Oh, that is fantastic (ACME integration too!)

Thanks for finding and sharing the link.

It’s interesting that they’d offer top-level domains, but not provide a certificate authority to generate (non-self-signed) ssl certs.

Oh, that’s not true /s.

I’m sure anyone can buy the chairman’s veto/vote. For each policy, it’ll be auctioned like on eBay. … a perfect reflection of our modern world /s.

Under Trump, as well as refusing to make mandatory payments to the U.N.'s regular and peacekeeping budgets, the U.S. has slashed voluntary funding to U.N. agencies with their own budgets, and moved to exit U.N. organizations including the World Health Organization.

If I fasten my tinfoil hat on, I’d say that this is all going according to plan: The U.S. gets kicked out of the U.N. The U.N. is (financially) destabilized and is unable to focus on developing its sovereignty from U.S. Big Tech and focus on having the military support it needs. Meanwhile, hostile actors are at its boarders waiting to pounce.

I think it’s Peppermint Patty with the knife (and probably Lucy is off scene, waiting around the corner).

Current times have really hit the Peanuts hard…

But everything was rolling, pretty goddamn great until…

I beg to disagree there. Each year Big Tech has become more and more aggressive in taking control from us, the consumer. Microsoft with the requirements of TPM in order to install windows 11. Google with they’re delaying open source releases of android, preventing apps from being installed unless it’s non-cfw. All tech companies shoveling AI everywhere. John Deere with their vendor lock-in hardware.

This needed to stop and these companies need to be reminded that “the consumer owns the hardware and that includes functional software (that does not change without the users consent)”.

Unfortunately, the U.S. Government failed it’s people in defending consumer rights and tbh, the EU hasn’t really done a stellar job either. However, this is certainly the" kick in pants" the EU needs (hopefully) to start to create competition against U. S. Big Tech… and the EU certainly understands that it needs to protect these small EU start-ups as they try to find their footing.

So, I hope this results in the EU creating laws to “level the playing field”. Which, I hope, actually spurs innovate and Open Standards (something Big Tech has been working hard on suppressing), which will be good for all of us (regardless, if you’re in the EU, U.S., and beyond).

You’ll notice there is a lot of “hope” in these sentences. I am skeptical, but I can see how this could be “a good thing”.

Yeah, MS Teams (not my choice) had a pop-up that said that in order for a meeting to be recorded, I needed to accept that my video and what I say will be used by Microsoft for various purposes including training copilot.

So, that counts as me using copilot, right? /s

edit: A word

Is this open source?

(I couldn’t find it)