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> The end of interest-based 3rd places Whatever happened to pubs and the shared interest of drinking beer (and getting drunk in the process ...)? ;-)

> the process being too convoluted and risky turns off some corporations from storing data entirely (maybe it's not complicated enough yet in that regard) This is a common misconce…

> GDPR has done wonders to prevent careless personal data leaks that are so common in the US, and other kinds of abuse. Has it? I still have to see evidence of that. What GDPR defi…

I don't subscribe to ideological categories such as "hypercapitalists". So, no, I don't see that.

> We can debate the details and implementation but EU legislature is, at least in spirit, trying to protect human rights That's an unfounded assertion. Of course, politicians will …

Engineers are prone to overcomplicating matters. Pieter Levels famously runs Nomad List as vanilla PHP application on a single Linux server, while people keeps insisting you need a…

Still, EU member countries even fail at cooperating where it'd absolutely make sense to do so (see FCAS, for instance).

Yet they keep yapping on about the EU being about tighter integration between its member states. If not in the area of defence, where else? So far, this has been an abject failure …

Care to elaborate?

While advancements in drone technology in Ukraine certainly have been accelerated by the war, the country was by no means unprepared. They have been preparing for a large-scale war…

> Stop honoring US copyright. I suppose some people just want to see the world burn. I'm by no means a supporter of copyright and copyright laws, but unilaterally terminating such …

Linux is no EU project, but very much global. It just happens that its originator (who, quite tellingly, has been living and working in the US since the mid-90s) is Finnish.

It's way to late for baby steps. The EU is bound to become either a US or a Chinese protectorate in all but name in just a few years time now. How isolationism and open source are …

> and develop domestic alternatives. Therein lies the rub for the EU. They think they can just regulate such alternatives into existence, yet have time and time again failed to pro…

It never ceases to amaze me how people scramble to defend the EU's failed policies over the last three decades. The EU managed to regulate itself out of all relevant markets and it…

> I think the right move for Europe and other countries would be to effectively ban US tech and follow the Chinese response to Nvidia (delivered personally to Trump: we want to bui…

I can't tell anymore if this satire or not, because there are more than few people who actually believe isolationism and red tape such as the AI Act or GDPR is beneficial to the EU…

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Exactly this. A few years ago, I saw a talk that made a point about how prosthetics that mimic original human body parts are often designed from an able-bodied point of view. They …

Data is proving otherwise. While locally shortages do happen, in general there more resources available than ever: http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2023/04/50-ways-the-world-is...

As I frequently run bespoke training sessions and project-based workshops for clients, I create quite a lot of presentations and, naturally, to some extent rely on ChatGPT and simi…

> Frankly, I'm not sure anymore what the name of the interactive terminal software was Might've been either NComm or Term. Another piece the puzzle I just remembered was compressio…

1) Having been an avid Amiga user, for the most part I used an A1200 to log into BBS. Frankly, I'm not sure anymore what the name of the interactive terminal software was, but for …

What are on about? That article contains no em dashes. Besides, it's from 2016. Unfortunately, I don't own a time machine.