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French publishers win decisive battle against Google
Europe’s copyright directive proves its mettle as France orders the US search giant to pay for press content.
https://www.politico.eu/article/french-publishers-win-decisive-battle-against-google/?
I wonder if I manage to interlink my webnest with my mastodon profile https://mastodon.social/@jaklt
Have you noticed how fresh the air is these days? Could we do something after this pandemic is over to keep it that way please? :-)
A year on and I wonder how much of the new legislation has been implemented without much public debate. Despite that the tiny details will matter more than anything.
https://tomas.jakl.one/blog/2019-03-24-The-problem-with-the-latest-copyright-directive
Reshared https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/103883355325180011
Apple just killed Offline Web Apps while purporting to protect your privacy: why that’s A Bad Thing and why you should care ar.al/2020/03/25/apple...
Reshared https://social.weho.st/users/Fairphone/statuses/103743429960674647
Join us in our push for more repairable, longer-lasting smartphones. We love and depend on them, but they shouldn’t cost the earth! https://repair.eu/smartphones #LongLiveMyPhone
Reshared https://mastodon.social/users/chrisaldrich/statuses/103596782309550650
How is it that a major podcast producer like Pushkin Industries doesn't even have raw RSS feed link on their podcast pages? Why should I have to hunt for simple links like feeds.megaphone.fm/happinesslab on their website? If they're worried about potential UI issues, why not use something like SubToMe?
Reshared https://write.as/matt/iprivacy
GNOME files defense against patent troll (to fight for us all)
https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/10/gnome-files-defense-against-patent-troll/
"... Rather than trying to humanise technology, then, we should be trying to democratise it. ..."
This and many more interesting points in this Guardian's Long Read:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/03/why-silicon-valley-cant-fix-itself-tech-humanism
(A podcast version: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2018/jun/01/why-silicon-valley-cant-fix-itself-podcast )
"... Drug companies have to test their drugs, car companies have to test their cars before they can go out and actually sell their products to people. ... Why is it that a tech company is allowed to make the excuse that what we build is too complicated for even us to understand and, therefore, we're not at fault. ..." --- Christopher Wylie
(From an interesting interview with him: https://video.aktualne.cz/dvtv/facebook-je-jako-kolonizatori-lide-z-firmy-mi-vyhrozovali-a/r~86416d68620611e9a305ac1f6b220ee8/ )