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Then you did a bad tradeoff. Was the bad tradeoff done here?

Yes.

Somehow MBAs, our champions of capitalism, completely forgot that capitalism only really works for society when free market competition takes place.

This is what's attractive about the "Mittlestand" - having a wide variety of companies competing in the same market so they push each other to improve services.

21st century consolidation is a direct opposite of that.

> AI writes code like that, but people get pretty upset hearing it.

Yeah, people get upset when you spew out total bullshit.

I work as a performance specialist and "AI writes code like that" is utter nonsense. AI writes the same terrible performing code that was the mediocre developer standard on Stackexchange and other codebases it ate.

You still need a lot of vigilance and time to make well performing software and most software engineers just don't give a damn if we don't outright block their PRs/feature launches before passing performance tests.

No, 314 did not vote against. (Abstentions aren't votes against). Don't lie.

Again, vote out the ones that are in favor and replace them with ones that will vote against the proposal.

With 276 MEPs in favor. Vote them out in 2029 if you want to change that.

There is no country in the world that fits your definition of democracy, so why are you attacking EU specifically?

Everything she does has to be confirmed by the parliament you're electing.

Everything else she does needs to be confirmed by representatives of your own member state.

Just like EVERY OTHER democracy.

That's a lie - chat control was amended and then passed via parliament vote.

Please stop spreading fabrications - even when you dislike the result. That's fascist behaviour.

Remember that Chat control has gone through vote through directly elected parliament like any other legislation.

The next election is in 2029. I suggest you show up instead of spreading fabrications online.

There's that small thing of DirectX 12 predating Vulkan (and massively predating the useful Vulkan specs).

This is absolute nonsense, for most of history most people were at the edge of starvation, balancing on the knifes edge between "not enough people to work on a farm to provide enough food" and "too many people for the food we grew".

Of course, most of history didn't even have concept of depression or a sizeable count of medical professionals to diagnose it.

Certainly Van Der Leyen.

I suggest you show up for next EU election if you don't like the option.

A parliamentary process where a law is being proposed, amended and voted upon isn't "corruption".

Just because you disagree with a law, that doesn't make it "corruption" - it does make you an authoritarian that attacks democracy as soon as other people don't vote like you want.

In my part of Europe oral exams have been a staple even in highschool and across unis. I was pretty surprised when I've seen that other parts of the world don't complement written testing with oral understanding checks.

Why not have US Federal Government enforce this instead? It's way more impactful for most HN users.

Why wait for Brussels beaurocrats we all have this much and not have the most important tech country in the world make this law?

This is such a bizarre take - a piece of media set in "New York" isn't "uninspired" because it uses NY as a backdrop. It's what it does with it.

Same as a historical/fantasy game isn't "uninspired" and "nothing new" if it grounds itself in medieval style.

Same here - CP2077 is an established gameworld and putting the game in it is what the title promises. It's so strange to see complaints that a Cyberpunk franchise game looks like Cyberpunk IP. Especially when you see just how beautifully realized it is in IF YOU ACTUALLY PLAY IT.

It's practically always the game - Steam has offline mode which works fine.

They'll enjoy their time without you just fine.

This. I've spent a good chunk of my career on performance work and this idea that you can hotspot optimize stuff after the fact is utterly wrong and the reason why so much of your software sucks battery and runs like crap.

Clean code like approaches have a very real cost for users (even in languages with good optimizers) and is usually unfixable after the fact.

There's a surprising amount of games on my Deck that refuse to run without internet. It's not even marked anywhere which sucks because you find out when you have no connectivity.

Calling art design uninspired and plot that brings "nothing new" has to be the dumbest take about art I've seen in a while.

I wonder if they actually played the game to write such nonsense.

This is a lower requirement than permanent residence in Switzerland for comparison.

People have been trying to defeat them for years how.

In most EU states you already need to provide ID to establish internet service, so what are you on about man?

Yes, that's what a TPM or smart card chip in your ID/Passport does.

Prevents tampering even by the "user".

I have advocated nothing of the sort you're accusing me of. Please leave your strawman at home.

Having a physical card fallback here is a necessity and nothing in these proposals shows that the physical card ID is going away.

> Why not tell us more about the requirements for hardware certification?

Err, it's actually pretty simple: the token/certificate representing your ID (or credit card, or anything really) cannot be exfiltrated by userspace or installed kernel space apps or intercepted on the way to TPM when issued. And it cannot be duplicated.

It's the same set of requirements that are put on credit card smart chips and biometric chips in EU IDs and Passports (which are essentially also TPMs).

But sure, it's a all an evil conspiracy against general purpose computing. And they're all out to get ya. Now smash that downvote for a vote against the evil establishment.

> Ah yes. They're totally going to trust my self-signed certificates. They're totally not going to restrict their trust set to the corporate owned and surveillance friendly Google and Apple devices.

That sounds mostly like copium just to motivate your complete inaction.

Again - independent, EU based, attestation database is completely possible to make and we're using similar approval processes across multiple industries to certify hardware - locally, here in EU.

But yea, if you think you'll be able to print passport at home and then go travel and demand that government recognizes that as an ID document, you're a bit optimistic.

Most countries allow tapping your ID card to a reader device as well.

You can of course create an independent attestation database at any time and mandate its use - verifying that the custom OS you use fits minimum security requirements for digital ID use.

We use that approach in several other industries.

But.... that requires work beyond just complaining.