GissaMittJobb

GissaMittJobb , 4 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Plastic tea bags

Tyres are unfortunately plastics in this day and age as well.

As for the share of microplastic pollution, both rank about equally as high: 35% for clothes, 28% for tyres (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20181116STO19217/microplastics-sources-effects-and-solutions) - this as a share of directly released particles that make it into the ocean.

Note the interesting fact of fishing nets, plastic bags and bottles making up the vast majority of plastic in the ocean, however.

GissaMittJobb , 4 months ago to Technology in Sweeping EU rules for tech giants take effect today. Here’s what’s changing | CNN Business

Their attempt to maliciously comply is both against the spirit of the law - making it a violation in the EU regardless - and the letter of the law: the text mentions that they can't charge for this.

Time for a nice 10% of global revenues-fine. That'll do some good in the coffers of the EU.

GissaMittJobb , 4 months ago to Memes in Over 30

I mean, it worked well as a child and teenager, why wouldn't it just continue to work? Kind of unfair if you ask me

GissaMittJobb , 4 months ago to Technology in Apple will require notarization for apps from third party app stores, and will disable updates for apps installed via third party app stores if staying outside EU

You upload the binary to the App Store, and as a part of the release process they may inspect the binary to figure out what it's doing.

They of course don't do that for everything as it's a bit complicated to do for everything, but it can be an effective means to for example figure out when an app is calling an API in a prohibited manner.

GissaMittJobb , 4 months ago to Technology in Apple will require notarization for apps from third party app stores, and will disable updates for apps installed via third party app stores if staying outside EU

1.8B was the fine they got for anticompetitive behaviour with regards to Apple Music, which is not an insignificant amount for that business unit.

The fines for DMA-violations go up to 10% of global revenue for first-time violations and 20% of global revenue for repeat violations. I would love to see Apple continue fucking around and letting Apple find out in the form of a fine of that magnitude. It would be so damn sweet.

GissaMittJobb , 4 months ago to Technology in Apple will require notarization for apps from third party app stores, and will disable updates for apps installed via third party app stores if staying outside EU

The former.

GissaMittJobb , 4 months ago to Memes in Over 30

Staying active helps mitigate this issue. Not fully, but it helps.

GissaMittJobb , 4 months ago to Technology in Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff

Among the ways you can do layoffs, this is one of the better ones for sure. People who are kind of checked out already anyway can get a nice paycheck on their way out and start looking for something new, while people who still have something important to get out of the job get the option to stay.

Consent matters!

GissaMittJobb , 4 months ago to Comic Strips in google engineer

I mean, you're still going to be paid a sick package - to say that no top engineer wants to work for Google is just downright inaccurate.

GissaMittJobb , 4 months ago to Technology in Reddit has never turned a profit in nearly 20 years, but it just filed to go public anyway

Probably basically all operational expenses, with a minority being cloud expenditure and a majority being salaries for employees, if I had to guess.

I'm assuming that spez gets most of his pay in the form of stock options which doesn't really cost the company anything real.

GissaMittJobb , 4 months ago to Technology in Reddit has never turned a profit in nearly 20 years, but it just filed to go public anyway

Why would there be any fraud? His salary is approved by the board that represents the current shareholders.

It's also not particularly surprising on account of there being plenty of VC-subsidised companies that never turned a profit, had high salaries for their executives and then IPO'd.

If your question is moreso on the absurdities of capitalism, then that's another discussion entirely, but I feel it's important to note that this is nothing out of the ordinary.

GissaMittJobb , 4 months ago to Memes in Why would socialism do this?

Agreed again. Keep fighting the good fight friend

GissaMittJobb , 4 months ago to Memes in Why would socialism do this?

I don't always agree with everything you post, but this is >100% on point.

GissaMittJobb , 4 months ago to Technology in Reddit has never turned a profit in nearly 20 years, but filed to go public anyway

Unlikely. It's in all likelihood just a bad business, like so many other VC-subsidised businesses that have come before them. Case in point: Uber, Airbnb, WeWork.

The whole game is to offer services at a loss for enough time to lock in customers, then raise the prices in the future.

GissaMittJobb , 4 months ago to Privacy in How Android Wallpaper Images Can Threaten Your Privacy

IMEI can't be read by apps since quite a few versions of Android ago (10, to be specific)