[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 5 points 4 days ago

I think usually something like that is intended to as a counterweight, to prevent power from centralising.

However, to prevent the scales from tipping too badly, a sufficient majority in parliament can override the veto, and I believe the party that's pushing this (Georgian Dream) has enough seats to be able to do this.

(Caveat: I'm not Georgian, so this is just based on somewhat above average interest in politics and in the country, following my local news.)

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There's a lot in there that'll be hard to achieve (my analysis in Dutch), a bunch of things that were mostly expected and aren't great, and of course a couple of good things too.

Especially considering that the party leaders won't be part of the government, I wonder how long it's going to last. It'll be hard for them to meet the party leaders' demands, and there are also bound to be things that aren't specified in the deal that'll cause friction.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 2 points 4 days ago

Absolutely, which is why as democracy-loving citizens (which honestly everyone should be), people should strongly protest anything that damages it - in a democratic way, as long as that's possible. And I don't think Slovakia has regressed so badly yet that there are no democratic avenues of resistance anymore.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 9 points 5 days ago

Even if he did not have support of a big part of the population, the point of democracy is to be able to get rid of them without violence.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 18 points 5 days ago

Be careful reaching for the explanation that best matches your preconceived notions though. There are plenty of normal enemies too, and unfortunately, just one of them needs to be crazy enough to do this.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

But Fico is from that party, no? Attacking journalists and what not isn't good, but neither is shooting a politician. Especially if you're supposedly on the side that wants to protect democracy.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 3 points 5 days ago

I think there's multiple specifications at this point. There's Chrome describing what they're doing unilaterally, and then there's the WebExtension working group that's trying to get alignment among several browsers.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

including limiting lots of things that worsen the experience for AdBlock Users

That is the Chrome implementation; Firefox doesn't and won't impose those limits.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 5 days ago

It's technically for profit, but it has a single shareholder: the Foundation. There are no greedy shareholders that can get rich off of that profit.

Of course, employees/board members can be richly compensated, but that's independent of for-/non-profit status.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 6 points 5 days ago

From what I read in their blog post, nobody is keeping your search history data. It only tracks how often people in general search for things in specific categories, so nobody will be able to learn anything about you specifically from that data.

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

collecting data about how many times you searched

I don't think this stores how many times you specifically have searched for something - just how many times something has been searched for in general. In other words, nobody will be able to tell anything about you from this data.

(Which is very different from e.g. the data Google collects about you and shares with its partners.)

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 15 points 6 days ago

I don't get the irony? EU doesn't want European companies to fall over if they're able to produce solar panels at a similar price point and quality as their Chinese competitors, so it blocks foreign subsidies that might have that effect. Seems perfectly consistent to me?

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In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten talks to Mikayla, who's been leading the effort to Zed working on Linux, about the Zed's Linux version and how it's taking shape

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A study indicates that 11.2% of trips in the French capital are made on two wheels, compared to 4.3% in four-wheel vehicles

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Some of the Dutch cycleways are used so heavily, that they have reached their capacity. This means the authorities need to come up with innovative solutions to make cycling convenient and attractive…

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The launch of the digital euro could give every European a free, universal payment account. But this grand vision is at risk of being curtailed by a well-coordinated lobbying campaign of the banking industry. Banks want to make sure you will keep needing them – and they have EU officials’ ears.

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In Hungary and other EU countries, tycoons close to the government control large parts of the press. For decades, the European Union has struggled to introduce measures to curb the power of media conglomerates. Documents obtained by Follow the Money reveal how, a quarter of a century ago, Europe’s most powerful politicians torpedoed an initiative that could have safeguarded media pluralism across Europe.

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Israel's Supreme Court has struck down controversial judicial reforms that triggered nationwide protests last year against the Netanyahu government.

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