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11 votes
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Sweden has cut 80% of its net emissions since 1990 – while growing its economy twofold. How have they done it?
31 votes -
Sideloading with iOS 17.4: any use cases?
It’s been a few weeks now since the release of iOS 17.4, which […] provides new options for app marketplaces, web browsers and payments for residents of the European Union. […] Now, don’t get me...
It’s been a few weeks now since the release of iOS 17.4, which
[…] provides new options for app marketplaces, web browsers and payments for residents of the European Union. […]
Now, don’t get me wrong, I am a firm believer in the underlying regulation to it, and have been ever since the possibility of this becoming a reality was in the Brussels air. But so far, I haven’t really been able to come up with a truly practical use case.
Furthermore, I haven’t seen any marketing for an Epic Store, Meta Store, or similar “app marketplaces”, but this may be attributed to the still rather… wobbly legal situation surrounding, notably, still having to direct payments to Apple while not using their store for app distribution. I don’t think there has been any follow-up from Apple (or the EU) that retracts these conditions.
So: Have any fellow EU resident ~tech’ies done anything fun or interesting with this new freedom yet?
To those not affected by this regulation, what would you like to “sideload”, or are perhaps already sideloading on Android?
Do any of you think big companies will move their entire palette onto an alternative store anytime soon, e.g. Facebook and sister products? To be honest, I doubt this will happen, otherwise it would’ve long occurred on the Google Play Store as well.
My ideas were:
- I’ve thought about trying to install Minecraft (the full version, probably using Pojav), or a game of similar caliber, on my phone just for fun and to see how well the iPhone GPU really fares against a “real” game, but didn’t find the time yet for looking into it.
- Also personally, I’d love to see a real “root-capable” shell on iOS, but I don’t think that will ever be a thing irrespective of how much sideloading Apple is forced to allow into their OS.
9 votes -
There's an EU petition to prevent publishers and devs from leaving games in unplayable states
70 votes -
Türkiye and Germany in spicy feud over doner kebab
23 votes -
Schengen ain't what it used to be
28 votes -
FOSS funding vanishes from EU's 2025 Horizon program plans. Elimination of most Next Generation Internet funding 'incomprehensible,' says OW2 CEO Pierre-Yves Gibello.
28 votes -
Finland's deportation law puts EU's migration norms to the test – human rights organizations sound the alarm over the controversial measure
20 votes -
Ursula von der Leyen wins second term as European Commission president
10 votes -
Set in an otherworldly landscape surrounded by glaciers, forests and lakes – how the Arctic town of Bodø became Europe's Capital of Culture
4 votes -
Court says Andrew Tate can leave Romania but remain in EU as he awaits trial
18 votes -
Danish government makes new pact with youth organisations to protect children in the EU from the addictive design of social media and tech giants' business models
8 votes -
EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control
31 votes -
BYD: China’s electric vehicle powerhouse charges into Europe
16 votes -
EU states push past opposition to adopt landmark nature restoration law
28 votes -
“Upload moderation” undermines end-to-endencryption: A statement from Meredith Whittaker, Signal president
28 votes -
Meta hit with Norwegian complaint over its plans to use images and posts of users on Facebook and Instagram to train artificial intelligence models
27 votes -
Swedish EU official Johan Floderus, who has been held in an Iranian prison for more than two years, was released as part of a deal with Tehran
13 votes -
Support for rightwing populists and the far right declined in Finland, Sweden and Denmark in Sunday's European elections, with a surge for Greens and left-leaning parties
51 votes -
Brussels is gambling that tariffs on Chinese EVs are a prod, not a punch
15 votes -
Patrick Breyer's successor fails to be elected to EU parliament
7 votes -
2024 European election results
32 votes -
Emmanuel Macron dissolves French parliament after EU defeat, calls election
51 votes -
EU expected to impose import tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles
26 votes -
Sweden is set to become the second EU country to ban bottom fishing in marine protected areas
16 votes -
Europe's Donald Trump moment has arrived
15 votes -
Spotify hikes fees, passing on its tax burden, after the French government introduced a levy to support the nation's music industry
21 votes -
Because European sunscreens can draw on more ingredients, they can protect better against skin cancer
26 votes -
EU's Green Deal improved its climate performance: a 1.5°C pathway is close
17 votes -
Geert Wilders is coming for the EU – The hard-right politician has at last formed a government after six months of negotiation
16 votes -
Cyber security: A pre-war reality check
34 votes -
Disappearing ink, fake polls and voter fraud: EU fears as Russian propaganda ads target Euro elections
14 votes -
Georgia rocked by protests as government pushes Vladimir Putin-style ‘foreign agent’ bill
27 votes -
ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it
47 votes -
Ireland plans to send asylum seekers back to UK under emergency law
14 votes -
Plant apocalypse: how new diseases are destroying EU trees and crops
7 votes -
Polish court orders Google to stop favouring its own price-comparison service in search results
16 votes -
Introducing AltStore PAL
7 votes -
Ukrainians contemplate the once unthinkable: Losing the war with Russia
37 votes -
European Court of Justice annulls sanctions against Russian billionaires
8 votes -
Danish PM Mette Frederiksen's domestically popular tough immigration stance could prove to be a weakness with European Social Democrat colleagues in the upcoming EU elections
5 votes -
Fortress Europe isn’t working – Europe needs a workable migration strategy. Instead it’s attacking asylum seekers to placate the right.
28 votes -
Switzerland’s climate failures breached human rights, top court rules
4 votes -
Denmark was the first to post an ambassador to Silicon Valley. Now, it is leading Europe's diplomats in putting Big Tech on the right side of history.
7 votes -
European Union agrees to begin membership talks with Bosnia and Herzegovina
18 votes -
Populist parties’ divisions jeopardise chances of setting EU agenda
6 votes -
Cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS.
25 votes -
European Union approves landmark AI law, leapfrogging US to regulate critical but worrying new technology
26 votes -
European Commission will open office in Greenland, made strategically important by rare resources and melting ice
7 votes -
European Super League cannot register its name as a trademark in the European Union because Denmark's top flight already holds the trademark rights
10 votes