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I’m just trying to explain how absurd the proposition is seen from a Danish perspective, and why we from Danish side will continue to say no, as and refer to the same thing as our PM’s have said again and again: this is for Greenlandic people to decide. They would have to vote for it, but all the parties in Greenland are against joining the US.

So whatever proposal or threat of breaking down NATO that Trump will come up with will be met with a no from Danish politicians. It is simply not for them to decide. His only option seen from a Danish perspective is to use the military.

Greenlanders could vote to be completely independent, yes. That is the situation right now.

However, Trump has done everything to turn Greenlanders away, and not done anything to convince them of independence would be good for them, so a vote for independence will likely fail catastrophically right now. Independence is many decades away, as they would really have to build a stronger economy to make it happen, but that is the direction Greenlanders would like to go, at least if you asked them 2 years ago.

Escalate to deescalate.

Trump doesn’t understand that Greenland is a ~country~ self-gorverning territory in itself in the Kingdom of Denmark. Just like Australia is country in itself in the Commonwealth.

England would never be able to sell Australia to the US, just as we in Denmark are not able to sell Greenland.

The only way forward is trade war it seems and it would be better to escalate it quickly in order for Trump to understand the message.

Soon dollars might not be accepted if US companies wants to buy things in the EU, they will have to pay in euros (part of the anti coercion instrument that Macron and others have been talking about the last couple of days)

> On the other hand, even if the EU heads towards anti coercion acting, it seems they may act too slowly: > > The whole process could take a year, but could be sped up.

The effect of tariffs are also slow to kick in.

Anti coercion instrument is probably mostly thought of as a deterrent, nothing they will actually use. But maybe if Trump is dumb enough and doesn’t understand the implications. If they use certain element will probably done quickly, e.g. not allowing use companies to bid on EU projects, not allowing US companies to invest in EU, requiring all transactions when purchasing EU goods to be made in EUR instead of USD.

> The recent troop deployment to Greenland just looks like theater since there were like 25 people sent. What does that achieve?

It achieves two things.

1) European countries can say they will ramp up protection from now on, have NATO exercises year round is on table. Moving exercises from other parts of the world to Greenland. This counters Trumps argument that this is about the security of Greenland. We will see bigger exercises at some point (naval exercises for example). These things take longer to plan.

2) The soldiers are from different nationalities. If US will use military force it will not just be against Denmark. US will have to take prisoners of war from a longer list of nations than just Denmark. Nations which also have soldiers helping out in various US bases around the world, so they will maybe also have to make French or German troops prisoners in some of their other bases, not just in Greenland. This effectively makes it much more expensive for the US, as they will not be able to isolate Denmark. And this is probably why a very quick and tiny exercise is being held.

EU has a much better tool ready, the anti coercion instrument. Party leaders in EU have been talking over the weekend about deploying it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Coercion_Instrument

It seems like Google and Meta are using their dominant position to take as big a part of ad revenue as they possibly can, and if that means independent news companies where actual journalism is conducted can’t survive, then they don’t really care.

Danish media are trying to survive, as high quality journalism is necessary for democracy to function. They can’t avoid being on the big platforms, as Google and Meta have this dominant gatekeeper position in the market - this is where the media pull new users into their sites.

The criticism was that Google have a dominant position on search market, Google selected 1% of their users to run the experiment on, but without informing them. That is users didn’t know that their search results were manipulated and articles they would otherwise have found didn’t show up.

So the argument presented by Danish authorities and media companies were that information should flow freely in a democracy and by doing a huge experiment like this without informing users is against the rights of Danish citizens.

In our local highschool (near Copenhagen, Denmark) they have scheduled reading time for all pupils while in school - weekly as part of their normal schoolday. That is, instead of normal class everyone needs to bring a book of their own choosing and read in it. No phones allowed during this time, so they can either read or stare out the window. The local library helps them find books of their own interest.

The idea is to get them find genres and books they like and find joy reading it, while not taking time out of their free time.

And for publisher there probably isn’t the same network effect as for Word/Excel/Powerpoint.

Maybe the most impactful thing they could do would not be withdrawing support for Ukraine, but removing sanctions on Russia and thus boosting Russian economy.

From openDesk website:

> Create, edit and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations with full support for all major file formats

Do they? Doesn’t big corporations just buy CoPilot from Microsoft where they already have a license for Office, Teams, GitHub, Visual Studio, Azure etc.?

This is curated playlists, not a podcast. I was confused by the name at first as well.

I haven't seen the new show, but here's a recording from the show he toured with in 2018 for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axjQuK_fuc4

If not them, it would just had been others doing the same thing.

> They then sent a complicated jumble of computer code and asked me to run it as a command on my work laptop and report back what it said. They wanted to know what internal IT access I had to start planning their next steps once inside.

He should share that script for companies to protect themselves.

> As I held my phone in my hands, the screen filled with a new request every minute or so.

> I knew exactly what this was - a hacker technique known as MFA bombing. Attackers bombard a victim with these pop ups by attempting to reset a password or login from an unusual device.

> Eventually the victim presses accept either by mistake or to make the pop-ups go away. This is famously how Uber was hacked in 2022.

Authenticator apps should not give notifications, users must open them manually. In Denmark the government have followed this security practice for the authentication app MitID. In the beginning there was a lot of complaints, but now we know that is just how it works.

I think it would be nice to get even more people using something like Element rather than a Meta-owned app, Microsoft Teams, etc.

For that to have a chance they need user-interfaces that are just as easy to use, and almost feature parity with what chat program people currently are used to.

The issue is that what is considered AI in the general population is a floating definition, with only the newest advances being called AI in media etc. Is internet search AI? Is route planning?

Technology as a term has the same problem, “technology companies” are developing the newest digital technologies.

A spoon or a pencil is also technology according to definition, but a pencil making company is not considered a technology company. There is some quote by Alan Kay about this, but can’t find it now.

I try to avoid both terms as they change meaning depending on the receiver.

The checkboxes doesn’t look quite right on iOS

It’s gone.

Danish digitization ministry will soon attempt a move away from Microsoft because of this. We can only hope that this is only the first step, and that broader move away from US tech companies will follow.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/danish_department_dum...

For someone like me, who have had an accident (dislocated kneecap) and need to focus on special muscle groups to compensate it makes sense to search for exercises based on muscle groups.

We had a similar setup, also with a homegrown VCS developed internally in our company, where I sometimes acted as branch admin. I’m not sure it worked exactly like Source Depot, but I can try to explain it.

Basically instead of everyone creating their own short-lived branches (expensive operation), you would have long-lived branches that a larger group of people would commit to (several product areas). The branch admins job was then to get the work all of these people forward integrated to a branch upwards in the hierarchy. This was attempted a few times per day, but if tests failed you would have to reach out to the responsible people to get those test fixed. Then later, when you get the changes merged upwards, some other changes have also been made to the main integration branch, and now you need to pull these down into your long lived branch - reverse integration - such that your branch is up to date with everyone else in the company.

I have run a codeclub for 10 years. Here’s some quick thoughts:

- Make them curious, if they are curious they will teach themselves. Example: don’t tell them what a for loop is, make a project where they really need it, but let them first to write it very verbosely without loops, then they will almost invent it themselves and be relived when you teach them (same style can be applied to most things)

- make projects that have low entry level, but where they can improve it infinitely. E.g. build an aquarium simulator or a city simulator using p5.js

- make them collaborate with other kids if possible, often they learn better from their peers than listening to their parents. Facilitate collaboration, and help them come up with more and more difficult projects, that require more and more of them, so they don’t stay on the same level too long

Just only use this in output where you also control the rendering, the font can be included in a PDF or with a website. This is for when you publish, not for emails as I understand it.

TikTok probably didn’t make friends and pay bribes to the right people.

> Apple violated the Digital Markets Act by restricting how app developers could communicate with customers about sales and other offers, according to the European Commission, the executive branch of the 27-nation bloc.

> Meta broke the law by imposing a “consent or pay” system that forces users to either allow their personal data to be used to target advertisements, or pay a subscription fee for advertising-free versions of Facebook and Instagram.

It will be interesting what their responses will be, but I guess they will appeal it to try to postpone the inevitable. I guess they hope Trump will make some kind of deal with EU?

I don’t understand why an app should even be necessary here, a phone call should be sufficient, or at least access through a website.

Didn’t see that there was a theme at first, and I think after trying some of the other dates having that theme makes it too easy