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I jumped the train when they crashed the Silverlight carriage.

Specifically, which?

I don't understand the title. Replacing a serialization format with a language? Makes no sense.

If I wanted the average browser, I would have stuck with Chrome, or Edge.

Here's my answer to this:

sudo apt remove firefox-esr

Done.

There's only one thing I can say about this: THANK YOU!!!!! Really cool!

Maybe it could be Bauhaus inspired instead. (This isn't a serious suggestion, but if you're biasing your opinion based on their German origin, why not from the good stuff instead?)

This should be EU wide, and I was against Chat Control.

Stating that you can also write unsafe code in memory safe languages is like saying that you can also die from a car crash while wearing a safety belt. Of course you can, but it is still a much better idea to wear the safety belt rather than not to.

There's an old aviation adage that says that time spent flying isn't deductible from one's lifespan. This article supports that. :-)

Vibe Coding... or should we call it Dunning-Kruger Factory?

Leave to where to avoid a global minimum tax? To Mars?

Is that just by consensus?

Playing devil's advocate, I claim that the consensus is that open source just means public code, not free licenses. Prove me wrong.

So what would you call projects with restrictive licenses but with their source code made public?

I think that you are ignoring Newton's 3rd law, which pretty much can be applied to economics in this case. What made the US really great was the fact that it was the center of the liberal world order and the coalition of friends that it built around itself, including the EU countries. Let's see how well the US does when it loses most of its friends. Focusing on the EU, the US wants to balance the goods trade deficit with the EU, but it has a services surplus with the EU. Goods deficit vs services surplus roughly balanced each other before the tariffs. Guess what we in the EU will need to do? In the end it will be loose-loose for everyone, but in the long run the then friendless US will be the biggest loser.

Infomaniak is Swiss company and is a very nice alternative to 365. It covers emails, cloud storage and office editors (via OnlyOffice editors), and plenty more services.

For source code, BitBucket is provided by Atlassian, which while not European is Australian, so also from a trustworthy country.

In October 2024 you already knew who Musk was and you still contributed with money to the cause. His power derives mainly from Tesla sales and he was already using it to support the president of Project 2025, but much much worse, he is now supporting the German AfD. Their eventual victory would have a deeply negative impact in the EU. When people don’t consider the preservation of democracy in their purchasing decisions it means they don’t cherish it enough.

Or the American saying, if it walks like a duck quacks like a duck and does a nazi salute, then it's definitely a nazi duck.

Imagine some people arguing that cars should be driven with the steering wheel while others argued it should be driven by using the accelerator and the brake pedals.

The issue isn't their economic power by itself. It is their outsized political power that derives from that economic power. The more political power the oligarcs have, the less power all the other citizens have.

I don't think people like you should pay more taxes. The problem is at the much, much higher levels. The concentration of wealth like Musk, Bezos, and others have, should simply not exist.

Here's the criteria: Your wealth level isn't enough for you to have an oversized power over society. People like Musk have and they are not elected by the people. This threatens democracy itself.

How does that work? If you tax the wealthy more, you actually reduce the budget deficit. Read this: https://flaglerlive.com/gc-fdr-and-taxes/

Of course they should. Even Nixon charged a marginal tax rate of above 70%. Roosevelt charged 94%. It is not only a matter of fairness, but not doing so is also very dangerous. Billionaires shouldn't exist. A few had a ton of merit. Many inherited. All of them were very lucky, regardless of their merit and effort. But none of the billionaires was elected by the people to have the completely disproportionate power they have over society.

So, while I am completely for capitalism and low taxes for everyone, including the wealthy, billionaires should be taxed out of existence. Basically, I think the tax rate curve should be like a hockey stick. Very flat and then suddenly all the way up to almost 100%. The old billionaires would still be able to live very comfortable lifes as millionaires.

No single country should be doing this by itself, though. It should be a coordinated effort.

Indeed, I've always been against filtering people on programming language. However, I wouldn't hire a developer that wasn't good at the language they had been using or learning for the last years. In the same way, I wouldn't stop from hiring someone without git experience. But I would definitely not hire someone who, in 2024, hadn't been using some CVS tool. Plus, I would be curious to know how the applicant had been sharing code with colleagues in group projects and why they had gone for solutions other than git. For someone more experienced I would be wondering how they managed to be insulated from the most widely used code repositories like GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, and so on, which overwhelmingly are git focused (BitBucket even started out as a Mercurial solution and then slowly shifted to Git). This could actually be an interesting window into the applicant's decision making process. Even though I would be open minded, I think that the odds would tend more for me to find out reasons not to hire that applicant.