Comment Post-economics (Score 1) 127
What Trump advocates for is post-economics trade policy.
The post-economics extortion is best to be modelled by the policy ideas of little kids.
Comment Re:Trump is really smashing the China now! (Score 2) 175
Espionage = revealing state secrets to a foreign power.
I assume that Intel is not alleged to forward state secrets to a foreign government.
So what is the crime here, that Intel makes business with other countries?
Comment Re: Wayland is the IPv6 of display protocols (Score 1) 134
In fact it is a poisonous import pushed by Us corporations, completely alien to our culture in Europe.
Not even the Vatican museum would meet their puritan code of conduct nonsense.
Comment Re:XLibre? Isn't that the Nazi fork? (Score 1) 134
I guess the fork is more to get away from woke X.org than from wayland
Comment Re:lmao (Score 1) 71
His most recent job title is "President".
The reporting misses an important aspect. Denmark will hold the EU council Presidency for Q2 2025 and thus in a top position to steer all debates.
The Danish crown was confronted with the US presidential threat to seize Greenland, a possession for seven hundred years that predates the early settler communities in the United States. Then the International court of Justice thing of Microsoft that apparently sparked the Smith sovereignty love-bombing to the EU.
There is a pivotal moment now.
Comment Open Letter (Score 1) 31
One should not issue an open letter but send the observations straight to DG Competition of the European Commission. DMA enforcement only works if competitors send their market facts about obstacles they face.
See also: CASE DMA.100097
Meta – Number Independent
Interpersonal Communication
Services - Messenger -
Art. 7(1)
Comment Cobol (Score 1) 338
There is a reason why systems in cobol exist.
What is even the benefit, the added value of having it run in Java?
Anyway, emigration is always an option. Let the empire break down and then seek opportunities later in what is left.
Comment Fascism on the rise (Score 2) 99
""Frank Miller Jr. made threats against an MSG executive on social media and produced and sold merchandise that was offensive in nature," Mikyl Cordova, executive vice president of communications and marketing for the company, said in an emailed statement. "His behavior was disrespectful and disruptive and in violation of our code of conduct."
I understand Code of Conducts are a dangerous tool of repression but that rather sounds funny. Fascism is on the rise.
Comment Document Foundation (Score 1) 13
I think one could learn a lot from the structure the Document Foundation build with its Berlin lawyer as a host organisation for LibreOffice.
I would welcome a new FaunaDB open foundation.
Submission + - Coming Soon: The European Digital Identity Wallet (off-guardian.org)
An anonymous reader writes: The elite are already running large-scale pilot schemes for the future they want and we don’t. They are not being subtle about this. They are not hiding it.
The plan is a single government-issued app that holds your medical records, employment records, travel records, education records, vaccination records, tax records, financial records as well as (potentially) copies of your signature, fingerprints, facial scans, voice samples and DNA.
All stored handily on your phoneand shared with the governments of nineteen countries (plus Ukraine) and over 140 other public and private partners. Everyone from Deutsche Bank to the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Progress to Samsung Europe.
You will use this app to make payments, apply for loans, pay your taxes, pick up your prescriptions, cross international borders, start businesses, book doctor’s appointments, apply for jobs and even sign digital contracts online.
Businesses and government agencies would access this data from the back-end to conduct “automated background checks”.
The plan is a single government-issued app that holds your medical records, employment records, travel records, education records, vaccination records, tax records, financial records as well as (potentially) copies of your signature, fingerprints, facial scans, voice samples and DNA.
All stored handily on your phoneand shared with the governments of nineteen countries (plus Ukraine) and over 140 other public and private partners. Everyone from Deutsche Bank to the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Progress to Samsung Europe.
You will use this app to make payments, apply for loans, pay your taxes, pick up your prescriptions, cross international borders, start businesses, book doctor’s appointments, apply for jobs and even sign digital contracts online.
Businesses and government agencies would access this data from the back-end to conduct “automated background checks”.
Submission + - Would You Accept or Decline a Free Space Ride from Blue Origin, SpaceX, Boeing?
theodp writes: There's eating your company's dogfood. Then there's REALLY eating your company's dogfood. It's one thing for Microsoft to boast that they dare to use Outlook instead of Gmail. But it took a whole other level of commitment for Jeff Bezos to join his brother Mark aboard Blue Origin's first passenger-carrying mission in July 2021.
So, while Bezos is unhesitant about sending himself and other celebrities and loved ones into space aboard Blue Origin, how confident are you about the current state of space travel safety? If offered a free ride into space from Bezos's Blue Origin, Elon Musk's SpaceX, or aboard Boeing's Starliner, would you accept or decline it?
Do you pay heed to Sheryl Sandburg's 2012 advice ("If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship [Sandburg was referring to a Google job offer], you don't ask what seat. You just get on.")? Or to David Bowie's 1969 Space Oddity ("Ground Control to Major Tom / Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong / Can you hear me, Major Tom?")?
So, while Bezos is unhesitant about sending himself and other celebrities and loved ones into space aboard Blue Origin, how confident are you about the current state of space travel safety? If offered a free ride into space from Bezos's Blue Origin, Elon Musk's SpaceX, or aboard Boeing's Starliner, would you accept or decline it?
Do you pay heed to Sheryl Sandburg's 2012 advice ("If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship [Sandburg was referring to a Google job offer], you don't ask what seat. You just get on.")? Or to David Bowie's 1969 Space Oddity ("Ground Control to Major Tom / Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong / Can you hear me, Major Tom?")?
Comment beginners (Score 1) 42
"Indeed, Rust is not a language for beginners" - come on, Rust is just another Wirth language. We could also discuss ADA.
The real issue is to better fix C, that is making memory leaks better traceable. And there are tools for that.
Comment IRS (Score 1, Interesting) 150
As a European I came across the IRS W8Ben form and its completely incomprehensible for me.This is bureaucracy on a completely new level.
In fact any disruption on the IRS side is very much appreciated. If humans cannot understand what the IRS is doing maybe machines would make it more rational and traceable.
Not sure if the products of VASTdata are worth it.
Comment Other criteria (Score 1) 58
There is a notion of DITO, deveopment in the open.
No on ever said that open source is enough.
Comment Re:Germany, too (Score 2) 75
Today Ireland had a considerable outage see e.g.
https://esb.ie/media-centre-ne...
For the US they actually have a power outage map:
https://poweroutage.us/
Puerto Rico had a new year outage
https://www.france24.com/en/am...
In Germany there is no example of an actual big outage.
In Westerwald there was an outage of 40000 home due to frosty weather conditions, had nothing to do with the net or the energy mix.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inla...
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