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How (why) does that site block reader mode... At least on Firefox Android it offers the reader mode button, but turning it on just redirects back to the page (which is too wide, hence the reader mode attempt)

Cortecs (EU router) lists GLM 5.2 from Tensorix and Nebius https://cortecs.ai/detailedServerlessView/glm-5.2

So two European providers at least

I think they referred to 'if Uruky keeps out of AI, I'll be willing to try again later'

Yeah, as mentioned in the post, so were mine before turning on the recommended configurations. Afterwards they've been quite nice

Juxt's Allium https://juxt.github.io/allium/ is an interesting entry in this 'pseudo DSL' space to define and store system specifications and requirements. I think it's likely that this sort of 'persistent specifications to help bots work correctly' will be a good approach when things finally cool down a bit.

Onego Bio is using fungi to produce ovalbumin, one of the major protein in eggs. Their process seems stable, so it might play a big role especially in industrial food production pretty quickly

https://www.onego.bio/product

Humble Bundle has spoiled me and my ebook library has grown by around a 100 books this year...

Tech book recommendations: 'Secure by Design', 'Designing Data-Intensive Applications', 'Building Secure and Reliable Systems' and 'Fundamentals of Software Architecture'.

For scifi: 'Murderbot Diaries' and 'The Expanse' - both are just great entertainment

From a user perspective, yeah, practically every site I have to create an account for would be better if the signup was that simple. They're all basically one time throwaway accounts anyway, so why not treat them as such at the service level. Of course from the business view, there's all sorts of reasons, but one can dream...

Thanks for pointing out the terms of service agreement thing - it was so unobtrusive that I just glanced over it!

Now that is an impressive account setup process for sure! Glad to see these kinds of flows exist.

More information about the initiative: https://aol.codeberg.page/eci/

The proposal being pushed; https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2025/11/2025-11-06_Cou...

It did appear briefly on the first page, but at the time the site timed out quite a lot so maybe that caused a sudden drop

A better title would be "Ethical Computing Initiative".

Their status page is interesting https://aol.codeberg.page/eci/status.html Surprised it doesn't mention Orion browser by Kagi, but I guess it's still a bit niche

Great news! I can't find any other sources, but it would be weird for Breyer to post this if it wasn't confirmed

Could you share the template you're using?

Could you point to any resources on how to achieve this? At work we're increasing our Figma usage, and this approach sounds like something better implemented sooner than later

I've been birdwatching (birding?) actively for a few years now, but only this year did I start using these sound identifiers. What a boon it's been! I've already spotted over a dozen new species by sound alone, and also learned to identify some of them by myself.

It really has opened up a whole new venue of enjoying this hobby. At least here, machine learning/AI has a clear, positive impact.

Apparently the final tally was 12 planes, but still, an impressive display

Jetbrains AI recently added (beta) access to Gemini Pro 2.5 and there's of course plugins like Continue.dev that provide access to pretty much anything with an API

That's a tricky one. From my bubble, the first thing I would to is to stop digging the hole any deeper - stopping any ongoing Azure (and other US cloud migrations), not buying into new products such as MS Fabric etc.

But what really would rock the boat would be a MS 365 competitor, since that's currently suffocating everything, because everything is included: email, files, office suite, chat... None of these have to be the Same Product (and I'd prefer specialization), but the integration between different apps should be painless. So, protocols.

If nation states could onshore that package, it would even out the playing field for the other, more optional applications

I'm very hopeful that https://www.euro-stack.info will not be a pipe dream, but actually produces results

First order of business should be to detach the governments from Microsoft. Probably the hardest part of this whole tangle is that the governing bodies are so bound to MS that any move can hit back twice as hard. It's easier to legislate the consumer side, since it's not directly affecting the efficiency and budgets of the organizations making the legislation.

Thankfully, it seems that a movement from inside governments is really starting, with more and more project funding demanding e.g. avoiding vendor lock-in. This helped push one of my projects from MSSQL to Postgres. One step at a time...

I'm also working on a government institute, but unlike you, we're absolutely owned by Microsoft. Disruptions to that relationship could be existential threats, which is why (slow) movement has started on detaching from them.

I think there could be a big market for a hosting+support provider that manages the patchwork of open source business applications. Once that's set up, the organization could spend money on the development of the systems they're hosting.

I'm thinking a portfolio of auth, storage, chat, email, code repository, project management... Everything an organization could in theory host itself but realistically does not have the personnel for.

I wonder how long it takes until this trade war moves to the digital stage. It wouldn't be surprising to see that software license fees start increasing if this tit-for-tat continues for much longer

Hopefully Jimmy finds out a good approach for monetization here. I would actually like for my org to pay for MediatR since it's a crucial component in many a project. Donations are so difficult from an organization viewpoint...

When I was figuring out what reader to put in my ancient android 5 tablet (dedicated for offline ebooks) I tried KO, but the UI was way too complex. I've since been happy with Librera, but seeing all this high praise, it seems that I need to revisit KO.

Nice to see there are multiple open source readers going strong!

Nothing too serious, but a nice writeup and documentation of this... oversight?

My wish for this christmas is for some large-ish organization to pull this off and then release a series of blogs discussing the tradeoffs. It's such a steep hill to climb, I think many believe it impossible unless there is a success story to refer to

Zen has quite a nice array of keybinds available in their basic settings menu. Just had a conflict of ctrl+shift+l opening some dev tools window instead of BitWarden, and the browser hotkey was easy to change. Speaking of keyboards, Tridactyl (https://docs.zen-browser.app/faq#how-can-i-sync-my-data-acro...) works out of the box in Zen as well