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I gotta hand it to them, as far as wildly outlandish conspiracy theories go this is entirely internally consistent

On the flipside I don't think just boycott works, not with the way IP law is structured. If you want true archival of games that has to be put into law, otherwise eventually somebody just buys the Remnants of Ubisoft and figures all those long life SSDs aren't worth it to keep around anymore.

I think if you wanted to do this you have to just get politically involved like in general. You can't single issue this, there's too many hurdles. From gerontocratic parliaments over to IP laws and a general populaces ignorance as to how important keeping history and archives is this was never going to fly. Very much a true love is possible only in the next world - for new people. It is too late forus. wreak havoc on the middle class thing.

If that's true, why have all the other Actions failed?

Cause it's nominal and "bring underway legislation" is a catch all term. Petitions to democratic parliaments are bullshit, why would any of them care about - as you point out - a single issue thaat 0,22% of the population signed up for?

They might have to have it as a point of order for the next meeting, in which they all decide "nah, no legislation needed, shit's fine" and be done with it. That's how most petitions go, anyways. You cannot force a law into existence by petitions.

Does that mean as a US citizen I get to decide EU laws?

No, not how petitions work in the EU. Nominally it means they can force the EU parliament to bring underway legislation concering the topic, albeit there isn't really a control mechanism for this. But say they do it anyways lest they lose even more credibility, considering games despite having existed for at least 50 years at this point are foreign objects to basically everyone that is the leftovers in the EU Parliament Ubisoft or whatever is gonna send two lobbyists and it ends up at at some sort of EU law that says "under reasonable circumstances video games should have to be playable after the copyright holder abandons service except if it costs them any money"

yeah it vindicates my approach of packing stuff via just throwing it in there. no I'm not lazy and disorderly, this is optimal cargo space usage

Half the fun of Philomena Cunk is she's like half right or at least you can see where she starts from.

I'm not into comics but now i'm genuinely curious; is there a comic story where the radiation turned a woman super? Only one springs to my mind is fantastic 4s invisible woman, which, you know, there's some subtext. I'm also not counting things like She-Hulk cause that lacks originality.

Is there more turtles turned super by ooze or radiation than women?

Hell of a layup for some sort of presumably christian group to claim this is god sending a plague on account of the crimes we do to animals but i'm sure they'll all just squander this

There really should be just a specific pet owners license. It's insane that every idiot can just buy an animal and then unknowingly and with the best of intentions mistreat the fuck out of it

I didn't know the NATO is the arbiter of this. I'd've figured there'd be something less openly biased towards certain states here

I think the main issue that usually gets trod out is how Microsoft makes the most ergonomical and useable software which I think is an argument you can only arrive at if you've just literally used nothing else, ever. The supposed point is that large swathes of the work force in the public sector would be unable to cope with the new software and be unable to do their job, albeit I point at my printing out excel tables example there to say they already don't know how to use software so at least save on the licensing fees

What will they use instead? Who the fuck knows! The article omits this crucial piece of information.

Whole bunch of shit going by different sources and the state itself from german, to supplement here

MS Office -> LibreOffice Exchange / Outlook -> Open-XChange / Thunderbird Sharepoint -> Nextcloud Windows -> Linux MS Active Directory -> Unknown, but currently Testing things Telephones use, among others, Kamailio, RTPEngine, Asterisk, GenieACS, Loki and Grafana For all the Software to do like specific work, i.e. the software that helps manage industrial permits or whatever, it's case by case with them trying to replace them with mostly web based solutions so they're OS-Agnostic.

They're doing this together with Dataport, which is a sort of special government structure in the sense that it does IT for the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Bremen and Saxony-Anhalt who share the costs. They've been at this whole thing of trying to make a FOSS standard software enviroment for years now, steadily improving, so things might actually be happening. Video conferencing should be Jitsi, that's already in the portfolio, the chat components will in all likelihood be based on the Matrix Protocol which is aswell, I think they offer an offshoot of Riot.

It's a good thing. That said, the way the german government works this only really includes the actual state level bureaucratic engines. Everything at the county and municipal level will also have to make the switch themselves so that's 83 more government entities that would have to do this before the state runs on FOSS.

And like with all of them in germany they're all flat out broke and can't get personnel for this so this type of project, if attempted at all, is usually headed by a 60 year old who's also the equivalent of a CIO because he once built an excel table with pivot functions and the general level of digital competency of the workforce is dire, as in people are printing out excel tables to do the calculations with a calculator and things of that nature.

us?

The EU could get a ridiculous amount done if it decided to seriously invest in it.

Yeah but they're never going to do that. It's an overgrown coal union at it's heart. Like yeah, sure, they found a lot of somewhat leftist mostly green movement things within the EU but that's just PR. The GDPR considers "me making a lot of money" to be a valid reason to go start selling peoples data

Horse feet are so strange.

Just being in HR gives you some kind of brainworm but being in HR and posting about it with what seems to be a personal account is more like having a brain shai-hulud

Kill the lawn cop within yourself

I'm more of a middling ape myself honestly

If this is considered a problem of individual personnal responsibility then I will trigger stateccollapse

fucking go for it, king.

The entire concept of data privacy is antithetical to the modern nation state. Motherfucker you live in the hole. You are in the oubliette. What fucking governmeant bureau, under trump, do you see taking up the fight here, much less winning? You can't unleak data. That shit's out there, forever - and, again, probably has been for years considering what a goldmine the DNA databse of the USA is.

Lobby your state all your want, IT-Security and Data Protection starts at you. All the encryption in the world doesn't save you from being spear-phished. You can encode this in law, but unless anybody starts executing legal entities and building the great firewall á la china, that shit's out there in a real "can't unlick that asshole" situation. It sucks! It is bad! The average person should not have to grapple with the realities of IT-Security and Data Protection much in the same way I don't have the first fucking clue about how to keep an NPP from exploding. But unless we reinvent the whole thing from scratch that shit's on you, me, and everybody else. Never give them anything. I own 18 bicycles.

23andme was named "invention of the year" by Time in 2008

perfect, I am now openly pro Trump, Zuckerberg and also Putin, all of whom have been named Time Person of the year from 2007 onwards. This is because I don't even bother to understand what Time nominates, but also entirely willing to base very important political or life decisions around this. If you call this out as being incredibly fucking stupid you are victim blaming me. Just because I do not have ever read the magazines nominations of awards that I base my being around does not mean you can attack me for this.

Orphans, people with absent parents, decedents of slaves, the list goes on for folks who would understandably go for an affordable way to access their genetic history.

This is slightly more sympathetic but also 23andme would help you zilch in this scenario because this is not what they do. But I do understand how coming from a vulnerable emotionial position might lead you there.

I'm saddened to see more victim blaming here than anger at the ToS/privacy policy fuckery and a complete lack of consumer protection.

Having said beforementioned, there is 0 consumer protection that would prevent this scenario. This bullshit has to rank among the largest DNA Databse in the world, and, as such, would be the target and has probably been leaked to every major and minor intelligence service in the world since years, even before they just openly sold it off to god knows who. The crux of data security is that while it is a society wide issue, it is also a personal issue. You can't outregulate some idiot just handing over all their data for funsies or SECURITY to whatever entity, to point out the big ones. This holds true regardless of socioeconomic system in place, because the entire point is that it is your data, not anybody elses.

Also, and I do agree I am malding over this, I want to point out that people have been warning about 23andme for a decade for obvious reasons and largely got ignored as being doomer nerds

The worst part is there is cool, if very boomer dad coded, ancestry research. It however involves reading a lot and lot of bureaucratic documents from hundreds of years ago and attaining quite some fields of knowledge to figure out how names shaped over time, how the bureaucratic institution in $time and $place work and such.

A friend of mine does it and he can trace one root of his family back to the 15th century within like a 30km radius circle. It's really cool to see where, when, and therefore likely why, his family moved about for 500 years to end up where they are now instead of getting "you are probably from europe and 2% neanderthal"