@jwildeboer Fortunately in Europe we have enough knowledgeable people in economics for them to know how bad for economy are all those taxes. Starting a business is almost impossible as it is and people recognize how bad it would be to scare investors even more.
Short term gain is not always beneficial in the long run.

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I would sign but outside the EU now against my will.

@jwildeboer it was lacking publicity IMHO. I signed it early on, spread links to friends and family and not once did I see anything in media or on social until you posted about it months after.

I fear the participants do paint a correct picture of how many folks in Europe want change though. 😑

@jwildeboer REGULATORY OVERREACH STIFLING INNOVATION

@jwildeboer i use a VPN to ensure I can access all the torment.

@jwildeboer It's a shame that GDPR prevented us from enjoying the Torment Nexus (although some might argue it should have never been created...).
However, we at Torment GmbH are happy to provide you with several working Painstations in Germany which - being airgapped and offline - are fully GDPR compliant. See your local HNF (https://cku.gt/zObnb) or Computerspielemuseum (https://cku.gt/6iG2a). ;-)

@jwildeboer maybe it's time to revive it again? Cause nowadays hardware should be even cheaper and less energy consuming nor?

@jwildeboer I remember taking delivery of a pallet with 100 of them for linux.conf.au in 2008 and unboxing them all to upgrade them (to stop a bug breaking the conference wifi) and re-packing them to give them all away to developers :-)

@jwildeboer this is awesome. Are you aware of a similar mesh networking technology that's still available for current day computers? Sounds like this should get much more attention from the OS community.

@jwildeboer signed both. Preservation was the primary reason me and a few buddies made #worldofwarcraft private servers Open Source and available to everyone with MaNGOS. 😊

@jwildeboer I only learned of the Tax the Rich initiative by accidentally stumbling upon it while browsing the EU site for the Stop Killing Games one.

This is not a priorities problem, but a PR problem. You can't vote for an initiative you don't know exists and clearly they haven't spread the word effectively.

@jwildeboer BTW your toot is not publicly visitable, if I visit https://chaos.social/@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net/113005206326896548 it's a 404. Just if someone tries rto share it…

It's strange as it is marked as being pubic.

But do note: getting it removed from the agenda tomorrow does not mean it’s gone. It *will* come back possibly many more times, until the commission decides to drop the procedure altogether, which is very unlikely to happen ATM. Continuous political pressure could change that, though.

@jwildeboer Government regulation works, self-regulation not so much.

@jwildeboer It astonishes me what effective governance can accomplish.

@jwildeboer You're telling me letting something burn up in the atmosphere doesn't just mean it magically disappears? Inconceivable!

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"If you don't know how to fix it, please, stop breaking it!" – Severn Cullis-Suzuki's speech to the United Nations, 1992.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGdS8ts63Ck

#EcosystemCollapse #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

I had a longer thread on this topic a while ago and wanted to turn it into a blog post. But I am happy to see real experts weighing in.

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net who would have thought?

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net I mean tbf, neither of those extensions would be very useful for the general population of the fediverse, and threads is at a poit right now where they don't even support most of the functionality of general fediverse...

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net oh yeah, they'll extend the protocol, but they won't implement it properly

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😯 That’s insane! ..but not really surprising.
If they were to allow that now my ipad would vibrate so much it would fall on the floor.

@jwildeboer @bert_hubert Per has written a blogpost about this very thing https://axbom.me/objects/87db3bcb-8ff4-4748-a44f-609eeab21574

@jwildeboer @bert_hubert scary...

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> deserves a moment of humbleness. Instead we have flamewars and armchair experts shouting that we must change everything

You're the second person posting a sentiment like this, that I've seen, but the actual flamewars seem to elude me. Getting kinda curious what y'all are on about

@jwildeboer reminds me of when some version of Windows had three backdoors: one accidental, another created by Microsoft for the CIA, and another one created by an infiltrated CIA agent

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I would add: Third: when the short link provider goes tits up, the links are forever broken.

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net I wonder why 23 characters...

@jwildeboer i never have understood why ppl are using bit fly instead of just giving a link.

@jwildeboer So what can we do to avoid this? I feel impotent, there is no possible action on my hands considering all tech companies are literally embracing generative AI.

I am not saying that generative AI in general is wrong. Quite the opposite. Just like Machine Learning, Large Language Models can be a net positive. When they are focused and domain specific. But the #GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) approach by the big players is not helping at all.

@jwildeboer Internet not Ainternet

@jwildeboer Can we get HDMI 2.1 into an EU law as a standard TV connector?

@jwildeboer citizen or resident:

> ‘1. Any citizen of the [European] Union, and any natural or legal person residing or having its registered office in a Member State, has a right of access to documents of the institutions, subject to the principles, conditions and limits defined in this Regulation.

@jwildeboer The Cookie Banner stuff drives me nuts. They pop these big forms in our face just to force us to click "OK" to get them to go away, and falsely blame GDPR for the mess. It's Trumpian tactics. I hope EU starts to sanction sites that does this.

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The irony, of course, being that iOS started with WebApps only.

@jwildeboer I disagree. It's a security feature. #EU is in the wrong on this one (as they were with the pointless cookie-law).

Will Wikipedia be able to withstand the already ongoing flood of “AI” generated content? “On the internet no one knows you are a dog” is an old joke/meme. But when you think about it by replacing dogs with “AI”, where “AI” means a small oligopoly of commercial entities with an agenda that can afford to burn tons of fossil fuel and water to run their datacenters for the training phase of models — things start to look really frightening. What we need is more H2H (Human to Human) communications.

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Printed edition of Enc. Brit?
I got also one 3-4 years ago!
😄👍

@jwildeboer You're on fire with these posts, Jan.

@jwildeboer i feel is becoming more and more the case. I wonder if we can make it back to the true spirit of open source. I definitely still have it, but I feel more and more uncomfortable with sharing nowadays.

@jwildeboer never been happier to have just finished my on-call shift. Good luck everyone in the trenches

@jwildeboer That's awful. What possessed them to hold onto it for that long.. then release at christmas?

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My mail log is already full of scans and spammer trying to push mails. I'm intended to watch the stream just to see those people get roasted by the community. I have stronger words for them and won't use them here because they will get me in legal trouble. But boy, am I angry.
@selea

@jwildeboer Put any robot with a #PositronicBrain subject to the #ThreeLaws in a room with #CaptainKirk for five minutes, and it will be a smoldering psychotic wreck when the Captain strolls off to keep his date with his latest alien babe or armada. #Asimov is no match for #Roddenberry.

@jwildeboer Techbros are striving shitsacks that have never read an SF book in their lives.

@jwildeboer They're not theses. They're entertainment. They're supposed to make you want to read them and not get bored. 😅🤖

@jwildeboer I can see him suing everyone using the unicode in future for plagiarising their trademark !

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net the logo looks like it represents "how to chop your income in half"

@jwildeboer followed as a tag and boosted. I would like to join your cult and receive your newsletter.

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That we are capable of such coordinated action on the network is only a start. There is still lots of racism and bigotry. We should lean into our willingness to cooperate to further develop mechanisms to do so. To make coordinated action easier and more seamless

@jwildeboer In my book, "the fediverse" is defined by what's actually federated, not by what speaks a protocol that would allow it to be federated if not for being blocked by everyone. So no, Gab is absolutely not part of "the fediverse".

@jwildeboer @mekkaokereke Having tried out several of the “Twitter alternatives” over the past few months, I think that Mastodon is much less of an “echo chamber” than the others. So I think your point is well taken.