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People from a minority/dying culture, how do you feel about it? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

I'm smart and I'm mostly fine with my minority dying out. It's definitely sad that in 50 years people will look at things my people created and will not understand any of it but then again, it's a natural process. I'm sure our art will somehow influence their art and in a way it will live on.

💰➡️✝️ in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I read somewhere about some secret tooth cherished by some sect that was destroyed by grinding it to dust, mixing with shit and throwing in to the ocean. But guess what? Some fishermen said that he totally found the tooth restored floating on a leaf next to the place where they threw it out. You can't fight believes with real world methods.

Why do some languages use gendered nouns? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Languages don't care about complexity. Look at Polish. It's like it makes things complex on purpose. Language evolution is not only about simplifying thing. It's also about conveying meaning and will adapt to the culture that uses it.

💰➡️✝️ in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You will be shocked but absolutely everything in Catholicism is based on myth and "cool story bro" scenarios.

The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Backmarket FTW

The First Developer Preview of Android 15 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

But you need 2024 phone to run it.

How did you lose weight? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Eating less. When making dinner I wold make half of what I usually made, for lunch I would only have small things like a salad or soup, I stopped supplementing during/after training with gels and recovery drinks, cut out desserts. Went from 68kg to 63kg in couple of months.

Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. in c/[email protected]

Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I'm happy you're starting to understand. It's the same as with solar. It just shines on cars and they drive. You don't need to build anything like panels or hydrogen storage or pipes to move it. It's simply free energy. Like coal.

Closing in on a COSMIC Alpha in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

What's wrong with clevo rebrands?

Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, coal is also free. I just lays there in the ground. It doesn't cost any money to make it. Obviously you need infrastructure to mine it and burn it but other than that it's free. Right?

Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Flying cars will be the future but I wouldn't buy a flying car today.

Brain-computer interfaces will be the future but I wouldn't implant a chip in my brain today.

Personal AI assistants will be the future but I wouldn't pay $350 for ChatGPT today.

Lot's of things will be great in the future. Bringing it up in the context of existing, silly products is a bit pointless.

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EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

45 comments fedilink

Haven't seen any posts about this and it's a pretty big thing. From DMA website:

Examples of the “do’s”: gatekeepers will for example have to:

allow third parties to inter-operate with the gatekeeper’s own services in certain specific situations;
provide companies advertising on their platform with the tools and information necessary for advertisers and publishers to carry out their own independent verification of their advertisements hosted by the gatekeeper;
allow their business users to promote their offer and conclude contracts with their customers outside the gatekeeper’s platform.

Example of the “don'ts”: gatekeepers will for example no longer:

treat services and products offered by the gatekeeper itself more favourably in ranking than similar services or products offered by third parties on the gatekeeper's platform;
prevent users from un-installing any pre-installed software or app if they wish so;
track end users outside of the gatekeepers' core platform service for the purpose of targeted advertising, without effective consent having been granted.

We'll see how this plays out but this is first move in a very long time that could open up platform like WhatsApp to 3rd party clients and force Google and Apple to open their mobile OSes to other apps. Maybe we'll see stock Android without play services? One can dream...

P.S. https://digital-markets-act-cases.ec.europa.eu - page about the legislation