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New comment by register in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

Bunisess and technology. Culture ? Highly debatable and certainly not in the last 10 years.

New comment by register in "You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account"

Completely agree. I had to apply for the ETA recently and the experience is terrible.

New comment by register in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

The GDPR applies to the personal data of individuals in the European Union, regardless of where the data is processed. You can easily find the relevant law online.

New comment by register in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

Sure, in fact it's USA that is well behind Europe in happines (World Happiness Ranking) , life expectancy , infant mortality rate, general literacy ( PISA scores ), homicide rate, mass shootings frequency, violent crimes, inequality, democracy ( as reported by the Democracy Index) , press freedom ( World Press Freedom Index), just to name the first indexes that came to my mind.

New comment by register in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

The point here isn’t that Europe lacks innovation and is too bureaucratic. I have no problem admitting that. The crux of the matter is that, in response to my complaint about the possible failure to comply with a European law, the reply was: LinkedIn answers to American laws, you have no alternative to LinkedIn, and therefore there’s no point in opposing it. You just have to put up with it; it’s your own fault for not innovating.

The scenario being portrayed is one in which the law of the strongest prevails over the rule of law. As a European, coming from the continent that gave birth to the rule of law, I find all of this appalling. And I am sorry to hear that a fellow European thinks along the same lines. I don’t believe this is realism; rather, it is surrender.

New comment by register in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

But Britain lost 457 soldiers, Germany 62, France 90, Spain 97, Italy 53, Denmark 43 to aid USA in Afghanistan.

New comment by register in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

Completely agree.

New comment by register in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

Here's another JD Vance who doesn't understand what international rules are and justifies that with (lack of) innovation

Below you can find the relevant GDPR excerpt. But before that, let me add to the coment below that US companies only comply with what EU institutions can enforce and what suits them; which is normal, since China does the same. Well, it couldn’t have been said better: in fact, we’re beginning to view you the same way we view China. And China innovates a lot, right?

"Article 3 – Territorial scope (GDPR)

This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not.

This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to: (a) the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or (b) the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.

This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data by a controller not established in the Union, but in a place where Member State law applies by virtue of public international law."

New comment by register in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

Thank you for your words I couldn't say any better. I agree on everything but one thing. I definetely don't find this hilarious. I find it frightening and disgusting.

New comment by register in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

Trump received 77,284,118 votes, representing 49.8% of the ballots cast for president. The 30% figure you mention refes to the share of the total voting-eligible population, including those who did not vote. A national poll conducted on February 16–18 found that 42.4% approve of Trump’s job performance, while 54.6% disapprove. Whether you accept it or not and whether you are a Democrat or Republican Trump now is the face of America and most of Europeans are of the same opinion.

Regardless of the fact that LinkedIn is an American company, it is required to comply with the GDPR when operating within the European Union. I am not a lawyer, but I don't believe that there is evidence of full compliance here.

New comment by register in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

That response reeks of astonishing arrogance. It doesn’t surprise me that nearly 50% of Americans voted for Donald Trump he perfectly embodies that mindset. Do you genuinely believe you are superior to the rest of the world? What you call “innovation” or a “better product” is often nothing more than the creation of dominant market positions through massive, capital deployment, followed by straightforward rent extraction. The European Union has every right to regulate markets operating within its jurisdiction, especially when there are credible concerns about anti-competitive practices and abuse of dominance. From what I’ve seen, there may be sufficient grounds to consider collective legal action against LinkedIn at the European level. As for so-called “European nationalist ambitions,” rest assured: Europe does not lack capable lawyers or regulatory expertise. I will be forwarding the relevant material to contacts of mine working within the European institutions in Brussels.

New comment by register in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

Exactly this.

New comment by register in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

And he is more than welcome to do so. The services provided by Cloudflare can easily be replaced by more local providers that have no problem complying with Italian laws. The takedown might not happen within 30 minutes, but there would still be action and a response to a report from the authorities. Italy and Europe do not need the arrogance of those who believe they are above the law by virtue of a freedom that is used only as an ideological shield. As if Trump were really the champion of freedom, right?

New comment by register in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

This follows 23—again, 23—violations reported to Cloudflare. There is nothing more to add. Given how slowly Italian law typically moves, Cloudflare had more than enough time to take corrective action. The tone would likely have been far more accommodating had Cloudflare attempted to contact the authorities and negotiate its position. Instead, it appears that, in all likelihood, nothing was done after 23 violations. What exactly was the CEO expecting?

New comment by register in "Reflections on AI at the End of 2025"

Where to understand more about how chain of thoughs really affects LLMs performance? I read the seminal paper but all it says is that it's basically another prompt engineering tecnique that improves accuracy.

New comment by register in "DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]"

That might be the perspective of a US based company. But there is also Europe and basically it's a choice between Trump and China.

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New comment by register in "PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor"

I am working on Pixel Editor for retro graphics. What do you believe that ASE is missing? At the moment I am targetting the Zx Spectrum Next that I have recently backed. However if I get some compelling ideas I migth deviate from my original objective.

New comment by register in "Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files"

I don't understand. What would prevent the authors from guaranteeing the VCs re-licensing under a different model?

New comment by register in "I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well"

I'll tell you a secret. The same happens also with mainstream languages