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   John Gruber (gruber@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 02:03:30 JST John Gruber

   The EU sacked its crusading grandstanding duo of Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton *before* the U.S. election, so it’s not entirely or even mostly about Trump. They’re just coming to their senses that a radical DMA interpretation isn’t going to change these companies, it would just turn the EU into more of a technological backwater than it already is.

   https://www.techmeme.com/250114/p1#a250114p1

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 02:03:30 JST Charlie Stross

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     @gruber I'd rather live in a "technological backwater" that has fewer billionaires and more of a constitutional-level right to privacy than Trump-dominated hellhole where policy is set by the likes of Peter Thiel and Mark Zuckerberg.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 02:36:25 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Phil Nelson

     @krisbrowne42 @philnelson @gruber Anyone who played with an Acorn Archimedes—the first ARM-based personal computer—any time after 1988 knows that was bullshit all along.

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     Kristopher Browne (krisbrowne42@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 02:36:26 JST Kristopher Browne

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     • Phil Nelson

     @philnelson @cstross @gruber we have now… of course, before Apple and the M series chips, what we mostly heard about arm was how it wasn’t suitable for anything but mobile, after multiple generations of failed MS ARM pcs.

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     Phil Nelson (philnelson@xoxo.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 02:36:27 JST Phil Nelson

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     • Charlie Stross

     @cstross @gruber I work primarily with European companies in hardware and software as part of OpenCV. Seems like they are doing great over there tbh. Ever hear of ARM?