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Journalist, anecdontalist. I work for the company. But don't let that fool you, I'm really an okay guy. There is no future in England's dreaming.

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Because I'm stupid/weird/adventurous I've installed Fedora 40 KDE spin, which has the new Plasma 6, and OMG it's great.

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Apple exec team having a totally normal week

https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/08/epic-says-apple-will-reinstate-developer-account-clearing-path-for-epic-games-store-on-iphone/

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Another thing that US pundits get wrong about EU antitrust action: the EU doesn't tell companies how to comply, the companies propose solutions and the EU tells them if is complies. They don't design your products for you. If a company goes for a browser ballot, say, it's because that's what it wants to do, not because the EU is making them do it that way.

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From @baldur, this is the best article I have read explaining the differences between EU and US tech companies' view of competition and antitrust, and in particular why Apple has got its relationship with the EU horribly, horribly wrong.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/facing-reality-in-the-eu-and-tech/

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Every time anyone mentions the intrinsic superiority of Italian food, I am posting this link.

https://www.scattidigusto.it/2015/11/13/migliore-pizza-wurstel-patatine/

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Re Apple’s EU judgement: Remember that EU antitrust law does not require direct harm to consumers. It’s not the same as US law. Behaviour which is anticompetitive (ie using monopoly positions to stifle competition) is regarded as harmful to consumers, even if no direct harm (ie raised prices) has occurred.

https://www.covcompetition.com/2022/06/the-cjeu-sets-out-an-analytic-framework-on-exclusionary-abuses-in-the-context-of-market-liberalisation/

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I had completely forgotten quite how much this kind of demanded anonymity drove me up the wall when I was doing "proper" journalism.

https://memex.craphound.com/2012/05/14/anodyne-anonymity/

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There are definitely days when I look at where we were 40 years ago - high vaccination levels, conspiracy theories confined to weird little books - and think maybe we should just turn off the internet and chalk it up to experience.

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Oh god I’m going to have to a line by line examination of that stupid Apple statement about the European Commission fine, aren’t I?

(Short version: seriously, Apple, when someone has found you broke the law, bad-mouthing the judge and implying they’re only doing it because they’re biased isn’t going to warm them to you FOR ALL THE OTHER CASES YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE IN THE FUTURE)

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No.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/media-layoffs-la-times/677285/

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Private equity = profiteering scum

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/02/profiteering-off-children-care-firms-in-england-accused-of-squeezing-cash-from-councils

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What's the sound? A screeching u-turn, followed by excuses: https://technovia.co.uk/2024/03/02/whats-the-sound.html

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See the thing is, I know exactly what the rationale for those pieces is (internal link building, to strengthen authority around a topic area). SEO, kids, for fun and profit used to be my jam.

https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/112026728936359216

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I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.

(Reminder: Google Messages “RCS” is not the actually RCS standard, and forces all messages to go through its servers, giving it all the sweet, sweet unencrypted metadata it wants)

https://9to5google.com/2024/02/29/google-messages-rcs-rooted/

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Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/03/price-fixing-algorithm-still-price-fixing

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Look this is still the best headline in history, I don't make the rules.

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The worst thing about this is that Google would just treat $2.3bn as “cost of doing business”. That’s how big they are. The solution is not individual action against them, even by other corporations: the answer is effective and proactive anti-monopoly law.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/28/news-media-europe-google-lawsuit-ad-revenue

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Lovely article about a lovely man. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/feb/29/genuinely-groundbreaking-how-the-hairy-bikers-dave-myers-redefined-masculinity-on-british-tv

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Actually, they cancelled the Apple car because they reallised it needed Windows.

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Someone needs to give this poor woman a good job. With that level of determination to keep going, she would be great.

https://www.vulture.com/article/glasgow-sad-oompa-loompa-interview.html

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I bet you have all occasionally wondered what Willy Wonka land would look like if Cthulhu took over. WELL.

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700 jobs lost and this lot of shysters is crowing about it.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91039401/klarna-ai-virtual-assistant-does-the-work-of-700-humans-after-layoffs

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Really unsurprised at this. A car was well outside Apple’s area of competence, lower margins than they normally want, and a hard market to get into. I could never really see the point.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-27/apple-cancels-work-on-electric-car-shifts-team-to-generative-ai?leadSource=uverify%20wall

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It's a peculiar trick of middle-class British socialists to assume that northern and Midland working-class people are inherently radical while southern working-class people are not. Forgetting, of course, that Nottinghamshire miners were mostly worked through the strike, while Kent miners were the last to go back.

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The greatest trick capitalism ever pulled is convincing people that if you just bought different things, the planet would be saved.

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