Besides the critique towards the person have you any insights as to which of his statements could be biased?

I’m just going to leave this here for reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

This is a ridiculus statement coming from a government official. Can’t imagine any other motivation than a clickbait equivalent intended to sling the topic in the public limelight.

Given enough effort and time all software can be reverse engineered. So “jailbreaking” is plausible. But that is just one piece of this puzzel. Here is a more informed version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X9ww6FtUhE

It is simple: nowadays security awareness is drilled in for most of the online population. If presented with a choice people can’t oversee, the default safest option is not to chose. I mean, how many new Mastodon users know any of these servers?

So, as couter-intuitive or even ironic it may seem, the “problem” is choice. People need to learn that social media is no longer a single entity, but more like email or choosing a bank.

Bit of a nitpick, but according the quote they “problem” Google puts forward is about “…reducing dependence on American tech companies…” not adoption of free software. Their problem, it seems to me, is that they don’t want competition and with that a more level playing field. If the EU would promote or even finance local alternatives, it would only would hurt their bottom line.

As a reminder, Google itself is built and continues to operate on free software. They themselves have released and maintain important software such as Go and Kubernetes conform the open source model. They are also major supporters of governence organizations such as The Linux Foundation. But this is of course b/c they are smart in recognizing their own benefit.

kiss of ☠️ orban is done for 🤣

I sympathize with people who have close family there. Besides them, I don’t see the problem. Why would anyone choose to voluntarily visit a country, where they can refuse you at customs for not wanting to share your life story with the regime. There are so many other completely nice destinations, where visitors don’t get tackled by the local sturmtruppen for looking foreign.

Yes. As was regulated in EU law. As with almost all changes in the EU, it took way too long before they managed to curb the funds. I hope that the internal rules will be thoroughly reworked to prevent/limit the damage of future deliquency. Still, good thing these problems were laid bare b/c of the misconduct of HU’s size. Imagine the damage if it was one of the bigger players… could be the end of the EU

Sure. EU rules are lacking, perhaps because the rule makers did not (want to?) anticipate willfull sabotage by a member state. That’s on them. So it took way too long for the EU to stop propping up this regime.

As for any kind of super majority I sincerly hope people will not make that mistake again. Way too risky. AFAIK this is what enabled this lot in the first place.

Anyway, best of luck!

Eye for an eye is very biblical and perhaps the root cause of the regime’s brutality. So no. Better off focusing on the root cause of the societal decay of the last decades. Laws that are set up for oligarchs to circumvent and masses to be keep under control with debt and barriers to organize themselves.

Exactly. If anything jabba the hut is the result of people being fed up from the entire corrupt political system.

I’d guess blackmail. If not exactly voting yes but at least abstaining when UA support, RU sanctions were voted on. The current EU rules were not made for dealing with an actively sabotaging state in mind.

I sympathize and wish you strength and opportunity to change your circumstance. But in the end it is the Hungarian people who need to take action to change. Being “locked under tyrants” was not someone else’s doing.

I’m confused, Musk is saying we’re heading to abundance and work being optional. Merz is saying we need to work more. I don’t know which overlord to listen to. They really need to compare notes at the next “rule the pawns” meeting…

Never worked with any note taking apps except for Vim with customized snippets and rudamentary helper scripts.

While such an app seems very appealing, I haven’t seen any of them featuring the useful stuff, such as pluggable editor (in my case Vim or NeoVim), template support (day journal, meeting, README etc…), rendered fields (e.g.: today, author, or arbitrary values), support for pandoc rendering, doc metadata management (tags, keywords, related docs, links) or markers in text eg. @TODO etc… (idea being to aut. create lists of paragraps with such markers)

What’s the point of a note taking app that provides help with editing single docs and maybe with rendering to HTML, but doesn’t help organizing and remembering stuff?