AI written scripts will just repackage old ideas. Nothing new or innovative.

Sometimes I have to readjust the mirrors during a trip depending on how I sit.

Proper Link: https://www.businessinsider.com/venture-capital-big-tech-antitrust-predatory-pricing-uber-wework-bird-2023-7

archive.is link: https://archive.is/Rwrms

Just because most companies do it, doesn’t mean it’s ok.

It’s not about targeted ads based on information provided by the user of the service. If you have read the article you would know that they are banning behavioral advertising.

Did you read the whole article? It’s about behavioral advertising based on metrics that are not explicitly stated to the user. If the users opt in to this kind of advertising then it’s ok, but Facebook/meta has to get their agreement.

Never meant to defend oracle. I dislike them even more than IBM.

Here is the source blog post from oracle: https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/

RedHat really fucked up with this move. I know RedHat employees and everyone from RedHat I met so far was proud they work there and how much open source meant to the company. I guess there will be more and more redhatters looking for new opportunities in the coming months.

Disclaimer: I have no law degree and everything in this post is speculative.

After reading up on GDPR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation) it deals with the transfer of personal data to entities outside the EU or EEA for processing. The definition of personal data would be the main point to see if/how GDPR is applicable to lemmy instances. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_data)

Your IP address and EMail address could be classified as personal data from my point of view. But this won’t be shared or processed outside of the instance as far as I can tell. If your username and associated posts are classified as personal data I can’t say, but there seems no connection of these to your IP or Mail outside the instance. According to this TechDispatch (https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-work/publications/techdispatch/2022-07-26-techdispatch-12022-federated-social-media-platforms_en) the instances still must adhere to GPDR, but as there is not much or no processing of personal data taking place this should pose no issue.

All of this is based on a bit of research, so please enlighten me if I made any mistakes.

You still can request a data export to see what they still have.

As a plus point if your GPDR request was logged and they can’t fulfill it in 90 days they will be fined.

RedHat needs to be profitable, and it’s getting harder and harder for them. RHEL is not their main product anymore. Everything is about Openshift and it’s Ecosystem. But Openshift is expensive.

Additionally are the European sub divions not happy how the last round of layoffs went.