Staying connected is going to be increasingly hard if policies like age-gating, chat control and digital omnibus are allowed to pass. The Commission seems to have spent the past year actively trying to prevent European digital sovereignty from happening.

I was supposed to pay my taxes in dollars this whole time? 😳

Sure, but they still need to maintain apps on both smart tv and mobile platforms. Not sure how chonky a feature that just sends a multicast on local network/listens to said multicast is, but I’d bet we can safely attribute its removal to enshittification rather than diligent codebase management.

So why are you dismantling key pillars of GDPR to allow foreign big tech companies to train their “AI” models on Europeans' private data without needing a permission?

The only regulation that holds back European innovation are the overreaching IP laws that prevent interoperability and repairability and that were imposed on us trough lobbying in the UN. If the Commission really wanted to remove burdens for European innovation, they’d repeal directive 2001/29/EC.

I tried several times to start using masto and it only clicked for me like a year ago. The barrier to entry is def ridiculously high but I like to use it alongside other platforms as it gives me peace of mind that if BS or other stuff goes to hell, I have a place to retreat to without much hassle.

Are there any best practices for indies (or any dev teams really) that want to achieve cohesive and unique visual language while keeping scope in check?

If there is one AP/Router from the ISP and all devices in the house connect to it via WiFi, it’s pretty straightforward to just kick the devices off the network temporarily.

Or Polish. Or Romanian. Or from the Baltics. Choices abound.

Masivní investice do zbrojení často vedou k inflaci. V minulosti často na získání zdrojů a zmírnění inflace sloužily war bonds. Přijde mi škoda že tuhle možnost nikdo ani nezvažuje, nebo to minimálně není vidět.