Apple is no open environment. I hate it when the corporates decide for you that you should not use your software under the next incarnation of the operating system to make way for some unproductive Cloud storage scheme.

I hope for the EU digital fairness Act to end these abusive practices.

Otherwise I use Linux and I think it is ready for mainstream now.

Fun fact: I knew a former apple lobbist who told me that Mac OS X was based on Linux. Which is not entirely correct.

And even after all these years there are still plenty of idiots who don't understand what the word "average" means. I always see them slowing down for a camera then speeding right back up again afterwards. How do people this dumb get a license?

I've read that the spacecraft is now travelling at 24,500 mph. Given the moon is ~250K miles away even my bad maths can figure out thats approx 10 hours travel time so why are they quoting a 4 day trip to get there?

| And they get to do it because the FTC has been totally defanged. It has nothing to do with Trump or oil. Sheeple indeed.

In March 2025, Mr. Trump fired the two remaining Democratic commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, basically consolidating executive control over the agency. This action effectively ended the agency’s longstanding statutory and bipartisan independence.

So, basically, Mr. Trump defanged the FTC. Who's the sheeple now?

Depending on the study, from 30% to 44% of Vietnam vets came back with PTSD. The stereotype of the unhinged 'Nam vet was thus not just a leftist conspiracy. Today, Vietnam-era veterans remain disproportionately represented in the homeless population.

If we have a draft today the level of resistance will cripple the country. Nobody will tolerate the Government pulling that. That move could break the country.

I would expect it to be even more. In Germany I think every euro spent on renewables makes us less dependent on the strait of hormuz and other fossil nighmares.

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft...

I am glad for every cent that does not fuel Exxon and the likes and the corruption of democracy that follows from that dependency.

In digital we need digital sovereignty, in energy we need energy sovereignty.

The whole Musk companies are strange, the valuation looks like fiction to me.

I mean, Musk had this car maker thar produces very few EV cars valued higher than companies that do dominate the market.

What would it take to get Wine to the next level? How much investment would be needed?

For some reason it still seems to surprise a lot of people - even some scientists - that global warming is not a steady linear process but rather it goes in fits and starts and sometimes maybe slightly backwards in temp in some places for a short while. A sudden jump in heat one year - and hence record snow melt - should not come as a shock to anyone especially academics in the field.

I suggest you go watch some crash videos on youtube where that actually happens and maybe you can educate yourself as to what really happens as opposed to what you imagine does. Cars are far less crash protected at the rear plus in all the videos I've seen of these broken down self drives, all the other traffic is going around them very slowly so it would be no problem for people to get out and walk to the shoulder.

That may be the case in the US but not in Europe. There we have interop privileges in the EU software copyright directive.
This is why your the steward organisation shall be based in Europe or any other place that grants you legal satefy.

To satisfy US requirements the trick is usually to separate research from implementation.

that is, you have one project that documents functionality, and another independent project that implements the spec.

Adversarial interoperability of course needs to get stengthened.

This really does not matter. Copyright protects only the expession of software. You are free to clone software with independent code.

Let's face it, we now have four products:
- Then we have LibeOffice Online (resurrected)
- Collabora which originaed as a LO online fork.
- OnlyOffice , the Russians stranded in the Baltics
and
- Euro-Office - a fork of onlyoffice

plus from the public sector french La suite includes Cryptpad an no proper office suite
- Open desk is the German alternative at ZenDIS and includes Collabora.

I think Euro-Office will just be fine but the crucial question is how much staff they are able to amass to bring it up to speed.