Anti-Corporate Movement

Today I encountered something new and dystopian:

You can airplay from your iphone to an appletv but now youtube drops and locks the quality at 360p, making the content unwatchable on larger screens.

Once you disable airplay, the quality jumps back to 1080p. If you choose 1080p before and enable airiplay after, it still changes.

This hasnt been an issue for years. this new anti consumer move prompted me to order another raspberry pi to put kodi on.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18508087

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12250966

Link to sign EU initiative: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

Guides on how to sign EU initiative: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15126981

This comes after a sea of games have been lost due to the creators turning off the servers. While community remake projects like RELB for Lawbreakers, Loadout Reloaded and a server emulator for The Crew exist, they're miles behind where we'd be if publishers just released a way to host our own servers before killing their creations. They need more signatures from European citizens and then the proposal goes to a board who decide what to do with it.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/26203588

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18182378

Filed in 2022, the Texas lawsuit said that Meta was in violation of a state law that prohibits capturing or selling a resident’s biometric information, such as their face or fingerprint, without their consent.

The company announced in 2021 that it was shutting down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people amid growing concerns about the technology and its misuse by governments, police and others.

Texas filed a similar lawsuit against Google in 2022. Paxton’s lawsuit says the search giant collected millions of biometric identifiers, including voiceprints and records of face geometry, through its products and services like Google Photos, Google Assistant, and Nest Hub Max. That lawsuit is still pending.

The $1.4 billion is unlikely to make a dent in Meta’s business. The Menlo Park, California-based tech made a profit of $12.37 billion in the first three months of this year, Its revenue was $36.46 billion, an increase of 27% from a year earlier.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/26116105

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/889819

The EU General Court in Luxembourg ruled that the designation was warranted under the European Union's new Digital Markets Act (DMA) because short video app TikTok exceeded relevant thresholds including global market value and the number of EU users.

Labeled companies are prevented from forcing users in the bloc to consent to have access to a service or certain functionalities.

ByteDance had argued that its global market value largely came from China, rather than the EU.

It also said TikTok does not operate an exponential user expansion model and that it was acting as a "challenger" to digital monopolies operated by established platforms such as Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and Alphabet, which owns Google. Both companies are also designated as "gatekeepers."

But the EU General Court rejected those arguments, finding that TikTok could no longer be considered a "challenger" on the market, unlike when it joined back in 2018.

The judges concluded that TikTok had "succeeded in increasing its number of users very rapidly and exponentially" since then, and that its large number of European users does indeed contribute to its global market value.

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/15200191

cross-posted from: https://ttrpg.network/post/7528051

It's disappointing that copyright infringement could cause these people to spend time in prison, but the predatory practices of the companies they where competing with are punished with no more then fines. A "cost of doing business" for the corporate aristocrats. This is the threat the upper class uses on the rest of us, and all too often do not suffer themselves.

"Rules for thee, but not for me" - Corporations

It's disappointing that copyright infringement could cause these people to spend time in prison, but the predatory practices of the companies they where competing with are punished with no more then fines. A "cost of doing business" for the corporate aristocrats. This is the threat the upper class uses on the rest of us, and all too often do not suffer themselves.

"Rules for thee, but not for me" - Corporations

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/16896074

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/16834299

Meta releases Threads API for developers to build “unique integrations”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/17575132

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17016346

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16800913

Microsoft QA Contractors Say They Were Laid Off for Attempting to Unionize

cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/kde/statuses/112575440720839810

You heard #Adobe. Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things...

You heard #Adobe. Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things...

Kreative Suite
* Krita is your new design/painting app
* Kdenlive will give you video-editing powers
* glaxnimate adds 2D vector animations to you videos
* digiKam organises your collection images

https://kde.org/for/creators/
Also:
* Inkscape - create sophisticated vector-graphic designs
* Scribus - layout like a pro
* GIMP - need we say more
* Blender - ditto

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/11719406

The Star Fox-style roguelite whose dev refused to use AI voices to cut costs is adding an entire "anti-capitalist revenge" campaign about a cat-girl destroying AI

This community does have quite a couple of subscribers but so far we have no favicon/logo. What do you think we should use?

Jeff? Bill? Elon? Some cursed „cousin“?

The most popular idea will be considered. Still needs to be legally doable and somewhat represent the community of course.

Happy hunting!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16504047

Diamond industry 'in trouble' as lab-grown gemstones tank prices further

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/21629568

Ultrakill dev says it's fine to pirate his game if you don't have money to spare: 'Culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it'

I actually bought ultrakill but now I have an even bigger respect for the chad that is Hakita

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16457773

Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16457822

Google can keep your phone if you send it in for repair with non-OEM parts

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16034006

Just a reminder we are the future of social media.