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EU should mandate open alternatives to Siri on Apple

Here in Portugal, tax comes pre calculated from the government on a free web application. It works very well! I just need to do very small adjustments every year before deliver the…

I am about to test this one http://docs.getmoto.org/en/latest/index.html

And most of their carbon dioxide production is due to “developed countries” consumption

Electronic debit card was invented in…. Denmark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dankort

Since when Accenture is European? It’s this because these companies are not Palantir?

If American companies don’t respect Europe regulation it’s time to Europe invest in dedicated software competing with office 365, social networks, even android/apple/windows os.

This reminds me o sharp knifes argument. In programming you may want to provide tools that can shoot you in the foot, if the alternative is not as powerful. here is a conversation …

Couldn’t we try to rely more in other topologies other than client server. I see technologies like wireguard and Tailscale could reduce the dependence on data centers now that we h…

I was working in ASP.NET when projects like Backbone.js, Knockout, and Angular started to pop up. They were trying to address issues on mainstream tech at that moment (compilation …

> Europe and US have decreased fossil fuel consumption a bit We did not decreased fossil consumption we externalised the fossil consumption to developed countries production. Devel…

I once worked at a place where we all called each other “NERD.” One time a person outside the IT circle turned to us in the cafeteria and shouted, “What's up, NERDS?” There was com…

Meta is the second last company I trust to put an wearable on my face.

This casio model offers a step counter and pairs with the phone. You can for instance find your phone with the watch https://www.casio.com/us/watches/casio/product.ABL-100WE-1A/

Fir a long time, I don’t think full self driving makes economic sense. Would this hurt car sells at long term?

There is this post about a experiment on google where they reduced the page weight and the traffic went up instead of down. That was because it open the site to countries with low …

The author states that MPA are not a solution for everything. Sure google maps don’t fit the MPA model but I’ve seen a lot of projects that would be much better using current brows…

For me the privacy part of site not knowing we’re I live would be great. I could also black list entities from delivering spam.

Mixing payments gateways and vibe coding. What can go wrong?

One time set-up: 1- Plug Pila in :D

Even inside Java, projects like quarkus don’t receive fast adoption because Spring is the “professional” way to work. Spring developer experience is awful, I miss hot reload.

Take a look at .http files. They are a file based alternative to postman. I don’t think it has the assertion feature.

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Many thanks to Nolan Lawson for his work on PouchDB. Really enjoy his blog and the posts he did on the PouchDB website.

I would say that the main objective of the current system is to grow. We measure this with the GDP. This growth is necessary for the current system to survive, to pay our debts or …