I'll bait, even though this is quite obvious a low-effort comment without any basis. If you would have read the article, you could have noted the following:
> Max Schrems: "The penalty will go to Ireland - the State that has taken Meta's side and delayed enforcement for more than four years. This case will likely be appealed by Meta, leading to more costs for noyb."
So: No, the money does not go to the ominous "EU leadership", but rather to Ireland, the country which already profits from being a tax and law heaven for Meta and other companies. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_as_a_tax_haven
But BSH is a direct child company of Bosch, you can even get those products for a discount as a (automotive) Bosch employee. Most Bosch divisions are separate child companies.
It's just that BSH is very small part of Bosch compared to the automotive parts of Bosch.
> Not being a public company means nobody cares about quarterly results.
And this is why I like Bosch so much (as an employee for a very similar amount of time). The working climate in most places is relaxed compared to most competitors and there's less focus on looking great in random metrics every quarter, which makes actually doing your work easier.
> The downside is that Bosch cannot get big cash infusions quickly. In case of a pandemic, this is an additional risk. Worked out though.
Yep, it actually worked out much better than anticipated. They were able to generate a free cash flow of 5 billion Euro. AFAIK that was mainly because Bosch has a very good reputation of being financially stable. (Here is the source in corporate speech https://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/bosch-stays-on...)
Btw, I remember your nickname from your lobsters post about software architecture. Pretty cool to see fellow Boschlers active here or on lobsters!
> Or outages are so rare that it’s not worth the trouble?
This, I can't remember the last Fastly outage in this dimension, so the time spent on setting up a secondary server serving your assets is probably not really worth it for small-medium companies. Although i'd think otherwise for a company like Shopify.
That's definitely not true. Most hidden service use some darknet-specific captchas nowadays. Just open the next best darknet market or simply forum and you'll see what I mean.
Where do you get that from? There's a huge effort to scale up the production up, which you can see by the weekly increasing output for example of Biontech [0]. Discussing one thing doesn't exclude taking care of another.
Nowhere in particular. Perhaps my sentiment is more a reflection of media coverage focusing on issues like TFA, rather than on increasing supply which is less scandalous.
Thanks for this link. I would much rather that the media kept me up to date on this instead!
From my personal experience (at least the German) media focuses on that as well. I read a lot of articles on how the companies are working to scale the output up. One good and recent example is this article (paywalled) https://www.zeit.de/2021/15/biontech-werk-marburg-corona-imp...
That's good to hear. Maybe I don't read enough UK media widely enough (for health reasons!) to really have a say here, but I don't remember reading similar articles recently. It must be out there though, perhaps in more specialised media.
I can relate to that, which is also a reason why I now _try_ to consume weekly newspapers (like the linked "Die Zeit") instead of the daily/hourly short-lived news. In my experience the latter tend to report more about "drama" and focus more on negative things, exactly like you said.
I also saw your remark in the other chain:
> I was referring more to the discourse, which seems to be about heightening nationalistic sentiments by pitting governments against each other fighting over a small stockpile
And that also makes sense. I'd say that's something especially prominent nowadays due to Brexit. The amount of news highlighting the failures of the EU certainly got an uptick in the UK and so did the news portraying UK's vaccine import as "egoistic" in the German media. There are certainly more shades to that, but it's pretty obvious from the newspapers as well that the EU and UK are just frustrated with each other currently.
Edit 2: Now that the first responses to the reversion are trickling in, some merged patched were indeed discovered to be malicious, like the following. Most of them seem to be fine though or at least non malicious. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/78ac6ee8-8e7c-bd4c-a3a7-5a90c7c...
And this is just the tip of the iceberg. As described in the article, you can avoid this by hiding your "last seen" status.
But why use the "last seen" feature, if WhatsApp also has an "online" indicator? Funnily enough, that one can't be disabled and is visible to everyone! That has been criticized for over 5 years now, with no reaction from whatsapp/FB.
There was even a similar tool back in 2016 which used this "online" indicator instead, called WhatsSpy [0]. It's no longer maintained, but you can see screenshots of it on this old German article [1] or you might be able to find English articles as well.
I don't know of any current tool which does this, but I'd guess there are a few out there, since it's so easy to do and can't be prevented.
