The vast support for Tidal in these discussions is pretty baffling. The whole thing is just an abandoned Jack Dorsey side hustle. Basic things like gapless playback don't work. Playback on dodgy connections is spotty. I have my own fair share complaints of Spotify UX but it actually works as a music player anywhere and everywhere.
Europe is a retirement home rigged to favor old people and old money. The thought that you could save on your own and enjoy compound interest is forbidden.
Sigh. Qubes had some great security design and implemented it the only way time/funds would allow: by cobbling together a lot of unfortunately very complex and broken things built for a different security model decades ago.
Qubes is the least bad option for laptops (until Stagex Work ships which I am designing) but there is no reasonable server OS.
Have you considered how many data centers used the Linux kernel before anybody knew what a Chat GPT is? Does the project get a free pass on such activities?
I think GDPR is more good than bad, but the author's example of surveillance capitalism is easily repeated on most EU news sites. Visit bild.de and watch the network inspector light up like a christmas tree. Do you really feel your privacy is being respected?
The 996 partners banner is just the piss take that supposedly makes this legal.
Bild doesn’t have one bit of respect for their readers, it’s no too surprising.
What people are missing is that before GDPR the threat of sharing data with 3rd party wasn’t seen as serious by most of the population. GDPR establishes clear rights people have, and a framework for companies to work in this new space, which changed the assumptions people have regarding their own data and privacy, in a positive way. People now in the EU have an explicit concept of consent for the use of personal data. That’s a really big deal
This is where you should apply eng principles. If something adds complexity without solving a problem, start by removing the complexity rather than tweaking
It did nothing for ad tech crap yet, but it gives you many easily exercised rights to access and erase your data. An American company "OpenAI" has released a very useful human-EU bureaucrat-translation tool for drafting such requests.
I'd argue that it actually did one good thing regarding ad tech: I've seen many people - who generally aren't interested in privacy, or politics in general - being very surprised by the number of companies their data is being sold to.
For someone who isn't aware of the scale, seeing "we sell your data to >1000 companies" can be enough to build interest in advocating for privacy laws.
The people effected by this are not programmers sitting around in their underwear talking to Claude all day and peddling virtual wares. It's people making real things with their hands, and they have come to the conclusion they can not take such a risk. Fines in countries like Germany can run up to 200 000 euros, for which you can be personally liable.
No, it's programmers online who are larping making real things. People who actually make real things may be concerned and may push to clarify the law but they're not ceasing. People who actually live in the EU and do business there understand that the interpretation that's going around the angry internet forums is complete nonsense.
What kind of source would you like next? "Just don't follow the law" might be a good advice for the American hypercapitalists of Hacker News, less so for someone in the EU.
It is evident you don't understand how the business landscape or risk management in EU works, you have not done even one bit of research to back up your claims, so why are you even commenting? Maybe if you see such a opportunity in dismissing the rules you ought to start your own.
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