I see two three pin 3.5mm stereo plugs (one of them color coded for the headphones and one for the mic), and zero 4-pin combo plugs?

Weird. The article does have today’s date but only mentions the Nov 10 decision. I think maybe what happened today is the publication of the full text of the decision?

It’d be great if that was how it works, unfortunately it seems like the penalties are closer to once every 3-5 years than monthly, skewing the balance even further to “screw the law, just pay the fee”:(

I’d say that’s a huge problem actually.

For a normal company, abusing data is a small part of their business and profit is a few percent of revenue, so such a fine would be devastating.

For some tech companies, profit is in the double digit percent of revenue and half of it comes from breaking the law, so the 4% are a tax they can happily pay and still be more profitable than if they followed the law.

Same misleading nonsense. If you follow the links it becomes obvious that it’s the old news banning FB from using the data on the basis of contract and legitimate interest - which they’re avoiding by claiming “consent” after people choose that they’d rather not pay a triple-digit amount per year to use the site.

No, the article is just regurgitating old news and the old misleading claim (omitting the critical part that they’re only banned from using data “on the basis of contract and legitimate interest”).

This “news” is what made Facebook start with the “agree or pay” bullshit.

Sometimes they also came up with literal malware as DRM.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

Enforcing DRM has a big downside: it paints a massive target on the DRM implementation, and it will likely end up getting broken.

Imagine, 100 people trying to load a video from your single hard drive, it’s not fast enough for that.

YouTube 1080p is 8-10 Mbit/s according to what I could find. That’d be 100-125 MByte/s for 100 people. I think my SSD is more than fast enough for that.

Even better, a 1 Gbps connection is also (just) enough to actually upload the video to those 100 people.

And with 100+ people watching, P2P distribution should work really well too.

They might be able to relay them in a way that the end to end encryption is actually handled on the phone and the relay only relays encrypted messages.

That would likely still give them a capability to MitM but it’s plausible that they couldn’t passively intercept the messages.

I’m glad that we can get news from such obviously neutral and unbiased sources. I’m sure a site calling itself "Electronic Intifada"would never try to distort the truth. /s

In this case, I’d say the censorship worked in favor of Hamas, and while “poorly moderated” platforms did give them the opportunity to spread their “propaganda”, Hamas used it to show everyone their true face. The result of the propaganda was people who were previously sympathetic to the Palestinian’s cause we’re now calling for Gaza to be turned into a parking lot.

I also find it rather rich that the article is complaining about misinformation when most of the press printed the lie about the hospital attack as if it was a fact.

I don’t understand how many business practices by airlines don’t result in criminal charges. Selling so many tickets that you know you will occasionally fail to fulfill your contract should be fraud. Jail time for leadership and full reimbursement of all damages (e.g. private air taxi to still make to to the destination on time) would quicky make the airlines competent at finding voluntary agreements that make everyone happy.

Likewise, deciding that a flight isn’t profitable and cancelling it - WTF. That’s called making a bad business decision, you eat the cost. You don’t just decide “eh, let’s just not” and leave people stranded because it’s cheaper.

Most importantly, they don’t let you substitute a different passenger. If you get sick and can’t make your flight, but your friend wants to go instead, you have to let your ticket go unused and your friend has to buy a (now much more expensive) last minute ticket.

I would love to see a 3D geolocated trajectory. The videos didn’t seem to make sense to my eyes, but trying to estimate 3D movement on a 2D video in the dark with no references is entirely pointless, and I’m not even sure I looked at the correct alleged rocket.

I’m not saying that I doubt the “Palestinian rocket” explanation, it seems like the most plausible theory right now, I’d just like to see what I misinterpreted or misestimated.

Israel promised radar data, did they share any publicly?

I’m somewhat familiar with the problems behind Trust & Safety, and this game depicts them well, although of course simplified.

You may also like https://novehiclesinthepark.com/ which shows how ridiculously hard it is to write a policy and/or enforce a policy consistently.

Whenever you see a bullshit decision from a tech company, remember those two games.

It absolutely is a thing. Network effect matters. Usability matters. Open source/community solutions usually lack that (and the lack of familiarity makes it worse).

Because it’s presumably cheaper to park an aircraft carrier in the area than to take the economic impact at home that an escalation would lead to (due to rising oil prices etc.)

Can we not have clickbait titles on the Fediverse?

Generally people aren’t maxing out their download bandwidths, so if you have peers and are below your upload limit, the bottleneck is either your computer (e.g. disk, CPU), your network (e.g. WiFi, Internet), or the peering between your ISP and theirs (e.g. Deutsche Telekom).