Notices by Walter van Holst (whvholst@eupolicy.social)

@aral @Mer__edith Sadly, the composition of that particular panel clearly had been clearly vetted to carefully avoid any contributions based in objective reality.

@aral @Mer__edith You should have been there during that hearing in the European Parliament where a Facebook lobbyist (and former German MEP for S+D) with a straight face argued that the GDPR should not be burdensome to SMEs like Facebook (which at the time had fewer than fifty employees in Ireland)...

@aral The other guy clearly is the better option, isn't it. And don't say third party, because that is not an option in first-past-the-post.

@foone No, but the European Union, in its eternal wisdom, has created legislation that requires smart contracts to have a termination clause.

@foone TIFF is Turing complete...

@MichaelPhillips @simonbp @_thegeoff @foone @cstross @green_bens @Hcobb @nyrath At the time of Gulf War I (or II, if you count the Iraq-Iran war as I) there were plenty of reconnaissance assets in orbit. Plus a lot of civilian earth observing (weather, agriculture etc). It was not at the dawn of the space age.

@MichaelPhillips @cstross @simonbp @_thegeoff @foone @green_bens @Hcobb @nyrath Read up on the thread, this was in response to a supposed plan during Gulf War I to use an EMP over Iraq, not Orion.

@foone @cstross @green_bens @MichaelPhillips @Hcobb @nyrath Nah, fallout from high altitude nuclear detonations is not an extinction event, even if it involves a few thousands of them.

@aral Quite well for enough people that they aren't in a hurry to fix it...

@Atomicbutterfly @aral But is it ethical to do so? Sounds more like PR to me.

@sparr It was on a Ubuntu desktop, I don't think Safari or Edge are options there.

So, after half an hour fighting with the European Commission's website to provide feedback on the draft-proposal of the Cyber Resilience Act, I tried in Chromium and went through swimmingly. What does this tell us about how serious the EU institutions are about reigning in Google's quas-monopoly if the same institutions cannot be arsed to make their websites work on browsers like Mozilla Firefox?