Phew. I can rest easy now. I was constantly mashing F5 to find out if they’d offer Stroll a seat.

The post should be renamed as The incomplete list of European news websites blocked by Russia on the 25th of June 2024

If my screen recorder software doesn’t put an “UNREGISTERED HYPERCAM 2” watermark at the top left corner, then I’m completely uninterested, smh

They won’t do E2EE until it’s part of the standard. That is being worked on.

Google only has it because they have an extremely proprietary, non-standard RCS implementation. Tbh, Google should’ve open sourced this and had it as part of the RCS standard, but they didn’t.

And yeah the EU isn’t going to force anything on iMessage because it’s literally irrelevant outside of the US. I don’t know anybody who seriously uses iMessage tbh, despite like 40% of people here using iPhones.

I have really mixed feelings on this.

On the one hand, I have to be pragmatic. The truth is that the internet kinda needs at least some ads to be viable. Hosting stuff and creating stuff isn’t free. It needs to be paid for somehow, and I doubt people are willing to pay a fee for each site they visit (not that the infrastructure exists for that anyway!)

Accepting that undeniable truth, I guess we should push for ads to be as uninvasive and privacy respecting as possible. Which is what this project is.

If this takes off, it would certainly be a net positive, and it could even pressure the likes of the EU to force Google/Meta/others to adopt the same kind of thing. It would also be good from the perspective of Mozilla lessening their reliance on Google.

That said… I can’t help but feel Firefox is playing with fire here. A lot of their users hate ads (same, ublock origin ftw), and they might view getting involved with this very poorly, risking Firefox losing even more market share.

And I know the ads will be private, but despite that I think any ad associations at all with Mozilla products risks undermining that reputation.

They should be very cautious with this.

Forgive me for my cluelessness, but what exactly is the state of feddit.de that is forcing this move?

Not only that, but they had to create a company/infrastructure that they had little to no expertise in.

I guarantee if you asked someone in 2015 “of all the companies out there, who do you think has the knowledge and expertise in civil engineering, US planning law, electricity infrastructure, and wireless communications required to build out a US-wide charging network?”, very few would have come back with “VW would be great at that!”

I can definitely see the logic in it - it pressured VW to pivot to EV platforms, which I guess was the goal. But expecting them to be able to properly run a completely different business to what they have expertise in was always going to have problems.

Well yeah I don’t feel bad for any big company when bad stuff happens to them (well, within reason, I obviously don’t want massive layoffs and people left unemployed).

My point isn’t to be an apologist for VW, my point is that the others are just as bad, and plenty are even worse, yet they got away with it. They shouldn’t have.

For what it’s worth, all automakers had illegally high emissions (well apart from Tesla I guess). This is something I never see people bring up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal

VW wasn’t even close to being the worst for it (surprisingly they were among the least bad). They were just the first to be tested, and their leadership owned up to breaking the law immediately, meaning news media could happily call them out without fear of a libel/slander case.

VW alone took the PR hit for an entire shady industry.

Google wants you to handle all your storage needs through Drive and Google Photos, where they are in control, can scrape more data, and push you onto paid storage plans.

I can’t really see the benefit to Google in having an excellent local file manager with wide archive-file support. It doesn’t profit them in any way.

Thankfully the workaround isn’t too bad, just installing an alternative file manager.

That is not true. Several countries had a similar or higher level of anti-EU sentiment.

It was only after seeing Brexit struggles, as well as moving on from the 2015 refugee crisis, that anti-EU sentiment dropped.

Nobody else voted for it because nobody else had the chance to.

My whole point is that it’s extremely likely other countries that also experienced a wave of anti-EU sentiment would’ve voted the same way, had they been given the chance.

I don’t know why you’d think that the UK is unique in its anti-EU streak. It was huge in a handful of places at the time.

bonk

Resources and Mission Centre are both really good. I never know which to use.

I have a bad feeling that there will be a significant reduction in the EU making pro-consumer moves like this. EU parties are experiencing a major swing to far right populism right now.

I hope there’s still an appetite for holding tax-dodging, anti-competitive multinationals to account.

People need to remember the vote happened immediately after the EU migration crisis. Anti-EU sentiment was at a high all across the union.

I don’t know why people act like being anti-EU was a UK thing, not a shared issue across several members. People should remember that before they shit on the UK too much.

Shit, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Hungary, and perhaps others had a similar or higher level of anti-EU sentiment at the time compared to the UK. It’s just that David Cameron was the only one stupid enough to gamble on having a referendum.

He has a wife, you know…

To be clear, the headline refers to yank degrees:

In outdoor tests in Arizona, the textile stayed […] 16 F (8.9 C) cooler than regular silk, a breathable fabric often used for dresses and shirts.

They didn’t really compare it to many materials it seems.

I also don’t know why they said 16+ degrees. That was the largest temperature delta they saw, not the least…

Besides, this is only part of the tale:

• Is it affordable?

• Is it mass manufacturable?

• Is it comfortable?

• Is it durable?

• Is it washable?

• Is it crease prone?

• Can it be easily mixed with other materials, e.g. to make it elasticated?

• Is it recyclable?

• Is it dyeable?

• is it fine for sensitive skin?

• etc

Sounds cool (heh) though. I’m often too warm.

I’m glad the FIA is an organisation that focuses on important things like drivers having a nose stud or missing a dinner party, and not silly inconsequential things like a driver deliberately crashing into another driver then openly admitting that’s exactly what they did.

Didn’t say tone was an argument. I said you’re a fucking idiot.

Wow you actually don’t think companies have a profit motive. HAHAHAHA. You are mentally deficient.

Aww nooo I like a TV programme you don’t like and that huwts your wittle feewings. Struggle to see what kind of argument that is, but if that’s what you want to latch onto then be my guest.