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lnz_meon Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

i set up a xmpp server a few weeks ago for agent orchestration and agent to human workflows. hadn't inatalled ejabberd in a very long time but feeling right at home.

lnz_meon Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time

i love the "but nuclear" crowd as they seem to gloss over that a nuke is a steam engine and needs water. water we don't have anymore. if you follow the news in europe you'll see every summer that country X (normally france) has to drastically reduce or switch off their nukes because no water.

lnz_meon Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice

I grew up in Germany and Austria and did my first startups there, then went to New Zealand and built startups there and currently live in Portugal and built startups there. Europe is broken beyond believe. I moved everything back to New Zealand because the bureaucracy, the level of compliance, the insane inefficient here is killing me. if the EU is serious about wanting to build a meaningful startup scene then it has to listen to EUinc, drop its completely unfounded arrogance and learn from others. So looking forward to leaving again. I highly recommend founders in the EU to found in a sane county, if inside EU is a hard requirement, look at Estonia and Lithuania, skip the rest.

lnz_meon 20 years on AWS and never not my job

Netflix is a big FreeBSD user and a big AWS user, do they run FreeBSD on AWS? Would be the obvious sponsor to me as they rely heavily on the infrastructure built by volunteers like Colin