nerdbert

That's a different situation IMO. The data is constrained to what I buy from them, and my understanding under the GDPR is that they can't share it with anyone else (at least I never gave permission for that).

I can use the store and not flash my membership card if I don't want them tracking a particular purchase.

This option doesn't exist with Facebook, you can't opt in and out from click to click. And they share the information with any number of outside parties.

Furthermore the charge that Facebook is levying vastly exceeds the value of the information they're forgoing if I pay them.

> Getting someone to host your pictures and provide you a platform to share them isn't a fundamental right.

That's true.

So they can charge everyone and respect everyone's privacy rights, if they think that's the best business model for them.

What they're trying to get away with here is trading money for fundamental rights.

I can't legally pay Facebook to assassinate me, to take an extreme example.

The value of Facebook is having a place to connect with all my old aunts and uncles and school friends. A self-hosted Nextcloud is never going to provide that. They're not equivalent in any meaningful way.

By dollar value it is the largest category of theft in the USA, more than robbery, burglary, embezzling, all that stuff. And yet it barely even gets talked about, even though the perpetrators are in plain sight. Meanwhile someone breaks into a house to steal some ipads and gets 10 years.

Hard to understand what you might mean. Tokyo also has a rail system called Metro.

CDG is also one of the busiest airports in the world and is used by French residents, not only tourists. If they can fill trains with airport traffic then obviously the demand is there, and that makes the other trains nicer for commuters who no longer have to step over luggage and get bonked by giant backpacks.

It has light rail service to Baltimore, but the Amtrak/MARC connection to DC is many miles away from the airport, connected via an awful shuttle bus that dawdles around the woods wasting 20 minutes of your day. Plus the trains are extremely infrequent. The option exists, but only in the most nominal way.

If you're willing to queue for 20 minutes.

I'd say "easy" is an overstatement. You have to install an app and master their weird terminology (to get a reasonable price you buy a "carnet" of 10 tickets).

And of course it still only works with Android.

Easy would be following what's being done in major transit systems all over the world: Let people immediately pay for rides without installing or thinking about anything, by tapping their phone on the turnstile. And for a bonus, adopt TfL's fare capping so people don't have to try to game the various discount options.

I can't imagine they're good for air quality in the stations.

This argument also extends the other direction, why not call it a day after 40 years then? You're only going to get more crochety and require more costly health interventions. And older people tend to take up more precious m2 of living space.

> The hardest one to cut out is Google Maps, which doesn't have an ad free option.

OpenStreetMaps is considerably more customizable, has much better hiking trail data, and doesn't hide train stations and street names when you zoom/pan. Google Maps has become awful in the last few years.

You get a commonly understood set of rights which critically includes the right to re-sell it.

These proposals don't say you can't charge fees.

They say that the actual total price has to be displayed from the beginning.

If Ticketmaster wants to break down a $250 concert ticket as $180 for the ticket and $70 for an issuing fee, that's fine. But since the fee is mandatory, they have to advertise it as $250, not $180.

They still get the same amount of money but people aren't being lied to, and are better able to make smart decisions about what to buy without having to wade through a morass of fine print.

It's fine to break them down on the invoice if they prefer/must. But the listed price should still be the final price inclusive of all mandatory fees.

When I buy something here in Europe it will say €2 on the sticker, and then my receipt will say that the price was €1.66 with a VAT of €0.34 for a total of €2.

If they're not earning a fair income, then their wage/salary should be increased. It's ridiculous to make their pay vary from day to day depending on how guilty their customers feel.

Yes but in this case we are describing old-school Twitter, in which people made their tweets via SMS. That's why it was easier for them to make these deals.

My at-destination-ferrying costs rarely if ever exceed €10/day, usually less, since unlimited metro/bus passes are widely available.

With the 4-bed one, if you're on the top bunk, it's not bad, unless you get unlucky and your compartment mates are particularly rude.

The 6 is too much for me.

Yes, it does in fact go slower than walking pace in some spots.

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2023/02/21/green-line...

> I can't get to the English Channel and across it at any time for twice that.

Eurostar St Pancras - Lille €144 Monday evening. But I agree that the prices of air vs rail are way out of whack.

https://www.eurostar.com/search/rw-en?origin=7015400&destina...

Anyone alive today would be born between 1900 and 2023, right?

And their mothers, assuming they were between 13 and 50 when they gave birth, would therefore have been born between 1850 and 2010.

So that's 161 out of 9999 available last-4's (0000 is not used) that could possibly be someone's mother's birth year.

And then, of course, it has to be the right year within that space.

I am guessing this was something that happened to a few folks by chance and then was blown up by people who don't understand how many coincidences can occur across a population of millions.

I cannot follow your thread from a security researcher sharing tools to put pressure on an insecure website, to a megacorporation stealing someone's land.

For the five minutes it takes to get a physical SIM card, I'll take the much cheaper and typically faster service I get with local carriers vs eSIM MVNOs.

> but that would require unenrolling my US iMessage number

It nags you but you don't have to agree to remove the number. I routinely replace my SIM card when traveling outside the EU and my iMessage number still works for green-bubble people. I ignore/refuse the phone's occasional suggestions to "update" the number.

When visiting the USA I have often bought prepaid T-Mobile SIM cards for cash without showing any ID.

2.5Gbps seems to have become the new reasonably-affordable thing.

That's nothing - I've talked to people from the 1910s. Let me know when computers get that flexible!

From my puttering, image->tokens->image yields something that may or not vaguely resemble the original, but is never anywhere near identical.

With Digi in Spain 10G is €5 more than 1G - https://www.digimobil.es/fibra-optica/