Amberskin
@Amberskin@europe.pub
- Comment on How the regime in Iran jams Starlink and what people could do 6 days ago:
What people could do?
Imitate them and put that fascist-owned monstrosity down everywhere.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 6 days ago:
They don’t have that permission
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
Barcelona resident here. I pay 22€ for an unlimited month transit pass (that’s a discounted price that will probably go up). I can ride any underground, bus or commuter train inside the metropolitan area. I own a car to go outside the urban zone but I barely use it.
When I have to use my car in town (because I’m going to buy something that cannot be carried easily otherwise) I recall how much driving in the city sucks.
I’m actually thinking about sellling my car and using a rental service if I want to take a road trip.
- Comment on Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS 2 weeks ago:
You can take your notion of ‘free speech’ and your tech companies and shove’em.
- Comment on Can other countries impose sanctions on the US? 3 weeks ago:
Counter tariffs are a shot to the feet.
I like the proposal of Mr. Doctorow more. Legalize reverse engineering and anti-DRM circumventing. Reduce copyright to 25 years tops and don’t recognise software patents at all.
Good for the local industry, bad for American tech.
Win-win
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
It goes far beyond e-commerce.
Most European banks have moved part of their core to the cloud. DORA requires banks to have at least two cloud providers for their core services. Most of those providers are controlled by the Americans.
Yeah, of course it would be a declaration of war. The question is what we would do in that situation.
DORA should be amended so at least one of the cloud service providers should be European, or, alternatively, on prem. Tje European countries should provide themselves of legal and technical tools to seize the US-controlled vital infrastructure if necessary.
But what I read coming from Brussels is jus the usual shit.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
Found the Nazi. Plonk!
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
I’d go any day with something controlled by the ECB instead of the CCP.
And don’t have any special antipathy vs the Chinese.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
Don’t even need ‘savings’. Depending on US controlled companies is an existential risk.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
Or the European TARGET system. Already in place, and works like a charm.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
We also need to get rid of dependency on USA tech companies. Right now the POTUS can shut down the European economy with an EO ordering cloud providers to stop servicing European banks.
Not easy, it will require extreme protectionist measures to allow European alternatives to thrive. It will be expensive and will probably induce a recession. But the alternative is way worse.
- Comment on Elon Musk tells Tommy Robinson protest ‘violence is coming’ in call for change in UK government 4 months ago:
Put out an international arrest warrant against him NOW. That is calling to violence. He should be put behind bars as soon as he leaves the Nazi country he lives in.
- Comment on Don't gas people 4 months ago:
OMG rofl! Thanks!
- Comment on Don't gas people 4 months ago:
Could anyone explain to me what’s happening there like I was 5 years old?
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 4 months ago:
I vote for 2016. The unthinkable happened.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 4 months ago:
They are subsiding the deployment of clean energy sources?
Good for them. And good for the world.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 4 months ago:
Maybe YOU should give another look at those figures.
Specially the ones relative to the % of new renewables put into production during the last years.
- Comment on Argentina wants to monitor social media with AI to ‘predict future crimes’ 5 months ago:
‘La libertad avanza’ my ass.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 5 months ago:
Fuck all cryptobros. With a saguaro.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 5 months ago:
Uh, are they admitting they are trying to circumvent technological protections setup to restrict access to a system?
Isn’t that a literal computer crime?
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 5 months ago:
No, we would still need evidence.
Because of that ‘innocent until caught’ and ‘due process’ things you may had heard about.
Note: a credible testimony IS evidence, although it must be a little bit beyond the simple ‘trust me’ stuff.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 6 months ago:
Feds??? WTF!
- Comment on ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r 7 months ago:
Also null and void in Spain. Judicial recourse is an non-waiveable right.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 7 months ago:
As a catalan actively involved in the 2012-2017 push for independence, I call bullshit.
- Comment on You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car 7 months ago:
Worked? Mine works perfectly!
- Comment on IBM releases a new mainframe built for the age of AI 9 months ago:
Banking IT engineer here.
In our case, everything ‘core’: checking and savings accounts, loans and credits, credit and debit cards… anything requiring a sub-second response time while being bombarded with tens of thousands of transactions per second AND requiring strict ACID transactions end to end AND 24x7 availability with quick recovery in case of disaster.
Secondary stuff is being moved to other architectures. And new core stuff is being written in Java… and ran on the mainframe.