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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU citizens on here, Ross Scott is warning about a draconian law in the European Unio.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The purpose of nearly all Internet regulation is to make sure only the largest, richest tech companies in the world can comply with them and survive.

  www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence is a 30-year-old document, but absolutely still relevant and utopian.

• Attackers have been exploiting critical Zimbra flaw to steal emailsarstechnica.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Why should we just give up the entire month of November?" – The indie games going head to head with GTA 6⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In November of any year or just 2026? 😛

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I became the next president how would I go about getting the illegally detained people under Trump freedom? Would I need congress?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The president of the US is the head of the federal executive branch. Anything done by the executive branch, you could undo, including release people detained by the executive branch. I don’t know enough details about which illegally detained people you’re referring to to answer the question more completely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I became the next president how would I go about getting the illegally detained people under Trump freedom? Would I need congress?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How many countries are there whose current (or recent) head of state or government has the surname “Trump”?

• The government is keeping a list of people who question their policiesmetro.co.uk ↗
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• There's a new way to break RSA that's faster than anything we've seen beforearstechnica.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon fears The Hand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only one per day? what-if.xkcd.com/27/ explains what would happen if it were 86400 times that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are games priced in € (EUR) quoted the same as $ (USD)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A disc as well as its packaging still cost money; also, a physical store needs to pay rent and salaries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are games priced in € (EUR) quoted the same as $ (USD)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But for physical goods, the minimum price is what the store paid for acquiring or producing it in the first place. That isn’t a consideration for digital goods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are games priced in € (EUR) quoted the same as $ (USD)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Compared to many other currency conversions in the world, it is very close. When I read prices in USD, I think of them as euro prices in my head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are games priced in € (EUR) quoted the same as $ (USD)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since digital copies cost nearly zero to make, prices of digital goods such as video games are completely arbitrary anyway; they are set to whatever people are willing to pay.

  The conversion rate between EUR and USD is so ridiculously close to 1 that it makes sense to treat them as essentially equivalent. If you don’t, you’ll just spend unnecessary effort converting to and from numbers that aren’t round.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed…⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet, the Internet also created the free culture movement. There has long been a vocal movement on the Internet for making copyright less restrictive. I have long been sympathetic to such; copying is not theft…

  So I don’t find that outrageous in isolation, though I do find it hypocritical because Microsoft is otherwise very much not a company in favor of less restrictive copyright, certainly not as far as its own source code is concerned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should the next President of the US pardon Trump for all his crap like Ford did Nixon?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t have to actively admit to it, though you are right that something like this was held here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burdick_v._United_States

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should the next President of the US pardon Trump for all his crap like Ford did Nixon?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  except that is literally what Ford did to Nixon, and pardons aren’t a thing for impeachment anyway (for US federal offenses)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon can't go home again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I discovered that site in 2009 or so, but don’t remember opening an account or regularly following it, though I did occasionally find links to it elsewhere.

  I’ve meanwhile checked and it seems they used to use vBulletin, not phpBB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon can't go home again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t remember them ever using phpBB? Need to check the Wayback Machine later

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon can't go home again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not free, but not expensive either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who takes charge on evacuating citizens if that individual is a dual passport bearer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as France is concerned, the person is a French citizen, nothing else matters. As far as the US is concerned, the person is a US citizen, nothing else matters. So they will both likely be ready to evacuate the person, and the practical result will be that the person is allowed to choose.

  I mean: I don’t think they can force anyone to evacuate. If the person says “no, France, I’m not getting on your plane, I’m waiting for the American one”, then what can anyone do about it?

• Government look to impose mandatory age verification on UK Smartphoneswww.ispreview.co.uk ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  because these politicians know extremely little about the Internet

  I started participating in online communities in the 2000s. The “social media” we had back then was web forums, organized by topics and sorted chronologically. I was young enough at the time that it is now permanently stored in my brain that that is the normal way the Internet should be like, and everything popularized since then (recommendation algorithms, the idea that we should follow people instead of topics, even the idea that websites shouldn’t be specific to certain topics) is a deviation from normalcy.

  I know, rationally, that those deviations from normalcy are now the new normal (even the fediverse is “only” an attempt to improve further on that, not a move toward the Internet of the 2000s), but there is still a part of my brain that doesn’t accept this.

  But I very strongly suspect that those politicians, in Australia and elsewhere, who are now trying to regulate the Internet, never posted anything to a traditional web forum, or edited a wiki, or anything like that. To them, “social media” became a thing (at all!) in around 2008 to 2010 when they created Twitter and Facebook accounts in order to communicate with their voters. (Reality check: social media has been a thing since, at the latest, the 1980s, when Usenet was invented.)

  If they don’t know that the Internet is not Facebook, then it’s unsurprising when they regulate the internet as if it’s all just Facebook, so that all that will be left is Facebook. Sad times we are living in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On 9/11 what was the internet like after it happened? Did people quit being dicks or trolls and showed some decency? Or was it like we have today and nothing changed?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  one satirical website summarized it like this: inadequacy.org/…/2001.9.12.102423.271.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Try clicking, hovering or tapping on that “X time ago” thing. I just tried it on your instance and it seems to work there too, definitely does on mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't gnu.org load on my WiFi?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it only happens on your wifi, this sounds like a problem with your wifi. It may have misconfigured DNS or similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just hate the idea of someone defending a billionare or trillion dollar company for any reason.

  Then you have a very simplistic worldview. There are many disputes where different large companies are adversarial to each other, so if you have an opinion about them at all, you need to defend one of them.

  For example occasionally media companies will try to get laws passed in various countries to make social media platforms pay for linking to journalistic. A stupid and nonsensical idea for many reasons, but by calling it that, I may have just “defended” Meta?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Defending” when accused of what? The question is somewhat meaningless without knowing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the world's "oldest profession" still illegal ? Instead of being better managed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t argue with that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the world's "oldest profession" still illegal ? Instead of being better managed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on where in the world you are. I suspect OP is unaware this isn’t universally true; isn’t there a “US-defaultism” community somewhere here where this could be posted…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I join a "subreddit" I found on a different lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The question is somewhat confusing because in the Lemmy interface there isn’t really a difference between local and remote communities. If you can access a remote community from your instance, you have the same subscribe button there as on a local one. Difficult to help you without knowing what you’re currently doing and seeing.