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33 votes
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Top EU court orders Apple to pay €13 billion tax bill
16 votes -
Chat control is back on the agenda of EU governments. The Hungarian Presidency will collect “guidance for further work”. Take action to stop chat control now!
11 votes -
EU ChatControl is back on the agenda
10 votes -
Sustainability of FOSS: The Next Generation Internet ecosystem
14 votes -
Brussels slaps down Thierry Breton over ‘harmful content’ letter to Elon Musk [as it was not approved by the European Commission]
11 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 -
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 -
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 -
“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 -
Cyber security: A pre-war reality check
34 votes -
ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it
47 votes