@EU_Commission Nice to see that "reduce" is back!

@EU_Commission@europa.eu Just an office? Some day I want to replace my EU umbrella, which I got at the European Parliament gift shop in Brussels and which had an unfortunate run in with a windstorm.

@EU_Commission@europa.eu Just an office? Some day I want to replace my EU umbrella, which I got at the European Parliament gift shop in Brussels and which had an unfortunate run in with a windstorm.

@tenderlove That does it. Talk is to be delivered entirely in Ruby. Probably entirely sung, as an opera.

@EU_Commission Did I overlook a link to the press release (or other details)? Anyway, it seems to be https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/03/11/platform-workers-council-confirms-agreement-on-new-rules-to-improve-their-working-conditions/pdf

@tenderlove I have the "nobody uses my software" part down pat.

@EU_Commission Some of what we see in the media about this topic is "should TikTok be banned?" kind of stuff. But looking at it in the context of the Digital Services Act is a more rule-of-law take on it and I'll be curious to see how it develops.

@EU_Commission Interesting. The part that caught my eye should be familiar to anyone running a global web site: "removal of costly data localisation requirements, an unnecessary burden for European and Japanese businesses. This matters as it will ensure companies are not required to physically store their data locally"

@tenderlove Isn't this like one of those calls they used to take on the radio show Car Talk where someone talks about fixing their own car and the hosts end up spending all the time talking about the tools they need/want to buy for that task?

@searls Nice post. For me the most poignant part was "If the company sponsoring it turns heel and embraces the dark side, would a community-maintained fork be feasible?" which is the question I keep coming back to in a whole bunch of open source contexts.

@EU_Commission What about monitoring wastewater for polio virus? Because most cases are asymptomatic, we only have a dim notion of how much polio virus is out there.

@tenderlove Either that or typography is too hard and we should be using a real minus sign and not try to press a hyphen into service.

@dansup That's a perfectly logical and well written interview for a serious outlet like The Verge. But just between us here on the elephant site, they completely missed the part about #JohnMastodon 's contributions. (Shh, don't tell them, they'll never see it coming).