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EU should mandate open alternatives to Siri on Apple

Here in Portugal, tax comes pre calculated from the government on a free web application. It works very well! I just need to do very small adjustments every year before deliver the taxes.

I am about to test this one http://docs.getmoto.org/en/latest/index.html

And most of their carbon dioxide production is due to “developed countries” consumption

Electronic debit card was invented in…. Denmark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dankort

Since when Accenture is European? It’s this because these companies are not Palantir?

If American companies don’t respect Europe regulation it’s time to Europe invest in dedicated software competing with office 365, social networks, even android/apple/windows os.

This reminds me o sharp knifes argument. In programming you may want to provide tools that can shoot you in the foot, if the alternative is not as powerful. here is a conversation with DHH about it [0]. For instance, you may consider dynamic languages if the alternative is too much type gymnastics.

The first time I've seen the argument was in the prag-prog magazine that sadly is not active anymore.

[0] VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vagyIcmIGOQ&t=8396

Couldn’t we try to rely more in other topologies other than client server. I see technologies like wireguard and Tailscale could reduce the dependence on data centers now that we have considerable compute on our homes.

I was working in ASP.NET when projects like Backbone.js, Knockout, and Angular started to pop up. They were trying to address issues on mainstream tech at that moment (compilation times vs. hot reload, avoid full-page reloads). There was a lot of criticism around the use of JavaScript in the server back then.

Now I see the opposite. Web standards can solve the full reload page problem, so it's time to rethink if we still need to manage state in the client, with all the complexity that this involves.

The biggest issue for me it’s the division between backend and Frontend roles. I like to do both, but lately I’m doing backend. It changes a lot how we do things, refinements are mostly to create contracts between the Frontend and backend tasks, we’re they should focus on business use cases.

Europe and US have decreased fossil fuel consumption a bit We did not decreased fossil consumption we externalised the fossil consumption to developed countries production.

Developed countries use a lot of fossil fuels but most of that is to promote the lifestyle of developed countries.

Oxfam estimates that 1% of the richest people emit double the carbon emission of the half the poorest of humanity

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/carbon-emissions-ric...

I once worked at a place where we all called each other “NERD.” One time a person outside the IT circle turned to us in the cafeteria and shouted, “What's up, NERDS?” There was complete silence in the room. I guess only a nerd can call another nerd a nerd.

Meta is the second last company I trust to put an wearable on my face.

This casio model offers a step counter and pairs with the phone. You can for instance find your phone with the watch https://www.casio.com/us/watches/casio/product.ABL-100WE-1A/

Fir a long time, I don’t think full self driving makes economic sense. Would this hurt car sells at long term?

There is this post about a experiment on google where they reduced the page weight and the traffic went up instead of down. That was because it open the site to countries with low internet bandwidth https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters

The author states that MPA are not a solution for everything. Sure google maps don’t fit the MPA model but I’ve seen a lot of projects that would be much better using current browser features instead of react.

For me the privacy part of site not knowing we’re I live would be great.

I could also black list entities from delivering spam.

Mixing payments gateways and vibe coding. What can go wrong?

One time set-up: 1- Plug Pila in :D

Even inside Java, projects like quarkus don’t receive fast adoption because Spring is the “professional” way to work. Spring developer experience is awful, I miss hot reload.

Take a look at .http files. They are a file based alternative to postman. I don’t think it has the assertion feature.

I haven't finished the reading of the post

Many thanks to Nolan Lawson for his work on PouchDB.

Really enjoy his blog and the posts he did on the PouchDB website.

I would say that the main objective of the current system is to grow. We measure this with the GDP. This growth is necessary for the current system to survive, to pay our debts or keep our jobs, but is also incompatible with reducing carbon emissions [1]

If we could imagine new objectives we can change the paradigm. For instance we could try to have a carbon dividend as a complement to jobs creation [2].

[1] https://eeb.org/library/decoupling-debunked/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fee_and_dividend

From Donella Meadows [1]:

PLACES TO INTERVENE IN A SYSTEM (in increasing order of effectiveness)

9. Constants, parameters, numbers (subsidies, taxes, standards).

8. Regulating negative feedback loops.

7. Driving positive feedback loops.

6. Material flows and nodes of material intersection.

5. Information flows.

4. The rules of the system (incentives, punishments, constraints).

3. The distribution of power over the rules of the system.

2. The goals of the system.

1. The mindset or paradigm out of which the system — its goals, power structure, rules, its culture — arises.

Regarding point 2: What is the goal of the current system?

[1] https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-t...

Consider a graph in which one side shows how easy it is to achieve a goal, and the other side shows how useful it is,

At the beginning of industrialisation we were solving easy and useful problems. For example, sanitation, refrigeration, etc.

Now we're solving problems that are not only useless but potentially destructive, such as the attention economy, artificial intelligence and planned obsolescence. At the same time, these problems use up a lot of energy and cause pollution.

Portugal is the country from OECD with more houses per family (almost 2 houses per family), and we still have a housing crisis

I love this. I would like to see a mod that turn the ipod into a easy to open device live the nokia's from the 2000

The objective is not to increase renewables but to reduce non-renewables.