themurphy
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- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 2 days ago:
Luckily it’s not the same body in the EU who’s in charge of enforcing and setting up proposals.
The EU is not a “one opinion” government body.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 2 days ago:
They usually sue if the practice doesnt stop for over a year. They do send warnings before anything official comes out FYI.
But I dont know if they want to do anything though. No one but them and Apple knows for sure.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 2 days ago:
Google hit by EU lawsuit in 3… 2… 1…
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 5 days ago:
I think there’s a middle ground. It’s not all or nothing.
We can have million dollar studios without having a billion dollar studio.
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 5 days ago:
That’s true, which also illustrates how absurd the big paychecks are with your post in mind.
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 6 days ago:
Sure.
The premise is to bring down costs, and not be free. This is a reality where we can share media we buy, because we own them again.
So you can kind of imagine the world 20-30 years back with VHS and DVDs. Just in the digital world.
Fewer people would buy the content, and less shareholders will be rich. Actors will also not go for multi million dollar salaries. But actors would still exist.
You can argue that this will bring down the number of movies, but most likely there will just be alot of small studios making movies instead of Netflix and Disney controlling the market from start to end.
There will be a much larger varaity in movies, and not that many reboots of past succes from the VHS/DVD age.
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 6 days ago:
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine a reality outside our own.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 1 week ago:
They just love whoever pays the most. And they cheat on everyone while getting paychecks from all directions.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 1 week ago:
Yeah, I was just curious if the app could harvest it anyway via the SDK or something.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 1 week ago:
Can you use an open source weather app, or is the problem deeper than that?
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 1 week ago:
That’s legal today might be illegal tomorrow. Short sighted comment.
- Comment on European banks to launch euro stablecoin in bid to counter US dominance 1 week ago:
That’s a fair point. Maybe this “feature” is hard to implement with all countries agreeing on the taxing.
But their might be a limit to how much you can send without being taxable.
This is also a minor feature. As long as it’s possible within country borders, it would be fine 98% of the time.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 1 week ago:
It was un-american 50 years ago.
The only thing changed right now is the idiot in charge, who just spills it all, because no one can stop him. Even though it’s a democracy… Right?..
- Comment on European banks to launch euro stablecoin in bid to counter US dominance 1 week ago:
The purpose is to boost European companies. Right now they pay between 1-3% of every single transaction.
Next, banks will also get hit. If a digital Euro exists, bank transactions will go down, meaning less transaction fees for both consumers and companies.
Then there’s convinience. People will be free to transfer money across the continent, and also to friends and family without any costs (some countries have that, some dont).
VISA and MasterCard is just a very unneccesarry middle man in 2025.
Who takes the bill then? Well, the EU does, because they work for the people, and the money gained is much larger than money spent. Net positive matematics.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 1 week ago:
I dont think your definition of “American” matches with the rest of the world if this is “un-american” for you.
- Comment on European banks to launch euro stablecoin in bid to counter US dominance 1 week ago:
It’s not that dumb. There’s a market for this, if you want it or not.
And if you’re going to use crypto, it’s better they use a currency that’s not tied to the currency of an unstable country.
Also, the EU is looking to make a digital Euro anyway, which will not be a crypto coin as you know it, but a way to take power away from VISA and Mastercard, which will save European countries for billions each year.
- Comment on Magic is real, we just know how it works and call it technology 2 weeks ago:
Fire, electricty, gravity and magnetism is magic, and you cant convince me otherwise.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
That’s true, every movie takes on something different.
But then again there’s Pocahontas that came out at the same time that tackles racism and the importance of nature.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
While this is a good narrative to make about Disney if we want to hate on them, it’s not true though.
The Disney movies for kids is almost all about not maintaining status quo and actually challenge it. Or being different than anyone else
Frozen and Moana are recent examples. Pirates of Caribbean for an older audience. There’s many more.
- Comment on White House officials reportedly frustrated by Anthropic’s law enforcement AI limits 3 weeks ago:
You dont believe it’s a democracy anymore, do you? Nothing is for the people.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
There’s also alot of new battery tech on the way.
There will be a market for batteries at home, and they will exist with the best suitable tech for it - and it’s probably not lithium.
How many years, I dont know. What will it be, and who will do it, no clue. Otherwise my stock portfolio would look better if I knew these things haha.
- Comment on Google fined EUR 3 billion by EU for blocking competition in online ad sales 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, just as they promised. For every fee they up the numbers. This time they are also ready to do more than hurting their wallets directly, which is much more interesting.
Otherwise Google will just treat is as a cost of doing business.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 4 weeks ago:
Poor innocent guns being used for evil, good thing someone stands up for them. :')
- Comment on Russia’s Enteromix cancer vaccine shows promise in early trials 4 weeks ago:
That’s the thing about scientists. They dont give a fuck what country you are from.
They are so used go working with people all over the world they might be the least hateful and least racist people ever.
They just want to see the world
burncured.Their governments on the other hand…
- Comment on Social media platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp have been restricted in Turkey 4 weeks ago:
Even though it would be better for the world if everyone blocked that shit (maybe except YouTube, as it got its use cases), but they blocked it for all the wrong reasons.
They dont give a shit about well-being or standing up to big tech. They just want all ideas of an opposition to dissapear.
They are silencing free speech - at least that’s the goal.
- Comment on Stripe CEO Explains Why Stablecoins Are Winning Over Global Businesses 4 weeks ago:
I dont. But we are talking about your post about stable coins. Then we imagine how it could be done with the information you provide.
Also, the EU is making a digital Euro. Might be on the blockchain also, might not, but it’s an option still.
Google it and read about it, if you want to know more about it. There’s some official sources.
- Comment on Stripe CEO Explains Why Stablecoins Are Winning Over Global Businesses 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but we are not talking about apps.
We are talking about stable coins, which is on a blockchain. The app is not important, as the stable coins would have to integrate will alot of paying options and banks.
Which means alot of different apps.
- Comment on Stripe CEO Explains Why Stablecoins Are Winning Over Global Businesses 4 weeks ago:
Yeah… That’s why I said EU.
- Comment on Stripe CEO Explains Why Stablecoins Are Winning Over Global Businesses 4 weeks ago:
True, but only if the provider is a private company - which is batshit crazy.
If it is on the national bank to provide this service, we would actually get more transparency than today.
Money is already being printed all the time, but with stable coins on a blockchain, we would always know the circulation number.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 4 weeks ago:
Hopefully, in the EU at least, the verification will be provided by the government. Like a 2FA, meaning Big Tech would only get a verified token and nothing else.
The government already got passports with our face, and have had it for many years. They could use that information.
That would mean that any platform could implement this verification, and never get hold on any data.
Best case in a shitty scenario, I know.