What?

The government is doing its job, protecting consumers from predatory and monopolistic practices, and you’re crying “oh no, the poor billionaires”??

Ahahah I experienced only the media narrative, and it did play out exactly as you described it.

Of course now it comes to reason that many people were actively working to fix the problem, but they never really explained that part on TV.

Yep I think pops here has this one, us Millennials grew up with leet speak, it already was a thing in the 80s.

“And that’s when enshitification kicked in”

50% Vs 25% for the russian party? That wasn’t even close, it’s a landslide. Just going by the news lately, not what I was expecting.

Very. The Associated Press counts a string of over 80 GPS jamming “incidents”, one of the most notable being von der Leyen emergency landing.

Reference: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/what-to-know-about-russias-gps-jamming-of-a-european-officials-plane

Well played sir, well played.

Do it already, TACO.

Does it still look like it’s from 1998?

It works very well for my light personal needs, but I find the UI to be an eyesore…

As someone in the patriarchy, I definitely think we need to do more to protect our witches.

Sure, burning people at the stake has fallen out of fashion recently, they just get beaten or murdered by their husbands or boyfriends instead.

Or outright dismissed when they’re probably the most qualified in a room. Or passed over for promotion because God forbid they may want a family at some point. Yeah, we’re not there yet.

Are you perhaps experiencing a fever, discomfort or itching at the bite site, and a sudden and inexplicable fear of water?

Because it’s been a hot minute since I’ve seen such a nonsensical, aggressive response to an innocuous comment…

It really depends what its used for.

Anything that is public facing would never work without constant maintenance and upgrades, be it a computer OS or some complex piece of hardware.

As a software house, running our own infrastructure would be a nightmare in so many ways… Just thinking of all the hardware that needs to be deployed, and how many sites worldwide we’d need just to provide the same level of service we have now, and then being able to scale up massively during peak time but have all that capacity go to waste during low season, then dedicated teams on all sites to handle emergencies 24/7, the massive loses of revenue anytime the services are down…

“Just in-house it” is definitely not the answer, there’s a reason AWS makes so much money.

Thanks for the straight answer, brother.

This is surprisingly myopic from someone who supposedly works in the field.

Where do your full stack applications run, my friend?

Because unless you’re in China or Russia, the answer is either AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

Nobody is looking to reinvent the wheel. The call is for the EU to invest heavily in infrastructure, like building its own chips, creating its own data centres, and yes, developing its software industry to provide alternatives to all the proprietary/closed stuff.

I’m a firm believer that hardware must never be linked to any sort of subscription to function. If it does, then it’s because the hardware only serves as a way to access the content, but in that case, it must allow competition between providers for that content.

If I buy something, it’s mine. No one should be allowed to dictate how I use it, I want to be free to do what I want with it.

What the heck are you on about. That’s the worst possible solution to this, are you some sort of masochistic?

If Siri is something that needs to be paid for, don’t bundle it with the system. Charge extra from the start, and people can opt in to that shit.

Also, they run a massively profitable software store, and THAT is what justifies and pays for the bug fixing and security patches to the overall OS.

The “cell a year” practice isn’t to cover development costs, it’s to bring in massive profit by milking the consumeristic herd that buys their crap.

So you can’t download them, you should run them directly on tencent cloud or something? Smart…

IP block it. Boom there goes eSNI and DNS.

Sure, it’s crude, but again: it doesn’t have to perfect, it just needs to create havoc with Google services to push away a regular user, who has no idea what DNS even is.

A better approach though is to fine Google, with a % of revenue increasing until compliance. They’ll very quickly be incentivised to comply or shutdown.

Nah. Demanding the ISPs to block traffic to Google domains would be quite effective.

This isn’t like the great firewall of chine where you want to prevent absolutely all traffic. If you make it inconvenient to use, because CSS breaks or a js library doesn’t load or images breaslk, its already a huge step into pushing it out of the market.

Enterprise market would be much harder, a loooot of EU companies rely on Google’s services, platforms and apps, and migrating away would take a lot of time and money.