I try to give people chances, the benefit of the doubt. I am truly interested in all perspectives backed by logic or evidence. Heck, I'd even consider alien visits in our timeline, if anyone had any evidence or even sound logical arguments. A lack of response to my comment or a nonsensical response would make my point for me.

He said, while failing to understand that it's for controlling our use of our computers. Eyeroll all day.

If the user has no control over it, then it's for the control of the user.

The idea as presented as being in the user's benefit is that the user can control it, but applications cannot.

Is it holding it between the index and middle fingers? "Got your gene! I got your gene!"

This version has a dumber headline, so it's like a whole new story! Three people didn't like it!

When I open teams, there is a big banner that appears over the window and I have to struggle to remember how to dismiss it. There is only a list of the last 20 or so people I have talked to, even though I do that in a day sometimes. Searching on text that appeared somewhere in a chat is an excercise in futility, and so is scrolling back more than a few days. Everything is laggy and slow and not up to navigating the thousands of contacts I not just need but am expected to. Fullscreen in meetings is not really fullscreen as was mentioned yesterday. The integration between different organizations is really awkward. Need I go on? I cannot believe a team of 20 people could do worse.

I was wondering what the pole names would be. I checked the paper, yea, nah I wasn't going to find the answer there. So how about N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, and NW?

I call article shenanigans.

Element is a UK company. Which is not part of the EU. Why should the EU choose to use a non-European company, headquartered in a non-European country, with a non-European, non-compliant legal system?

The UK is already barred from offering unrestricted financial services in the EU, I expect communications services to be an area of concern.

Brexit is Brexit. The UK is out, and simply cannot be trusted with European communications backbones.

I may be willing to believe that there's been a tender process and their product is currently being evaluated, but on privacy grounds alone I doubt their product passes the bar unless they reincorporate in an EU country with 51% EU ownership, all other things being equal.

Congratulations to you both for repeating the same joke from the article yesterday.

Sure, and it's not adequate in many regions.

Can you unpack this a bit and provide any links? It seems coded and a bit conspiratorial otherwise, but I'm interested in the perspectives and evidence.

I'm more interested to hear who are the "three officials". An anonymous opinion about an issue that involves Microsoft doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in its veracity, not to mention that politico EU is a magazine that thrives on ragebite and excessive dramatism about nothing.

Pretty much. As I have said elsewhere, they have the money to airgap their own copy of the internet if they want.

How precious that you spread lies under an article warning us about lies. How many people do you hurt?

I don't know why this is so hard to understand for some people. The wave in Linux numbers is hugely driven by the overwhelming success of the Steam Deck. The usage seems to skyrocket during holiday season precisely because that's a) when people have time, and b) when people travel.

Signed:
Someone who didn't use their own Steam Deck in September, not even once, because he didn't travel anywhere and prefers to play on his PC / PS5 instead. But man I put a lot of hours on it in August while jet setting around the world. Nothing quite like going diving in Indonesia, and then spending a 2 hour surface interval playing Dave the Diver on the Steam Deck :-)

Honestly most Americans would be healthier walking to their letterbox instead of driving to the end of their driveway. I don't think a tiny barely significant change in health is at all relevant for anything other than your desire to push you own personal preference.

Fuck mornings. Let them be dark so I can spend more time enjoying a beer in the afternoon (did the study consider liver damage?)