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tremonon UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

...and Infantino was the UEFA secretary under Platini before taking Blatter's place as head of FIFA.

tremonon UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

I'm not convinced. There's plenty of large clubs in Europe owned by foreign capital and those clubs have already tried to push a pan-European league for themselves. I can see the FIFA using those teams as leverage to gain a foothold in Europe without UEFA.

* e.g. Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Paris SG, AC Milan and Inter Milan -- in Spain, individual clubs can't be owned by private equity but the La Liga corporation is)

tremonon Europe's fires are just the start

A comment from an earlier thread alleged that Spanish policy says that forests that are destroyed due to fire don't have to be rebuilt, the land can be re-purposed. That's what's driving the arson in Spain.

I have no way to evaluate the veracity of this site, but https://inspain.news/spains-wildfire-tragedy-now-has-a-human... says:

> In some cases, arson is linked to economic gain: land clearance, insurance fraud, or disputes over grazing rights. Others are sparked by resentment towards environmental restrictions.

tremonon Europe's fires are just the start

Hydro is not renewable when the basins are being refilled by glacial melt as is the case for most of Europe, and precipitation is also becoming more erratic. For example, Iceland is currently relying on hydro power for 70% of its electricity, but current models predict that glacial runoff will peak around 2060 (or earlier, if the arctic temperature continues its upward trend). After that, the potential power to be generated from hydro will gradually decrease, which is why Iceland is now diversifying towards geothermal and wind.

tremonon Europe's fires are just the start

I think that's net zero for electricity only, not net zero for all power generation. It excludes heavy industry and freight shipping, which still have a projected investment window of at least 25 years. Heavy industry in particular would have benefitted from the predictable high-power output of nuclear energy.

tremonon Cesium DevCon 2026 talks are up, including a keynote from SQLite's creator

I feel that if we're supposed to call a SQL query planner AI, then any compiler that targets more than one architecure (including JIT compilers that optimize for the current processor's cache configuration) should be included as well. And if we're going to be that broad in terms of adaptable command execution then we should be similarly broad in terms of command interpretation, which says to me that all HTML parsers and rendering engines should similarly be classified as AI. After all, SQL queries still follow a very rigid structure and any non-conformant query will be rejected, whereas web engines are very good at recovering from non-conformant HTML input.

tremonon Hooray for the Sockets Interface

It's not just about separating lookup and connect: the fundamental stream abstraction is a point-to-point connection. It's possible to construct one-to-many connections on top of that, but it adds a lot of complexity on both sides. Doing it the other way around (emulating one-to-one connections on top of a one-to-many abstraction) means burdening simple connections with a lot of unnecessary complexity.

tremonon Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification

The people depicted in unauthorised AI nudes circulating the Internet might care.

tremonon Canceling "Hey"

> Encampments produce fires, needles, waste, blocked sidewalks, and local crime spikes

Are you saying that if it weren't for such an encampment, homeless people wouldn't be keeping warm, shooting up, and relieving themselves? I don't see how that can be the case. It seems to me that what you are pointing out is that encampments make these events more visible by containing them in one place, rather than them being diffused throughout the city.

tremonon Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website

Switzerland is not part of the EU nor the Eurozone though. It's still a shortsighted stance of Postbank not to open the app to at least the DACH region, but that specific argument carries little weight.

tremonon Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory

> about to raise 500K-1M soldiers

Russia has developed necromancy?

tremonon French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

Is the solution repeated burning of pine to enrich the soil, making it easier for other tree species to gain a foothold in the area?

tremonon US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search

They've been boiling that frog for 25 years now. Its flesh has long detached from the bones, it's the bones themselves that are now dissolving.

tremonon Kill The Cookie Banner

Your specific example is not intended to address buyer's remorse, but mortgage financing. After agreeing to a house sale, the buyer has three days to have their bank sign off on it. Yes, it's nice that it slightly alleviates pressure but the primary goal is to streamline house sales by making the financing details part of the finalization instead of the decision-making process.

tremonon Kill The Cookie Banner

I'll be closing my browser soon anyway and they'll be gone

Sure, your browser cookie will be gone. But you have already allowed the server-side identifiers of your session to be used for whatever purpose, including reconstituting increasingly larger parts of your identity over multiple disconnected sessions. Please don't make the mistake of thinking that clearing your cookies afterwards is the same as rejecting all server-side processing.

tremonon Kill The Cookie Banner

Yes, it is strictly necessary to properly honour the user's choice. Not storing a rejection of consent but storing acceptance violates the GDPR because it creates an asymmetry between the effort required to accept vs the effort required to reject user data processing.

tremonon Systemd Linger

Only the pid 1 sigchild handling. Everything else is design choices.

tremonon If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?

People don't choose a Super LTS distro/kernel because they want newer kernel versions, they want stability. What the hell are you doing trying to shoehorn a newer kernel into Ubuntu 16.04?

tremonon Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality

This is why independent review organizations are so important in the market.

tremonon Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude

I paid for my education, thank you very much. I'm still paying for it.

tremonon Who's afraid of Chinese models?

Please have your favourite language fabricator explain to you why democracy and republic are not opposing concepts.

tremonon The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel

Also don't have a Facebook account, don't shop with Amazon, don't use an Android or Apple phone, don't work for a company that uses Office365. Sounds real easy doesn't it?

tremonon The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel

"you" being the operative word. The rest of the information will just be supplied by your government instead of yourself.

tremonon The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel

Your comment presupposes that there can be only one problem; I don't think that's a valid assumption.

tremonon How to Abandon Your Climate Commitments and Get Away with It

I look forward to reading your research article refuting this one. Please let us know the arxiv url when you're ready to publish.

tremonon Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years

> Your tree produces female flowers first and later in the year produces male flowers. This is to prevent self-pollination

How does this work in practice? Do other trees from the same species produce male flowers first, and then female? Logically, if all trees produce female flowers in spring and male flowers in the summer then the species can only survive if the seeds can remain viable unfertilized for months (which is probably not that exceptional for plants, I wouldn't know). But if the female seeds are still viable by the time the plant sprouts its male flowers, exactly how does this prevent self-pollination?

tremonon Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

> (around day 9)

Typo; should be day 17/18.

tremonon Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

The embryo, not the fetus. Pretty sure that's referring to gastrulation, where the cell blob splits into multiple layers to start cell specialization; it does this by curving in on itself, and the cavity formed by this process becomes the intestinal tract: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrulation#Protostomes_versu...

However, that all happens at the embryonic stage (around day 9). At the point where the embryo has advanced sufficiently to be called a fetus (around week 9), the body has already sufficiently developed so that it's impossible to say where "fetal development" starts: https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php?titl...

tremonon LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

That would be a good idea actually, but I'm not sure how viable that is within the current Windows Update instrumentation. Allowing local binaries to fetch random URLs through the Windows Update API is no different from them using the HTTP Service unless there's some kind of whitelisting/validation happening there. The alternative would be that Microsoft uses their own Windows Update cdn to host random firmware files that they're not able to verify themselves. Both cases sound like maintenance overhead for Microsoft without benefit to them.

tremonon LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

> why Microsoft allows any 'driver utility' to have internet access

Firmware updates for devices are not a thing in your world?