Thanks to the Tech bros, we're having a hard time stopping EU democracy from collapsing.

The EU controls zero percent of its main social media. The USA will as of next week control 100%, same as China and Russia. And while the EU isn't run by totalitarian assholes that need full control over the media to maintain their grip (like Trump with tiktok), we also don't need to be naive about the intentions of the criminals now running the show in Russia and the USA.

Social media is currently weaponized to support other corrupt criminals, and if the EU doesn't take control they will find out what regulatory capture means, soon enough.

The EU should, in short order, do the following:
- make sure companies cannot be purchased by anything with a non-EU UBO (maybe with a condition that it pays back all tax advantages it ever got)
- no startup is allowed to exit to a non-EU entity unless it has zero intellectual property.
- all social media in the EU needs to be isolated under a EU legal entity.
- all algorithms for social media recommendations need to be fully transparent to everyone (under the AI Act there is some movement in that direction, but not enough)

And to stay relevant in the AI age:
- all copyright limits on AI training need to be removed, they're only there because of Reed Elsevier and Springer anyway.
- no Cloud (or AI) solution is allowed for use in any company or for government work, unless it runs in the EU under the control of a fully EU-based legal entity.

I'm sorry, that information has a purple classification. Are you a mutant, by any chance?

if it keeps out people like you, I'm all for it.

True. Capitalism works best if the profits are for you and the costs for your customers or workers. But that's why we have compliance with penalties. The EU is increasing the number of compliance regulations for this every year. With good reason.

But the first rule should be: don't store data you don't need for your business process. Treat data as toxic waste: less is more.

indeed, it's pretty easy to set up. Except if he was the one setting it up, with a key that was excepted from this rule.

We all know that this data is a lot more than just name and address. Apart from that, that data doesn't need to be accessible outside a strictly limited time window and can be encrypted at any other time. This means it should perhaps have its own system.

I once worked for the tax authorities and recommended they split up their archive in two parts: one containing the search keys, such as social security numbers, names etc, as well as indexes to random document keys, and the other containing the actual data and the random keys. Different data fields? different random keys even to the same documemt, to prevent linking data that way. Both databases secured and managed separately.

They were interested but I haven't seen them doing it yet. The devs don't seem to understand the concept.

what problems do you experience with the covid vaccine?

in assuming they tested with standard approved inks. But what other parts of the world use may have a different outcome. It's not unusual to have 3rd worlds inks contain heavy metals. Those are a bad idea to begin with, never mind the impact on your flue shot.

Dear incel. Please fuck off to Xitter.

Thanks.

That's been done by Frank Herbert as well, in Destination: Void. Not a great book though.

It's becoming quite clear that semaglutide works by reducing the addiction component of eating, but also affects other addicting substances.

And the nausea discussed apparently counts if you have one episode of nausea or vomiting in a given year. I've had that without semaglutide often enough.

That it doesn't work on Alzheimer isn't a huge surprise to me, the latest research indicates there is a far higher likelihood of Alzheimer being caused by an immune response gone wrong, than by being fat. However, the things that make you fat may also moderate that immune response.

All the people saying genders are simple biology are completely clueless. You're no exception.

Gender is the way society views a given sexe. They're not the same. And sexe is not strictly binary, it's trinary. We do have trisomies in our genes, although it's a small minority it's very decidedly not zero.

Calling the mix between gender roles and sexe simple just means you don't understand the biology to begin with. And you will likely keep ignoring that "simple" biology in order to make a political point of your prejudice against a small group used as scapegoat by, oh irony, a convicted sex offender.

It is fairly obvious what's going on, because nowadays you can just buy satellite pictures for a few hundred dollars.

And that is not counting the verified reports of hundreds of women raped in the camps, or the pleasant little habit of installing party members and soldiers in the houses of Uyghurs in jail to look after their kids - including teenage daughters.

It is ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide. The Han Chinese are truly despicable.

Epics version just sucks donkey balls, that's the problem. I don't mind free games but with Epic I consider that the only reason to even go there. I've you're used to finding and searching things on steam, it's so painful to use Epic.

And Epics platform still sucks. It's so bad I mostly even ignore the free games they offer. The hassle of finding stuff on their platform is so much worse than on Steam.

People may complain about steams cut of the profit, but at least it provides a payment platform, merchandising platform, shop in shop, patch service, addon delivery platform, and content delivery platform. Oh, and authentication and cloud storage. They're all part of the platform.

Really big publishers may build that for themselves but smaller ones just can't afford that. So steam does it for them.

There are many reasons to dislike a monopoly, but what is the alternative here?