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Someone needs to be reminded that anticompetitive practices are illegal (feddit.de)
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[–] 269 points 2 years ago (23 children)

Save us, EU. You're our only hope. Sincerely, USA

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  • [–] 135 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    This keeps happening—can you lot make some laws for a change?

    Edit: oh wait not like that

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  • [–] 71 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It's cool I fixed it now.

    America, moments after outlawing IVF

    Just as an aside, I'm an American that emigrated to Canada. My province (BC) is currently passing a law to make one attempt at IVF free for everyone (starting midyear in 2025)... laws actually can be used for good.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    California tries its best... There's a bunch of pro-consumer laws that other states don't have. There's the CCPA which is similar to GDPR (including the right to know and the right to be forgotten). You must be able to cancel a service easily online if you can sign up online. Store gift cards aren't allowed to have expiration dates. Gift cards with less than $10 on them must be redeemable for cash. Stricter laws against false advertising. And a bunch of other useful laws.

    Not as good as the Australian Consumer Law, but better than pretty much every other US state.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Cries in britland

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    [–] 242 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    Nvidia: bans platform translation layers for CUDA

    Meanwhile AMD: is forbidden from releasing an open source HDMI 2.1 driver supporting 4K@120hz because of HDMI Forums requirements.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    DisplayPort gang?

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    [–] 179 points 2 years ago (26 children)

    These companies are wielding way too much power if they are not afraid to act like this in the open. Bring back making the board of executives and C Suites lives hell when a company so much as inconveniences you.

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  • [–] 81 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    I want to see fines that have real teeth. No flat rates. Some defined amount per violation, in addition to forfeiture of all revenue derived from or connected to the violation(s). It might be complex to figure out what revenue that applies to inside a large corporation, so to help with the assessment you get a group of government auditors attached to your company for as long as the assessment takes. You pay their wages and provide them with whatever office space &etc they require, and they have a position on your executive board and full oversight of company operations until your debt to society is fully paid.

    Regulatory violations should risk ending the company. If you can't run a profitable business legally then you shouldn't be running a business.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Personally, I think it would be easier for all involved to just fine based on a percentage of global annual revenue from the date of the violation to present. If they want personhood so bad, then they can have this too.

    Edit for an example: let's say Intel does anticompetitive behavior 15 years ago and a court case finds them liable for damages today. Add up the last 15 years worth of global revenue, and take a percentage of that.

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    • [–] 95 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    Yeah fuck this.

    ... What's a translation layer?

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  • [–] 99 points 2 years ago

    In general, it translates instructions into something readable by whats accessing it. A popular translation layer on Lemmy is Proton. Its how the Steam Deck can play all those windows games.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago* (9 children)

    Got a Windows app you want to run on Linux? Wine and Proton are well known translation layers.

    I guess Graphics Cards are similar. CUDA is basically the NVIDIA equivalent of .exe I think.

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    [–] 70 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    So a knife maker can now forbid me to cut chicken with it?

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    • [–] 67 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    I give it about 10 years before the EU is invaded by the US after corporate lobbying

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    [–] 63 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Can a EULA ban fair use? Google v Oracle might have something to say about this.

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    [–] 60 points 2 years ago (20 children)

    If translation layer can be banned with EULA how is wine not dead yet? M$ loves Linux or what?

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago*

    This has been said time and time again but fuck Nvidia. Preventing compatibility layers ensures games and programs that need this stuff are extra unreliable, bloated and enshittified.

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They can prohibit whatever they want, but how enforceable is it? Does Nvidia intend to play whack a mole by checking for translation layers?

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    • [–] 35 points 2 years ago

    "How dare you use software on your hardware," says another worthless gaggle of bastard morons.

    Just have Jensen Huang flop his dick out and say CUDA is an anti-competitive tactic. It wouldn't be less obvious.

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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Now imagine Microsoft banning the translation of DirectX to Vulkan. Could they do that? That would kill gaming on Linux in a snap.

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