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If we go down this road, I am old enough to remember people pinning 5 1/4 floppy disks to the cabinet using magnets and then being surprise it did not work anymore, or people that when asked to do a copy of the disk went to the copy machine.
But that was at the beginning (199x), now I would not consider “average user” someone who is not even able to realize that the pc is not plugged in, tbh.

Then you are probably using Excel for the wrong thing

Windows and Mac are both easier to use for the standard user.

I really doubt that a standard user would have that much problems to do his work with the normal programs (an office suite, a browsere a little else) once Linux with a DE (let be KDE, GNOME or whatever) is installed.

The limitation is not the disto itself, it is the lack of support for some software (like Grasshooper or CAD)

Resistance is futile

Lately is not going that well for the borg, better 8472 😜

I get that the implicated conclusion here is that cars are orders of magnitude more dangerous. This is true, but I wonder how much this data is being skewed because more people drive cars rather than walk.

Another thing that would be interesting to know is some number about the scenarios in which the deaths happened.

Seen from outside US, NASA decline has begun way earlier than Elon Musk appearance, it begun when NASA was used as a piggy bank by US politicians.

What intrigue me is this:

I’m confident vibe coding was not to blame in this particular case,

So they used vibe coding, they are only saying that they think/hope that it is not the cause of the break (and maybe also of the second one)

And if vvibe coding is not caused then they are even more incompetent.

So just putting as background one random nude pic do the job ?

I was hoping that they learned something from the time the protection on audio CDs was just that they were not read from the PC because the first track had invalid data (while it was ignored by a stereo) was defeat by a simple marker, which make the PC just ignore the track… I think I still have one of this CD somewhere…

Yes, and my bill become 1/5 of what it was, so maybe is was a not so stupid thing to do.

Because solar and wind plants, while they can be cheap and relatively fast to build, are not as reliable as a datacenter need and it is not predictable, so at most they can supplement some other generation method, in this scenario. Then ok, you probably need less fossil fuel (but gas is not necessary fossil these days).
And a nuclear plant is probably way longer to build than the datacenter itself, if you ever get the green light to build it.

As long as they are able to create their own subplebbit , otherwise every subplebbit (by the description) has as moderator the owner (or someone given the permission).

I am not sure, but I read somewhere that the developer(s) used vibe coding to create the app so…

it is difficult to make people leave the current ones.

That comes on top. Without legal risks we would have 10 alternatives and one would succeed.

There are Lemmy and Mastodon. There is/was Diaspora and Minds and probably a lot more, both as Facebook replacement and Twitter/Instagram replacement. There are alternatives for Youtube.
So, cleared that some alternative is present, I would argue that the switch is the biggest problem.

before Facebook there was MySpace and after Facebook there will be something else.

No, because these legal obligations are the moat that defends Facebook.

Assuming the moat will will never change, yes. Maybe.

Facebook is an advertising platform first. That’s almost impossible to recreate.

Like it was MySpace before.

<sarcasm>Else how can you certify you are a woman ? We don’t want a man lurking around</sarcasm>

It’s pretty far from a win. It’s backing down to a bully because you know a fight would hurt you both badly, and that you still need the help of this bully against another.

Right, the fight can hurt both sides, but capitulating today will only end with another capitulation tomorrow.

Shit sucks, but that’s where we are now.

Well, we as EU could have simply let Trump know that we are a market they cannot leave.
Put a 15% additional taxes on every penny the US tech companies make in EU… and it is not really hard to do it even without them collaborating.

Edit: German eID works on any Android btw., flawless actually. I sure hope I can use that for verification

Same in Italy… I mean, I can pay taxes with that application but I cannot be verified for my age ? Seriously EU ?

The VCs can hop on a plane and invest the money in the EU, if they think that’s what makes them a profit.

True, but I suspect that the VCs don’t like the EU rules…

I know some people that regulations should be changed so that European banks can make riskier investments and do VC funding. I don’t see why they would invest in Europe and not in the US, like anyone else. They are all chasing the same profits. European VCs can hop on a plane to Silicon Valley and dump the money there.

More than that, the real advantage that US people have is that bankruptcy is not see the same way, in US is handled almost as a normal thing if you try to build something while in EU is seen almost as a stigma.

What probably stops people in EU is that normally if you try and fail you almost never have a second chance.

I don’t know if deregulating banks is a good idea. I’m skeptical because I remember the 00s. But I don’t have the qualifications to judge.

No, it is not a good idea, I agree

It’s not prohibitive but an obstacle. Facebook can build neural networks to automate legal obligations and it can hire lawyers to minimize damage when they fail.

Yes, it is true, but I would love to see how it will work

Everybody can try though to build a new social media but nobody will.

You are right, but I suspect that you don’t understand the real reason, which is not the rules but the fact that a social media need users and it is difficult to make people leave the current ones. After all, before Facebook there was MySpace and after Facebook there will be something else.

Tighter moderation and copyright requirements can stop everything.

True, but that would be valid for everyone. So as it could stop an emerging social media it could also stop an estabilished social media, and EU historically does not go after the small fishes.
I am sure that you understand that if EU put up tighter moderation and copyright requirements the first social media to be tanked would be Facebook and not the emerging social media.

The USA had excempted platforms from holding them responsible to allow broad innovation by everybody. The EU does the opposite and ads more requirements.

Not always.
But the way the USA went create a grey area were the social media can legally say “I am not responsible for what the users post” and on the other hand the “the platform is mine and I can decide what goes on it”, which in my opinion is a worse situation since now the moderation is in the hand of a company.
We had many examples of social media that on one hand say they are excempted and on the other say that they can decide what goes on the site. Sorry but it not works this way: you are responsible for everything on your site and then you can decide what goes on it or you are not responsible and then you cannot decide what goes on it (granted that is legal). You cannot have both ways.

Nothing that kills an established company but it’s deadly for anything but the most serious startups.

I disagree. If Facebook would be held responsible for its contents like a startup, I would bet that it would be deadly for Facebook and not the startup. Look at the GDPR, there were reasons why these companies have fought tooth and nail against it.

The EU must know about the US excemption. They are not ignorant so they chose to not create competition and to leave that market to the US.

Which, again, does nothing to stop someone to try to build a new social media.

I only stated the obvious: in EU the mentality is different and it is not that easy to get money to have a company going for years without making enough money to pay its cost (infrastuctures, servers, people atc), there are not the VC’s that are present in US.
If that make me part of the industry…