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Re:I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @09:28AM (#43471002)
“ In no-cloud mode the only way to interact with the devices is through their app, and an app isn’t always the most convenient way to interact with devices in the home.”
Re:Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones on Saturday August 17, 2024 @05:24AM (#41273036)
iOS 17.6.1 - can't install via safari. Message: To install the Epic Games Store on your iPhone, update to iOS 17.6 or later.
Re:EU Launches Probes into Apple, Meta, Google Under New Digital Compe... on Monday March 25, 2024 @04:00PM (#39820635)
I wrote about it months ago when they did it. Why wouldn't it? Because... it's illegal (under EU law)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38192620

But the answer is: pay or consent "does not achieve the objective of preventing the accumulation of personal data by gatekeepers". See https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_... (also linked via the tweet elsewhere in this discussion)

Re:EU Launches Probes into Apple, Meta, Google Under New Digital Compe... on Monday March 25, 2024 @08:59AM (#39815748)
Shows how NON compliant Alphabet was before DMA ;)

"Make infra compliant, but try to pull some shit with billing, to see how serious the EC is about DMA. That way, if they're serious, we're ready, but if not, we can still make money."

Re:Firefox 122 now supports iCloud passkeys (on macOS) on Monday January 22, 2024 @04:33PM (#39095777)
Firefox on macOS can use iCloud stored passkeys.
Re:VMware by Broadcom transition to subscription, end of sale of perpe... on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @06:06PM (#38620045)
If there is a shit show, it is ESXi. I know plenty who've migrated pain free to Proxmox. Back-up works great too. All for free.

VMware has a ton of stuff that others are nowhere near, although those offerings are useful for a minority who, as you say, will have to bite the bullet.

Re:OpenAI setup a multi-million deal to buy chips from Altman-backed c... on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @02:54PM (#38548676)
The setup is a deal or they set something up? Please revise to "set up" if the char limit is OK
Re:Meta’s approach of ‘pay for your privacy’ is wrong on Monday November 20, 2023 @10:16AM (#38349362)
The ruling says "if necessary...". This swings both ways: It is not necessary to charge, and also not possible, due to the GDPR.

Facebook can run ads, and support their business, and do it without profiling everyone.

Have free: non personalized ad supported. Have paid: no ads.

FB making it clear here that they really want and need your data.

Re:Meta’s approach of ‘pay for your privacy’ is wrong on Monday November 20, 2023 @10:15AM (#38349360)
The ruling says "if necessary...". This swings both ways: It is not necessary to charge, and also not possible, due to the GDPR.

Faecbook can run ads, and support their business, and do it without profiling everyone.

Have free: non personalized ad supported. Have paid: no ads.

FB making it clear here that they really want and need your data.

Facebook breaks EU law against targeted advertising?

Posted by pashadee on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @11:21AM
from the self-post dept.

Facebook have now thrown up a modal dialogue one must accept to continue. It says:===Make a choice about your ads As part of changing laws in your region, you can now choose to continue using Meta Products for free by allowing us to use your info for ads. Or you can subscribe to use them without ads.===Isn't this now illegal according to new EU law (thanks to the Norwegian precedent), which...

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Re:Scott Helme leaks the secret text of eIDAS Article 45 on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @04:26AM (#38188285)
Can't individuals (on their local systems) just blacklist those root CAs independently of the browsers? I can do that today to trust and distrust any certificate out there. Problem solved right?
Re:U.S. Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption on Monday July 24, 2023 @11:25AM (#36849512)
"Deliberately blind" implies the use of encryption (by a platform or provider).

One solution I think is to provide a user side toggle or option to enable encryption. Then it is not deliberate from the provider's perspective, but a user choice/preference. And it is not unreasonable for the user to expect privacy (encryption), ergo this choice defaults to encrypted.

At worst the provider is intentionally blinded by the user, and not deliberately blind.

But do we move the argument back to whether including (the choice of) encryption to mean deliberately blind?

Re:We updated our RSA SSH host key on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:50PM (#35295267)
Our keys are documented here*.

Hyperlink with broken certificates. Fun.

Re:Human-Level Play in Diplomacy Combining Language Models with Strate... on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @07:09PM (#33713332)
Facecbook is evil, and deletes my back history to this page.
Re:DNS SRV Records for HTTP (2009) on Monday October 24, 2022 @09:08AM (#33316154)
A problem of the mentioned SVCB records is that while theoretically they're capable of HTTP (unencrypted etc), http is not mentioned in the upcoming drafts directly and no browser supports HTTP via SVCB. Only HTTPS.
Re:Call for Patents Essential to the Opus Codec on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @07:21AM (#33161953)
Vectis is a dumpster fire.

This is an attempt to prevent hardware for multi channel opus, for use in film/TV, and eventually inhibit the open source CODECs. Because only Dolby is allowed to have hardware for this.

Re:Covid-19 test: voice based analysis (needs more training) on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @11:44AM (#22738643)
Needs an email-based sign-up (friction) but the theory seems good. Help train the AI :)