Blackrock is part of the big three (BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street). They own a portion of almost everything, including each other.

So it’s often the case that Blackrock is involved, even indirectly.

https://theconversation.com/these-three-firms-own-corporate-america-77072

This isn’t an all-or-nothing thing.

For Windows users, it’s already a good progress to switch to Firefox/VLC/LibreOffice/NextCloud from closed source alternatives.

The devil’s in the details. And there aren’t much details in this article.

Meanwhile in the EU: TikTok, five other Chinese firms hit by EU privacy complaints

He shoudn’t send DanSupp a cheque directly, but help him setup a non-profit or foundation for Pixelfed, then give that foundation a cheque.

Dan is doing a good job developing Pixelfed, but it looks like a one-man show, and that’s a bottleneck for the project.

Probable source: European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X, by Jack Peat - The London Economic

No source is visible in the post. I don’t know if that’s an issue with my client, or an oversight.

https://lemmy.ml/post/24719810

“more speech and fewer mistakes.”

You can’t make moderation mistakes if you stop moderating. tap head with finger

Japan’s JPCERT released IOCs for MirrorFace malware earlier https://blogs.jpcert.or.jp/en/2024/07/mirrorface-attack-against-japanese-organisations.html

Kudos to them. Sharing IOCs and samples with other CERTs and vendors is important to protect others who may be targeted.

Unibrowgate

It’s going to make even more nurses run away, when many places are lacking nurses.

In addition to not connecting stuff unnecessarily, connected devices that consume/produce lots of power need safeguards.

Like a random 0-60sec timer for remote power on/off operations. 50000 panels powering down over 60sec is easier to handle than if they do that simultaneously.

Temu sure wish they didn’t, but they do in fact need to adhere to local laws in juridictions where they’re doing business.

There already are complaints against Temu for noncompliance to EU regulation. For instance https://www.beuc.eu/sites/default/files/publications/BEUC-X-2024-046_Temu_Why_the_fast-growing_online_marketplace_fails_to_comply_with_the_DSA.pdf

It may be trickier to enforce law against Temu vs a more classic and direct seller of goods, so it may take more time, and it may become a game of whack a mole, but there will be some enforcement.

If not the chineese manufacturer, then whoever is importing them .

They should force a recall.

There are hypotheticals precisely because Tiktok is not transparent enough. It sounds like they’re doing an estimate on the best data publically available.

At the very least, this put pressure on Tiktok to be more transparent. Tiktok could prove the study wrong by publishing more about their energy and resource use.

“I can potentially make it really big,” Lin said, hopeful despite the modest earnings.

This sounds like Uberisation, ie relying on entrepreneur wannabes to replace employees and warehouses with self-employed workers and their living room. I’d be curious to see if it allows them to earn a living wage with a 40h week, or if it’s exploitative.

Every service may be abused to spread misinformation. Here, the complaint isn’t that people abuse a service against the owner’s will, but that the service is operated to spread misinformation.

One way to address this could be to look at moderation. Is there meaningful moderation to limit misinformation? A service operated to spread misinformation wouldn’t moderate it.

It’s worse than that. Trump is a danger for the environment and climate. And the whole world will suffer consequence.

EV producers in the US are going to take a hit, whereas the ones in China and the EU would probably be fine.

Sounds like shooting itself in the foot.