EU needs to stop listening to the giant companies and focus on the clean tech they are always delaying.

We need to raise awareness because most people do not even know what is on the table. I have seen many reactions to Australia ban on social media and most people show support for it without considering the catch of 'how do you implement this?'

Using HTTPS is terrorism.

EU fights for the freedom of speech of racists and liars but stops at emerging markets and alternatives. Only to protect the people in power.

The central argument supporting the ban is that plant-based labels are misleading consumers.

However, multiple surveys have shown that Europeans support the continued use of everyday language for plant-based foods as it helps them identify what the product is trying to replicate.

https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/06/no-clear-environmental-benefit-eu-crackdown-on-meaty-plant-based-labels-sparks-climate-con

Our main objective should be to lower barriers for people to generate their own power. When local communities manage their own grids they have faster response times to blackouts or climate events.

The only real alternative is using a Linux phone. The main problems with that would be (1) hardware support; (2) running Android apps. Although, (2) already has solutions in development or you could replace those native apps with web apps.

https://mobian-project.org/

https://sailfishos.org/

https://www.ubuntu-touch.io/

a relative time formatting library that contains no code

The library is two text files (code) that are processed by an LLM (interpreter) to generate code of another type. This is not that new in terms of workflow.

I think what makes this the worst is the fact that the author admits that you can't be sure the library will work until you generate the code and test it. Even then you cannot guarantee the security of the generated code and as you do not understand the code you also cannot give support or patch it.

When Performance Matters

If performance of a datetime processor is not relevant, what is? The author mentions they would like a browser implementation to be fast, documentable, fixable. However, operative systems, browsers, and other complex systems are made of little utilities like this that have very well documented functionalities and side effects.

But the above isn’t fully baked. Our models will get better, our agents more capable.

The whole assumption is that instead of creating a good stable base that anyone can use we should be just shtting out code until it works.

Eventually the hardware will be good enough to support a shitty bloated browser so we don't need to optimize it.

Eventually people will harden their PC enough so we shouldn't care about security.

Why have we seen some countries try to revive nuclear? It is not better than alternatives. Old plants are already too old to operate and new ones are expensive and take time. Is it just an excuse to continue mining and keep dangerous materials?

I was enthusiastic about this project. But I am afraid these recent tangents will only reduce momentum.

This graph is terrible for proving your point. Which browsers are ... ?

• building a new engine and/or rewritting old code; instead of just being another fork/reskin of browser xyz;
• still active, with expectations of continuing for the next few years; with funding from people and companies;
• doing rapid advances towards being a good enough replacement of Chrome, Firefox, Safari;

This graphs says nothing of that.

edit: autocorrect

The use is explicitly optional for EU citizens or third-country nationals. The physical travel document must still be carried when crossing the border.
(bold added)

They always present it as optional, and then create a whole infrastructure around it that expects and forces you to have it.

This is a disinformation post.

A new Portuguese transparency project is betting that the best anti-corruption tool may not be a commission, a speech, or another reform package, but a database.

Launched around a public call for scrutiny and contribution, the initiative — Observatório de Integridade / Open Tender Watch — aims to ingest public procurement data, connect it across multiple sources, and flag patterns that may deserve closer investigation.

The "project" is presented as an official tool but it is just a vibe-coded project (https://github.com/bit-of-a-shambles/open-tender-watch) by a random person on GitHub. The whole post rides on the radical narrative that corruption is at extreme levels and the "socialist elite", "subsidy-dependent immigrants" are responsible.

Transparency as a Workflow

There is also something telling about the project’s open-source posture. The public repository invites not only programmers but contributors who can verify records against original portals, suggest new data sources, improve the flag catalogue, or help translate the work.

Making it public on GitHub is not enough for proving that the project is legitimate: the code was made by machine and non-tech people will never take the time to check if the data is real and processed in a fair, transparent way.

ELI15 Why are car companies in Europe so stuck with cars other than eletric? Shouldn't eletric have better margins and include State/European incentives? And it is also cheaper in the long run for the consumer.

One problem that I see with nuclear is that energy production has to be accessible enough such that anyone can create their own independent network. I don't believe nuclear has achieved this yet.

Crucially, the document reveals that EU governments see metadata – specifically traffic and location history – as the most vital tool for law enforcement.

Ah, yes. Store data at the risk of it being hacked or used by companies in order to protect the people from themselves.

Came for the 'should degenerate'

US tech centralization is terrible !!!

• sent from X for iPhone

News Flash: Drinking poison may affect lifespan.

Well, yeah. They have no way to enforce this on non-commercial forms of communication, like many open source projects. So the outcome will be that they will have an initial result of catching a lot of small criminals, but all real dangerous criminals will use anything else and continue business as usual. As a collateral damage everyone else will be less private and secure, as most people will not bother to switch to alternatives.

kill.