Here’s the actual top 10 over exporting countries of quartz. Not even in the top 5 for the US.

1 China $72,289,000

2 Turkey $68,161,000

3 India $43,827,000

4 Spain $27,107,000

5 Brazil $26,611,000

6 United States $21,351,000

7 Germany $16,791,000

8 Italy $13,219,000

9 Canada $12,225,000

10 Egypt $10,204,000

The EU ripple effect. Good job US, if it actually passes.

The title needs to say it’s only for the EU. 3rd party app stores for iOS are not coming to the rest of the world.

And for android you’d probably be able to get the APK, but I’m not sure how the in-app purchases will work outside of EU.

AI’s really just getting started, isn’t it.

Haven’t seen this in the EU. Anyone knows if this is prevented here?

Of course they do. They have acted like they got a choice for too long, so it’s good to see they won’t get away with it.

Whoever wrote this blog post missed the point in the way the fediverse is decentralised.

It’s not about hosting. It’s about ownership. And that means hosting can change at any moment. Because no one company decides anything.

That’s why we really want the fediverse. Because it’s not build for late stage capitalism and monopolies.

Amazing work by the EU.

With this digital euro, all fees are paid by the EU. Which is the right way to do it. It shouldn’t cost anything to spend and transfer money - just as it doesn’t with cash.

I can’t get my head around how much money VISA and MasterCard is pulling out of society today.

How banks take fees for you to do a simple money transfer.

Scumbags.

You can.

Only once tho.

RCS only increased the meta-data the cellular providers and messaging apps is selling on you.

They don’t care about the content in your message, so e2ee is useless in this case.

They’re selling who you message, when, and where you are when you do it. They collect data on which cellular tower transmitted your message. And now with RCS they also know when you read the message.

Which means RCS is just as useless in terms of privacy. They only enriched the data. So it’s probably worse.

I don’t know why people have more faith in cellular providers. They have been selling all of your data before Meta was a thing.

US is still stuck on SMS, so much that they even made an upgrade to it with RCS.

It felt like an upgrade to the DVD disk when you have the Internet.

Free market and competition. We don’t like that now, huh?

Just shows Apple’s true colour, and how much the EU has forced their hand.

This change will come to the iPad too one day though.

If you don’t own it when you buy, it’s not stealing when you take it.

Remember that Taiwan is a big player in the semiconductor market, and their fate will always be kinda risky because of China.

This is a way to spread out the eggs to other baskets, so the world is not so reliant on a small independent (for now) country.

Ehm, it’s pretty much a success where I’m from. Sounds more like a personal opinion.

Batteries are also very recyclable, so we need a system in place for this, and then we’ll go far in terms of earth’s resources.

Because both resources, even though they are plentiful, are still finite.

No matter what, it’s always good to use less of a resource, if you can get the same outcome. It’s efficiency basically.