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Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal

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Re: Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

southernplaces7 wrote: post #18
frumplestlatz wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Watching the rollout of speech laws like the “online safety act” in the UK makes me rather dubious of the wisdom of that idea.

And that just in the UK. For the EU's own shenanigans, we have persistent attempts such as these examples of fuckery: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44720103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705240 There have been many, many other examples over recent years. Anyone making any claim to the superiority of the EU regulation state in how it respects digital rights for individuals is full of shit or sheerly ig…

The unfortunate truth is that all governments suck at dealing with technology in a positive way. The EU has some wins, the US has some wins, and so on... but they all have significant fails too. It's a question of which bad things you can live with, more than a question of who doesn't do bad things.

Re: Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal

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Post by Spivak »

wonderwonder wrote: post #24
frumplestlatz wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Watching the rollout of speech laws like the “online safety act” in the UK makes me rather dubious of the wisdom of that idea.

Correct I’ll take the cluster F of what we have now over the UK style of the government watching over my shoulder as they force me to give up anonymity on the web for those sites that most require it

If you live in one of the states that hasn't yet added one of these laws. I expect it will become a federal bill in a year or two so there aren't 20 variants of the same law.

You can really feel the "big tent" nature of the GOP when these bills are being pushed despite being absolutely abhorrent to large swaths of Republican voters.

Re: Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

squidbeak wrote: post #23
prmoustache wrote: post #13

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No. Just use blabla is not enough. Sites which do that should be denounced.

What's wrong with doing both?

Nothing is wrong with doing both. But when the reply to "this site does shady shit" is "just run this addon", it comes across with a subtext of "stop whining, you can solve it yourself". Perhaps not intentionally, but that is how it generally comes across.

Re: Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal

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Post by [deleted] »

israrkhan wrote: post #20
chasil wrote: post #7

As I hear stories of Apple, Google, and Microsoft revoking valuable access, I remember this article... "Don’t build your castle in other people’s kingdoms." https://howtomarketagame.com/2021/11/01/dont-build-your-cast...

In this day and age, it is almost impossible for certain businesses not to build on someone's else kingdom. Facebook, instagram, uber, lyft, doordash, instacart, and hundreds of unicorn businesses are literally built on top of ecosystems that are controlled by 2 or 3 companies.

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Re: Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal

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Post by tracker1 »

Do not trust Microsoft, Google or any other company to provide backups... Have at least one backup/copy of your own data on your own hardware. I have onedrive, google-drive and dropbox copied to my nas as well as my desktop and laptop. Other projects are in github or gitlab and copied on my nas.

That said, I should better automate my project backups... I also need to get my backup (redundant) NAS at a friends house (vpn) so that I can have an extra level of safety.

Re: Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal

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Post by rs186 »

The moment I saw nytimes' reporting that a dad lost access to his Google account because of "nude" photos of his baby and couldn't get help, I de-Googled almost completely and am now using fastmail as my main email account. My other inboxes are only kept just in case someone reaches me via those old addresses.

I knew that if I didn't do that, the same thing would some day happen to me.

Re: Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal

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Post by unyttigfjelltol »

thewebguyd wrote: post #28
israrkhan wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In this day and age, it is almost impossible for certain businesses not to build on someone's else kingdom. Facebook, instagram, uber, lyft, doordash, instacart, and hundreds of unicorn businesses are literally built on top of ecosystems that are controlled by 2 or 3 companies.

I mean, technically you don't have to use those ecosystems and could roll your own stuff, including infrastructure instead of AWS but it's definitely going to be expensive. Which is why we need regulation for those big players (gatekeepers as the EU has taken to calling them). If you're going to be so huge that you essentially operate your own market and economy, then you need to be regulated like one, and forced to…

Not so technically, your business needs customers and efficiencies. Big tech strategically positions themselves at those choke points.

But realistically , if Google and Apple both for whatever reason banned you from all their services, idk why, then you would not have access to a phone. So then you say, well, it was just one person in ten million, and they probably did something wrong-- and now you share the same perspective as Big Tech on this specific issue.

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