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> people on corporate networks, people in China

By supporting older protocols on sites, we're enabling this kind of abuse to run rampant. Maybe it's best to just cut them off.

Idk, the younger generation see it as filthy and don't go near it for the most part. Seems to have finally paid off.

Isn't Google a better place for WLB? I too have heard bad things about Microsoft.

Read the comment again.

> Many labourers (both skilled and unskilled) see it as a slight for someone who is brought up here and have lived here their entire life to display a flag other than the Union Flag of the St. Georges Cross.

That's not anti-foreign culture, but it is insulting to be born in the UK and not see it as your homeland. Or would you be okay with me raising a British flag in India and claiming I was British, if my parents happened to move there before I was born?

Nigel Farage left UKIP for that very reason. The Brexit party is fairly moderate and would be described as center-right, just shy of the conservatives.

The religious right barely exists anymore.

Doesn't matter. If you take a particular viewpoint, there's a whole strata of American society that will call you white/black based on politics alone. Or you'll be called a race traitor, etc... e.g. "Asians are considered white because they have privilege."

Of course they did - after all, they wouldn't do it if they thought they were in the wrong. In fairness, the vast majority of those who went to the capitol that day were there for the Trump rally, not smashing up congress.

Why didn't the primary app involved banned then?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/opinion/facebook-far-righ...

The problem with that line of thinking is the book burners will automatically assume your politics. Sad.

What political agenda?

That's the point of the analogy.

Sigh... I remember the days when Gmail was considered a power user tool. Sad how far it's fallen.

I know it's not a perfect solution, but you should be able to create a Gmail account just for NFC payments.

If it's about language, then why isn't London a huge tech hub (order of magnitude bigger)? They can sell to the US the same way SV exports back to the rest of the world, no?

Part of the concern is Apple spends a ton of money marketing themselves as "pro-privacy and pro-consumer, more than those "other" $BigCo's". I've seen people say they're immune to advertising and then beat the Apple drum many times.

True, I'm not in favour of global monopolies.

That being said, we've seen time and again governments will introduce laws with a fair reason and then totally abuse it down the line (Patriot Act anyone).

In my country, the government locks people up for making offensive Tweets based on mostly unrelated legislation from decades ago.

The free and open web is still here, just most people don't choose to use it. Whatever you think of Big Tech, you can go somewhere else and build a website. DuckDuckGo proves it's possible to crack these companies with enough of a value prop.

Yup - this is the crux of my point. It's hitting the big guys today and could easily hit anyone tomorrow.

This law is disgusting.

It won't just hit Google and Facebook, but anybody who runs a social platform. Reddit, Hacker News, Twitter even Mastodon are all in the firing line. The Australian government has unilateral control over which sites are required to funnel money Murdoch trash instead of real (maybe even independent) journalism.

My prediction is people will move to social platforms that do let you share these links, and one by one they'll find themselves regulated out of existence when they get large enough to catch the attention of the government. Even worse - think about the ways this could be abused e.g. to shut down small outlets who committed the crime of linking to mainstream sources.

I believe this is far more despicable than anything Big Tech is doing, and global adoption would be the end of a free and open web.

You thought software patents constricted the flow of information? This is 10x worse.

Edit: Please, Aussies, call your MP and tell them your thoughts. Put aside any negative feelings about Big Tech for now, and think about the future of the web. This will eventually affect all of us who operate comment sections, blogs, forums and Mastodon instances.

> Either google gets slapped and stops being a parasite that lives in the cracks of copyright law, or newscorp dies.

Seriously? Snippets are clearly fair use. The open web has operated on those principles for decades.

You're doing the same as those who cheered on software patents.

I don't care if Facebook and Google are the targets, ultimately this takes rights away from all of us and will undoubtedly spread out of Australia if it goes well.

Best thing that can happen is News Corp collapses and other countries stay away from legislating the internet.

Even so, intentionally trying to be being a contrarian is a good way for industry to avoid groupthink and cargo culting. It's really valuable. I'm sure somebody will write an article called "Do Things That Scale" soon.

Is either company a monopoly in "music streaming" if they're both viable alternatives?

Political content is a landmine, articles are often locked because vandals are often indistinguishable from those with better information but still controversial.

Discord does support GDPR requests - might be worth giving that a shot.

I'm so happy websites have kept RSS around, because even if it's mostly used for machine-to-machine feeds nowadays, we obviously piggyback on top of it and benefit. It could've been so easy for big sites to replace it with proprietary APIs for GitHub, YT, etc...

Wine was a great technical achievement, but I remember it taking me hours crawling through WineDB and reading config guides to get most games working. Even for someone in the know, it was very impractical compared to clicking "Play" in Steam. That user experience makes all the difference.

I think that's fair, but they have done a good job of bringing much of the industry on board, rather than just being an esoteric hobbyist project.

No I do agree it's a general problem with software, but we're not talking about some rando throwing leftpad code up on GH. We're talking about a set of operating systems that clearly want more mainstream adoption being bewildered when they suck at respecting the user.

And people wonder why Linux isn't popular outside of industry and hobbyists... Like, sure, maintainers can tell all their users to sod off, but don't be surprised when very few people are left around using your software, and especially don't get confused when companies refuse to invest in Linux ports.

All the successful projects Linux users like to talk about nowadays (gaming now a practical thing, new kernel features, Wine getting really good) were all bankrolled by massive billion dollar corps like Valve and Google, because the community itself has no discipline to see things through.

At least GNU of the old days was organised enough to know not to break people's workflows - just look at how stable coreutils have been - but GUI software for regular people somehow doesn't deserve to get the same treatment.

I think a big issue is there's no discipline in the Linux community. The Kernel team has done an amazing job of preserving ABI compatibility through every last byte, but then you look at projects like glib or GNOME which seem to pride themselves on huge, sweeping, changes and don't care if downstream consumers are hurt by the changes.

Edit: glib not glibc