cabbage

joined 1 year ago
[–] cabbage@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

My bet would be tax evasion and money laundering. ;)

It's hard to wrap one's head around just how freaking rich the mega wealthy are. The 1% is not even the enemy at this point, they are closer to most of us than they are to the billionaire class.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I think it must be seen not in light of the monetary blow, but in light of the fact that the EU is pushing hard for these actors to change directions and to end some of their abusive behaviour.

Traffic fines are made to bankrupt drivers or to finance the state, but to encourage people to drive safely.

 

European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros Wednesday as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc’s digital competition rules.

The European Commission imposed a 500 million euro ($571 million) fine on Apple for preventing app makers from pointing users to cheaper options outside its App Store.

The commission, which is the EU’s executive arm, also fined Meta Platforms 200 million euros because it forced Facebook and Instagram users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Nice four seconds video, I guess? Very smooth how it cuts off mid-sentence, not weird at all.

I like how we can feel completely confident that no valuable context is lost, and that it allows us to quickly reach our conclusions and move on with our lives. Whoever has an attention span greater than four seconds these days anyway.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Anyone who could make this news break would be in a position to steal unfathomable amounts of money in broad daylight, and get away with it.

I think we should always suspect bad actors in cases like this, and investigate thoroughly. It's too easy of a scam with too much money to be made.

Maybe there is nobody to blame. But assuming so just seems incredibly naive to me considering the amount of bad actors and the ease of pulling a stunt like this.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah. Money is not lost in finance markets, it is redistributed. Reading any of this as random and/or unintentional is beyond naive.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 13 points 4 weeks ago

I have no doubt we will!

While we still doesn't have all kinds of active niche communities over here, it is incredible how much the community has grown since I first came here. And that's not really all that long ago.

Thanks for joining us! :)

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it's a little ironic to say the least. I suspect the tech giants are more worried about titties than they are of literal fascism.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ah, sorry, it's in the context of what Elena Rossini writes about the limitations of the mobile app.

As PeerTube draws content from independent servers, it's hard for them to comply with the content policies of Google and Apple. The PeerTube app you can find in the App Store or Google Play Store therefore only contains content from a very short list of whitelisted PeerTube instances, where Apple or Google have accepted content from these instances to be presented in their app ecosystems.

F-Droid doesn't have such limitations, and as a result the stuff you'll find in the F-Droid app is the same as you'll find in https://sepiasearch.org/ .

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 34 points 1 month ago (8 children)

It's worth stressing that you can get around Google's totalitarian restrictions by installing PeerTube from F-droid.

If you're on Android, you should probably consider using F-droid whenever possible anyway. Personally I like Droid-ify, which is an F-droid client with a nice interface.

If you're on iPhone, you're out of luck. The EU might eventually come to the rescue of European users. American iPhone users will probably not be surprised to learn that they are shit out of luck.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks! Maybe I'm just dumb in my own unique way, but I find the practical implications of AT proto hard to wrap my head around. :)

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