elgregor @elgregor@librem.one

@omegaprobe@paquita.masto.host @EUCommission @pluralistic Interesting, thanks!

The conclusion is at the end of the article. TL;DR: EU Copyright Directive was passed because it then US wouldn't put tariffs on EU goods. Its article 6 prevents jailbreaking iPhones and Teslas, cracking DRM, etc. Abolishing it costs us nothing, but it would hurt the intellectual monopolies of US and unleash a new wave of creative companies.

@icd Nie rozumiem celu tej petycji. Mozilla doskonale zdaje sobie sprawę, że poleganie głównie na pieniądzach od Google jest złym pomysłem i desperacko szuka innych źródeł zarobku. Stąd Mozilla VPN i Firefox Relay. Stąd próby umów z innymi wyszukiwarkami w niektórych krajach. Stąd płatne skróty na stronie nowej karty.

Tymczasem te źródła przynoszą niewiele pieniędzy, a użytkownicy marudzą. "Jak to inna wyszukiwarka, ja chcę Google jako domyślną!" "Jak to reklamy stron w nowej karcie?! Skandal!"

@noelreports They realize what would happen: the peacekeeping troops would simply be attacked. Peacekeeping force only makes sense if breaking peace would carry a severe and swift punishment, akin to NATO's article 5.

@GrapheneOS Does disabling NFC have any benefit like longer battery life? Does it power down the NFC hardware? Does it stop or suspend some process? Does it decrease the attack surface of NFC?

(Of course this is all assuming that screen unlock is required to use NFC.)

@gunstick @EUCommission I read it as ending support for those jammers, so basically refusing to adjust them for any changes that Russia makes. So they are still useful right now, but will drop in usefulness in time.

But yeah, dropping support is almost a delayed killswitch. I bet many countries are now reconsidering their purchases of US aircraft. Not all of them, as some have plenty of control over their planes, like Israel which has its own EW system in their F-35I.

@rysiek Fajnie, że amerykańskie firmy inwestują w Polsce, ale jeszcze fajniej by było, gdyby polskie firmy inwestowały w Polsce. Niskie wydatki na badania i rozwój są jedną z głównych przyczyn pozostawania Europy w tyle.

@bboett @EUCommission Blocks on targeting US aircraft could be a thing. Some missiles have built-in blocks on targeting nuclear power plants. It's not an off button though.

There's also electronic warfare and other countermeasures. Advanced machines can defeat older missiles using signal jamming & spoofing, laser dazzlers, etc. I'm sure US has some secret sauce it doesn't share, but so do other countries making machines and weapons.

@itsfoss Mozilla has already improved the wording of the TOS after the outrage. If you don't trust them, you can still disable sending data to them, as you could before. The ads on new tab page can also be disabled, as they could before.

You can't donate towards Firefox development, but you can buy Mozilla VPN and Firefox Relay instead, which achieve the same goal.

@peekr Peekr nie zwraca żadnych wyników dla zapytań "vkQueueSubmit" i "glSwapBuffers". Polecam zindeksować stronę Khronosa (zwłaszcza registry.khronos.org) a przede wszystkim StackOverflow i resztę sieci StackExchange (to bardzo wartościowe źródła wyników na różne tematy).

Warto też wyciągać info o oficjalnych stronach z Wikipedii/Wikidanych, indeksować te strony i podbijać je w wynikach. Np. szukając "Vulkan", DuckDuckGo pokazuje vulkan.org na 2. miejscu, a w Peekrze nie ma go na 1. stronie.

@Anonomouse1981 @Faket @EUCommission Did you reply to the right comment?

@bboett @EUCommission No, they can't. There's no remote "off button". US could however withdraw spare parts shipment, repair services, etc. which in the long term could render US-made weapons inoperable. For some weapons it doesn't matter that much, but others (like planes) need constant maintenance.

@parrot33 @EUCommission "How can they allow to spend even more for military spendings?"

By not applying normal borrowing limits to rearmament spending and by allowing countries to spend the remainder of post-pandemic relief funds on rearmament. This is what EU commission is proposing.

@Pare @EUCommission Unfortunately some countries are very aggressive and the only way to stop them from waging war is to be armed. Thus, having a lot of tools to kill people allows us to prevent killing people.

It's the hedgehog strategy. Hedgehog's spikes are sharp, but they are used for defence.

@GrowingForJustice @eff Seems to work now.

@Edizionilazio @noelreports We also need more initiatives that don't require everyone to participate. Hungary blocks support to Ukraine? OK, then their contribution to EU budget won't be used for that, but everyone else's will. Ireland blocks bans on sending EU citizen data to US? OK, then Irish citizen data can be sent there, but everyone else's data can't.

@Azarilh That's a great approach!

@EUCommission You forgot to provide a link: https://commission.europa.eu/topics/eu-competitiveness/union-skills_en