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  • Chat Control: EU Council vote is a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

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  • Thanks for your comment. I'm still only learning how legislation in the EU works. However, so far I haven't been able to confirm what you're saying. Could you help if you know? (I assume not only me, but possibly other readers, too)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union

    Here it doesn't say (almost) anything about "trade". Admittedly I've only read 2-3 pages and then used Ctrl+F to search on the rest of the page though.. Is it a de-facto split between the legislative powers of the Council and the Parliament? Where to read about it?

  • Slint 1.14 Released

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  • I get that you are feeling slint is not GPL, but I do not understand where that feeling comes from.

    I think it's because the for-profit nature of the company may not create an actual community of FOSS enthusiasts around it. So if something were to happen to the business side of Slint-the-company, there would not be a strong community with known leaders and vision to save the situation. It's not like this is guaranteed for FOSS projects, but it's much more likely there. Single-person FOSS projects are scary to me for this reason as well.

    That is the biggest factor for me. (There are other important factors, too.)

  • Chat Control: EU Council vote is a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

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  • there is little doubt that EU chat control will be implemented

    Personally, I believe there's a chance for stopping this. EU is not an authoritarian state. I wouldn't give up too early -- instead would rather fight and provide public pressure for the direction of the law that supports mine and everybody's freedom.

  • Chat Control: EU Council vote is a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

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  • A much better and desired solution is to stop this law from ever happening by societal pressure, in my personal opinion. I wasn't born in the EU, but I live here many years now. I choose to believe that EU isn't fully corrupted, and that many good and meaningful changes are still happening.

  • Worth Paying for SSD and RAM Upgrades When Buying a Laptop?”

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  • Depends on your use, just check what your system uses right now. Realistically, your habits on your new system will be somewhat alike to your habits on your old system.

    If you fit in 512 Gb SSD before, you may fit still. If you needed 1Tb before, you probably will need it still.

    Unless you want to do local LLM inference or run many virtual containers / operating systems, you don't need too much memory.

  • EU backs away from chat control - Xpost

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  • Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

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  • escape the big tech tracking by installing uBlock Origin

    Cloudflare and AWS say "Hi" 👋

    UBO is a very good tech that I strongly recommend too though. Just gotta be aware of its limits.

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  • (If you're ashamed to explicitly point out your country, then... I think you have to deal with that anyway. I don't know if fighting against the bad actors in your country is a feasible strategy; it's too easy to give poor advice from far away, imagining yourself an expert where in reality you're not, so I'm not recommending anything.)

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  • Sorry, *your* president, not mine. I don't live in the US.

  • Founder Admits His "AI Transcription" Startup Was Just Him Joining People's Meetings and Taking Notes by Hand

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  • E-bike rules in Australia will soon change with possible ban on sale of bikes faster than 25km/h

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  • As a person who lives in the Netherlands where hills are not a problem and heat is not a problem, it's hard for me to understand the need for more than ~250W. I mean, I use all 600W when I want to get somewhere super-fast or after a traffic light, but it's a luxury and I'd survive just fine with 250W.

    That being said, when it's hot and/or there are hills.. I think I understand you. I'd definitely prefer to see a person on a 500W bike than a person on a got-knows-how-much-W car. I wouldn't consider you a risk if you occupy the bike lane, if your electric support stops at 25km/h.

    And from a third perspective, I do see the temptation to limit wattage to avoid the problem of "fat bikes" (as is observed in the last years in the Netherlands). Those bikes just rig the speed limiter, which is harder to reason about than motor power. But not really sure it's that relevant to AU at the moment. I think I'd support a higher Wattage cap overall, up to 500W and 200%-300% pedaling multiplier all seem fine to me.

  • I Set A Trap To Catch Students Cheating With AI. The Result Was Deflating

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  • What is a "Cambridge exam system"?

  • Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands 🇳🇱

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  • 😍

    What would be the equivalent number of car lanes and traffic lights to handle this traffic? 🤔

  • Does this exist?

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  • +1. Also, you can come visit the Netherlands and see if you want to stay here ^^

    There are a lot of other perks besides cycling infrastructure. For starters, we don't have Trump or generally the political system is not two-party...

  • French Servers Discontinued, Further Infrastructure Changes To Come and More - GrapheneOS Foundation

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  • Sorry, which people are not on the same page as which others?

  • French Servers Discontinued, Further Infrastructure Changes To Come and More - GrapheneOS Foundation

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  • From my understanding, there is the "enforcement" branch of the justice system, and there is the "judiciary" / "legal" branch. Police belongs to "enforcement", and they tend to want more control, less privacy, tighter regulation... for obvious reasons. So they will of course want Chat Control to make their job easy, American Tech or not. Policing everything is also easier to "explain" to people than diversity, so right-wing populism naturally uses that as well (also as means to tighten control and move the country towards authoritarianism). So all of these things aren't exclusively American. They are just societal.

    BTW, I also believe it's off-topic, as I'm merely saying that I'd prefer Europe-based servers for security, such as in the Netherlands. This country is not perfect, but it's pretty good with respecting privacy. And it's less prone to US influence.

  • Trump administration orders US embassy to collect data on migrant crime in Australia

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  • Mr. Trump voiced his opinion... We know what to do right? (The opposite.)

    Actually the above is just my joking-not-so-joking feedback. What's your take on that, Aussies? (I'm a European ATM.)