They're expected to pay the standard automotive tax for each car they upload

This seems absurd. How did the government get to this point? Were there prior frameworks before they decided on this one?

I can't see any other result than to deter economic activity that uses computers and "the internet". I feel this is incredibly reactionary. I sympathize if the goal is to capture economic flows that are disproportionate and outwardly foreign. Facebook as an example: it's a foreign company with a net negative on France. American 'internet' companies dominate others because the governments of the past allowed it. Out of sight and out of mind. China's the only nation that has been doing it correctly. They have domestic equivalents and more. Compare that to the rest: it's just America rofl stomping everyone and extracting capital.

I’m curious on how they plan to handle VPNs

Explains why there are riots and protests. People may not be happy with similar government decision.

So if I get this straight, me traveling to france and streaming 1GB of movies I own on my jellyfin server in the US would make me receive a tax bill in the mail?

The french are so good at making laws without scoping out the consequences

The nuance in opinion of ai is skewing as each day passes.

I dont understand the need for Quickshare/LocalSend. I rarely send files directly to a person near me - though I have occasionally shared a file via NextCloud but it was usually for someone across the net. If its small, like a picture, then its just Signal. And KDE Connect is excellent for sending files between my devices.

Am I missing another use case?

France is consistently bad when it comes to making laws related to the internet.

I really like koffan.

But I needed a Linux VM and somehow I couldn't get the hypervisor to work with anything but BSD

Do you know about the linux-compat layer on FreeBSD? https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/linuxemu/

This is a brain dead take. Chat rooms are not wasting resources lol what the actual hell. It works great we have a lot of people who like it. Them not working is literally just your own opinion.

First all the idiotic DNS (over)blocking and now this. Idiots must be running France.

This is the internet version of making people pay for the air they breathe.

I also wish debian GNU/kfreeBSD was still a thing.

Also - Queue netflix sending 1mbps 4k streams to save data.

France’s National Assembly has voted in favour of a new “internet tax” that would charge companies for every gigabyte of data they send to users in France.

Unrelated, but isn't the response to this just going to be capping video to France at 480p? And what about things like game distribution?

I'm annoyed by the new Firefox UI.

Try Librewolf, you can turn it off in the settings.

Sometimes I think that French hate is silly

Sometimes

The sign of a well thought out law, for sure, lol.

Everyone is confused including videolan.

So videolan is pulling in either 50 million a year globally or 7 million in just france? That's some significant numbers. And they're also pushing at least 20 million GB of data in France? That must mean the law counts me using vlc to connect to e.g. a publicly available rtsp stream or something as vlc generating that content? $55/Tb is a pretty massive tax. This article has left me more confused than I thought possible

Fortunately it also has a fairly sensible non-free software policy

The only non-free software permitted in AlpineBSD is the netbsd-firmware package, which contains binary blobs for NetBSD drivers.

(Although part of me feels like reverse-engineering binary blobs might in fact be a valid use case for LLM's)

Absolute madness that this isn't limited to commercial operations, business trying to make a profit.

Yeah you can make a new group chat that just has the two of you, so it would be separate from your other chat.