@Etnies419 no, if you read the article even linking requires payment. That's why they're removing results entirely, rather than just removing summaries like they did in other countries
But to the point, in those countries leaving the links but removing the summaries also resulted in significant reductions in traffic for the news orgs.
@fubo yeah, unfortunately these types of laws try to have their cake and eat it too
A similar law was passed in France, and predictably France news orgs lost significant traffic and cried foul.
It makes no sense to charge a search engine for the privilege of bringing customers to your website, and these types of laws always have predictable outcomes.
@Ech ehhh, someone posting "that could have been me" on their personal twitter account isn't really "pumping up their notoriety", more like... a normal human reaction to learning you avoided death
blame cnn for making a "news" story out of it
Who cares if they want to install xyz software [in their home directory]? Chances are it'll be a free boost for performance and/or morale.
This /really/ depends on your threat model. "xyz software in their home directory" could easily be "exfil tool that uploads all data employee X has access too, disguised as a meme template generator"
Texas republican voters don't care, and the rest of the texans who didn't vote for this are also the most impacted.
no way. this kind of elitism and gatekeeping kills communities
(Cross-posted from https://lobste.rs/s/302ahc/how_kill_decentralised_network_such_as)
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
This is from 2019: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/12/captain-rescue-boat-faces-20-years-jail-convicted-illegally/
Apparently italy has been harassing this specific captian since at least 2017: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-italy-ngo/italy-seizes-ngo-rescue-boat-for-allegedly-aiding-illegal-migration-idUSKBN1AI21B, and apparently the italian government has been going against multiple rescue boats
this section autopopulated with the text of the article but that seems a bit much - go read on the website
cohost seems to be losing money very fast, seems like their donations only model hasn't scaled with their userbase
Digg was having a rough year. Our CEO left the day before I joined. Senior engineers ghosted out the door, dampening productivity and pulling their remaining friends. We had only one remaining shot at revival, launching our two-years in the making rewrite: Digg v4. It did not go as planned.
