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Teocalion Ex-Windows chief praises MacBook Neo, laments Surface defeat

I disagree about window 8. I quite liked it. I honestly think that it was a better OS than win 10, from an user point of view. But maybe I am biased, as I was using a laptop with a touchscreen at this time.

Teocalion I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over

the moment I saw “Persona” n the verification page, I noped out.

Teocalion Cuba's regime is in dire straits

yes, but did you consider that maybe, just maybe, that a lot less of these cubans would have fled to the US without the embargo ?

Teocalion Cuba's regime is in dire straits

So it’s okay for the US to starve the Cubans to death since decades ?

Teocalion Cuba's regime is in dire straits

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-lif...

Even if you ignore the dip, it’s hard to call the situation “an all time high”. But maybe you have other sources ?

Teocalion AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens

As long as one US employee of Amazon has access to this cloud, this cloud is not sovereign.

Teocalion Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text

About Notion, they do indeed support Mermaid, but their included version is quite obsolete and they don’t seems so eager to update it. A shame.

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

Didn’t find any source on that. He ran for presidential mandate in 1932 and lost against Hindeburg. But never won an election for the Reichstag.

But I agree that, if it he had run, he would have win, as the NSDAP was the leading party in Reichstag at the time.

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

Thanks for the clarification.

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

As far as I know, they do. That’s part of their consumer data protection act (didn’t remember the exact name).

Do you have any source for that ? it would n’a quite helpful, honestly.

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

First, I never said than a dictator never came to power through fair and healthy election. Just that it is rare, much rarer than a lot people think.

Second, I would say that the jury is still in debat for Bukele. Yes, it’s re-election is anti-constituai but he seems to still have the support of the population, as the election seemed to be fair and healthy.

But I agree that his legal shenningans to allow for his re-election don’t bode well for the future. Let’s wait and see.

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

Thanks

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

This. Each country have an administrative entity (in France, that’s CNIL, Commission National sur l’Informatique et les Libertés - National Commission on computer and liberties, roughly) in charge of this kind oh things. You can lodge a complaint to them and they will investigate and eventually, if needed (don’t think it was ever needed, they can bring the problem to a judge.

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

If Elon and X thinks they cannot in good faith comply with the laws of a country in which X operate, they are right to leave it.

I personnaly see the attacks against the judiciary of Brazil more troublesome that this move.

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

> If Brazil's leaders are unwilling to allow a speech platform go uncensored, why not ban X?

Because it’s not black and white

> Should X have to comply with every country's censorship requests?

X must comply with the laws of every country it’s operate. If it cannot, or not willing to do it, it must leave it. That’s exactly what Elon have done

> Elon alleged that Moraes requested private user information as well. Should X hand over any and all user data that governments ask for ?

If it’s done legally, yes.

This take is quite bizarre, honestly, given how personal data protection laws are subpar in the US. Even from the government (remember patriot act).

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

No. That’s factually false.

Hitler was named chancellor of the weimar republic by the government. Not elected as such.

And it was part of a plot from the weimar government to be able to continue to work without casting new elections, as asked by the laws.

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

You forgot all the votes you need to win to be able to cast your first vote. It’s not easy part, at least in a more-or-less healthy democracy.

In France, for exemple, you need first to have majority in both chambers (Senate and parliament) to validate the content of the modification. Then you need to have of 3/5 of parliament OR the majority in a referendum for apr roving the modification and putting it in the constitution.

And for almost every healthy constitutional democracy, it the same order of difficulty.

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

They cannot forbid it. But they can rhetorically pass a law asking any website to moderate these talks. And block these site on its territory if it doesn’t comply.

Practically, this would never happen, Estonia is too small of an actor.

But if the EU decided to pass a law in this sense (would not happen, too many people implicated in an EU law writing), this would have more weight.

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

You need to lodge a complaint. It’s time consuming so almost nobody do it.

And generally, it came with a slap of the wrist, and the company put up the banner.

For a site to be blocked, it need repeatable, multiple and not correctibles infractions.

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

They will block you through DNS. For 99% of the users base, it’s generally enough.

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

> UK has hate speech laws, and number of people imprisoned or punished is far greater than Russia or other countries.

I call counter-bullshit. Provide some source with numbers.

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

I think you mean legally. And yes, yes, Hitler came to power legally. Doesn’t mean it came to power through some elections, which was my point.

And calling Alende a dictator need some Shutzpah. On this point, I think we would have to stop at the « agree to disagree » level.

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

Which one ?

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

I did. And Hitler was never elected in a position of power. He strong armed the weimar republic to be named in chancellor, and only after that he held some referendum to validate his decision.

Also, when he is named chancellor, it’s been a while since the democratic value of weimar were hurting. Paul Von Hindenburg started as soon as 1930 to govern through executive act, ignoring and/or strong arming the Reichstag. Not really what I would call a healthy democratic government.

Also, Hitler was named as chancellor through a plot of the current weimar government to avoid calling new elections, like the laws said they must.

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

It would blocked in the EU.

Also the company could be asked to forbid EU customer to access the product. Wouldn’t be a big threat but it would prevent the company to do any futur business in Europe.

Tech savvy customer could still access the product but that is not a market as big as every EU potential customer.

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

I did. And rare were the autocrats government which came in power from a non-rigged, open election.

Two exemple which are frequently used as exemple are Italy and Germany in the 1930´s but neither Hitler nor Mussolini came in power through the election, but by strong arming the power in place, and after that (at least for Germany) use the excuse of rigged election to validate their power.

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

You know that the case for most occidental democracies which doesn’t follow the anglo-saxon model ?

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

for me that’s exactly how it’s work. For a government to be a dictatorship, you need a dictator. And one key element which define a person as a dictator is that his word is law, that’s in the name. doesn’t seem to be the case in Brazil right now. The second key element, which more implied in the modern definition of dictator, is that it stay in position of power against the will of the majority of it’s country inhabitants. Against, doesn’t seem to be the case in Brazil right now.

I would welcome any elements which would invalidate my (quite incomplete, I recon) perception of the situation.

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

Quick question : what’s a judicial dictatorship, for you ?

Teocalion X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

When reading the article, you see that the threat seems to come after X failed to comply with legal order to block some accounts.