Re: Free-services lead to increased RAM and CPU requirements

2020-10-28 Thread John Hasler
Andrei writes: > It seems to me rhkramer is referring to this: > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/technology/congress-big-tech-monopoly-power.html So institute regulations forcing Amazon to shut down its "marketplace" and sell only its own products (or rather ones they purchase: they make nothin

Re: Free-services lead to increased RAM and CPU requirements

2020-10-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 28 oct 20, 08:26:15, John Hasler wrote: > rhkramer writes: > > Investigations started in the US congress (and, iirc, in the EC > > counterparts) may lead to de-monopolizing some of those services. > > If you are referring to the efforts to gut the DMCA "safe harbor" > provisions that will h

Re: Free-services lead to increased RAM and CPU requirements

2020-10-28 Thread John Hasler
rhkramer writes: > Investigations started in the US congress (and, iirc, in the EC > counterparts) may lead to de-monopolizing some of those services. If you are referring to the efforts to gut the DMCA "safe harbor" provisions that will have the opposite effect. Same for the efforts to impose Ch

Re: Free-services lead to increased RAM and CPU requirements (was: Re: Replacement Email Client)

2020-10-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 28 oct 20, 07:12:19, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, October 28, 2020 04:35:46 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > How did we end here? How did we end up paying for the ad > > industry's infrastrutcture, paying with our privacy, but > > also with our real money, having to buy RAM and CP

Free-services lead to increased RAM and CPU requirements (was: Re: Replacement Email Client)

2020-10-28 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, October 28, 2020 04:35:46 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > How did we end here? How did we end up paying for the ad > industry's infrastrutcture, paying with our privacy, but > also with our real money, having to buy RAM and CPU power > just for their sake? Assuming that is not a rhetori