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EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA(ec.europa.eu)
279 points by jeroenhd 4mo ago|193 comments
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by jeroenhd 4mo ago
Full title: "Commission preliminarily finds the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act" Edit: for some reason, the URL has been changed. The page I tried to post is here: https:/&#x2
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Node and (probably by extension) Electron infuriate me with their custom requirements. Several Rust libraries also tend to default to a predefined set of certificates (which makes sense for libraries supposed to run on bare metal as there a
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Using wildcard certs and/or a central reverse proxy defeats the purpose of internal TLS. Split-horizon DNS for a publicly usable domain is almost always a bad idea, but running your own ACME server is pretty easy (maybe 10 lines of Cad
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> But to me TPMs are still mostly a black boxes that prevent me from installing Linux unless I disable secure boot. Then I think you misunderstand what TPMs are. Secure boot works without TPMs and TPMs are usuable without secure boot. I
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The user is choosing to use apps that do remote attestation against the user's will. You can live a perfectly normal life without apps. It's quite annoying that I can't watch full-quality Netflix or use Google Pay on my roote
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The sad thing is that for many of these examples, people got a better deal out of it. The HP printer ink subscription makes a lot of sense if you print a certain number of pages each year. Many consumers who only print occasionally are bett
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First time I'm reading about this, I'm glad there's progress in this area. The JSON DSL for rewriting emails feels like a spammer/exploit vector waiting to happen. Some product is going to spam filter before applying rec
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I'm living a glorious Outlook-free life at work. I'm glad that I don't need any of that crap. Maybe Slack is right to push people away from the Microsoft shitware that businesses stick to.
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Checked on my phone, Chrome+Firefox work, WebKit (through wpe-android) doesn't. Safari and WebKit can't render this font for some reason, I suppose.
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It looks like Safari doesn't render this correctly (checked on macOS). Works fine in Chrome and Firefox, though. Must be a Safari quirk of some kind.
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> I asked them why they moved here and they answered me straight to my face "Because in Germany there are too many immigrants". This reminds me of those UK elderly living out their pensions in Spain voting for Brexit to reduce
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If you speak English and live in an area where most others speak English, then it's not hard to get by without learning the local language. People who do that often find it difficult to make friends outside of expat circles who do the
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Now that manufacturers support their devices for 5+ years and ROMs are actually quite usable out of the box, the need for custom ROMs is much lower. Plus, some convenience apps require things like remote attestation, getting in the way of u
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Note that these are the statistics coming from people who are willing to share statistics. Quite a few privacy-minded individuals use these ROMs but don't want to send telemetry, which means those installs don't make it into the s
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Dutch (and Dutch-bound) rail network overview: https://treinposities.nl/ And the equivalent for buses: https://busposities.nl/ Not all of them have GPS trackers, so some positions are guessed. There's
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I don't think they need to ship the cartridges themselves. Customers can just go to any store selling printer ink and get the cartridges. It's a bit steep to also need to buy the money-making product HP wants to earn on, but you c
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Printheads are nanotechnology with extreme precision requirements. The rest of the printer is a few well-timed stepper motors, simple in comparison. HP cartridges including the printheads will take a lot of complexity away from the open des
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> Then Microsoft added a green start button and dark blue backgrounds and packaged Win2k for home users as Windows XP. XP contained a lot more than just theme changes. XP solved a lot of compatibility issues that Win2k still had at the t
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You can run KiCad just fine on Wayland because XWayland was built for applications like these. The big issues that KiCad can't fix are encountered when running it on Wayland without compatibility tooling. With the oldschool way KiCad w
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Sort of, if the EU were a country. But the council doesn't consist of separate senators to determine the weight of the vote. And there's also the Commission and Parliament, which are closer to the American government structure as
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> Why didn’t the DMARC spec say that a domain is “not present” if it lacks MX records? MX implies a domain can receive email, you don't need it to send email. A setup where company.example sends email from companymailings.example bu
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> "But why are those providers returning incorrect data?" In this case, because they decided actually implementing the protocol they were supposed to be implementing didn't work for their hacky design, so they hacked toget
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Investors chasing the ideal of not having to employ any people while still making money somehow. And, of course, being the company to provide all the AI; in a gold rush, don't dig for gold, start selling buckets.
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Apple's profit margins on many services are at 76% (according to Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/01/13/apples-de... ), over twice that of their hardware sales. Margins are h
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Revenue wise, the services part is not that large. Profit-wise, though, I don't believe the same is true. Their 30% cut is barely costing them anything compared to manufacturing hardware and physical logistics. I don't think the M
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Linux applications are being sold. In fact, GPL-licensed applications get sold, so it's not even the OSS part that's holding you back. ElementaryOS even has its optionally-paid app store: https://appcenter.elementary.io
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Apple is a digital services company that happens to sell hardware. Their big money maker is their app store, and no Linux user is ever going to buy apps from the app store. They still have the Darwin kernel open,but more and more of the ope
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From a privacy viewpoint: yes From a practical viewpoint: the desktop tower in the corner of my room that acted as my NAS+router+home server+home assistant was running quite hot and the poor undervolted i3 CPU wasn't able to keep up.
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> the EU is still a patchwork of entities that do not have a common vision of what the future should be For many, that's a feature, not a bug. The EU follows a democratic system consisting of many different countries with different

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