Interesting Links for 21-03-2025

[andrewducker]

1. EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions for apps and connected devices

(tags:Europe apple regulation )

2. Big drop in overseas students at Scottish universities (driven by changes in immigration visas)

(tags:scotland university uk migration visa doom )

3. "We'll deport you if we have evidence against you, and if we do not" - An extraordinary witness statement by the US government

(tags:usa migration OhForFucksSake law )

4. New study reveals bacterial vaginosis is actually a sexually transmitted infection

(tags:sex disease women viaDrJon )

5. Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk's Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online

(tags:LGBT transgender ElonMusk USA politics bigotry )

6. PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now

(tags:games computers )

7. Tesla cars disengage autopilot if you're about to crash

(tags:Tesla automation OhForFucksSake driving crash )

8. Battery storage is dramatically reshaping the California grid, and finally moving it away from gas

(tags:batteries electricity GoodNews California )

9. What evidence does the CIA have that Hitler was still alive in South America in the 1950s?

(tags:history hitler USA cia colombia wtf )

10. Apple Is Losing Over $1 Billion per Year on Streaming Service, Has 45 Million Apple TV+ Subscribers

(tags:Apple TV business )

11. I thankfully don't have to worry about dating apps. But I do find it fascinating what kind of person makes them work for them.

(tags:dating advice )

12. Germany and Britain issue warnings about traveling to America

(tags:usa travel germany uk )

Comments

[cmcmck]

2. I noticed this.

One of my almae matres is Dundee and they are in big trouble, it seems. The Scot is St Andrews and Edinburgh and they both seem to be okay. :o(

[andrewducker]

Edinburgh isn't as screwed as Dundee, but it's definitely got problems: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4v0yyj1pko

[dewline]

The same has been happening in Ontario in particular, and I'm not sure about the rest of Canada yet. Worrying.

[dewline]

3. Addressing this further down, via Point # 12.

5. Good on her.

8. Progress of a sort, yes.

10. I am reminded of a line from an episode of WKRP, something Lillian Carlson said about why she tolerated the titular radio station of that series being a money-loser...and why she wanted it to go on losing money:

"It's not the plus and minus, Mr. Fever. It's the plus and plus IF the minuses are played correctly."

In this case, I'm hearing and reading that a lot of good TV is getting made as a consequence of a similar decision...

12. Canada's going to have to do the same, if we haven't already. Charlie Angus has issued his own warnings independent of the federal government.

3.

[channelpenguin]

Besides the basic surreal horror of "evidence against you makes you guilty, but also NO evidence against you makes you guilty"

"the overall transaction—the forcible taking of individuals from one country and sending them under an agreement with a third country to perform forced labour—is indistinguishable in its essence from slavery." YUP!

yipes.

Re: 3.

[bens_dad]

I thought deporting meant sending you back to where you came from.

If they sent you to El Salvador if there is evidence and home if there is not (they can still ban you from coming back ever again) I would be able to see some sort of screwy logic, but this is brute slavery (and poor business).

I am glad to see 12.

12. Germany and Britain issue warnings about traveling to America

[anef]

Yes, who in their right mind would visit America ATM? (Unless they had to, that is!)

Re: 12. Germany and Britain issue warnings about traveling to America

[andrewducker]

I know someone who's just travelled over for a trip that's been planned for ages, and it's all absolutely fine.

And I suspect that 99.99% of travellers have no issues.

But I both don't fancy taking the risk and don't want to support them.