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kmlxon Japan will no longer require floppy disks for submitting some official documents

yeah, it’s quite an experience what you’re describing. i loved it last time i was in akihabara.

going back to yodobashi, seeing all the current gen electronics ever under a single roof spread out across x storeys was something i haven’t seen in the west in quite some time. it was tiring (there’s so much stuff), but equally impressive.

kmlxon iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more

this is a super slippery slope. this would mean most manufacturers are actually monopolies because they have control over their own products. i don’t see how this makes any sense.

kmlxon Japan will no longer require floppy disks for submitting some official documents

didn't they have them at yodobashi?

kmlxon Japan will no longer require floppy disks for submitting some official documents

in order to change my address in the UK all I needed to do was to either send an email with some bill attached or just call (depending on the service).

kmlxon iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more

what monopoly does apple have?

not for smartphones: https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/global-smartph...

not for macs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_compu...

not for operating systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...

not for web browsers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

kmlxon Apple's Proposed Changes Reject the Goals of the DMA

> Earlier this week, thanks to the clear language in the DMA, we shared how we plan to offer customers in the EU more choice

I followed the link to see their plan of offering customers in the EU more choice [0] and all i saw was dark patterns and cheap marketing, all in order to sell a bit more. Here’s a better idea: why not open up spotify to competing players?

[0] https://newsroom.spotify.com/2024-01-24/the-dma-means-a-bett...

kmlxon Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

what monopoly?

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/global-smartph...

kmlxon BrowserEngineKit – Apple Developer Documentation

yes, this is huge news for advertising, fingerprinting, and tracking. i think we'll see a boom in those markets in the following years (contingent on some factors, but still).

kmlxon Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

> For all I care we can remove Apple devices entirely in the EU.

the rest of the world also has no problem with the EU confirming it's status :)

kmlxon Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

i can't wait to see what kind of tracking will be possible with these new technologies :) /s

i know these guys https://fingerprint.com use so many of these when fingerprinting.

kmlxon Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

a bit of a silly comment. a PC is not a phone. a phone is something very personal, something you can lose very easily (and a lot of people do), something that you use all the time outside your home (on the street, on the bus, etc). a PC isn't that.

kmlxon Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

https://www.asymco.com/2023/09/04/the-2-trillion-economy/

OK is an understatement.

kmlxon Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

you just need to read the article:

> The good news is that the bad apps in question have since been removed from Google’s official Android app store. However, the cybercriminals behind this campaign are also using a separate set of 12 malicious apps on unofficial third-party app stores to spread the Xamalicious malware. These apps need to be sideloaded onto your smartphone though as they are installed via an APK file.

i mean, this isn't really news, is it?

kmlxon Google to invest $1B in UK data centre

> Finance is deflating like a slow puncture.

i think that’s just a snapshot of the current economic situation around the world, not a long term trend:

https://www.morganmckinley.com/uk/article/london-employment-...

charts 15 and 16:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64ad6d32fe36e...

this has a bunch if interesting stats:

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06...

kmlxon Google to invest $1B in UK data centre

> In the last quarter [i.e. Q1 2022], the number of Brexit-related staff relocations to the EU has been further revised down, from 7,400 in December 2021 to just over 7,000 as March 2022 closes – significantly down from the peak of 12,500 announced in 2016

it’s interesting that there was no mass relocation of jobs out of London:

https://www.morganmckinley.com/uk/article/london-employment-...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/385366/uk-finance-insura...

kmlxon Culture Change at Google

> I wonder if there's a way to prevent the growth at all costs that is demanded by the financial markets.

the way i understand it the problem is the product and the market that you’re selling into.

for example: Renaissance Technologies LLC has $130Bn AUM with 310 employees.

kmlxon Unity Software plans to reduce its workforce by 25%, eliminating ~1,800 jobs

i remember that in november 2023 they announced their fourth round of layoffs. and closing 14 offices.

total layoffs in 2023 were 1100. headcount at the end of 2023 was 7000.

considering they are removing another 1800 jobs, they are on track on having 0 employees by ~2027.

kmlxon Big Tech has already made enough money in 2024 to pay all its 2023 fines

from the article:

> As of seven days and three hours into 2024, they had already earned enough revenue to pay it all off.

revenue is not the same as profit. this is basic stuff.

from the same article:

> Still, revenue is a more accurate depiction of a company’s size and profitability.

it seems like this is rookie hour.

then we look at the author's previous posts:

https://proton.me/blog/big-tech-ipef With new trade deal, Big Tech wants to be above the law

https://proton.me/blog/big-tech-bigger-fines Why we need bigger fines for Big Tech

got it. there is an axe to grind.

kmlxon Steam Deck officially hits over 13,000 games Playable and Verified

> It was an awful buggy mess no matter where/how you played it

finished the game on the ps5. encountered 2 minor bugs.

kmlxon How meta built the infrastructure for Threads

on the contrary. more and more people are signing up and leaving twitter.

kmlxon NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach

> We currently have a Conservative government, and they hate the NHS.

while somehow simultaneously providing it with the most amount of funding ever:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/317708/healthcare-expend...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/632289/nhs-england-healt...

but even with these colossal amounts, it’s still underfunded according to the BMA:

https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-w...

kmlxon UK announces commercial operations of longest land/subsea interconnector

> The UK’s net EU budget contribution in 2014 was £9.8 billion

the state’s budget contribution. aka taxes and other income of the state.

> Meanwhile the UK exported $276 billion worth of good to the EU more than half of its total

not the UK, not the state. the opposite. the private sector.

kmlxon The Richest Countries in 2023

> but I feel just as "rich"

i think it really depends on the lifestyle you're accustomed to having.

kmlxon Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order

i think it’s because he was running an extortion group: https://www.tenable.com/blog/brazen-unsophisticated-and-illo...

kmlxon Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order

> they could have asked him, and it might have cost them orders of magnitude less.

from the article: > He broke into the company's internal Slack messaging system to declare "if Rockstar does not contact me on Telegram within 24 hours I will start releasing the source code".

he was extorting them.

kmlxon Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger

> we have no idea when they filed what papers where ... and when regulators answered and what, and then how the companies reacted, and when, and ...

detailed timeline, explanations, submissions etc here from UK’s CMA:

https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/adobe-slash-figma-merger-inquir...

kmlxon The Parthenon/Elgin Marbles Debate: Return or Retain?

this whole comment is just false.

i suggest you read what actually happened before commenting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_Marbles

kmlxon The Parthenon/Elgin Marbles Debate: Return or Retain?

> Elgin rescued the marbles from destruction from an apathetic state

i would say it’s even worse than that:

> According to a Turkish local, marble sculptures that fell were being burned to obtain lime for building.[5]

from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_Marbles