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The problem is that proprietary licenses (such as Source Available) are viral: whatever they touch becomes proprietary. As such, "most repos are open source" (from what I can see: MIT, some forked ones Apache 2.0) is nice, but the
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Note, their idea[0] of "open source" doesn't match the popular Open Source Definition [1] [0] https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-kotlin/blob/main/LICENSE... [1] https://opensou
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All these companies have several EU antitrust proceedings against them at various stages of completion. (And just to preempt any jingoism: EU-based companies also get their share, just not in tech because tech-in-EU is a joke)
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These find a few unrelated cases, but the interesting bits tend to come first: EU v. Google: https://competition-cases.ec.europa.eu/search?search=%22Alph... EU v. Amazon: https://competition-cases.ec.europa.eu&#x
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Scott Morton doesn't like the heat, stays out of the kitchen.
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According to various comments, Telegram seems to be blocked there. Might be a smart arrangement for such services: Set up shop in a country that leaves you alone as long as you leave them alone (i.e. don't provide services there) but a
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It wasn't meant as a quantitative statement, but you're making my point: if even the US of the 1960s (with its poverty and social issues) could afford to run a space program, how much more India of today? Any criticism that India&
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Because socialism! (only partially sarcastic: having more-or-less public utilities, which the Fed is and is not, provide full services that "the market" can't make money with^W^W^Woptimize is anathema to some circles)
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I'd hope it doesn't need a Dalit in space to sort out the discrimination, but if that is what it takes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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> When the highest populated country facing dozens of social issues ... To put things in perspective: The US declared its "War on Poverty" in January 1964. Tried to send rockets to the moon in March 1964. Signed the Civil Right
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> every cubic millimeter counts That's a popular claim, but is "this phone has 0.1mm more depth than the other one" seriously a sales argument? Also, this regulation affects everybody, so it still keeps the playing field e
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https://www.usb.org/usb-charger-pd says "The USB Power Delivery (USB PD) Specification enables the maximum functionality of USB by providing more flexible power delivery along with data over a single cable." The i
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In-ear hearing aids do quite well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oU0RnYxrK4
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Designers need promotions, too...
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The US business model has established "free" for services on the net, paid for by others using behavioral data for advertising. That has its advantages (access for all, no matter the socioeconomic background!) but no "paid fo
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SUSE has customers with mixed-distro deployments that were supported by SUSE Liberty Linux. Those customers might have had questions about what happens now. This seems to be one part of the answer.
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And it's all a ploy by Big Silicon to subjugate software. As if software needs a CPU to run!
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> How will they confirm that they're fork is compatible? The only thing they need to ensure right now is that their stable release remains compatible to existing RHEL. Everything needed for that is around. Going forward, maybe &quot
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The type of trust is very different though: the EU didn't get a bit if data about you out of its regulation.
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For EU-based business: The DPA of your country is responsible for you. For non-EU-based business: Appoint a representative in the EU. The DPA of that representative's country is responsible for you. So where do the other 20+ DPAs come
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It's quite unlikely that these local injustices appear in the news that you consume: local news are on life support, and everything else has a scope that massively surpassed your locality, whatever that might be.
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GDPR enforcement starts slow because the idea is not to amass fines but to protect privacy. Adversarial actors can exploit that, of course, but ordinarily lack of cooperation can rack up the fines pretty quickly. The main issue is that the
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> it's paid for by [...] the ads on the other platforms Antitrust proceedings coming in 3, 2, 1...
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They're used to being able to do that because the Irish DPC does fuck all, with full backing of the government (see https://noyb.eu/en/irish-gov-makes-critizising-big-tech-and-... )
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The "best of the best" places are also managed by feel and not data. There's even some kind of rationalization for that: at a sufficiently high management level, they have to make a decision every 30 seconds on average. That&
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Load on the servers scales by messages processed for the users on any given server. As long as these are mostly humans, there's a limit in the amount of activity per user and so the worst case would be that servers stop accepting new u
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> They can't do worse than destroying all life as we know it. Won't hear anybody complaining, so...
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> And google is nonetheless happy to have countless other coders use their experiment, just not their own. What makes you think so? Those LLMs aren't primarily coding tools. > Leave other LLMs to the side on this issue https:&#x
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Hacks work on computers where no leeway is given either way. In the legal world, this would be an indication that you knew that what you're doing will be challenged and might get an extra penalty for it.
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> Except they have an offering in the market for other people to do just that. bard.google.com states right on the front page: "Bard is an experiment and may give inaccurate or inappropriate responses." Also, the warning is abo

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