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I am the creator of Fight Chat Control.

Thank you for sharing. It is unfortunately, once again, needed.

The recent events have been rather dumbfounding. On March 11, the Parliament surprisingly voted to replace blanket mass surveillance with targeted monitoring of suspects following judicial involvement [0]. As Council refused to compromise, the trilogue negotiations were set to fail, thus allowing the Commission's current indiscriminate "Chat Control 1.0" to lapse [1]. This would have been the ideal outcome.

In an unprecedented move, the EPP is attempting to force a repeat vote tomorrow, seeking to overturn the otherwise principled March 11 decision and instead favouring indiscriminate mass surveillance [1, 2]. In an attempt to avoid this, the Greens earlier today tried to remove the repeat vote from the agenda tomorrow, but this was voted down [3].

As such, tomorrow, the Parliament will once again vote on Chat Control. And unlike March 11, multiple groups are split on the vote, including S&D and Renew. The EPP remains unified in its support for Chat Control. If you are a European citizen, I urge you to contact your MEPs by e-mail and, if you have time, by calling. We really are in the final stretch here and every action counts. I have just updated the website to reflect the votes today, allowing a more targeted approach.

Happy to answer any questions.

[0] https://mepwatch.eu/10/vote.html?v=188578

[1] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/the-battle-over-chat-contro...

[2] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/OJQ-10-2026-03...

[3] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-03-...

Just updated.

Hah, that was an unfortunate auto-correct. Fixed!

Maple trees need to consume around 50 litres of water per day. Since street trees can’t get much of this from rainwater, which falls on concrete and drains into the city’s sewers, Poirier says the most likely explanation is that it is coming from Montreal’s leaky pipes, which lose 500 million litres of water per day.

I feel like this is burying the lede.

What can be done to reduce leakage?

Hello! I made this website. Thank you for sharing.

I appreciate all the feedback, and have implemented a few changes. A few points worth accentuating to avoid any misunderstandings. It is correct that the current proposal indeed is at the Council level, introduced as a high-priority item by the Danish Presidency. It is not yet with the Parliament. This is important as both need to be in agreement for any legislation to be adopted into European law. The first two sections of the website thus summarises the level of support at Council level. The source of this data strictly follows leaked documents from a July 11th 2025 meeting of the Council's Law Enforcement Working Party (LEWP) [0], originally reported by [1] and subsequently summarised by [2]. The next meeting for LEWP is scheduled for September 12th [3], shortly after most MEPs return from vacation.

As noted in another comment, the Council level requires at least 15/27 member states to support it. Should this happen, it would then reach the Parliament, pending approval. However, as support at the Council level seems greater than in previous renditions (supported further by Denmark's insistence and confidence on an expedited vote scheduled for October 14 [4]), it seems prudent to target beyond merely the Council-level. This is the intended goal of the third section of the website.

I see a few comments here suggesting that it would be better to label MEPs yet to respond as "Unknown". I initially decided to have MEPs inherit the position of their government, in part because I (a) wanted to encourage MEPs making a statement and clarifying their stance (while some have in the past, circumstances have changed with this version of the legislation); and (b) wanted to encourage a firm opposition at the Parliament level, ideally before the Council vote. However, I recognise how this can be perceived as being misleading. As such, I have updated the appearance such that pending a response, the label reads "Unknown" while the border indicates the presumed stance of the MEP to be that of their government.

I appreciate the interest and feedback: thank you. Ultimately, the goal with this website really is to raise awareness that the proposed legislation, once again, has been resurrected and is making progress. The attention this thread has garnered is greatly appreciated. As all MEPs have been contacted to confirm their stance, I expect responses to arrive in the coming days and weeks, allowing the overview to soon accurately reflect the personal opinions of each MEP.

In the meantime, I would still encourage you to contact your MEPs such that they are aware of your concerns.

[0] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/preparatory-bo...

[1] https://netzpolitik.org/2025/internes-protokoll-eu-juristen-...

[2] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

[3] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/mpo/2025/9/law-e...

[4] https://www.parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVIII/EU/26599/imfname...

Ultimately, both the EU Council and the European Parliament must agree on legislation for it to pass. The Parliament acts as a co-legislator with equal legislative power in this process, effectively representing the citizens while the Council represents the member states governments. Both have to agree. In the case of Chat Control, Denmark, as the current EU Council Presidency, revived the proposal (after it previously failed to reach agreement during both the Belgian and Polish Presidency). In order for this to pass at the Council level, at least 15/27 member states must support it. If this were to happen, it would then reach the European Parliament and would have to be approved there as well. However, as support at the Council level seems greater than in previous renditions (supported further by Denmark's insistence on an expedited vote scheduled for October 14), it seems prudent to target beyond merely the Council-level.

In general, for larger (> 10TB) drives, most definitely. < 10TB drives have been mostly unaffected.

The direct impact on larger drives is entirely dependent on brand (Toshiba's Enterprise drives appear to be less in demand than Seagate's Exos, for instance), recording process (CMR versus SMR), and, to a lesser extent, power consumption. In virtually all instances though, the price has jumped significantly [0]. 16TB Exos more than doubled, for instance [1]. In large parts of Europe, large drives have been back-ordered since the beginning of April; my orders are scheduled for delivery in August, yet I would be surprised if I saw anything before September.

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/analysis-hdd-prices-skyroc...

[1] https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07SPFPKF4

This is not terribly uncommon in Europe; let alone Denmark. As with the other banks in Denmark doing the very same thing, Danske Bank is merely passing their own expenses onto their customers [0]. There is probably a discussion to be had about where the specific thresholds should be in terms of both stimulating the economy through encouraged spending versus ensuring people save an adequate amount.

[0] https://www.nationalbanken.dk/en/marketinfo/official_interes...

Would you be willing to share this script?

Outline: https://outline.com/V8LGp7

Disable cookies directly in your browser..? As for the obnoxious popups, if the above does not address those, several extensions will block them for you.

Yes. Why not give the Mueller report a read? Annotated versions are widely available, e.g. [1]. Alternatively, or perhaps additionally, give Sarah Kendzior's Hiding In Plain Sight [1] a read. It is a quick but exceedingly well-researched and well-documented read which neatly summarises the travesty that the Trump administration has been.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/read-t...

[1] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250245397

Surprised to see the relatively low number of votes for Threema, why is this?

This is super neat, but jeez the pricing is insane.

How can the 3D printing be that much?

It largely is.

It seems as though Zettelkasten, despite being a relatively old phenomenon (e.g. see Niklas Luhmann), is experiencing a renaissance these days. Ultimately, it is just (yet) another way of keeping track of your notes and thoughts. You can think of it as cataloguing everything you write down. I reckon whether you stand to gain anything from converting your existing note-taking to a Zettelkasten operation depends entirely on how you currently take notes. What really matters is that whatever approach you employ works for you. In general, I wager the mere act of actually writing something down and approaching material in a critical, thoughtful manner as opposed to merely consuming is what drives both retention and understanding. Zettelkasten might help you attain that. It might also not.

This is a distribution and not a format problem.

A poor experience with what sounds like a poor distributor, and, perhaps by extension, a poor and limiting DRM, should not be considered representative for an otherwise neat format (.epub).

If sales are done right, the experience is seamless, as the author himself finds to be the case with other distributors.

Why do I need to sign up for a Medium account to read a Coinbase company statement..?

I did not realise this feature existed. Am pleasantly surprised.

This is super awesome!

Having previously worked with ARIMA and other AR-related models, this is a very comprehensive introduction of ARIMA which anyone interested in learning more about time-series forecasting can benefit from.

One point of critique though which is not immediately mentioned in the article: Depending on your data, and especially if your granularity is measured in anything under minutes, you might find the need to continuously calibrate your parameters as to ensure performance over time. I found myself running optimisations in parallel when deploying an ARIMA-inspired model for my use case, for instance. If continuously computing optimisations is not an option, it might be worthwhile implementing outlier detection or simple thresholds to prompt optimisation calls when needed. In either case, ARIMA is definitely a fun rabbit hole to explore if you have not previously worked with time-series forecasting!

I can no longer edit the parent, but this has been updated. Thanks again!

Hi there. Thanks so much for your feedback, and good catch! I will update the diagram accordingly.

Thanks for your feedback!

For those interested in the mentioned paper, see: https://www.utdallas.edu/~gupta/courses/acl/papers/datalog-p...

Hi Joel.

You can give http://www.dlvsystem.com/dlv/ a shot!

Alternatively, if you prefer open-source solutions, check https://abcdatalog.seas.harvard.edu/.

Due to a number of complications on my machine, I used DLV.

Hi! Thank you for highlighting this.

No, you and sdbrady who commented above are correct; the :- only means "if". I have edited accordingly and apologise for the misunderstanding!

Hi Stephen. You are absolutely right, thank you for the feedback! I have edited accordingly.

The main reason, I suspect, many, including myself, opt for using DuckDuckGo is because people have started to care about privacy; not because they necessarily wish to help foster competition. I see fostering competition as a nice, natural byproduct of valuing privacy.

I just cancelled my Dropbox Pro subscription and was, frankly, taken aback by the many steps I had to go through. It should be as easy to cancel as it is to sign up.

That is my impression, yes. If a platform operates within the EU, consumers have the right to withdraw from a purchase within 14 days. Platforms like Origin and Steam have gone above and beyond to simplify the process even further. As for Xbox / Microsoft Store specifically, I believe, today, you can simply click 'Request a return' on the item in your order history.

I apologise, I misread your initial message. I have edited accordingly. Thanks for the heads-up! I understand that you consider a huge portion of games as being at best passable or forgettable; but that is your inherently subjective opinion. It is not one which you can assume everyone shares, nor one you can use to draw objective conclusions. Indeed, the same can be said about music and movies. I only distinctively remember a subset of the movies I have watched, for instance.

I understand the point you are making in regards to average time played, but surely the people who, quote-unquote, play the game way too much, enjoy that specific game very much? Please note that you can also see the median playtime on the abovementioned website.