Henrik Pauli

@randahl@mastodon.social It's absolute madness that this asshole was allowed back into presidency for the second time.

@projectmoon@social.agnos.is @Tutanota@mastodon.social "How about chat control?" "No." "How about chat control?" "No." "How about chat control?" "No." "How about chat control?" "No." "How about chat control?" "No."

@randahl@mastodon.social Oh come on, you know they'll wear this as a badge of pride.

@DeliaChristina@sfba.social It really is flabbergasting how much the journalists aren't journalisming these days...

@SuperMoosie@mastodon.au @tanyakaroli@expressional.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social But there's also problems with the training. Relatively short, focuses on combat instead of de-escalation techniques, and shaped by people like Dave "killology" Grossman...

@cwebber@social.coop "the rewrite was done and then merged to main" — I find this part so egregious and so typical. With the rewrite practically all issues, merge requests, etc. are void. There was no reason for the rewrite to be destructive. But in good AI fashion, it of course was. That's all they know.

@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org @davidho@mastodon.world I guess it also wasn't nearly as common to drive a pickup for no reason when a normal car would also do. (Certainly the case in my European perspective, and the monster SUVs are unfortunately on the rise here too (I have doubts on their road legality))

@mcnado@mstdn.social ah yes, the pro-life party, the party of families, etc. etc.

@bagder@mastodon.social “On average, every single production source code line of curl has been written (and then rewritten) 4.14 times.” curl is the ship of Theseus not once, not twice, but four times :D

@AVincentInSpace@furry.engineer @pluralistic@mamot.fr That's not the technology being exceptional and exceptionally wicked, it's the hype and the bubble being exceptionally wicked.

@MaddieM4@raphus.social @alxd@writing.exchange @tinker@infosec.exchange I wonder if alxd's statement might be still true, just in a different way. Not approaching from the communities, but from the licence. I'd think any reasonable person (but they're not reasonable :D) would be super careful about breaking licences around GPL, be it including snippets from non-copyleft in copyleft code, or the other way around. So maybe GPL comes useful. But then, as far as I've heard, there's not been clear cases settled about slopware plagiarism yet.

@transworld@masto.ai That one adamtots comic comes to my mind...

@TerryBTwo@ohai.social @Tijn@dosgame.club And now, I hear, we're at the stage where console companies are saying "to play split screen with your friend, both of your accounts must own the game!" — which is the dumbest, greediest, removed-from-reality-est shit I've heard lately. (Halo PS5 apparently, and they danced back from it)

@Tijn@dosgame.club This reminds me of the Powers That Be going after people, kids, for a bunch of MP3s, and now, somehow, it is perfectly okay to steal and deface the exact same IP without any compensation, but also without the social investment that the enjoyment of the pirated goods induced.

@atoponce@fosstodon.org You mean his 39.99'th birthday

@clickhere@mastodon.ie @Bibliothecaris@social.edu.nl Yeah, that seems like a reasonable step coming from Instagram in particular.

@mcnado@mstdn.social I absolutely love how it immediately resurfaced. These people are just so amazingly stupid.

@joshuaelliott@mastodon.social I genuinely find it awkward to use after all these years with more "normal" player UIs, but boy howdy is it ever an Old Reliable. Especially when it comes to actual sound output.

@benroyce@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu I really, really don't think we're being perfectionists or hypercritical, despite you latching onto those words so hard. Most of us know not to be idealists — hell, I'm coming from the Orbán country where the only solution was for every leftist to vote for a conservative, right wing guy; we're *very* far from idealism and perfectionism —, but we see the repeated refusal from the EC to take a hint with what people don't want. They just keep microsofting forward.

@Mnemosinee@mastodon.social @usti@witter.cz @jtb@toot.wales Was mostly perplexed by how in two comments the ire was aimed at the ex-EU member and not at the never-been-EU member that we happened to argue with. But, honestly, whatever. Glad it's over.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social didn't they once also have like a telnet or finger interface? Or was that some other service, I don't remember...

@benroyce@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu The disappointment comes in the repeated actions of the Commission, and not from any kind of psyop I'm afraid. Emphatically: What you see in most of the comments isn't some anti-EU sentiment fueled by (typically Russia backed) far-right dolts. It is criticism on the repeated approaches, that one particular, *hard to interact with*, very removed from the People, part of the system is making.

@benroyce@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu For the dozenth time, none of the comments in this conversation, and from what I've last seen none of the comments under the post demand perfection.

@Walrus@toot.wales @derralf@fediverse.blackneon.net @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy I don't like travelling. I like being elsewhere. Nothing makes me more miserable than spending 14 hours in a tin can bored out of my skull, be it on the ground or in the air. It also doesn't give me anything that I'm going to Elsewhere for: culture, food, things to see, people to meet.

@benroyce@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales So we do, every 5 years, and many of them have indeed been voting against many of the EC's attempts (e.g. chat control), which led to them (the unelected, uninfluenceable EC) to just retry later, because they understand consent about as much as Microsoft does.

@number6@fosstodon.org @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy Railroads are used, they can't compete, because unlike Japan and China, we don't have a good superspeed network. While it still takes 13+ hours to do what can be done in 6 in Japan, and is otherwise a 1.5 hour flight + 2~3 hours of faffing about because, well, airports, people will prefer the flights until they become prohibitively expensive.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Qalculate has been a staple in my household for I'm sure over a decade, excellent tool

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy Also one good reason that none of these bodies seems to ever recognise: posting on X or Meta's platforms is invisible to those who are not on them. Fediverse or even BlueSky has (currently) no such problem.

@lianna@micro.webgarden.click @lil5@social.last.nl I'm on Facebook and elsewhere and I don't see Threads even *there*. I see Instagram mentioned all the time. Tiktok. Threads barely ever. I wonder if the number is from some default account creation of meta accounts...

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu "Fined major platforms for anti-competitive practices and ignoring consumer data choices" Really? Didn't von der Leyen block some? It makes one feel American Corporations are more important than Citizens.

@benroyce@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales I'm a European.

@lianna@micro.webgarden.click On one hand the whole thing of "if it's grassroots, it must be bad" resonates with me because that's exactly why the more grassrootsy parties in Hungary never got any traction, no matter how much visible work they did on the local level. (And I'm sure that Magyar's popularity was in part due to him having eXpErIeNcE) (haha so one of the most common retorts was, I don't know if from trolls or legit, that "and how would these newbies know what to do if they become government?" XD)

@benroyce@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu I'm pretty sure their re-re-re-reattempting to implement chat control, their folding to the US, US Big Tech surveillance companies, and to the AI fomo is much, much more dangerous to our Europe and to our democracy, than the "entitled screeching" of citizens rightfully concerned about the Commission — over which, I repeat, we have no direct control or influence — doing things that go against us as citizens.

@benroyce@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu How is being disappointed in them not understanding no, "perfectionist hypercriticism"? If they made *one* mistake and we whined about it to no end, *that*, that would be it. This is not that. They are eroding privacy rights left and right, repeatedly, from multiple angles, to serve corporate (and US) interests before Europe's. It's not perfectionism to want something not shit, it's perfectionism to want something perfect and immaculate.

@Mnemosinee@mastodon.social @usti@witter.cz @jtb@toot.wales Finding it rather amusing how angry you are with someone whose EU citizenship was removed (likely) against their will, while you don't appear to have similar vitriol towards other outsiders who never even were EU citizens in the first place. On whether they should have a say, or, you know, opinions at all. Half of the UK didn't want Brexit, and more than half of the UK doesn't want to be outside the EU.

@Tutanota@mastodon.social Also in other, much more uncouth words: who the FUCK does Metsola think she is?

@jacqueline@chaos.social 8 layers of management is pure madness, but the reduction of that is probably the only positive thing I can read out of this thing...

@jonty@chaos.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Oh that is so cool!

@benroyce@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Can you call your congresspeople or senators (cf. representatives), or can you call your Secretary (cf. Minister)? I'm pretty sure even in a relatively less insane country you can the former but not the latter. As such you can't possibly put in "real work" to influence them. You can, however, pressure your reps, who are in Parliament (national or EU), who you can hope they'll take into account your pressure when they vote.

@benroyce@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Sure, it's the elected heads of states, and in the other council the ministers appointed by said elected heads of states, but that's just way too many layers — I don't think we can say we have any say in the matter. Would you say that you, under any US president, have any kind of influence over who your Secretaries are and what they represent? And what they'd represent in an international formation with other Secretaries/Ministers?

@fribbledom@mastodon.social And sometimes not even that, as apps just refuse to cache things. (AHEM chat apps' emoji and gif palette AHEM)

@benroyce@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Ben.

@benroyce@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu I did, as I do every time, and we voted in the largest numbers ever since the change from the People's Republic era. Despite that like half of us are not whatsoever represented by the incoming conservative, right-wing government. And you probably have very little idea what the social and traditional media scene was like, because even in Europe most people were completely oblivious to just how fucked Hungary was in that respect. It could have deterred people, didn't.

@benroyce@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Um, well you did say, literally, "so that certainly places you at a worse position than me". :D

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io That's just awfully stupid, wtf... Also why the crap are we sending these people all across the globe instead of having them quarantine for a bit ashore in a controlled environment?

@benroyce@mastodon.social @jtb@toot.wales @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu That was the case with the Kamala Harris votes, which is largely irrelevant here — in particular that we're not currently in an (EU) election season in the first place, and because election psyop/influence happens at a much lower level, at e.g. Russian interference in the Romanian elections, or each country's far-right parties financed by them (directly or indirectly). We're in rather different situations and different culture (i.e. what triggers or deters people).

@Tutanota@mastodon.social Dammit Tuta I thought you guys were some EC account for a moment with that icon XD

@MishaVelthuis@social.edu.nl WTH, that's like as backwards and stupid as the US tax filing situation with the IRS o_O Good that it got fixed

@Tutanota@mastodon.social I wish Europe had the balls and the will to ban banking and national services from disallowing users using alternative distributions or operating systems

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social I haven't even seen it on Ground, so... where does this even come from?