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by piltdownman 3y ago
It's not a case of lax enforcement, it's simply a case of David vs Goliath. Ireland, as a country has a population of 5 million and is 1/8th the Size of Texas. The nearest comparable European capital, London, has a population
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by piltdownman 3y ago
This is the epitome of ill-informed and emotive polemic, written in a tabloid-esque fervour worthy of The National Inquirer. The Author starts with a inherently flawed argument around the concept of duty-free - holding it as some sort of to
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by piltdownman 3y ago
What's Godwin's law for discussing European legislation with American Capitalists? "As an online discussion about the EU grows longer, the probability of a false-equivalence with Communism being made approaches 1." Sim
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by piltdownman 3y ago
CSR left to the altruism of companies motivated solely by their shareholder returns is a puerile fantasy. It's like that old adage from Upton Sinclair “It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on
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German DPA stops secret, illegal data trading by Credit Agencies(noyb.eu)
5 points by piltdownman 3y ago|1 comments
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by piltdownman 3y ago
Another significant milestone by Max Schrems - an individual who has fought the data protection tide for the last Decade, leveraging the EU's legal frameworks and GDPR legislation to wage a David vs Goliath battle against MNCs, Data Br
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by piltdownman 3y ago
Exactly what I was thinking of! Between that, CodeWarrior, and Ingemar Ragnemalm's Sprite Animation Toolkit (SAT), you had the basic tool-chain for development of a huge amount of early PPC Shareware gaming. Halcyon days.
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by piltdownman 3y ago
There was some set of Apple Input support extensions around MacOS 7/8 that I remember using with it but can't google for the life of me atm. Provided gamepad support and other input niceties. I'm guessing constant polling acr
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by piltdownman 3y ago
Got a sub-ChatGPT precis including gems like 'Their website utilizes cookies to enhance user experience and to better understand their users.' Honestly not sure what use-case this is intended to support.
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by piltdownman 3y ago
Supposedly ASTS SpaceMobile have achieved broadband data to unmodified phones months ago, although they've provided no evidence of such other than a few PR photos and some fairly light-weight tweets from their partners such as AT&T