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Race Against Time to Save Brixton Market from Private Equity

novaramedia.com
23 points·by vincvinc·23 dagen geleden·3 comments

Greenland bans all oil exploration (2021)

cbc.ca
4 points·by vincvinc·6 maanden geleden·0 comments

EU hits X with €120M fine for breaching the Digital Services Act

dw.com
83 points·by vincvinc·7 maanden geleden·90 comments

Ursula, Break Up Google

peoplevsbig.tech
3 points·by vincvinc·8 maanden geleden·0 comments

[untitled]

1 points·by vincvinc·8 maanden geleden·0 comments

ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk

binnenlandsbestuur.nl
646 points·by vincvinc·8 maanden geleden·212 comments

My First Months in Cyberspace

gyford.com
3 points·by vincvinc·9 maanden geleden·0 comments

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vincvinc
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
"All his accounts with US companies such as Amazon, Airbnb, or PayPal were immediately closed by the providers. Online bookings, such as through Expedia, are immediately canceled, even if they concern hotels in France."

How is this legal / OK?
vincvinc
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
Related:

"IMPOSING SANCTIONS ON THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT" (white house, feb 2025) https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/impo...

Microsoft admits in French court it can't keep EU data safe from US authorities (jul 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822902
vincvinc
·9 maanden geleden·discuss
About half of the problems mentioned by the article are solved by the all-in-one-inbox beeper.com, now owned by Automattic.

It allows me for example to avoid Instagram's crack app while still DMing with friends only available on there.

Except "Long term availability" ... I'd love to have my full chat archive under my own control but doesn't seem on the roadmap.
vincvinc
·9 maanden geleden·discuss
I am less optimistic than the author.

Everything we have seen over the last few years (eg what microsoft is doing to Windows) points to a push to make the platforms we used to control, more like the 'consumption' platforms. Profit demands it.

"Does this serve my goals, or someone else's metrics?" indeed.
vincvinc
·10 maanden geleden·discuss
Oh? I think the outrage over making the reader feel like "a bad or prejudiced person" that accompanies any invitation to challenge assumptions is so tedious.

How come this culture war mindset infuses everything we do online now?

Nowhere does this map or its description even imply you are a bad person.

It's pure ... projection
vincvinc
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Good idea! I've worked before on trying to come up with a good intermediate representation for these kind of purposes... Linguistic theories are only partially helpful here. Want to have a chat? I really think there is a future in this approach.