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https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/data-retention-france-illeg... (18. October 2022)

> In a decree made public today, French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne has extended the temporary retention of communications data of all citizens in France for another year. The blanket retention obligation concerns identity data (surname, first name, date and place of birth, postal address(es), e-mail address(es), telephone number(s)) as well as payment information, connection data (IP addresses, port numbers, identification numbers of users and their devices, date, time and duration of each communication, data on supplementary services and their providers) and also the location data of electronic communications of the entire population.

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-surveillance-cameras-... (JULY 24, 2023)

> Over two centuries, France cobbled together a surveillance apparatus capable of intercepting private communications; keeping traffic and localization data for up to a year; storing people’s fingerprints; and monitoring most of the territory with cameras.

> This system, which has faced pushback from digital rights organizations and United Nations experts, will get its spotlight moment at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. In July next year, France will deploy large-scale, real-time, algorithm-supported video surveillance cameras — a first in Europe. (Not included in the plan: facial recognition.)

gore-tex already solved this.

i don’t get something: why DWR and not proper waterproofing?

> The reality is people want to live their lives freely, not tied to technology.

considering every one and their dog has a phone, the incredible rise of digital payments, more and more time being spent online, more people globally getting online, more expansive internet ever year, cars and their media systems, electric cars, all devices connected to the internet and so many other things i’m missing, i would qualify this statement as false.

everywhere it's the same. the problem is that it makes no sense for a state entity to force a company offer their product via a 3rd party without taking into consideration the myriad of questions that arise.

> YouTube is a monopoly

what? in which country and how?

> and it's putting ads in its ad-free subscription

i pay for youtube premium. never seen an ad.

> Especially when they gained their monopoly status by operating at below-cost for years, preventing fair competition from even springing up in the first place.

i fear you are thinking about a different product. youtube is not a monopoly and it's not preventing fair competition as TikTok is even bigger.

> Good lord the greed just never ends does it?

GM profit margins have been stable for the past 13 years:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GM/general-motors/...

now look at Tesla's profit margins:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/profit-...

you misread the article.

they did:

> Automakers see subscriptions as huge new source of income to be tapped, with GM alone hoping to make as much as $25 billion per year just off subscriptions by 2030.

and the following quote is from a different part of the article:

> though Babbitt admits that GM hasn’t exactly tested this in a controlled setting to see whether or not it’s true.

specifically:

> Essentially, the thinking is that if a car’s in-built infotainment system is good enough, drivers will be less likely to use their phone for what they’re trying to do while they’re behind the wheel, — though Babbitt admits that GM hasn’t exactly tested this in a controlled setting to see whether or not it’s true.

> Once the Digital Markets Act comes into effect in the EU in a couple of months I'll be installing alternative frontends for YouTube which include SponsorBlock.

this is weird. are we sure this is a thing in the EU? because the idea of having some sort of regulation forcing a private company to have their product offered by some other party raises so many issues. it's not like youtube is some sort of public good, it's a product offered by a private company.

who pays for the bandwidth, engineers, data centers? will the 3rd party pay for these things? if youtube is forced to break it's own TOS, and this leads to users moving away from YouTube but still somehow taking advantage of YouTube's offerings, why even provide the service at all, what exactly would be the point as the product would be loss making? and will capping access be back in the cards (we can't offer any more of these videos because it will cause losses)? and what about tracking viewers, how can we track these viewers when they're coming in from some 3rd party?

I feel like I'm misunderstanding something...

> Call it what it is.. they like the control of their in car entertainment systems and they don't want external companies taking that part of the pie.

they did call it as it is. it's in the article:

> In addition to potentially buying things from GM or GM’s partners through their car’s infotainment system, GM is also looking at subscription services that would be managed through the same interface. GM’s chief digital officer, Edward Kummer, told Reuters as much when the decision to drop CarPlay and Android Auto was announced. Automakers see subscriptions as huge new source of income to be tapped, with GM alone hoping to make as much as $25 billion per year just off subscriptions by 2030.

> There hasn't really been any VERIFIED evidence presented to independent media showing that Hamas deliberately killed civilians.

there has been numerous verified evidence the terrorists killing civilians including children:

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/18/israel/palestine-videos-...

even the terrorists acknowledged that there are no civilians in Israel, only targets:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67321241.amp

the question is what has become of the world when terrorists are taken for their word?

> blockaded from land, sea and air

why do you think that is? why is gaza fenced off?

related, they also launched stock trading in the UK:

https://robinhood.com/gb/en/

https://newsroom.aboutrobinhood.com/introducing-robinhood-in...

> Introducing Robinhood in the United Kingdom

> Starting today, we’re rolling out brokerage services in the United Kingdom. UK customers will have access to commission-free trading* of more than 6,000 US-listed stocks and ADRs including TSLA, AMZN, and AAPL. Our expansion to the UK marks an important milestone in our journey to democratise finance around the globe and increase access to the markets for all.

> At launch, we’ll offer trading without foreign exchange (FX) fees, trading outside of market hours with Robinhood 24 Hour Market*, and no account minimums. Customers can build a portfolio for as little as $1 and grow their uninvested cash as they work out their investment strategy, earning 5% AER.

i never got any ads on netflix, disney+, prime video or youtube premium.

does anyone know of any services that do this?

what i’m reading from these comments: we will do anything, including leaving youtube, but for sure we will not be either watching ads or paying for content.

> Of course they failed to force the 32 hour workweek

did you mean the 40 or 48 hour workweek?

> Preferably offices get mass converted into housing

in some places it’s cheaper to tear down the building than convert. that’s how unrealistic/expensive that idea is.

> Bucharest, Belgrade, Sofia

the problem in eastern europe isn’t violence. it’s cars.

the deaths/injuries in those specific countries from car accidents is greater than general deaths/injuries in western countries from any reason (violence, cars, etc).

i think most people never make it past the title.

valid point, but at the same time people should be free to resign and employers should be free to fire their employees.

> Yet you think tying people's hands and forcing them into furthering the interests of a foreign business venture's goals at the expense of the locality is okay?

i did not write that.

my point was that as long as there are laws enacted by the state that mandate using a specific intermediary and then that intermediary refuses service to a 3rd party, that means that the law needs changing as that intermediary now has unintended power over both the 3rd party and the state. double so when it comes to something as mundane as postal services.

one company i worked for mandated underpowered laptops for frontend engineers and split their wifi so that everyone in that group had poor internet when trying to see/test their own work (the rest of the internet was fast). everyone complained. except for the users. the website (a very complex web app full of graphs, images, videos etc) was super fast and tiny.

there are other ways of doing this, but i found this approach interesting.

> The stack (html, js, css, browser functionality) that makes up the web is just not fit for the purpose of rich client applications.

you get much better mileage from web pages than rich client apps. one thing i’ve learned and applied everywhere i worked is to let the web be the web, don’t force things that come from other platforms.

> it's hard to imagine starting remote and then going in person, but I guess that's possible too

wasn’t github started remote-only and then went to some in-person?

Henry Kissinger: a life in pictures

Images of the statesman who has died aged 100

https://www.ft.com/content/3223c7b8-1c82-44bd-a69f-fcc38fcde...

> It's not crazy when you understand the Swedish model

the only thing i’m questioning is the idea that the postal company is allowed to not deliver mail. it just looks very wrong to me.

while this comment is true, not sure what it has to do with the article.

from my understanding tesla is actually suing the state because there’s a law saying license plates can only be delivered via post. and the postal workers refuse to deliver anything to tesla (which seems a bit crazy considering there are laws about using the postal services).

but maybe i misunderstood something, so someone can correct me if i’m wrong.

> This vacuum we are now in is probably very costly for Tesla

i would assume the nordic markets are tiny compared to the RoW. does anyone here have any data on revenue from those markets for tesla?

the london tube dates from 1863. that explains most issues.