to build a case against tech giants, and then once the Commission fines them these fines will be appealed in the EU court system, which will take even more years to process.
It's annoying that there's not a magic switch to flick to make Google and Apple comply with EU law, but that's the world we live in. If the EU just banned Google and/or Apple it would probably backlash tremendously, so they have to move a bit slowly. :)
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 5 weeks ago:
You can't make laws for every single possible future reality. We need courts that uphold laws even when billionaires try to dodge them using shady techniques. The problem is that big tech often gets away with murder because they can afford expensive lawyers. Especially in the US laws are essentially meaningless for the rich. This is not so much the case in Europe.
I have heard some positive signals from the European Court of Justice that they are taking the challenge from big tech seriously and that they are going the extra miles to understand these issues. If you're particularly interested, many judges talk about this in the Borderlines podcast series by Berkley law. But it gets really dry really fast haha.
I don't believe in signing authorities. It's not effective - Google can't even keep malware off the play store - and it's an authoritarian move. Hell, most apps in the play store spy on their users, profiling usage to sell to advertisers along with ID codes that makes it possible to combine data between apps and build detailed profiles of individuals. The problem is not apps that are not signed - the problem is the whole economy of apps that work as Google intend them to.
Also, it's a basic question of rights. It's my phone, I bought the hardware, I own it, I install whatever the fuck I want on it.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 5 weeks ago:
Not unabated. They are stuck trying to find new loopholes to not comply, which are then struck down. It's a cat and mouse game, and they think they can get away with it because they have the most expensive lawyers.
Again, enforcement is the challenge, not the laws themselves.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 5 weeks ago:
I have no idea as I don't follow apple much, but I am aware that they are constantly trying to find ways to avoid complying with EU law, and that it is often rapidly struck down.
What you're describing here is not a failure of the law, but Apple trying real hard to find creative ways not to comply with it. To me it only shows that they are desperate, and that EU law is in fact getting to them.
If they keep at it it'll eventually end up in court, the case will take a couple of years, and they'll be slammed with a fine and asked to get their shit together.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 5 weeks ago:
Does the law demand unsigned software?
The answer is no. It's not phrased like that. But it's all about ensuring free competition in digital markets. The sole purpose of Google's move here is to hinder competition in their own digital market, and to keep control over it.
So the law does not have a paragraph stating that "unsigned software must be allowed", but it has a bunch of other paragraphs that can be used to strike down on monopolistic behaviour.
Google are aware of the law, and will try to find a loophole by designing a system that they believe technically complies with it. Then someone will sue them, it will end up in the European court, and the European court will in all likelyhood tell Google to get fucked.
It seems american tech companies think they can get away with anything because that's how it works in the US. We are repeatedly seeing that this is not how it works in Europe: the Court of Justice tends to care deeply about the intention of the law, as well as the perceived consequences of their rulings. And they don't seem to care all that much about American capitalists.
But to answer your question very simply: No, it doesn't. Thankfully that doesn't matter at all.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 5 weeks ago:
What exactly do you mean?
Sure, nothing is perfect, but EU legislation has generally been quite good, from the GDPR to the DMA.
The challenges are more related to enforcement - rules on the book are worth nothing if we don't force companies to live by them. In this respect we've seen some pretty sloppy behaviour, but also some victories. It's not a one-sided story.
Another challenge is of course to keep passing good laws, and to avoid terrible ones. Chat control needs to be stopped. Stopping it is a matter of convincing national governments it's a bad idea, as well as members of the European Parliament - everyone should be writing their representatives NOW. But that's another issue entirely. :)
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 1 month ago:
Google is clearly trying to find a loophole here. Their loophole clearly sucks.
In all likelihood it'll end up in front of the Court of Justice of the European Union. And in all likelihood Google will lose again.
The Court of Justice generally seems unimpressed by American lobbyists, so the strategy of finding a dumb loophole is probably doomed to fail.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 1 month ago:
The EU already forced sideloading to be officially supported on iPhones thanks to the Digital Markets Act, and that law applies to Google as well.
The US will likely apply pressure, just like they are trying to force their death machines to be legalized on European roads. Apple already tried to pressure the union and failed, but the political climate has changed a bit since then, and while EU bureaucrats can be fierce, European leadership tends to be weak as fuck.
But yeah, chances are that this change won't apply to the EU. :)
- Comment on I went to the UK last week. Nothing about my trip was legal. 1 month ago:
Of course, I wouldn't expect the UK government to produce information in French. However there is a traditional way of doing things: You fly a yellow flag, and you report to a port of entry upon arrival.
If this is changed without being very publisized, it is really stupid not to at least have a transition period where people can still register their entry into the country after their arrival, until the new rules are well established and the website that is supposed to be serving them is out of beta testing.
If you want to sail from the UK to France, you just raise the appropriate flags, and then you announce your arrival when you get there. Ask in the harbour and they'll let you know where to go. So you wouldn't have to navigate their legal system, you just need to know how to use flags.
That said, I had no problem being in the UK illegally, so no real complaints from my part. It just seems like an attempt at tightening control of the borders that ended up having the exact opposite effect.
- Comment on I went to the UK last week. Nothing about my trip was legal. 1 month ago:
Yeah, but it needs to be announced somehow. We all filled in ETAs, because this is something people have heard about. It would make sense to inform of something like this at the end of the ETA registration. Instead, the fact that I had a travel authorization lead me to believe that I was, in fact, authorized to travel to the UK.