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New comment by Nemo_bis in "Soft launch of open-source code platform for government"

Nemo_bis — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:41:45 +0000

If by "coordination" you mean central planning, not.

There are things such as sharing best practices and other resources. An example is https://standard.publiccode.net/ and https://new.digitalpublicgoods.net/ .

And of course many efforts towards a shared funding infrastucture, see also https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/KES3TH-funding_europe...

New comment by Nemo_bis in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

Nemo_bis — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:38:09 +0000

Azure also regularly has incidents due to capacity issues in several regions, so that many Azure-managed services also go down. Some of those incidents have been open continuously for many months now.

New comment by Nemo_bis in "US Supreme Court reviews police use of cell location data"

Nemo_bis — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:06:28 +0000

Google got caught in the aftermath of the Carpenter vs. US ruling. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/18/google-disrupts-geofence...

By stopping that one specific way they supported warrantless surveillance, Google probably managed to make the current round of litigation moot so that Google won't suffer a negative ruling on the merits. They can start all over again in a slightly different way once the attention goes down a bit.

New comment by Nemo_bis in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

Nemo_bis — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:25:59 +0000

It depends on what your priors are for what's "needed". If you think 80k employees are needed to do what the Wikimedia Foundation does, their fundraising is way too humble. :-)

New comment by Nemo_bis in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

Nemo_bis — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:30:25 +0000

You don't need 80k employees to self-host. The Wikimedia Foundation does it with a team of few dozens SREs.

New comment by Nemo_bis in "Migrating to the EU"

Nemo_bis — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:55:27 +0000

I agree, as a happy Runbox customer of several years. But probably the parent post meant non-EEA too, as Norway is effectively subject to any and all EU regulations.

New comment by Nemo_bis in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

Nemo_bis — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:53:36 +0000

If you are interested in China, I strongly recommend subscribing to the China Briefing: https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-briefing/

New comment by Nemo_bis in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

Nemo_bis — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:54:19 +0000

It is happening even in the USA with a federal government dead set on bankrolling coal companies.

New comment by Nemo_bis in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

Nemo_bis — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:05:29 +0000

'How did you go bankrupt?' Bill asked. 'Two ways,' the coal baron said. 'Gradually and then suddenly.'

New comment by Nemo_bis in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

Nemo_bis — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:54:02 +0000

Well,

> The new analysis for Carbon Brief shows that electricity generation from coal in India fell by 3.0% year-on-year (46 terawatt hours, TWh) and in China by 1.6% (90TWh).

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coal-power-drops-in-chi...

New comment by Nemo_bis in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

Nemo_bis — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:15:33 +0000

Reminds me of the famous quip starting with "found a bug in the english site" (early 2000s)...

https://bash.toolforge.org/quip/AU8FCPz66snAnmqnLHDj

New comment by Nemo_bis in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

Nemo_bis — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:39:15 +0000

What "dependency"? I don't use the Murena cloud at all on my /e/OS device.

New comment by Nemo_bis in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

Nemo_bis — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:34:15 +0000

Same here! I've not had any compatibility issues when using /e/OS on a Teracube 2e. It's a smooth experience all along.

New comment by Nemo_bis in "14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight"

Nemo_bis — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:09:11 +0000

Even worse was the passage: "First, Wu needs to consider thicker origami solutions as he scales his design up".

Needs to? When did he sign up for it? It's not like he tried to patent a shelter design or bid for a government contract.

New comment by Nemo_bis in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

Nemo_bis — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:33:51 +0000

They can't even agree to leave XTwitter for official EU accounts...

New comment by Nemo_bis in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

Nemo_bis — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:31:24 +0000

Indeed the cat and mouse game is tedious... There's a case to be made that you should just act on the root cause of all these issues with a neutral policy tool. The best tested of all regulatory tools is taxation. Reduce the profit motive slightly and many of these aberrations nobody likes will go away.

New comment by Nemo_bis in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

Nemo_bis — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:23:40 +0000

Some interesting things are cooking on the Matrix front. The "Matrix state of the union" talk at FOSDEM is a compact recap: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/URX89L-matrix-state-o...

New comment by Nemo_bis in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

Nemo_bis — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:22:08 +0000

Sounds like you're proposing Element (EMS)

New comment by Nemo_bis in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

Nemo_bis — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:26:13 +0000

SE companies can be unlisted, if that's what you mean.

The capital requirements can be changed.

New comment by Nemo_bis in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

Nemo_bis — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:36:26 +0000

The first point already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_Europaea

The second point is dubious. A central registry may be better or worse than the best national registry.

The third and fourth are what is usually called the Capital Markets Union in eurobubble speak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Markets_Union

The Draghi report had some specific proposals which are rather realistic:

> Reduce capital market fragmentation > > A. Introduce a European Security Exchange Commission > > B. Reduce regulatory fragmentation to deepen the CMU > > C. Encourage retail investors through the offer of second pillar pension schemes where the successful examples of some EU Member States can be replicated. > > D. Assess whether further changes to the capital requirements under Solvency II are warranted by further reducing the capital charges on equity investments held for the long term.

https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/97e481fd-2dc3...

https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/ec1409c1-d4b4... (p. 292)