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@edri@eupolicy.social So now I want a consortium that spends 20 G€ on hardware they would have bought anyway and just gives 10 G€ to @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl . :-)
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@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social Why do you say "disperse", are you implying it gets lost once it reaches Venezuela?
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@edri@eupolicy.social Another consortium of renewable power companies with a small (5 MW) DC operator should propose to add some computing and then spend 95 % of the money on offshore wind power. The wind mills collect data for machine learning aka AI. The only problem is how to convert the computing capacity of one wind turbine into units of "H100-equivalent", so you can get to the 25k requirement of the tender. Experts in fluid dynamics to estimate the information bandwidth of one turbine vs. that of a GPU's.
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@edri@eupolicy.social Hm: «the proposed software stack solutions and plans. Higher scores may be awarded to proposals that would develop and deploy a European-based and controlled software stack (cloud and AI) that will be integrating, as much as possible, open-source solutions either during Phase 1 or within year 4 after Operational Readiness (T0). The evaluation will consider the technical depth of the stack, and the extent to which it reduces dependencies on non-European technology providers.»
#FreeSoftware
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@ilumium What "key thematic issues proposed for discussion" in a civil society conference can possibly cause trouble to "broader public interest considerations"?? Did some #copyright lobbyist blackmail them?
"Airfares on Asia-Europe routes spike on war in Iran: Travelers hoping for a return to more moderate long-haul airfares this summer are in for a rude awakening."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-26/asia-europe-flight-prices-surge-as-iran-war-disrupts-jet-fuel-cost-supply-chain
Cry me a river AKA non tutto il male vien per nuocere.
Part of the reason I find generative "AI" peddlers so tiresome, I suspect, is that they regurgitate so much of the playbook of the worst Hegelian/Marxist cliché.
"Follow me, for I represent the FUTURE! How do I know the future, or why do I think the future is better than the present, you ask? Shut up, traitor!"
Do we really have to have this debate all over again?
Anyway, I've added a couple quotations from #KarlPopper on moral futurism, anti-rationalism and mysticism.
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Karl_Popper&diff=prev&oldid=3931040
I see that the European Commission is adopting that well-tested method for "simplification", called "let's rewrite all basic definitions in the law from scratch and throw 10 years of court rulings out of the window, so we can start anew!".
https://noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-report-v3-analysis-select-gdpr-and-eprivacy-proposals-commission
The #GoodReads import is so smooth, I thought when migrating from #aNobii. Too bad years later I find out that many of my reviews are just an "Err:510".
My #ThinkPad x1 carbon gen1 (manufactured November 2011) still serves me well, but the keyboard has started giving up. I've ordered a backup keyboard for 40 € from some HK seller, let's see what happens...
(I'm positive I had a backup keyboard stashed somewhere, but maybe I lost it when I moved several years ago, or maybe it's still in Milan.)
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@mjd@mathstodon.xyz They usually look something like this. Each line should state in what year it was valid.
This one is from 2021 (an unusual year) but still.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/exceptional-new-normal-iea-raises-growth-forecast-for-wind-and-solar-by-another-25/
@solar_chase@mastodon.green
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@Amgine@mamot.fr I did it to myself... I was supposed to be doing something else tonight!
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@leouieda@bertha.social Reminds me of an old discussion about a Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees. Someone wondered, how comes we select 10 smart people to decide things together and their collective decisions end up being less smart than any individual decision-maker is?
"Snack responsibly", says the #Oreo package. A bit rich to say when you are basically a saturate solution of sugar in palm oil.
(A portion is officially 2 pieces or 22 g.)
I end up buying Oreos when travelling because they are often the only recognisable #vegan option in vast areas of central Europe where it's apparently mandatory to add a drop of butter or cow milk in every bakery product just for the sake of it.
Excellent news from #Facebook:
«“If you deliver $100 in ads to Italy, where there is a 3% location fee, you will be charged $100 (ad delivery), plus $3 (location fee), for $103 total,” the company wrote. “Note that any applicable VAT will be calculated on top of the total amount.”»
Every little additional friction in the #AdTech market helps fight #MassSurveillance. (If nothing else, at least the tax will help measure the epidemic.)
I ate Europol's bread.
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@sam OCE seems https://docs.opencollective.com/oceurope/faq/general-faqs more permissive than OSC https://docs.oscollective.org/interested-in-joining-osc/acceptance-criteria but I think they also do a bit less, for example I'm not sure they accept to hold domain names for you.
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@liaizon@social.wake.st Sure, the WMF ED/CEO/whatever is ultimately responsible for hiring/firing WMF employees. I have no information on whether the current one has made things better or worse yet (she just started) but at least she made some positive statements about the value of unions.
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@liaizon@social.wake.st Oh dear, I thought we had this discussion just a short while ago. Turns out it was 2010.
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/FIKY6K6QKTT64PCRVSGGKLTRUFPUTC7B/
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@Laurielle AM34 passed with 307 votes and the final text only got 228. The 80 votes lost (mostly among Greens, Left, Renew) were presumably people who voted for the amendment not because they liked it but because they knew EPP wouldn't like it. 157 MEPs in the EPP voted against the amendment and 137 ended up voting against the final text once it passed.
Cf. https://framapiaf.org/@boud/116295844606323488
#EUpolicy #ChatControl
Pro tip: bookmarking https://www.tind.io/ is an effective way to let Firefox autocomplete accidentally bring you to a safe space when you're at risk of visiting a dangerous domain a few letters longer.
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@liaizon@social.wake.st Interesting. Rossmann is a customer of my employer and my employer's values include "customer is a friend". I'm feeling it more now. :)
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@gabrielesvelto Does the additional traffic stand out in AMSIX or other IX stats yet? (It would perhaps be easier to spot updates as the rollout was staggered.)
If this continues, #Google will presumably soon come up with p2p downloads of updates à la #Microsoft "Delivery Optimization".
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@nyhan@fediscience.org Based on certain recent events, I have the suspicion that decisions on what needs doing re Iran are somewhat less than evidence based.
#uspol
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@jon 815 km via Kuopio I think. Needs two tickets AFAICT, Tornio-Oulu and then Oulu-Kotka (change in Kouvola).
https://brouter.damsy.net/latest/#map=6/63.686/24.445/standard&lonlats=24.150406,65.827781;27.696694,62.925006;26.939292,60.468261&profile=rail
Otherwise 917 km with change in Riihimäki.
https://brouter.damsy.net/latest/#map=9/60.9173/24.0725/standard&lonlats=24.150406,65.827781;24.785156,60.748418;26.939292,60.468261&profile=rail
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@pixelcats This new album gets better after a few relistens! For now I think my fav is "Feel The Beat".
#kpop #NCT
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@mpe Thank you for sharing your journey with us. (I have nothing useful to say most of the time, maybe I have here.)
By making a static website you already did most of the work.
OVH allows to renew a domain name for up to 10 years (not all TLDs). I've never managed to renew the associated static hosting for more than 3 years. I suppose the gratis hosting plan (100 MB) might vanish any time.
A shared (nonprofit/coop) hosting might be more durable, e.g. Codeberg Pages or Autistici/Inventati.
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@jon@gruene.social The minister this week said «I don't dare promise an exact date» (as you probably know as you were interviewed for the same article!) so maybe they don't dare to promise the hours either? :)
https://yle.fi/a/74-20220038
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@tito@social.sciences.re I have no idea what this is about but I've read the first two pages and I'm already hooked. Dangerous rabbit hole.
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@sam I can potentially help. Running costs for a new cooperative in Finland start at about 2000 €/y.
Are you saying Open Collective Europe wouldn't take you?
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@cameronneylon Interesting question!
I know about https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Attribution_Generator for #CreativeCommons images (verbatim) reuse and I see that e.g. #MediaWiki extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Chart produces SVG files without any such metadata inside (presumably because they're not supposed to be downloaded?).
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@rivoluzioneurbanamobilita@poliversity.it Mi piacerebbe vedere un calcolo di quante tonnellate di petrolio risparmieremmo (e quanto scenderebbe di conseguenza il costo alla pompa) se spendessimo 500 M€ per aiutare milioni di persone a comprare/riparare una biciclettta.
In hindsight, this January 13 announcement was significant:
«The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln CVN 72 conducted a live fire Close In Weapon System exercise on 8 January 2026, according to information published by the U.S. Department of War. The drill confirmed the carrier’s ability to defeat close-range aerial and surface threats while operating in a strategically sensitive region.»
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@jon What about Kotka? It's another commercial ports with sparse traffic service, it's further to the East which adds a bit to geodesic distance. A bit less on brouter but becomes 1003 km via Tikkurila which appears to be the fastest single ticket you can buy. Not sure it meets your definitions.
https://brouter.damsy.net/latest/#map=6/63.174/27.104/standard&lonlats=24.150406,65.827781;25.045909,60.295215;26.939292,60.468261&profile=rail
Too bad Ilomantsi is not available. :)
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@dajb Interesting. Do you mean the co-op the entity will liquidate? I'm curious how that works.
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@maxlath@piaille.fr @pierres@mastodon.social Nice. We chatted at the booth but I didn't manage to get into the devroom. Retailers have very poor data quality on these matters. The CSRD (corporate sustainability reporting directive) was supposed to help, forcing some much-needed cooperation, but I'm not sure whether it's on ice now.
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@johl I don't know but I would consider it ethical to cancel any bitcoin by sending it to a bitcoin eater address, for example.
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/3779
The equivalent for fiat money would be a donation to a central bank but that's a bit harder. Maybe UNICEF bank accounts can work. IMF accepts corporate donations (sounds silly).
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@liaizon Fair enough. BTW the same can be said about email these days: to create a gmail account you probably need a SIM which in many countries requires valid ID.
So we exclude even the lowest possible threshold of official/monetary authentication. Now we're left only with person-to-person trust. It's ok, but it requires a lot of work from some volunteers, so that's another form of inequality that emerges.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@szbalint/116413375875464492
@szbalint@mastodon.social Can they, though? At least one user reports posting seemed to work, but even loading one's own profile didn't. https://mastodon.ie/@padraig/116413606279926676
#FediMeta
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Uh: «On 27 February 2025 TARGET Services encountered a major incident that made T2 and T2S unavailable for approximately ten and eight hours respectively. Consequently, the processing of securities settlement instructions, payments, ancillary system settlements, and liquidity transfers between TARGET Services was suspended. As a follow-up to the incident, the TARGET Services governance bodies identified 20 measures to enhance contingency arrangements in the future.»
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/intro/publications/pdf/ecb.miptopical251107.en.pdf
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@liaizon Yes, I know how to get email addresses and SIMs without verification. But then I also knew how to get a bank account in Finland on day 2 of moving here, while other people I know (also very literate, EU citizens and everything) had to spend days of phone calls and months of wall clock time to get there.
So it's easy to misjudge the impacts of seemingly trivial requirements/participation filters. It's common for some admins to restrict account creation to a few known domains.
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@dajb Interesting! Is it common in the UK for cooperatives to have an expiration date in the bylaws or articles of incorporation, which needs to be renewed by the general meeting at some point?
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@liaizon I share the ideal goal and I want to understand better. Say an event is organised by an EU-based association for its own members which requires a payment of 0.01 € to an euro-denominated bank account for membership, is that still bad? (I'm implying it would be a regional event with no aspiration to cover all geographies. After all, even if it's online, timezones would be a restraint anyway.)