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BREAKING: The EU has escalated legal action against Belgium over concerns its privacy regulator lacks independence. Belgium now has 2 months to take action or face a lawsuit at the European Court of Justice.
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L’UE a intensifié les actions en justice contre la Belgique en raison du manque d’indépendance de son autorité de régulation de la protection de la vie privée. La Belgique a deux mois pour prendre des mesures ou s’exposer à une action en justice devant la CEJ.
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It’s official : after years of using Linux, without using Vim (beside the basics & exiting) and instead using Nano, I have finally made the switch, my vimrc is now actually tuned to my habits, and I’ve setup some nice plugins that really supercharge vim into a versatile, useful, nicely configured system-wide editor :)
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First problem: 91 percent of software developers are male. Second problem: You’ve been living in a version of metaverse for years—and, having taken over video games, it’s now coming for the world of work. https://www.wired.com/story/these-companies-already-live-in-zuckerberg-metaverse/
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https://riju.codes : Extremely fast online playground for every programming language.
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"The metaverse is bullshit because it already exists, and it’s called the internet " https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-metaverse-is-bullshit/
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Think of PubDAO as akin to a decentralized Associated Press. https://decrypt.co/84755/pubdao-media-dao-decentralized-news-wire #DAO
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Wow.
ox-activity-streams is a publish backend for Org-mode, which allows to publish org files as fediverse posts by serving only static files.
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__Bookmarked : Fix Facebook by Making It More Like Google+ - The Atlantic
My colleague Adrienne LaFrance has named the fundamental assumption, and danger, of social media megascale: “not just a very large user base, but a tremendous one, unprecedented in size.” Technology platforms such as Facebook assume that they deserve a user base measured in the billions of people—and then excuse their misdeeds by noting that effectively controlling such an unthinkably large population is impossible. But technology users, including Donald Trump and your neighbors, also assume that they can and should taste the spoils of megascale. The more posts, the more followers, the more likes, the more reach, the better. This is how bad information spreads, degrading engagement into calamity the more attention it accrues.
This isn’t a side effect of social media’s misuse, but the expected outcome of its use. As the media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan puts it, the problem with Facebook is Facebook.