Repeat after me “lack of competition stifles innovation”. By preventing third party products from integrating with apple products Apple reduces competition and the incentive for true innovation.

The only thing the EU is requiring from Apple is that they open and document APIs they reserved for themselves. They are still free to implement new features.

The current UK government refused even something as simple as free movement for university students. And the changes in European policy have been almost cosmetic.

UK voted for this, and not just in the referendum. Every time Brits get the choice they picked politicians that treat Europeans as outsiders. If you are out you are out, you can’t peek back in when there’s money on the table.

Some Piri-piri sauce brands are in the same ball park of hotness as Tabasco and it’s rare for them to be much hotter.

The flavour profile is a bit different but not as much as Sriracha for example.

“Needs client app” is a funny way of saying it “supports open protocols as first class citizens”.

I’m biased, but I prefer Portuguese piri-piri sauce to Tabasco. If you want something fancier I can also recommend Crazy Bastard sauces which are made in Berlin…

Putin started, his underling is just finishing the job.

No, things like your home address, your IP address, birth date, health conditions, religion, etc are PII.

Upvotes almost certainly falls into “legitimate purposes” since the data is required for moderation.

GDPR doesn’t include things you choose to make public, otherwise no social media could show your posts or username to anyone. My only doubt about Lemmy and Mastodon is about DMs where people have a reasonable expectation that they are private but they are not.

Edit: and thinking about it, even DMs probably fall into the same exception as email.

Mastodon and Lemmy don’t actually share any data actually protected by GDPR, unless the users actively make it public (like using their real name).

Since apparently countries can negotiate on behalf of other countries, I propose Ukraine cedes Alaska and Hawaii to Russia in exchange for getting its territory back. If Russia drives an hard bargain I would even give them back Fort Ross, California.

You rather have millions of people suffer and die than to acknowledge the paradox of tolerance?

Now try to learn Portuguese, or German, or Russian. English has wonky phonetics, but has a relatively simple grammar. As a bonus it’s not properly standardized, so whatever you come up with is going to be correct in at least one of the existing dialects.

Since you probably buy stuff made in China like everyone else, you tell us.