Nemo_bis

If by "coordination" you mean central planning, not.

There are things such as sharing best practices and other resources. An example is https://standard.publiccode.net/ and https://new.digitalpublicgoods.net/ .

And of course many efforts towards a shared funding infrastucture, see also https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/KES3TH-funding_europe...

Azure also regularly has incidents due to capacity issues in several regions, so that many Azure-managed services also go down. Some of those incidents have been open continuously for many months now.

Google got caught in the aftermath of the Carpenter vs. US ruling. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/18/google-disrupts-geofence...

By stopping that one specific way they supported warrantless surveillance, Google probably managed to make the current round of litigation moot so that Google won't suffer a negative ruling on the merits. They can start all over again in a slightly different way once the attention goes down a bit.

It depends on what your priors are for what's "needed". If you think 80k employees are needed to do what the Wikimedia Foundation does, their fundraising is way too humble. :-)

You don't need 80k employees to self-host. The Wikimedia Foundation does it with a team of few dozens SREs.

I agree, as a happy Runbox customer of several years. But probably the parent post meant non-EEA too, as Norway is effectively subject to any and all EU regulations.

If you are interested in China, I strongly recommend subscribing to the China Briefing: https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-briefing/

It is happening even in the USA with a federal government dead set on bankrolling coal companies.

'How did you go bankrupt?' Bill asked. 'Two ways,' the coal baron said. 'Gradually and then suddenly.'

Well,

> The new analysis for Carbon Brief shows that electricity generation from coal in India fell by 3.0% year-on-year (46 terawatt hours, TWh) and in China by 1.6% (90TWh).

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coal-power-drops-in-chi...

Reminds me of the famous quip starting with "found a bug in the english site" (early 2000s)...

https://bash.toolforge.org/quip/AU8FCPz66snAnmqnLHDj

What "dependency"? I don't use the Murena cloud at all on my /e/OS device.

Same here! I've not had any compatibility issues when using /e/OS on a Teracube 2e. It's a smooth experience all along.

Even worse was the passage: "First, Wu needs to consider thicker origami solutions as he scales his design up".

Needs to? When did he sign up for it? It's not like he tried to patent a shelter design or bid for a government contract.

They can't even agree to leave XTwitter for official EU accounts...

Indeed the cat and mouse game is tedious... There's a case to be made that you should just act on the root cause of all these issues with a neutral policy tool. The best tested of all regulatory tools is taxation. Reduce the profit motive slightly and many of these aberrations nobody likes will go away.

Some interesting things are cooking on the Matrix front. The "Matrix state of the union" talk at FOSDEM is a compact recap: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/URX89L-matrix-state-o...

Sounds like you're proposing Element (EMS)

SE companies can be unlisted, if that's what you mean.

The capital requirements can be changed.

The first point already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_Europaea

The second point is dubious. A central registry may be better or worse than the best national registry.

The third and fourth are what is usually called the Capital Markets Union in eurobubble speak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Markets_Union

The Draghi report had some specific proposals which are rather realistic:

> Reduce capital market fragmentation > > A. Introduce a European Security Exchange Commission > > B. Reduce regulatory fragmentation to deepen the CMU > > C. Encourage retail investors through the offer of second pillar pension schemes where the successful examples of some EU Member States can be replicated. > > D. Assess whether further changes to the capital requirements under Solvency II are warranted by further reducing the capital charges on equity investments held for the long term.

https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/97e481fd-2dc3...

https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/ec1409c1-d4b4... (p. 292)

We don't know what the law is. The rules were created with an administrative procedure backed by a very generic statute which is likely unconstitutional. Neither the Supreme court (Cassazione) nor the Constitutional court have ruled on the matter yet.

Getting a fine is the first step towards further judicial review, probably.

Copyright is a scam for artists.

The cheapest method by far is still TV networks. As a billionaire you can buy them without putting any of your own money, so it's effectively free. See Sinclair Broadcast Group and Paramount Skydance (Larry Ellison).

As shown in "Network Propaganda", TV still influences all other media, including print media and social media, so you don't need to watch TV to be influenced.

The title doesn't say human people, it just says people. Non-human persons exist too (usually non-human animals).

For the same reason legacy publishers sell expensive textbooks at 1/10 of the price in India, identical to the USA version save for a stamp that says you can't export them from India.

Microsoft is better at regulatory capture, so Azure has many customers in the public sector. So an Azure outage probably affects the public sector more (see example above about trains).

Reminds me of https://www.specbranch.com/posts/one-big-server/

This sort of public complaint is the first step towards an European Commission finding of non-compliance with the Digital Markets Act.

It's not like they didn't try, but Google illegally smashed them.

> Judgment of the General Court of 14 September 2022 — Google and Alphabet v Commission (Google Android) > > The General Court largely confirms the Commission's decision that Google imposed unlawful restrictions on manufacturers of Android mobile devices and mobile network operators in order to consolidate the dominant position of its search engine

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...

Press release:

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...

Yes. The "cloud" is sold on grounds of "efficiency" but really it's just an ideological decision to increase outsourcing and reduce the employees' bargaining power.

(Except this backfires, because a service running on a RHEL or Debian machine might go on for 5-10 years untouched without any particular issue, security aside, while anything relying on kubernetes or the hyperscaler's million little services needs to be tweaked every 6 months and re-engineered every few years or it will completely stop working.)