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The US was never a trusted partner, Europeans just didn’t have a choice. No one company was able to spend the amount of money required to compete with American technology, so nobod…

21% VAT when shipping to the US? No thanks.

This is completely normal in Germany, try and make an app that is too good at IPTV and you get a visit from the police.

I mean even putting the politics aside, you do kind of ask for this to happen when you start putting actual pressure on real people. Someone was eventually going to do something ab…

My cat yawns after watching me yawn, I assumed this was a universal thing.

The US government made them tie their hands behind their back a few years ago, NHTSA tried to shut down the company so they rebranded their then Comma 2 as a dashcam that might be …

Hybrids are barely mainstream and are growing faster than EVs, Toyota doesn't have anything to worry about for a long time.

Nobody was holding a gun up to my head forcing me to open Facebook or give them money

These guys are massive scammers, I worked with them over multiple projects and the only thing I remember is by the end of each one, everyone was memeing on them for how poorly made…

Their stock price is currently suffering because of how poorly iPhones are doing in places with real competition (i.e. China), the iPhone 16 when put side by side with Chinese phon…

I know Apple wants to differentiate ProMotion as a Pro feature, but even non-tech people I know are wondering why Android phones run smoother than iPhones. Stuff that would be comp…

Russia is basically calling the West's bluff that they won't use nukes to enforce their ideology and Russia won. Everyone wants to talk big until it comes time to actually enforce …

EU is united until it comes time to pay the bill

Where is something like this illegal?

The tone is perfect here, you don’t have to play nice with people who are not nice to you. You only get the benefit of professionalism if you act like one.

NATO doesn’t have to rethink anything, NATO is an extension of EUCOM for all intents and purposes. That’s why the title of Supreme Allied Commander Europe goes to the same guy that…

5G home internet is good enough for 90% of people, so nobody cares to spend money for a product almost nobody is asking for

touch the right HSM in one of these facilities and you get to know what it's like to disappear

Yeah we only have support to deal with bugs within AWS's platform itself, and 99% of the time we need to escalate it with our rep anyways.

They lost too many key contracts after the breach, and they never bothered to fix their reputation.

Most companies are way too incompetent to even know how to secure their own data because it is just too expensive to actually hire someone that knows what they're doing - so most o…

Apple is pretty much the only company that cares about this it seems, I honestly wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between 4K HDR content available on iTunes/TV+ vs Blu Ray. …

I didn't say Messenger wasn't successful. I said that Meta rewrote Messenger twice and did not meet their internal goals both times. Even today you can see Messenger completely bre…

Of course it's not a "react problem". It's a skill issue created by the reality that React is incredibly difficult to scale in large projects. If Meta cannot even handle React, wha…

Given I was able to see the errors directly in the js console, yes. You used to be able to break everyone's state by putting an emoji in a URL.