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There is correlation (and maybe even causal relation) between lifestyle and longevity. It's just the lifestyle in those "Blue Zones" is not different from the lifestyle of surrounding areas (or as in Okinawa - gradient points in the wrong direction), so cannot serve as the sure way to longevity.

I'm sure I miss something, so could anyone from "privacy-protectionists" explain how they see Mozilla/Firefox surviving in the medium-to-long run, given that:

   - main source of income for Mozilla is an Ads Company
   - "ads industry is not going to pack up and leave"
   - ads industry has much deeper pockets than Mozilla (even if Mozilla replaces Google's money bags with someone else's money bags of equal size)
   - any step away from the extreme privacy-protecting position is seen as treason
?


Firefox survives because it is open source. Mozilla will hopefully not survive and make space for someone who actually cares about privacy.

> main source of income for Mozilla is an Ads Company

Yes, that is a big part of why Mozilla cannot be redeemed.

> "ads industry is not going to pack up and leave"

They have already been banished from all my devices.

> ads industry has much deeper pockets than Mozilla (even if Mozilla replaces Google's money bags with someone else's money bags of equal size)

So? That won't allow them to control what runs on my devices.

> any step away from the extreme privacy-protecting position is seen as treason

Yes, it is betraying the trust people have put in a self-proclaimed privacy champion.


Not all machines even in Tokyo accept IC cards, and despite new coins being aroud for 3 years there are a lot of machines (more than half from my experience) that don't accept those coins. Some machines have a sign "we accept new coins" which means the default expectation is that they don't.


In addition to Intelligent Speed Assistance the same regulation mandates automakers to equip cars with "black boxes" akin to those in planes. On the other hand, I could not find anything in there saying that manufacturers will have only four options to inform the driver about speeding, this must come from somewhere else (hard to say from the article almost without references).



"Compromised" is a wrong word to use, unless you consider any obedience to the law "compromise". VPN providers who are still doing business in EU (not Europe) do obey court orders - that would be more correct wording. Any non-compliance is a one-time occurence: either you decide to cease operations or you are forced to cease operations by LEA, as in vpnlab.net example.


If you actually look at the vpnlab example, you'll find that the government got access to all their data, not just for specific cases. So you can assume that all remaining providers have yielded the same level of access.


1. Machines (industrial robots, AI etc) gradually replace humans at work. 2. There are less humans that could work. 3. .. 4. PROFIT! To be honest it would be interesting to see how the two trends will coexist (assuming they do exist now and continue into the future "linearly").


That will indeed happen: AI and robots will replace more humans. There will be a tiny cadre of elite who are free to do whatever they want, while the rest of humanity will mostly be relegated to manual labor such mining for more material for more technological growth. We will likely also be given drugs and highly technological brainwashing so that we continue to serve the tech elite.


That reminded me that person's data can be hidden if the person asks for it. Does not happen often, but my ex-neighbours did it.


Neither are public information. The current registered address is, amount of taxes paid - yes, these are public (although for the latter you have to pay some very small fee, IIRC).


I don't know about you, but for the vast majority of people their "current registered address" also happens to be their home.


I believe it varies between countries. Where I live the actual address does not really matter for most intents and purposes, what matters is one's registered address because that's where paper post goes, and more and more people use e-post even for government communications. Where my parents live it is actually quite common to _not_ live where one is registered, especially among younger generations, this is because police first comes after you to the registered address, and police in that country is often more dangerous than "no police". So I do not speak for the "vast majority" but for the people around me.


Case in point: if you are well off enough to rent or own multiple properties you have the privilege of not being doxxed by these brokers.

Tell me again how knowing 18 year old Sven Svensson earning $10k a year at a part time job and renting in flat B69 is oh so essential for an open society again.


"Always wait for a point release". It seems for this we need to wait for the _next_ point release. It should become clearer for EU side of the movement also - it is far from certain that Apple to be the one f*cked.


I don't trust the EU much to fix the things that I personally care about indeed.

Namely: unrestricted access for new, small entrants. Less restrictions on utilities. Stuff like that.

My favourite pet example: I want DaisyDisk for iOS. What does Cook need threatening with to allow that?


That's actually exactly what the DMA is supposed to solve. So maybe you just need to wait.


I don't know about my pet. It would need full storage access, and even I agree that keeping apps separate from each other is a good idea, security wise. I don't see how you can argue against that when you're considering monopoly issues.

On the other hand, Apple not allowing apps not approved by them and not allowing manual single app installs without going through their app store or some other app store does look to me like a monopoly issue.


Are you sure you want iOS? Perhaps you want Android?

Sounds like you just want the iPhone hardware, but not the spirit of the OS that contributed to what it is. Adding manual disk management makes more like running Windows XP than a smooth "mostly just works" phone.


Well, if Apple's space usage report would be more detailed and made sense, maybe I wouldn't need it.

But... "Other" ?


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