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That's only really feasible for as long as the corporation has a physical presence in the EU and/or the corporation's home government is willing to enforce the laws of a foreign government upon their own corporations/citizens.

I know Twitter used to have offices In the EU, but I don't know if that's still the case currently. If it's not then without the cooperation of the US government there's not much the EU can do if Musk decides to tell them to pound sand.

I'm not saying I think he's in the right, I just don't see how it's possible for any nation to enforce laws outside of their own borders without the co-operation of other governments, and I don't see how the US government could possibly co-operate to enforce foreign laws that would likely violate the US constitution.

Edit to add: Sure they could always try to enforce dns blocking or some shit on Twitter via mandates on local ISPs, but those are things that can be circumvented without too much difficulty.

Won't be the case for much longer if the EU gets their way, I'm glad to say.

Yeah r/privacy was toxic towards n00bs back on reddit as well. Sorry you got blasted for asking a question.

Ah yes the widespread political message that was "me and the boys out at 3am looking for beans"

How could we possibly have missed those political overtones.

Dude you must be on some extremely powerful drugs if you think all memes are political propaganda.

Tbh I'm surprised she hasn't retconned Voldemort to be transgender.

Same reason why oil prices keep going up even as demand drops, the price of oil is largely determined by OPEC+ and they will cut production until prices rise to where they want them, and the more they have to cut production the higher the prices have to be to offset their fixed costs. More oil = more total revenue = lower price floor for profits.

It takes a while for various other industries to shift away from burning oil and gas, but when that happens the oil industry will be totally screwed.

I'm not so sure that they'd be necessarily screwed even then, I think it will depend upon what direction plastic demand and plastic production goes in. The majority of plastics still need to be made from petrochemicals, and the majority of plastics have to be virgin simply due to the inherent limitations on their recyclability.

Sure, the industry won't be as large as today but unless we see bioplastics completely replace petrochemical plastics or simply see plastics completely abandoned (that'll never happen, plastics are simply too useful to ditch entirely.) It will still exist in some form simply because it will be necessary for plastic production.

There's Valve's custom Distro they built for the steamdeck, unfortunately they haven't fully released it yet, for the time being it's only available via steamdeck recovery software.

And with the direction the Republican base is going, whatever party replaces the GoP is probably gonna think Hitler's biggest problem was his accent.

I'm 99% sure it won't have much of a positive impact in sales simply because the majority of ebook buyers don't care about DRM anyway, only the minority of us bother to strip DRM. So while it wouldn't be a large drop in sales I do think it would still be a drop. It might not be enough of a loss for them to care, and tbh as you said it would probably only result in a mild increase in piracy while the majority either do library loans or switch to paper.

I don't think that those of us who care enough to jump through the hoops to strip DRM are just gonna roll-over and accept that the publishers can yoink our entire libraries whenever they see fit, but I do admit most don't care. However those that don't care aren't stripping DRM anyway, they are just relying on the ability to redownload their books whenever they wish from Amazon/Kobo/Nook.

Winget is the command-line package manager Microsoft made for windows 10/11 recently.

Yeah if nodrm is ever killed by a DMCA action I'd be turning to my local library and Zlibrary (or whatever the closest alternative is today l don't know if Zlibrary still exists or not) exclusively.

If the book publishers are smart they won't kill drm stripping software as nobody who strips drm is gonna keep buying ebooks if they can't do that, the people that don't care already just buy their ebooks because it's stupidly convenient compared to piracy, and often not that expensive anyway.

It's probably a result of wireless interference somewhere between the deck and the desktop. I also had a really bad experience with remote play and sunlight/moonlight before I hardwired my desktop to the router via an Ethernet cable. Just making that one part of the chain wired completely solved my issues.

The steam deck uses a custom Linux distro made by valve specifically for it. So it's at least good enough for gaming that valve trusted it for their mainstream handled gaming PC.

I've got one and tbh it's pretty good. As long as you stick to games that are rated as either verified or playable on steamdeck you'll probably have a good time.

You just go to the website that makes the software and download

That's literally hunting for the software dude. You gotta open up a web browser, and if you don't know the webpage already you gotta search for it, find the download page on that website, get passed the likely popups and other crap and then finally select the right version of the software to download.

Package managers are 10000% better. Even Microsoft knows this, it's why they created winget.

Putting in winget search software name Copying the package name from the search result Putting in winget install pasted package name is significantly fewer steps. No Google search, no finding the download page, no popup crap, and no fake download button ads trying to get you to install malware. You just install the software in less time than it would take to even write your crappy comment.

Well I use the nodrm plugin and Calibre to strip the drm from all my Amazon ebook purchases and back them up both on my own machine and to the cloud storage provider I use. Only reason I buy Amazon's ebooks is because they are normally the easiest to strip of drm, and very few ebook authors don't use drm.

Physical books are certainly nice, but id rather save the space/weight for things I cherish instead of things I merely own so I can consume their content whenever I'd like. Books are for reading, not for showing off.

Those suck worse than the old school 3.5mm splitters we all used back in the discman, and later iPod days.

The removal of the headphone jack is one of the worst developments in personal electronics over the last 30 years. Personally I hope that the EU's next port mandate forces its reintroduction as Bluetooth headphones are an environmental catastrophe.

It's honestly kinda hilarious that the person defending the anti-consumer choice to remove features is accusing those upset about their removal of shilling.

s you noted we already know the causes, but trends do not predict which individuals will commit crimes. There will be no point in time that an algorithm will be able to predict that an individual will commit a crime at a specific point in time.

I think we might've had a bit of miscommunication here. I wasn't talking about predictive policing at an individual level, that's highly unlikely to be possible, at least with traditional computing technologies (not to mention that individual predictive policing isn't even desirable for a multitude of reasons explored by many dystopian fiction authors throughout history) but rather at an area level. Being able to predict where and when crimes are likely to occur and with regularity, predicting that a specific drug store will probably be robbed within a narrow window of time for example. Even if such an algorithm was only accurate within a couple of hours it would fundamentally change how law enforcement functions, as well as the purpose it serves. Instead of merely enforcing the law after a crime is committed they could prevent crime/catch the criminal mid act without the need for informants, and without even knowing who they are gonna be arresting prior to catching them.