The EU is still fighting monopolies. The US needs to too, but it's such a deeply unhealthy democracy now, it may be a while before it gets back to it.
jabjoe
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It's more about the big boys. If they act in a way that breaks the GDPR, now the EU has a stick to hit them with.
It probably need to be regulation. It's not a space competition alone will work for. Very few consumers will choose one car over another due to privacy options.
What we want is to be able to direct the data, in standard protocols, to a server of our choosing. To be able to use apps of our choosing. No damn lock-ins.
They thing to do is buy the rights to old designs, then open source them and sell them. It pisses me off no end I can't find system diagrams, schematics or source code to think I apparently "own". It keeps everyone ignorant and throwing stuff away to keep buying new. And now, with all going online, turns everything to a privacy nightmare . When the manufacture moves on to the next shiny, it will become part of internet of infected things botnets.
Argh. Fixed. Thanks.
Lemmy just about keeps me here. It's a little anemic, but not due to lack of niche, but lack of normies.
Plus Lemmy hasn't turned out to be full Nazis like voat did. I find more on Lemmy than Mastodon.
Edit: Fix! I clearly meant Lemmy not Lenny.
"Attack surface" is the term you want. Big software means big attack surface. So keep code lean for security as well as efficiency.
Well hold on there, he survived the crash, and would probably have been ok. It was the upload that killed him.
DKMS is what you want rather than do it manually.
What on earth are you guys doing having to search the internet for drivers for Linux??? You not buy things that have Linux support advertised? Not looking for good reviews by other Linux users?
I've been using the internet since 1996. Newsgroups is about all that was good back then. Oh and email.
Chrome has become the new IE6 and Google the Microsoft of the internet.
Today is a bit of a low point, but I don't think there was any perfect time.
Flash was a major issue during a lot of the "golden years" people are romanticizing. ActiveX was also, and still is, an issue for some parts of the world. Silverlight as well to a lesser extent
If there were any golden years, they probably were when the big three had similar market share between 2009 and 2014. But it was clear what was happening over those years, Chrome was eating IE and waning FF.
Yes apps are bad news.