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"All his accounts with US companies such as Amazon, Airbnb, or PayPal were immediately closed by the providers. Online bookings, such as through Expedia, are immediately canceled, …

Related: "IMPOSING SANCTIONS ON THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT" (white house, feb 2025) https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/impo... Microsoft admits in French…

About half of the problems mentioned by the article are solved by the all-in-one-inbox beeper.com, now owned by Automattic. It allows me for example to avoid Instagram's crack app …

I am less optimistic than the author. Everything we have seen over the last few years (eg what microsoft is doing to Windows) points to a push to make the platforms we used to cont…

Oh? I think the outrage over making the reader feel like "a bad or prejudiced person" that accompanies any invitation to challenge assumptions is so tedious. How come this culture …

Is there any type of advocacy or laws anywhere to push Apple to make data like this intercompatible?

See; GDPR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...

Remember: this is only possible not thanks to Apple's good graces, but by: - the EU Digital Markets act - (in the US) Judge Yvonne‑Gonzalez Rogers’ final Epic v. Apple injunction h…

first screen is 'Select a language' - maybe good to make clear if that's your own language, or your target learning language

So what's stopping anyone from forming a group or foundation based on donations from like-minded people? And maintain a secure, free fork? I see this topic often enough on HN, this…