> A country where no one is stigmatized for loving someone differently than the majority.

-- Peter Magyar victory speech, April 12, 2026

That's directly in opposition to Orban's views and homophobic laws.

Shit, i didn't realize, his name is really Magyar? I thought it was a surname. What a name for Hungary's president

"Russians go home" was one of the main chants at opposition rallies. In 2026 like in 1989.

> Someone in power doesn’t get to choose - the board of directors do

Since the board of directors can decide to replace the CEO, it's not the CEO who holds the (ultimate) power, it's the board of directors.

Since the majority shareholder(s) can decide to replace the board of directors, it’s not the board of directors who holds the (ultimate) power, it’s the majority shareholder(s).

Indeed, and there we reached the end of the chain.

Sure, but if you constrain to fixed output length, you will definitely have collisions (Pigeon Hole Principle). There's no way around that.

padding with zeroes to a fixed length and prepending the original length would suffice, but you’d have to have a fixed length of double infinity to account for both the length information and the hash information, and the hash is less efficient than the original information.

> the fundamental physical paradoxes and incoherence of free will

Are those even true? They sure are in classical, Newtonian physics, but are they in modern, e.g. quantum physics? Not saying that one proves free will, but is there an actual hard impossibility?

In my high school philosophy class, the teacher lamented that we replaced the deterministic Newtonian "billiards" model of the universe for the Quantum "incomprehensible randomness" model of the universe, which is somehow even less satisfying as far as free will goes.

Buddhism arrives at no free will from a different angle: the universe is interdependent, there's no "self" to be found in consciousness, etc.

Amusingly, my meditation textbook starts with the advice to form a clear, strong intention to meditate every day.[0]

That sounds like optimal use of the supposedly nonexistent free will to me!

[0] The Mind Illuminated, by Culadasa. Relevant excerpt reproduced here: https://nekolucifer.substack.com/p/first-form-a-clear-intent...

At least in some cases, it's actually using Linux and open document format, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

Good on France for doing that work.

More countries and/or EU involvement could bring economies of scale: apart from translation, a lot of work on fixing bugs and adding features to the relevant open source projects can be done once and benefit all. So either get the same results faster, more cheaply per country, or both. Sure, that adds some bureaucracy and coordination cost too, but should be worth it overall.

The EU could perhaps fund some of the work but it is the Cathedral to Linux's Bazaar.

It would be the Cathedral if it made a 5 year plan to build the perfect solution (even more so if from quasi-scratch). But the EU is also known to offer (sometimes small scale) grants in specific domains. That's much more compatible with the Bazaar.

Also GendBuntu, a custom version of Ubuntu used by 100 000 stations (almost all) of the national gendarmerie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

Amazing to see a webpage "Updated Dec 1998" still up, running and displaying correctly.

Without fancy JS or CSS, sites can last decades easily

With JS and CSS sites can last decades easily.

Agreed, it's not those, it's the fact that we went from JS being a little sprinkling of dynamism on a document to an entire build process with massive numbers of dependencies and browser shims. The web feels like a mistake as a platform...

I said "fancy", meaning frameworks or custom things. With vanilla js everything is durable

They might have an effect in the development of an office suite, possibly of a desktop environment or one specialized Linux distribution. Nobody will be forced to use those specific ones if they don't like them. There are plenty of options in the Linux world.