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It wasn't, it passed on the Council of EU.

The AI generated art is also disgusting. Makes the CEO look like an angry kid because his multi-billion dolar industry got a 1% income fine, which is nothing for them, for a service they provide that keeps having outages because they have bad coders who thought moving their shit code to Rust was a good idea.

Italy can also buy the bluff and you know, partner with an EU company to provide them the service Cloudflare would offer "for free".

Another option is the open source Rocket.Chat.

Well, Chat Control was approved by the Council, so I can't wait for the time Going Dark is also approved by ot.

EU, a democracy idol, now turning into a fascism idol.

You should add the newest zones, Dornogal and K'aresh (or Manaforge Omega raid) to the zone list. They are very heavy on graphics.

Besides, I'd look forward to testinf with the nea ARM emulation layer Valve is developing.

I used to live there and the common consensus was:

- don't stay out in the sun too long, if you do, apply sunscreen

- 10-15 minutes of sunlight exposure a day is completely fine

And loot boxes in Valve games never bothered me, because if you want a particular skin you can just buy it off the market. I can't remember being angry at Valve for having loot boxes.

All other games require you to keep opening loot boxes to get what you want.

it just means they don't follow W3C guidelines :)

> Ironically Firefox is currently at its best and most competitive since its inception

how so?

We both know this is never going to happen on mainstream browsers, they'll just keep shoving AI into your face until you become dependent to it.

> Well, if you phrase it this way, then yes, people want this.

No? If anything, adding AI features to something is just driving away your user base. No one asked for a built-in AI. Why not provide an extension?

Allegations of unpaid labor are for crowdsourced translations and have nothing to do with Valve as a workplace.

This controversy is known and there are a few translators on Steam/Valve that came from the community, but nowadays it is mostly outsourced, and they do a terrible job (they replaced gamers with people who can't even bother to download the game to check the context a string is applied to).

I was a member of STS and I can say crowdsourced translations were a million times better than the now-paid translation teams Valve hires.

And yes, while it was mostly "unpaid", during my time there (2016-2020), we had a year-end rally every year which the "fastest" teams to complete translations would receive Steam wallet codes for their effort. I received up to $350 the first year of rally.

The next year they gave us Artifact keys...

and then the one Valve employee managing the server left Valve, and STS was slowly being replaced by Crowdin

they essentially killed crowdsourcing starting with Artifact. We (the STS members) had no access to new strings, then came Underlords, the new client... Only TF2 translations are crowdsourced to this day. The rest are done by their external teams.

> They also have an internal culture that's been fairly regularly criticized as being pretty uncomfortable for women and minorities.

Source?

They only published the mappings starting from 2019.

I have 2 cloud servers (VPS), running on Ampere (ARM) for almost 2 years now and it's great.

Haven't had any crashes or major outages.

Heroic Games Launcher and Lutris both authenticate with GOG and allow you to install their games.

> Are you aware that former German and Austrian politicians are on the payroll of Russian oil and gas companies and Putin even came to the wedding s of some of them? Are you aware Austrian banks still operate in Russia profiting?

Source?

> Why the double standards where all the blame in on Hungary yet other EU members fly under the radar for much more pro-Russia cooperation and profiteering?

There are no double standards. Besides Orban and Fico, there are no EU ministers or governments going to Minsk, Belarus, or Russia, to meet with Putin.

When the war started, MOL, the state-owned petrol company of Hungary, said it would take about 3 years for them to shift all their refineries to move away from Russian oil. It's 2025, and they are still heavily-dependent on Russian oil. They did nothing to end this dependence [0].

Orban settled a deal with Russia to buy gas and oil, whose terms are confidential and will probably be so for the next decades. What every Hungarian news portal reported was essentially Hungary was being scammed, as it would be much cheaper to buy the same oil/gas from the Dutch stock exchange [1].

Regarding Austrian banks, Raiffeisen was just on the news this month because they are still operating in Russia. So, no, I wouldn't say it's a double standard. Besides, the Austrian politicians are certainly not making a fuss and blocking or vetoing any decision regarding Ukraine or Russian sanctions because of that [2]. Meanwhile, we have Hungary who keeps creating excuses to apply their vetos on such decisions, and Fico, who's doing the same, because the EU (von der Leyen) showed the world anyone can blackmail the EU and get away with it.

[0] https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/worldwide-healthcare-trust...

[1] https://dailynewshungary.com/shocking-hungary-lost-hundreds-...

[2] https://insighthungary.444.hu/2023/05/19/hungary-blocks-500-...

The article is very biased against EU. It's not the EU's fault, and it shows that it's all according to Apple's plans because, if Apple really cared and thought this decision to not bundle chargers was stupid (something they themselves started doing with iPhones before the law requiring everything to be compatible with USB-C), they would offer the chargers for free.

But that's not the case. It's just another way they can milk their consumers out of their money. Of course they will use the EU law as an excuse, and naive is the person who believes Apple is speaking the truth. The reality is, they want to profit from it.

We should have an European Citizens Initiative petition to have this bill shutdown once and for all, so that the EP actually gets to discuss and act on it.

Let's not forget that a former politician AND member of the Danish parliament, colleague of Peter Hummelgaard, went on trial this year for being in possession of CSAM, his name Henrik Sass Larsen [0].

[0] https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/21/trial-begins-f...

I hope they don't enshittify Arduino. Please keep it open hardware and open source.

Wait until it has a 30ms input latency and 480p resolution. That's not accessible, that's just enshittification. Like Google has done with YouTube: you can no longer watch HD videos if you don't have Premium. You can select 720p or 1080p, but the video won't be HD.

> Residential solar inverter companies like Solaredge require an internet connection and shut themselves off after a protracted period of no-contact with the company's servers:

This is scary. I installed PV and solar in my home in 2019, and we had the chance of getting a cheaper inverter from Chinese Solis, or getting a better one from Austrian Fronius. We ended up getting Fronius because its quality was waaaay higher than the Chinese counterpart. Some of our friends also installed solar at their home and chose the Chinese inverters.

Fronius is an awesome company. We had issues connecting a second inverter to our home, and they helped us install it. We also had some issues with the modbus communication and the inverters not working properly at night, and they helped us diagnose and solve the problem.

Their inverters are top quality, and if you're in Brazil, I highly recommend them. The best inverters out there, very good quality, never had ANY major issues since their installation in 2019 - we have a Fronius 5 and a Fronius 3.

Meanwhile, our friends with Solis or other Chinese inverters, after a year they had issues that: the inverter stopped producing energy because they fried, or they simply stopped showing statistics and then, without an electricity meter that measures how much you're generating, you'd have no clue if your inverter is working as expected.

Fronius didn't disappoint us and a year later we were so happy we decided to spend a bit more for the better quality. As far as I remember, we didn't even need to register for a Fronius account - the inverter works locally and everything can be accessed locally.

For Solis, you do need to register for a Solis account, and all of your production data is sent to their server in China. And I've read recently that some inverters have a killswitch that can be turned on at any moment. Oh, and if that's not that bad, anyone who installed your Solis inverter HAS access to your inverter, because you need a "installer" account to configure the device, allowing remote access to your small power plant.

I had a similar debate with a friend of mine over a age verification law recently passed in Brazil. It mandates age verification for social media in order to restrict teenagers and children access to adult content, for example, or any other content that violates teenagers rights.

The law in question (PL2628/2022) doesn't mention CSAM or sexualized/erotic content depicting children or teenager by name. It's broader than that, it mentions that any content deemed offensive to children/teenagers, or that violates their rights as defined in the Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente, should be removed by social media.

My friend supports the law because he thinks it will stop 99.9% of the bad guys looking for CSAM on the internet because he believes they get their content from Instagram. I tried to explain to him the law won't do shit to stop the bad guys but instead just add more surveillance to people who aren't doing anything wrong, but he doesn't want to accept it, and even called me out saying I look like a defender of the bad guys, simply for the fact that I don't think mass surveillance and age verification of people is enough to stop wrongdoers on the internet, or to protect children.

Isn't SUSE an European OS?

They also recently introduced age estimation in the US, which a lot of channels reported as the culprit for reduced view number in their videos.

In short, age estimation will restrict videos from viewers, and a creator has almost no way of knowing if a video was age-restricted or not.

Bellular has a video about the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSYLe6Yq4R4

Don't worry guys, the UK government is protecting the "children" against access to knowledge, you know, the thing that got humans kicked out of the Gardens of Eden.

Who would've thought the government would confirm that access to knowledge is a threat to their power?

Funny how a couple of years ago, big tech was against age verification, claiming they were "defending" privacy rights.

Fast forward to now, it doesn't seem a bad idea for them.