The price hikes where neccesarry for sure then…

Fuck big corps.

Big if, because you expect a US company to win.

These numbers are like proclaiming you won an “election” with 90% votes.

(it won’t be, it’s an EU law, so will be the same in all EU countries)

This is not true btw. It’s not a mandatory law, and if you read the news about this the last 3 weeks, you would know that.

EU laws are not automatically mandatory. That’s not how it works at all.

Yeah… There goes my subscription. I’m casting everything to Chromecast on my older TV.

That’s the thing. They wont pay you more. Maybe some people would get the extra money, but all new employees would get the same salary for more hours.

https://developers.facebook.com/messaging-interoperability

Again, I dont think you can access it unless you follow the rules.

I guess it’s not true public, but you can if you meet the requirements.

It’s not, but they made a WhatsApp API for the DMA. There’s a Matrix bridge to WhatsApp.

Signal wont do it because they cant use their own protocol. You still have to use WhatsApps, which makes it flawed.

I also hope for good clients, but maybe the rules will change further before there’s any real use case for it. Maybe it’s too expensive compared to making your own?

apperently meta gets to pick it, and it is not a public api.

No they dont, and it’s a public modified Matrix-protocol. Why would you lie about that?

The problem is that WhatsApp can demand third parties to meet very high standards, making it impossible for independent actors to gain access to this.

You need a pretty well run machinery to live up to the standard, but if they do, WhatApps can legally not deny access.

If they do, it’s in violation of the DMA, which gives you a 10% of all global income in fees.

These has been used against Meta and Google before, and there’s no reason to believe they wont do it again. They actually live up to it.

Exactly this. Streaming was a thing long time before Netflix, but they made it so damn easy.

Now Netflix fucked it, and streaming piracy became so damn easy that more people did it than before.

If they close down piracy streaming/download, guess what. Dark web access, or i2p maybe, will be so damn easy.

People are willing to do it, if there’s no service that’s worth it’s money.

Piracy is a service issue. Most of us would pay, if the service is good enough.

Maybe, just maybe, MAGA supporters will one day realize that the reason there’s so many foreign bots making propaganda about Trump, is because he weakens the US.

That’s a good point. But The Führer is not something positive, and I wouldnt think much about it.

I’m don’t think this was an intentional way to make him sound better. I think we should be much more aware of fact checking what it says, than overusing a historical word to describe Hitler. That might just be an AI thing.

Tbh, from a historical point of view, The Führer was used to describe Hitler. Now in Germany, it’s basically only used to refer to him.

I’m not for deleting history, and I think the context is important. People needs to know why The Führer or “der Führer” is bad.

A context which I think would have helped in another example would be the N-word. If everyone was really taught the history around that word, I think/hope alot of people would think twice before using it today.

Or is that only me?

Jesus would’ve hated America. I think according to the bible he lost his shit twice - both because of capitalism.

Most games being released aren’t even worth my time, let alone my money.

I dont think you are in their target group then.

I think worst case, they will rewrite the rules, and it only buys Motorola time. Which is still a win for them.

Should be illegal for a company to comment on the stock market. It’s basically manipulation.

They wont. The EU went up against much larger fish for protecting the consumer rights.

Allowing this would automatically allow Apple and Google to do the same.

Exactly my point, which means you missed it.

The things you quoted pointed to the things making CEOs less important, while other points the opposite.

So just to be very clear about my point: CEOs are very different jobs. Some can be cut, some cant, because CEO doesnt really mean anything other than “person in charge”.