There is so much unpaid labor that big tech depends on. If they had to fairly pay for all that work through donations or otherwise they would go bankrupt, every single on of them. Big tech grew so massive because on open source, but it also helped open source grow. big tech will also die because they are increasingly just a leech-like middleman that just sits upon a mountain of free work and whose relative sliver of code contribution in comparison to the total code in a product is getting smaller and smaller and big tech is therefore increasingly a burden and not a asset to societies, economies and other companies.

Governments should be funding the most popular open source software that the world relies on

profits of business have always been dependent on governments funding research and free work done by individuals to turn a profit. Open source is nothing new on this regard.

Joko Orpo ja kokoomus on kollektiivisesti ideologiansa pauloissa ja tää on vaan hulluutta.

Tai sitten Kokoomuksen poliittinen strategia ole nyt vain paskoa valtiontalous oikein saada ne omien haluamat veronkevennykset, paskoa valtiontalous samalla ja jättää seuraava SDP vetoinen hallitus sitten yksinomaan setvimään tätä sotkua koko seuraavan hallituskauden ja sen yli. Sit ehkä sitä seuraavissa vaaleissa kansa on taas unohtanut miksi vihasivat porvarihallitusta ja kokoomus pääsee uudelleen valtaan SDP:tä kritisoimalla. “Suomen vasemmisto” haluaisi tietysti kuluttaa sitä valtion kakkua parantaakseen tavallisten ihmisten elämää ja huono valtion ja kansantalous haitaa sitä. Kokoomus vaan haluaa että heidän ei tarvitse maksaa mistään ja että saavat painettua ammattiliittojen ja EK:n kamppailussa taistelua EK:n hyväksi. se on win-win kokoomukselle. Vielä enemmän plussaa on se että perstyhmät persut kantaa tästäkin kaiken vastuun hallituksessa, koska ei nekään älyä hajottaa hallitusta kuntavaalituksensa jälkeen.

“In my case, I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair,” Trump said as he signed the executive order. “I have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet. It comes out drip, drip, drip. It’s ridiculous.”

Will the British cabinet be automatically included on the list?

Tech or precisely it’s real world applications affect everything, including politics.

I mean at this point if you have seen what Israel has done, unfiltered by the media, then there is almost nothing that will shake people out of their views. If you support Israel after knowing that they purposefully shell hospitals and children, then you will most likely keep supporting Israel no matter what. Same goes for those who oppose Israel and it’s genocide.

What do you mean 120 years. Israel is less than 80 years old.

Absolutely not a surprise. Seeing how obsessive the brittish good-old-boys have been about Russia. Why not bribe, blackmail, harass, censor and maybe even kill for a good cause, or that’s how they see it.

I personally use carrier pigeons with caesar cipher. I know I can’t out tech google, so I will go medieval.

If there is backdoor for them, then there is a backdoor for everybody who knows where to look.

Of course they don’t want to take over Europe. They want their regions in Ukraine and renegotiations on security on whole of their western border and now just not promises of security based on goodwill, because all goodwill between parties have been destroyed because of this war. If they wanted European resources, goods and tech they would just much rather trade for them. It’s much simpler than taking the burden of occupying and administering a fucking unruly European subcontinent! That would btw also get destroyed in the process if they ever tried to take it. Jesus, they don’t even want to take over all of Ukraine for pretty much the same reasons.

There is no significant ammo production. There are no significant national stockpiles anymore. They all were fed to Ukraine before and during the 2023 ‘counter-offensive’ that flopped horribly and those stockpiles never recovered because all the new production was almost exclusively sent to keep Ukraine afloat after that. Should Europe just disarm itself completely just so that Ukraine won’t even win, but just that it won’t collapse totally this year?

Crypto bros have just one issue. They are all economic parasites, worst than your average landlord, with no real concrete function, service or product that any society or anybody really depends on. They are not saying that they want to take over states, but at this point they would need to take over states and suck them dry to save their grift.

They have nothing real to offer, since their meme money is worthless by itself and all they want to do is to do speculation by wasting electricity, hardware and compute. Crypto speculation like any speculation is only possible anyway when there is free money and no interests around. You snap free liquidity out of the picture and these cretins would crash and burn all they way to lowest pits of hell where they belong.

Nah, just going along with Ukraine war and letting it get to and pushing to the point of war is a testament that Washington and Brussels are a foreign policy monolith. That finally sold it for me. EU is ready to sacrifice it’s interests to drive their perceived transatlantic interests that the two political classes mostly share. EU political elite and media mainly hate Trump because he showed that EU capitals and Brussels are bunch of losers with no real political agency, who got conned into supporting and prolonging this unwinnable war to the hilt and are now being left to hold the bag.

First concrete move towards EU independence would be to stop this war and normalize with Russia, but in this fucked up world Trump wants both and EU wants neither. That is the fucked up world we live in. EU wants further conflict on it’s continent and US doesn’t want a war in Europe.

I do personally want European independence, but I see that EU in it’s current state is not a force for it, nor is it good for Europeans.

So it’s made by the EU in the sense that the maintainers are likely citizens of the EU, I guess

Even after that, be reminded that this current mania in the EU has nothing to with being anti-american or wanting to dump American products or services themselves. The people who are most into this are anti-Trump, not anti-american or fundamentally against Europe being subordinate to the US. Most of them are probably secretly wanting the world to return to 2024 and EU being US junior partner of “the west” and happily eating MacDonalds and using microsoft services. It’s not an European sovereigist movement at it’s core and therefore it has not staying power after Trump or Maga.

It might be that these people are just Foss enthusiasts with pure intentions wanting to promote the cause by riding the wave. However if the wave is just a meme conjured because of Trump then this project or things like it have no staying power or future even if it really being an EU project or being adopted tomorrow.

I read the sovereign to mean something like an unified platform for EU institutions, that you can dev and train people on.

dependent on the whims of a US defense contractor like RedHat/IBM

A very good point.

Wow this company is not scary at all…

A another tool which whole point is to prevent any change from happening in the name of security. Not only will it not succeed, but because the powers that be want to build dams and not solve contradictions underlying the problem, they will just make the end result more abrupt, violent and bloody.

One major argument for consoles is still that there is a single unified platform that gives better bang-for-buck than PC of the same price, and that studios can dev and optimize their games on more easily.

That is not how their business model works. The consoles themselves are sold almost at cost of production or at a loss. The money for Microsoft, Nintendo, Microsoft comes from those exclusives and live service subscriptions. They want to maximize the amount of their hardware in homes and then make the money on selling the thing that actually makes them useful.

I code using grep’s search and replace.