We have all been there. Enjoy the ride until you will start questioning whether you are a fascist in some latent sense.

Proper tea.

FeralHistorian is that you?

A 30-day ceasefire is an enormous favor to Russia, when Ukraine is not getting any significant help.

What I always miss in these lists is an alternative to Slack, which I also think would be one of the most important to get right since:

• Slack is used in companies and to transfer operational information, therefore contains both HR (personal) data and sensitive business data
• Slack generates a lot of data now used to train LLMs and other ML applications
• Slack is seen as a must-have in most companies and it gets in at an affordable price point which still could be lowered by an EU solution.

I have looked into Whaller, but would still prefer an EU-made open-source version of something like Mattermost.

Despite what others are saying there is indeed an inaccuracy in calling this a privacy complaint. A lot of people outside of the EU conflate privacy with data protection, but they are not the same and GDPR does not concern with privacy but exclusively with personal data protection.

Accuracy, availability and governance of personal data are indeed important criteria for data protection, and this is what this is about.

Regarding people making shit up, if they make such things public, GDPR governs those just as much, while still referring to the normal legislation for the charges for slander.

Total security is the same as zero risk: it does not exist. Still requiring companies to properly collect documentation about data subject requests is a positive in my book.

Proper identification requires a logged in device to take a picture of you and possibly a short video in which the document is moved in front of the camera (to confirm the holograms).

This is actually required to comply with the GDPR.

As an ex-biologist, I think this is just down to a choice of words: as a society, you could see Nature as an enemy.

Man, even as an individual, or even a monocellular organism, you could argue that entropy is your enemy.

If an enemy is a useful concept for maximizing potential within your scope of choice, then be it.

Last one seems not to exist.

So the keyword to monitor is “HTSC”, got it. I heard Sabine Hossenfelder comment a few papers, but I have no idea about the full body of research.

Wow, that must be the best answer yet, at least from my ignorant point of view about the feasibility. I am extremely fascinated by material science. Are there any promising lines of research for this?

I wouldn’t be surprised if the initiative comes from the OG dev of the game, who is Italian: the efforts we go through since 1996 (all I can remember) to avoid ads and popups are of biblical proportions.

I can remember my father taking the PC away from me as soon as he saw I was exposed to one, going “I can take that away, it will be a minute”. It wasn’t a minute.

Can you expand on the technology and use cases?

As someone who never managed to work with a graphing calculator, you made me want this.

As I stated, I am more familiar with the articles of the GDPR, nothing more.

I expect a company like Meta to have a EU corporate entity and legal representation in the EU, in which case the charges can be applied to the EU entity and authorities may even seize assets within the Union.

I bring you the example of the Territorial Scope of the GDPR since it is the one I am most acquainted with:

• This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not.
  

• This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to:
  
                the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or
  
                the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.
  

• This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data by a controller not established in the Union, but in a place where Member State law applies by virtue of public international law.
  

Similar articles are there for the AI Act (which got JD Vance to talk shit about the EU on the 11th February) and the Product Liability Directive.

This is the reality we live in. Up to you to accept it or not.

What would be the first 3 tasks to be done under that line item?

My problem with counting all climate change is that the goal itself is not unique: there are atmospheric greenhouse gasses to lower, which are something completely different than the acidification of the oceans, which are completely different from deforestation.

And the effects themselves are, it’s true, all originated from an imbalance in a system, but exactly because climate is a complex system, they differ wildly.