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I feel like the limit itself COULD be reasonable (there's more to the potential harms than ionizing radiation /cancer), but popscience news sites are going to make misleading headlines anyways

It's still relevant to ask the company to recall it / not produce more / get third party distributors to stop selling it

with a more modern standard

I don't think that's what's happening here?

Maybe something changed more recently to warrant a test?

The story feels like pop-science websites running with a story that's otherwise pretty boring regulatory proceedings.

Would be weird if they waited after testing to find a good opportunity to make the announcement.

It's also not necessarily a win/loss since Apple could spin it like "we fixed it in the new one, get it"

As for why

EMR radiation isn't the type that can cause cancer (which happens when the radiation wavelength is low enough to 'ionize' genetic material), but it can heat up tissue the same way a microwave might. With tissue heating, standards are likely set based on the risks / concerns that a country's health authority thought were reasonable enough. This might also vary depending on different parts of the body.

If they set a standard and a malfunction is causing the phone to exceed that limit, it's worth stopping sales so that it can be fixed.

They'd need a toggle for the feature on the rider side as well. Like "hide my gender"

This makes the most sense to me, with Reddit as well.

Read it because there's content there worth keeping up with (local communities, school, career stuff), but only on fedi stuff.

That's what I was thinking.

It's going to be a legal kerfuffle trying to prove that Unity (or a competitor) doesn't have an installation farm operating somewhere.

looks like there's another comment with the same text. If that's your other account and you want to keep it private, you might want to look into that

:)

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Like a lot of the comments here, I misunderstood it from the headline

The European Union has recently reached an agreement on a significant competition reform known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which will impose strict rules on large tech companies that will have to offer users the ability to communicate with each other using different apps.

I didn't know this was a thing, what other apps/platforms are affected by this?

Interoperability will allow other people to contact users on WhatsApp even if they don’t have a WhatsApp account. For example, someone from the Signal app could send a message to a WhatsApp user, even without a WhatsApp account.

So it's about being able to message someone from Signal to Whatsapp. That might be a good thing for Signal/Telegram users, since you always have the option to NOT message someone from those platforms.

What I'm curious about is what data Facebook can collect from a Signal user. I assume Signal will take steps to block third party data harvesting, assuming this even goes through. There's a similar issue with Threads and other for profit companies joining the fediverse. At least with Signal there isn't that much data to begin with. I think Fediverse platforms also need some more safeguards on the privacy/security side.