malermeister

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by malermeister 2y ago
Finally someone is doing something about Apple's abusive practices. The support of abusive monopolistic practices around here is something else though. Temporarily-embarrassed-tech-billionaire syndrome is the only explanation.
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by malermeister 2y ago
I think there's a few factors at play: 1) Ego/Power trip reasons: It just makes you feel like the big man to be physically lording over your minions and they miss it. 2) Class Warfare: Workers need to be kept miserable enough so t
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by malermeister 2y ago
https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...
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by malermeister 2y ago
It certainly is a lot more ambiguous than absolute free speech, yes. I think your example would still count as hate speech inciting violence against black people. The Nazi one I'm not sure off the top of my head, to be honest.
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by malermeister 2y ago
You are free to express your opinions ("I don't like immigrants from Africa"), but you are not free to choose any manner of speech, as there's restrictions in certain areas, such as hate speech or inciting violence (&quo
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by malermeister 2y ago
It removes the censor that is Musk.
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by malermeister 2y ago
That's why the conversation in Europe is usually about Freedom of Expression , not Speech .
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by malermeister 2y ago
Because he's a huge hypocrite and only uses the excuse of free speech to enable right wing radicals, while not granting it to anyone he disagrees with.
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by malermeister 2y ago
Was it free speech when he banned a bunch of leftists for disagreeing with his views?
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by malermeister 2y ago
Marx was right and people like Musk and Thiel are living proof.
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by malermeister 2y ago
Yup, it's the reason we shouldn't be shooting up Satellites for frivolous reasons like internet in the first place.
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by malermeister 2y ago
For now. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882872
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by malermeister 2y ago
Oh nice, I'm already using HA and embedding LMS in an iframe. Might be worth a look. Have you used both? If so, how do they compare?
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by malermeister 2y ago
1) Put LMS ( https://lyrion.org/ ) on your home server/a raspberry pi. 2) Get a bunch of raspberry pi zeros with a hifi hat. 3) Put picoreplayer ( https://www.picoreplayer.org/ ) on them. 4) Use the materi
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by malermeister 2y ago
Chaos Communication Congress is the one worth going to.
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by malermeister 2y ago
Sure. Do you see glassware not being in use at any point in the next 100 years though?
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by malermeister 2y ago
I would agree, which is why I specified :)
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by malermeister 2y ago
As a speaker of Viennese German and English, I have no problem understanding spoken Yiddish.
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by malermeister 2y ago
I used to run this modded distro of Windows2003 called "tiny2003". It was my favorite Windows experience.
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by malermeister 2y ago
Open markets != unregulated markets.
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by malermeister 2y ago
Sure. But every institution is elected one way or another.
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by malermeister 2y ago
We vote for the parliament, which was only like a week ago. Each country also votes for their government, at times specified by their constitutions. Those governments then form the Commission and the Council.
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by malermeister 2y ago
It's not about what Apple users want. It's about what the law requires.
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by malermeister 2y ago
The core raison d'etre for the EU is open markets. They'll do a lot to keep their fundamental core principle.
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by malermeister 2y ago
This is a fundamental misunderstanding which keeps causing trouble for US companies: In European law, the letter of the law doesn't matter . The intent does. It's called teleological interpretation, here's an EU document wit
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by malermeister 2y ago
Ask Jack Ma what happens when Chinese CEOs fuck around.
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Apple found in breach of EU competition rules(theguardian.com)
713 points by malermeister 2y ago|786 comments
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by malermeister 2y ago
This article does a good job talking about this: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/facing-reality-in-the-e...
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by malermeister 2y ago
Trillion dollar companies shouldn't exist in the first place. At that point, they are entities way too powerful to be in private, undemocratic hands.
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by malermeister 2y ago
I hope they make an example out of them. One can't even call their behavior "malicious compliance", "malicious non compliance" is more fitting.

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