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Race Against Time to Save Brixton Market from Private Equity

novaramedia.com
23 points·by vincvinc·há 24 dias·3 comments

Greenland bans all oil exploration (2021)

cbc.ca
4 points·by vincvinc·há 6 meses·0 comments

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

dw.com
83 points·by vincvinc·há 7 meses·90 comments

Ursula, Break Up Google

peoplevsbig.tech
3 points·by vincvinc·há 8 meses·0 comments

[untitled]

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ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk

binnenlandsbestuur.nl
646 points·by vincvinc·há 8 meses·212 comments

My First Months in Cyberspace

gyford.com
3 points·by vincvinc·há 9 meses·0 comments

EU calls upon experts on encryption

berthub.eu
5 points·by vincvinc·ano passado·1 comments

ChatGPT helped me translate Mao's Red Book but DeepSeek won't go there

adamtooze.substack.com
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vincvinc
·há 8 meses·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
·há 8 meses·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
·há 9 meses·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
·há 9 meses·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
·há 10 meses·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
·há 12 meses·discuss
Is there any type of advocacy or laws anywhere to push Apple to make data like this intercompatible?
vincvinc
·ano passado·discuss
See; GDPR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
vincvinc
·ano passado·discuss
Remember: this is only possible not thanks to Apple's good graces, but by:

- the EU Digital Markets act

- (in the US) Judge Yvonne‑Gonzalez Rogers’ final Epic v. Apple injunction https://www.theverge.com/news/660025/apple-changes-app-store...
vincvinc
·há 6 anos·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.