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by veeti 1y ago
Extinction Rebellion is actually the perfect example, because they are a bunch of protesters so high on their own farts they think blocking ordinary commuters on electric trains will stop Big Oil [1]. And as you can see from the video, brin
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by veeti 1y ago
To be clear it sounds like the upcoming "Android Developer Console" (distributing APK outside Play Store) https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides/... ) does *not* require you to disclo
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by veeti 1y ago
Kind of like the Soviet Union.
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by veeti 1y ago
> Consider the DMA’s impact on Europe’s tourism industry. The DMA requires Google Search to stop showing useful travel results that link directly to airline and hotel sites, and instead show links to intermediary websites that charge for
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by veeti 1y ago
It is so tiresome to see Americans come to Europe and try to bring their hyperviolent, offensive society with them. It may come as a surprise to Mr. DeVault, but most Europeans left or right denounce political violence, even in the case of
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by veeti 1y ago
> Then he goes on about 'Pakistani rape gangs' and 'abuse of British girls'–oh look, the classic trope of the nasty browns and blacks preying on our precious white children. It might just sound like something off TV T
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by veeti 1y ago
In most EU countries private copying levies are paid to the copyright mafia any time you purchase a hard drive, printer or even a blank cassette. Because you know, you might copy something using it.
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by veeti 1y ago
I think if you look at old threads there was a lot of hype and similar high hopes for Servo back in the days, but Mozilla never positioned it as a new browser, only a testbed for parts to integrate into Firefox.
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by veeti 1y ago
I don't see any endorsement of such things in the linked tweet, did you put the wrong link?
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by veeti 1y ago
Those people can stick to their little Mastodon instances where they can play God.
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by veeti 1y ago
Imagine if Steve saw this... https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/tahoe...
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by veeti 1y ago
Just an anecdote but this happens in the west too. I literally woke up today to some spam Telegram "job offer" group that was vibrating my phone like crazy. And all of this in my native language of just a few million speakers. I w
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by veeti 1y ago
Do you think that the adtech industry "scene" is somehow exclusive to the USA? Antitrust enforcement doesn't appear out of thin air just to throw a spanner in the works just for the hell of it, it's because the local com
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by veeti 1y ago
The red is a 30 day card for tourists. The green is valid for many years. You can get both anonymously, but there was a chip shortage a while back which meant only the red cards were widely available.
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by veeti 1y ago
Flash was dependent on a proprietary plugin from a single vendor. XSLT styled documents are compatible out of the box in any web browser from multiple competing vendors, even old Internet Explorer. The iPhone never supported Flash. But than
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by veeti 1y ago
Many such cases. Remember when the Chrome team seriously thought they could just disable JavaScript alert() overnight [1][2] and not break decades of internet compatibility? It still makes me smile how quietly this was swept under the rug o
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Farage 'on the side of predators' with Online Safety Act criticism, says Labour(politics.co.uk)
4 points by veeti 1y ago|0 comments
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by veeti 1y ago
Back in the days we used to mail cash in an envelope all the way to Britain just for some RuneScape membership time.
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by veeti 1y ago
> Many news companies claim that the approach is necessary to finance quality media. In reality, digital advertising makes up at best 10% of the revenue of European press. Not that I am trying to defend "Pay or Okay", but if yo
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by veeti 1y ago
To be clear in this case, the UK is a country in north-western Europe.
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by veeti 1y ago
Kids these days probably never heard of Jack Thompson's crusades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)
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by veeti 1y ago
Well, client-side "on-site" trackers are used because it's easy and flexible to do so using JavaScript tags (and then get blocked by privacy aware user agents). But in my experience at a publisher many years ago, most of the
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by veeti 1y ago
"Web traffic that cannot be measured, and therefore monetised... [ad blockers] block all on-site analytics" I don't think that's true at all. Clients can not prevent measurement through server side logs. Publishers have
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by veeti 1y ago
https://archive.ph/x5cGQ
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Vice owner Savage Ventures has requested removal of my Collective Shout articles(bsky.app)
14 points by veeti 1y ago|3 comments
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by veeti 1y ago
I wonder if you could set it off by farting too much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvB0wRFebus
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by veeti 1y ago
I don't see how any of that is relevant. Instead of addressing the fact that GNOME/evolution security issue number #2727 ( https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/2727 ) about remote co
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by veeti 1y ago
Evidently you did not read the linked issue very carefully as: 1. The issue still persists in the most recent upstream code of Evolution, having nothing to do with Debian or any other distribution 2. No patch is available to correct the sec
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by veeti 1y ago
This reflects of a failure in security "culture" within the GNOME project. Whether the issue boils down to a bug in WebKit or Evolution code, it is ultimately the Evolution developer's responsibility to not ship an end produc
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by veeti 1y ago
It sounds like the developer is just trying to notarize their macOS app, so it's not even an App Store rejection.

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