@matigo I can see similar laws spreading to other nations including the US (maybe a SOPA 3.0).
@matigo What makes it worse is that most of the media decided to ignore this the whole way. The only sources that I got aside from Julia Reda and the EFF for almost a year on the directive were Techdirt and Boing Boing. What a failure of journalism if you think about it.
Today is a truly dark day in the history of the Internet as the European Union has voted to kill the open Internet with the help of corporate lobbyists. [motherboard.vice.com]
I fear for the future when censorship will reign supreme and you can thank Big Publishing, Big Telecom, Big Tech, Big Media, Big Music , and Hollywood for rubber stamping this.
ESP8266 gets its game on with open source engine [hackaday.com]
This is a very cool project, I'll have to keep an eye on this!
@variablepulserate Yep, and I feel we're going to see more of this as hardware sales continue to decline and slowly but surely, a full pivot to services will be complete.
Today's event was a vindication of Apple being a luxury lifestyle company no question although we all knew it for a couple of years now.
And remember, Tim Cook isn't going to be around forever so that privacy talk is all that it really is: talk.
There will be a time where Apple is going to share that information to third parties just like everyone else.