The difference from the perspective of the US is that it’s spyware from a potentially malicious foreign state. China bans US tech companies as well, TikTok took advantage of the US having a much more open market and the state decided that they were acting in bad faith.
I could be wrong but I remember voting and they actually had it split into two questions. The first was whether you wanted to keep the current system, and the second was if no what system would you prefer. Unfortunately people just decided to stick to what they were familiar with even if it’s a flawed system.
EDIT: Double checked and yeah, it was two questions the first of which was whether the system should change or not. 61% of voters opted to keep the existing system. en.wikipedia.org/…/2018_British_Columbia_electora…
Or just let the developer decide what they think fits their game best? Not every product is for every person, and that’s fine really. Trying to broaden appeal is good, but you don’t want to spread resources so thin that you end up with a mess.
Tesla owns over 50% of the electric car chargers in the US. It makes more sense for other companies to be compatible with the largest network than for the largest network to make itself work with everything else.
Whether you like Musk or Tesla or not, this just made more sense for the sake of adoption.
Firefox spokesperson Christopher Hilton tells The Verge that the browser has seen a more than 50 percent jump in users in Germany and a nearly 30 percent increase in France....
I believe part of the DMA means that they’re allowed to use their own engines. Whether they have that ready right now I’m not sure, but I’m sure it’s in the works.
If a society is to function people need to be doing the work that isn’t enjoyable as well as the work that’s enjoyable.
There’s likely not enough people that get genuine enjoyment out of being a garbage man or sewer maintenance worker for a world with everyone doing what they want to work.
You have to add incentives for the less desirable labour or else the system collapses under its own weight.
In my home town a sanitation worker makes double the provincial minimum wage and gets benefits. That’s an incentive for a job that has a low barrier to entry but undesirable labour.
The benefit of this system is that you can in fact choose this role instead of being assigned it based on the requirements of society. If the compensation isn’t tempting enough then the employer will increase the compensation until it makes sense. That’s how it’s supposed to work at the very least.
If the current implementation isn’t working then you address the issues with the implementation, you don’t tear it all down and try something completely different.
What exactly makes you think that communism is going to remove people having power over other people? That seems to just be intrinsic to humans in general, your economic system isn’t going to change that.
And you can absolutely have social support systems in place if the populous pushes for them. Homeless shelters and welfare aren’t impossible ideas, they’re actively implemented across the world. The same goes for basic needs like healthcare.
Just because your government or community hasn’t implemented it doesn’t mean it’s not possible to do so. It means you need to convince those around you that it’s a good idea.
It’s silly, all the legal precedence we have for emulators were for commercial offerings. If Nintendo wants to hit you with so many invalid lawsuits that you’re forced to fold then this certainly won’t stop them.
It’s just bullying and it’s going to keep happening until there’s laws in place protecting it.
Some of the best inventions in history came from people reverse engineering the work of others. If we want to keep moving forward then we can’t let companies bully people out of innovating. It’s shooting ourselves in the foot.
We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there’s been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of...
If you have to run power to it, you might as well run some data as well. Never really the best idea to have mission critical equipment at the mercy of a congested wifi network.
AWS states “collaboration with upstream open source community is critical to us how we build and operate database services” and showcases MySQL and MariaDB contributions
Yes because they want to be compatible with what people learn on. So if they want improvements that benefit them they have to put those improvements into upstream.
Because the app store and all of its marketing is a huge source of revenue for them. Giving up even the smallest portion of that market goes against their company goal of: number go up.
Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Cable is dead. Long live the cable bundle. Curious to see the pricing and if the bundle only includes ad tiered options.
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TikTok sues the US government over ban (www.theverge.com)
TikTok is taking the US government to court.
Harm Reduction Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
There are no ethical choices under first-past-the-post voting. We must instead make a decision that reduces the most harm.
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Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles (arstechnica.com)
A Baltimore-area teacher is accused of using AI to make his boss appear racist (www.npr.org)
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it (www.theverge.com)
Firefox saw an increase in users (~50% in Germany and ~30% in France) following Apple’s default browser changes in the EU, as did Brave. (www.theverge.com)
Firefox spokesperson Christopher Hilton tells The Verge that the browser has seen a more than 50 percent jump in users in Germany and a nearly 30 percent increase in France....
The Influencers Getting Paid to Promote Designer Knockoffs From China (www.wired.com)
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Previously paid Nintendo DS emulator app on Android goes free (DraStic DS) (www.androidheadlines.com)
Linux market share passes 4% for first time (arstechnica.com)
We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there’s been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of...
Conservatives: keep it down! (slrpnk.net)
Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire (www.tomshardware.com)
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Amazon RDS: "collaboration with upstream open source community is critical" (www.youtube.com)
AWS states “collaboration with upstream open source community is critical to us how we build and operate database services” and showcases MySQL and MariaDB contributions
ICYMI: Some of Apple's EU changes are coming only to the iPhone, not the iPad. (9to5mac.com)
The iPad is not part of all modifications made by Cupertino to adhere to the EU law....