Matthias Bach @marix@chaos.social

So. Erstmal ein paar Leuten gefolgt. Die Usability durch dieses ganze Federation-Geraffel ist noch nicht so das Gelbe vom Ei - zumindest in den Weboberflächen der jeweiligen Instanzen.

Most Brits probably missed this, but as a European when I follow or care about Brexit I’m in the distinct minority. Europeans generally tuned out the entire Brexit thing that was more of a curiosity to begin with and not a serious issue. We don’t even care to mention it to british expat colleagues anymore. Eu companies do contingency planning and the default assumption is no-deal. The UK govt is fighting with itself pretty much.

Brits assume the EU really wants a deal so they’ll make it work but that’s not really true.

Only 8% of EU trade goes to the UK. For the EU the integrity of the internal market is very important, without rules it would cease to exist. Uk govt is asking for the impossible, that the EU has no moral reason or economic reason to do. Brits forget that the EU is more inclined to make an example out of the UK than to bend any of it’s basic rules.

Some people think that come march next year, they’ll just negotiate an extension to the whole process and kick the can down the road for another few years.

Not likely, it needs unanimous agreement from EU countries and a lot aren’t inclined to drag this process out.

A no-deal exit is basically the only type of exit that does not need unanimous agreement from EU countries.

So why are we on this road then? Because UK politics is messed up.

Basic things like: no market access without common regulations and standards and without a court to enforce and adjudicate those rules and regs.

I expect the EU to offer medical supplies out of some emergency / disaster relief package but that’s about it.

(Historically speaking, if all your neighbouring countries signed up to a common org, then you decide to quit that club, then you shittalk that club and try to leave without your dues being fully paid, that ends up badly.)

In case of some no-deal scenario, some people wave it away and say that the EU would smooth over the transition and ignore the border.

That is not so. Britain would be thrown into chaos on the food, medicine, air travel and basic shipping level, and I don’t mean “logistical problems” but actual shortages and empty shelves in the stores.

The EU has been telling the UK for two years now that decisions have consequences and no amount of magical thinking can override basic things.

"Five bazillion buffer overflows and one near-fatal failure to convert from degrees to radians later, I presented the interpreter as my senior exit project, and of course it crashed the MS-DOS machine halfway through the demonstration, but not before producing something like this...which impressed everyone just enough that bringing a 486 and CRT monitor to school on the bus were worth it." https://www.patreon.com/posts/project-sdl-2-0-20211701

#Mimimi
https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/android-has-created-more-choice-not-less/

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#latestagecapitalism

New Assorted Links (2018-07): https://rixx.de/blog/assorted-links-2018-07/

AFK = away from keyboard
#AfD = away from democracy

Spiel hat berüchtigt schlechte KI, Modder findet Tippfehler in Konfigurationsdatei.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aliens-colonial-marines-ai-fixed-by-a-single-letter.55247/

Nach 5 Jahren..

Guter, kurzer Artikel über das Sternchen hinter Begriffen wie Mann und Frau oder Vater und Mutter - und warum das nicht so geil ist: http://ichbinslinus.de/2018/06/12/ich-moechte-kein-sonderzeichen-sein/

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