Now apply that to roads, electricity grid, rail roads, hospitals, police, firefighters and everything that states pay to keep the economy running.
That’s what taxes are for, and the proposal on the table from the EU side is to tax big tech companies to make sure the basic digital infrastructure is well funded.
That’s not a good criteria, as it would exclude projects that are essential digital infrastructure like curl. The criteria for public investment needs to be general positive impact.
The good dæmons compete with pathogenic bad dæmons, and are essential for the computer’s health.
Yes, and Hitler was defending ethnic Germans from Polish persecution and retaliating for Gleiwitz incident which was completely not a false flag. /s
The only Europeans that use the . as a decimal separator are the British and present and former colonies.
All continental Europe except Gibraltar use the ,, and consequently so do most of Africa and South America.
Any mail service that supports PGP encryption at rest, like mailbox, is better than proprietary solutions like Tuta or Proton, as it lets you manage your own encryption key, and use any client you want.
In this case christian name is a synonym for given name. I bet if someone was baptised with a name that doesn’t match their legal given name it would be the wrong choice in this context.
“Shouldn’t” and “won’t” are too very different words. There are plenty of shitty programmers out there, and they tend to band together. And now you have vibe coders on top.
And as a bonus, when a few of them leak, hackers will have a little puzzle to solve. Hackers love puzzles.
They are hoping people are going to be afraid of being caught with one. (yeah, idiots)
Because the manufacturer and seller are in China and they want to make an example out of someone?
Tariffs only apply to physical goods, not services. And tariffs are usually based on origin, not seller. The physical goods those produce don’t come from the US, so they are mostly safe from tariffs. We need to have a digital service tax, but that should used to finance the digital commons (e.g. foss projects), not as a trade bargaining chip.
FFS. If you are in this situation don’t quit. Refuse to follow illegal orders until you are fired.
From the economic point of view the EU acts very much like a single country. Even the EEA can be seen as single entity if looking from the perspective of an American trade negotiator.
Have you seen the shit AI spews out? It comes pre-drunk out of the box.
Question 1: Where’s the CI/CD pipeline?
Question 2: Why can one person change production alone without peer review (outside of an emergency)?
You don’t have a job, you have a ticking time bomb.
Individual Jehovah Witnesses are nice. The organisation as whole is incredible evil even by organised religion standards.
At this point I’m assuming everyone turning on Tesla’s self driving is trying to commit murder-suicide with a side of life insurance fraud.
Well definitions can include anything and everything. They can also be debased to the point of being useless, or in the case of crimes of being the engine of witch hunts.
AMD on x86-64 and Qualcomm with a side of Apple for ARM.