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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.)

> And while Hetzner's price-performance is exceptional, its limited presence in the US was a consideration; for this staging workload, it wasn't an issue, but it's a factor for production services targeting US users.

What is this referring to? Concerns about capacity if you need to scale up quickly? Or just "political"/marketing considerations about people not being used to being served by a Hetzner server?

That's probably not the Glacier most people are using now. I still have it from ancient times so I got this email:

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Hello,

After careful consideration, we have decided to stop accepting new customers for Amazon Glacier (original standalone vault-based service) starting on December 15, 2025. There will be no change to the S3 Glacier storage classes as part of this plan.

Amazon Glacier is a standalone service with its own APIs, that stores data in vaults and is distinct from Amazon S3 and the S3 Glacier storage classes [1]. Your Amazon Glacier data will remain secure and accessible indefinitely. Amazon Glacier will remain fully operational for existing customers but will no longer be offered to new customers (or new accounts for existing customers) via APIs, SDKs, or the AWS Management Console. We will not build any new features or capabilities for this service.

You can continue using Amazon Glacier normally, and there is no requirement to migrate your data to the S3 Glacier storage classes.

Key Points: * No impact to your existing Amazon Glacier data or operations: Your data remains secure and accessible, and you can continue to add data to your Glacier Vaults. * No need to move data to S3 Glacier storage classes: your data can stay in Amazon Glacier in perpetuity for your long-term archival storage needs. * Optional enhancement path: if you want additional capabilities, S3 Glacier storage classes are available.

For customers seeking enhanced archival capabilities or lower costs, we recommend the S3 Glacier storage classes [1] because they deliver the highest performance, most retrieval flexibility, and lowest cost archive storage in the cloud. S3 Glacier storage classes provide a superior customer experience with S3 bucket-based APIs, full AWS Region availability, lower costs, and AWS service integration. You can choose from three optimized storage classes: S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval for immediate access, S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval for backup and disaster recovery, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive for long-term compliance archives.

If you choose to migrate (optional), you can use our self-service AWS Guidance tool [2] to transfer data from Amazon Glacier vaults to the S3 Glacier storage classes.

If you have any questions about this change, please read our FAQs [3]. If you experience any issues, please reach out to us via AWS Support for help [4].

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier/ [2] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/04/new-aws-s... implementation-amazon-s3-glacier-re-freezer/ [3] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#Storage_Classes [4] https://aws.amazon.com/support

If Biden had done it, SCOTUS would have struck it down as a violation of the Takings Clause or any made up theory.

The whole point of equity is that it can go to zero. Profit sharing means that the government had an upside (if Intel became profitable) and no downside. Now, if Intel loses money or goes bankrupt, 10 % of those losses automatically get socialised.

Yes, if you believe the New York Times: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/28/the-ny-times-lawsuit-aga...