It’s not easy to break free from deep dependencies. But it can be done. ICC to drop MS for German alternative ⬇️
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International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
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October 31, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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We saw outages for Microsoft's XBox services yesterday and Amazon AWS even broke twice this month. Countless players unable to access their games. Hope more people begin to understand the downsides of online dependencies.
October 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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„The China Trap: How Germany made itself dependent on China out of convenience and myopia“.
Cover page of Germany‘s main business paper.
A collective German elite failure on a gigantic scale. Time for a reckoning. And most of all: finally time for serious action to reduce our dependencies.
Cover page of Germany‘s main business paper.
A collective German elite failure on a gigantic scale. Time for a reckoning. And most of all: finally time for serious action to reduce our dependencies.
October 31, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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✓ Keep your XAML
✓ Keep your C# logic
✓ Keep your dependencies
✓ Ship to Mac & Linux
Same proven codebase. New platforms.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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*sobs gently in "but I don't want to troubleshoot React dependencies today"*
October 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Did you know that you can browse thousands of our stories on our free, interactive, online Map? We've got stories of people's history of resistance and rebellion from over 200 countries and dependencies. Check them out at map.workingclasshistory.com/
October 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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My kingdom for working Kali dependencies
October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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So, yes, Signal runs on AWS. It also runs on your phone, which runs on iOS (Apple) or Android (Google). And on Dekstop, via Windows (Microsoft). Each of these presents similar dependencies on large entrenched tech companies, and concomitant barriers and risks. 10/
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Navigating between the US and China to protect interests while avoiding too many dependencies on either yet is unlikely to be too much fun for other countries, large companies, or anyone else, but that seems likely to be the way for the coming years.
October 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Updating project dependencies in 2025
October 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Good thread from @signal.org CEO, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social underscoring our critical dependencies on a few key orgs, and an increasing challenge in organizational and national resilience. We have a lot of work to do. cc @gate15.bsky.social
In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/
October 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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As the world’s largest importer of commodities transforms global markets, it is wasting money, creating dependencies and exposing itself to new risk. What is behind China’s stockpiling strategy?
China’s secret stockpiles have been a great success—so far
Xi Jinping is desperate for Trump-proof access to food, fuels and metals
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October 30, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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A swing and a miss:
#rstats
Although this feedback helps me consider opportunities to reduce my dependencies
#rstats
Although this feedback helps me consider opportunities to reduce my dependencies
October 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Good thread. This is why AWS and other critical dependencies are part of our national critical infrastructure. This is also why we have to do far better in creating alternatives and redundancy. It's not only about competition but resilience - for orgs, like Signal, and for our nation.
October 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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We were researching the history of Rothera Research Station, and stumbled across this incredible photo.
It's giving Batcopter 🚁
The UK's first major aerial survey of the Antarctic Peninsula was 1955-57. The Falkland Island Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition used flying boats and helicopters ⬇️
It's giving Batcopter 🚁
The UK's first major aerial survey of the Antarctic Peninsula was 1955-57. The Falkland Island Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition used flying boats and helicopters ⬇️
October 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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The Skilled Worker visa. The Domestic Worker visa. The Seasonal Worker Scheme visa. The Health and Care Worker visa. All of them tie workers’ legal status to their employers, creating what experts call “huge dependencies” that lock people into exploitation.
November 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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i also believe u cant just install this from here by default, ive tried this before and i had to manually grab some extra dependencies to get this to install
October 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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And a Makefile to orchestrate the execution order of different reports and their potential dependencies ✌️
October 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Crucially, heavy reliance on Chinese clean energy supply chains risks embedding new strategic dependencies, mirroring past over-reliance on Russian gas.
October 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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oh god, installing the HIP runtime for AMD GPU accelerated rendering in Blender pulls in a total of 5GB in dependencies. This really is just like CUDA all over again lmao
October 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Dependency graphs today are huge! Broad and deep. And they are quick changing - culturally, releases are small and frequent, and users update their dependencies frequently. That makes vulns (accidental or deliberate) easy to hide and miss in review and makes the burden for proper review too big
October 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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People write and review code, it really is no wonder that the industry that for decades thrived on avoiding paying the maintainers of their open source dependencies can't tackle a people issue of overworked maintainers letting bugs or malicious code slip in.
October 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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I've started working on an R package that makes it easy to write Typst markup dynamically! #rstats
It's still in its early stages, but it implements:
- ✅ all Typst functions
- ✅ set rules
- ✅ conversion from R to Typst (`NULL` becomes `none`, etc)
- ✅ no dependencies
github.com/y-sunflower/r2typ
It's still in its early stages, but it implements:
- ✅ all Typst functions
- ✅ set rules
- ✅ conversion from R to Typst (`NULL` becomes `none`, etc)
- ✅ no dependencies
github.com/y-sunflower/r2typ
October 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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The European Commission will present a new plan to break the EU's dependencies on China for critical raw materials, President Ursula von der Leyen announced today.
Von der Leyen touts new plan to break ties with China on critical materials
European Commission chief warns of “clear acceleration and escalation in the way interdependencies are leveraged and weaponized.”
www.politico.eu
October 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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