Something I have noticed several times and I can’t understand from an EU perspective is this: in the US a company you have a contract with (ie a company you are paying for a service for a certain amount of time) can change their tos / contract with you without prior notice and without having to at least honor the previous agreement until your current billing period expires?
For example if I paid for 1 year, I would expect the contract available at the time of payment should apply for the entire year or offer a refund if you don’t want to accept the changes. And always with at least two weeks of notice
Usually they have a clause in the contract stating that they can change the terms. Github provides 30 days notice, Gitlab has an email with instant effect and a vague thing about checking their website. I've seen sketchier companies who have instant changes w/ no notice and that state their published TOS is inaccurate.
> This is true, and I have very strong feelings about developing an indigenous discourse on technology and against the passive acceptance of the influences and ideologies coming from California.
Italian here, I can agree that it would be nice if more "indigenous" tech stuff existed in Italian but English is the de facto language in tech and anyone working on the field should be able to at least read English articles otherwise you'll only limit yourself.
Here on HN we see many blog posts or content produced by non-native English speakers and I don't see what's wrong with it, it opens up your content to an huge community that's quite global not only from SV
it's fine, but every language allows to express ideas that cannot be expressed in other languages, or allows you to think about the same ideas from a different perspective. While I agree that a common language is necessary, erasing all the important things that exists outside that language is as bad as not being able to understand each other.
The problem with this post is that React, an UI library, is being compared with toolkits that in some cases are simply Java-to-JS compilers. To make a fair comparison there should also be a plain js example
I have been searching for this but couldn't find any answer, let's say a company has a generic public platform where people can upload text, images, videos, audio, ... how are they supposed to be able to check for copyright infringment against every single upload?
I know that Youtube has its own content id system, but for anyone without YT's resouces, is ther any 3rd party service to which you can pass content and get back a yes/no answer to "anyone copyrighted this thing?", if yes, what are the costs? the effectiveness?
> how are they supposed to be able to check for copyright infringment against every single upload?
They aren't. You can't. I'm not sure if this is an oversight, or deliberate -- the law was written by lots of people, so the truth is probably in-between -- but your best bet is to avoid the EU, or stick to major hosting providers like YouTube.
This is still not final, but startups and small business should be exempted from the law. But I guess there are still many platforms in the middle: big enough to not fall in the exempted category, but too small to build their own content id system. Paradoxically, Google/Facebook could profit A LOT from this.
I heard that voiced as a worry, and the logic goes something like this: A small organisation that does not have the capability (money or otherwise) to implement their own content filter, have to look elsewhere for it. Where to go? Probably Google, etc, once they start selling those services. So the net effect will not be negative for the big companies (if those now are the actual target for the copyright directive), since they will now instead have a new market to exploit; small organisations burdened by the content filter requirements demanded by the copyright directive.
> how are they supposed to be able to check for copyright infringment against every single upload?
"Did you create this item from your own efforts without the inclusion of material copyright to other entities? Y / N"
That's a filter. Not a particularly sophisticated one, but the majority of websites shouldn't be hosting anything that answers N to that anyhow. Little Northville Cycling Club, for example, probably shouldn't be hosting satire based on copyright works. It's just too legally risky.
It could have been that you got caught in the "random" checks applied after terrorist attacks or during the migration crisis but Switzerland is a weird case in that they're part of the Schengen area but not of the custom union. So for example, while between France and Italy there is literally no border station the border between Switzerland and other countries look like a normal border since they have to check goods. People shouldn't be subject to border checks but it happens
Would I prefer them to be hosted somewhere else like a forum? Yes, Groups on Facebook are quite terrible to use with the non-chronological ordering, the comment system that encourages everythign but in depth comments, ... but the reality is that for a few subjects that I'm interested like development projects in the city where I live, .. they're the place where I can find the most up to date info and discussion
You're free to attach your name to the bell if you want for whatever reason. Only landlords are now not allowed to attach your name to the doorbell by default in Austria, and apparently they weren't allowed to do so since 1980 but it's only being enforced now.
For example if I paid for 1 year, I would expect the contract available at the time of payment should apply for the entire year or offer a refund if you don’t want to accept the changes. And always with at least two weeks of notice