Upgrading from Svelte 4 to 5 took out loads of joy from webdev ;(
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Haha, what a small world. He stayed with me in Spain, back in the good old days of Couchsurfing.
Not sure if I feel honoured or guilty by being able to set his plans back a day or 2 by introducing him to the local nightlife...
Just a nitpick -- a fraction of their profit (net income), not revenue. Most of revenue already goes out the door as expenses. If you fined as a reasonable fraction of revenue, you'd simply bankrupt a corporation, which is not what you want if your goal is to change behavior.
If global revenue is $20B and we assume 20% profitability, that's $4B, and so this fine is 15% of global profit.
That's a gigantic fine.
You also have to remember that tons of these regulations are vague and unclear and massively open to interpretation, and that companies can genuinely believe they are complying, and their lawyers agree, but then judges still rule otherwise, because it's ultimately just a matter of opinion because of the vagueness.
You also have to remember that individual countries fining on global revenue runs the risk of fines "duplicating" each other for the same or similar behavior, again bankrupting a corporation when the goal should be to change behavior.
The internal operations of a company shoud be irrelevant to nations.
If a company is taking £billion out of a nation's spending power, and doing so with nefarious practices, that's what should be fined.
If bankruptcy is a worry, then comapnies shouldn't fly so close to the sun when adopting immoral practices.
Income is the only reliable thing you can tax. Trying to calculate profit for international companies is an absolute joke which is massively inefficient. Why an Earth should governments employ entire teams to second guess internal bookkeeping?
If you want to take a billion from a nation's citizens, better be sure you're providing a legal service. I mean, are drug dealers punished on profit?
A bit of a mix between Pokemon Go, Tripadvisor/Wikivoyage and Duolingo.
Basiclaly an app where you can travel a city on a hex grid (h3) and learn about it/receive recommendations on things to do. Different activities and landmarks are hooked into language learning games, which when completed, add phrases/words to a flashcard deck for future study.
I'm pretty glad that when we've chopped down all our forests, we'll have mechanical leaves as a backup plan. Having the means to generate enough electricity to take oxygen out of the atmosphere could be useful.
Not sure that it's a fair test, tbh.
I try to buy 'locally made' products because I respect the story of their company, and their efforts to build up some type of community.
If I had a choice between 'made here' or 'made there' at the checkout stage, then I'd probably think it's a bit of a scam.
I think 'locally made' is a business choice, not a product choice.
I always like to give this Welsh jeans firm as an example: https://hiutdenim.co.uk/ (sorry if it's advertising, I've no connection to them).
Have you tried on GrapheneOS?
Also, what's stopping you from using your bank's website instead... or switching to a bank which sucks less?
It just gets all so tiresome. And I don't really have enough money and free time to swap devices/banks when things get banned at random intervals.
Just wanted to be left alone tbh ;/
> they think they had no choice
And they really don't have a choice. if you don't abide by googles terms then they will not permit you to use google mobile services. That means (at the very least):
- No "play" services (breaks lots of apps and 3rd party peripherals).
- No app store (over 90% of apps are distributed solely through the play store. even major android players like samsung have tiny libraries in their own stores).
- No youtube app (and no way to natively play without play services APIs, you NEED to use a crippled iframe embed in a webview!!!)
- No push notifications (developers usually target the "built-in" option that is basically play services)
- Missing apps and api-level integration with loads of other stuff, maps, mail, search, calendar, casting, etc
- No widevine DRM (no hd/4k netflix, etc)
- Loads of other insidious stuff I cant recall or articulate right now
Just look at how crippled Amazons fork is. Or how huawei pretty much lost their entire GLOBAL market share because of a US sanction preventing them having a GMS contract.
No matter what anyone says, android IS google. It is so riddled with google specific behaviours you cant use without a license that companies have even ditched android to make their own OS - because they literally aren't allowed to favorably position their own functionality over googles in any way.
Big shout out to Google Play Integrity/Safety Net (or whatever it's currently called).
Was the one thing which ended my couple of years without Google, as my banking apps started banning my phones fingerprint for being insecure.
Seems like in a major part of '''Pax Americana''' is needing to use a Google or Apple fingerprint to participate in society. Makes you laugh when people whinge about China.
"Google blocked phone-making also-ran from preinstalling crapware their own users don't want, doing them a big favor."
Motorola is one of the better phone manufacturers, though. Hardly any bloat, usually able to root easily, decent support from other operating systems, reasonably priced, and with decent battery life.
I still struggle to see what phones at 10x the price actually provide.
>DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!
>Tea App uploads all user verification submissions to this public firebase storage bucket with the prefix "attachments/": [link, now offline]
>Yes, if you sent Tea App your face and drivers license, they doxxed you publicly! No authentication, no nothing. It's a public bucket. I have written a Python script which scrapes the bucket and downloads all the images, page by page, so you can see if you're in it: [pastebin link]
>The censoring in picrel was added by me. The images in the bucket are raw and uncensored. Nice "anonymous" app. This is what happens when you entrust your personal information to a bunch of vibe-coding DEI hires.
>I won't be replying to this or making any more threads about it. I did my part, God bless you all. Regards, anon
Being so careless with people's personal data should be a major crime, tbh. If I manipulated thousands of people to let me scan their passports and various other bits of personal info, then just left the copies around the city for people to find, I'd be prosecuted, and rightfully so.