I'm intrigued as to why both these, and the Suite Numerique have chose Element / Matrix as the chat component. Every time I've tried to use Element / Matrix it has failed dismally for me and everyone else in whatever community is trialling it. Element itself was so buggy as to be unusable.
After having the same experience negative some time before Covid, I was kindly invited late last year to a homeserver of a local hackerspace and I gave it another try.
I cannot send messages to people on another homeserver (such as the obscure matrix.org one) whereas other people can, as well as some other issues which I forgot by now. Not at all usable. It was a short-lived stint and I didn't even try to enable encryption this time :(
This sounds very much along the lines of issues I had with it. It's been a while so I can't remember the exact details, but I do remember it being impossible to open a thread without the app just locking up and crashing, so people would ask important questions in a thread and nobody was ever able to reply or even read the question.
Element web and mobile have the same issue; server I'm not sure, where can I see this? I would assume the default/reference implementation but I don't know
Groups work btw, it's just private chats that cannot be initiated from either side (I have like five pending 'rooms' or something now), so it's not that one server banned the other. I just took it for typical matrix experience
it sounds like the hackspace server has been banned from inviting due to spam or something. can you share the name of the server so we can check? or mail abuse@matrix.org with the details.
It's not my server and not actually that much involved in the space, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to email you guys about their system, but I'll mention this in the group chat. Thank you!
Just FYI, Felix Reda was a member of the European Parliament and was responsible there for the copyright reform and also involved in GDPR, massively stepping on the feet of big tech. Don't know if it was your intention to include them in a list of people wo "shill" for big tech, but they shouldn't be included.
Personally, I enjoy the fact that it's generating songs about topics I'd find it funny to have a song about. My dog playing with their friends, a song about a funny situation that happened. So it's mostly the part about hearing something that's personal to me being put into a song. I'll listen to it a few times, send it around and be done with it. It'll never go into my daily-listening queue, will not replace the emotional connection I have with songs that helped me through bad times. It's just a fun tool to make something "personal" that I'd never ever would hire an artist for anyways.
To me that's a really weird analogy. Nobody would think about putting a gasoline tank and pump in their garage ... There's plenty of public charging infrastructure in Europe. Fast charging on the highways, slow charging in living areas. Even many supermarkets offer fast chargers now, so that during your grocery shopping trip you can get most of your charging needs covered. There's plenty of opportunities to charge your vehicle over night, or really quickly when needed. It's absolutely possible to own an EV without a garage
Nope, not even in Switzerland its good enough and covered enough. Maybe for some folks, but not good enough for others.
What I see is how rich folks buying these (since these have TCO cost 2-4x as much as buying a solid used car every 10 years and servicing that with a good non-brand service, ie good BMWs are great at this) end up being proverbial slaves to their cars. Effin' car, like we are not enslaved with enough gizmos. Additional mental calculations compared to owning ICE cars re range if your commute is in tens of kms and not merely kms, forced to do stops on longer routes as car needs, not as the people riding it need.
I see it as adding tons complexity into our lives, and we are working hard on opposite direction.
Here (Slovenia) that is a lot of hassle for no personal benefit. Public charging is expensive enough that you'll never recuperate the higher price of the vehicle (if you can't charge at home).
You leave your car parked outside at a slow 22kW charger. But with a full BEV, you don't need to charge every night, just like you don't need to fill up your gasoline car every evening in your own garage.
There are only parking space with charging available for 2 cars in a 4km radius in my neighborhood. Charging that is anyway nit cost effective.
YMMV but afaik in europe there are still plenty of places where using an EV wouldn't be practical at all, even in urban area.
The only EV that I am considering is the Silence S01 moped and the reason is that its battery can be unmounted and be carried around as a trolley luggage so I could charge it inside my building.
>There are only parking space with charging available for 2 cars in a 4km radius in my neighborhood. Charging that is anyway not cost effective.
I wonder if the two things are related. There are hundreds of EV chargers within 4km of where I live and on average they are 20-50% cheaper than charging at home (with the exception of fast chargers, which are pretty expensive).
Even if the price were right, would I want to have to check every couple of hours if the parking space is available for me to charge my vehicle? These parking spaces are mostly used by visitors because EVs aren't convenient enough for locals.
I'm not going to argue that public EV charging is always convenient. It certainly sounds like it isnt where you are.
But where I am, >95% of chargers have real time availability via app or web. You can schedule notifications for when a charger is free, and some charging networks even let you reserve chargers ahead of time.
I live in a major European city. If I wanted to charge an electric car it would be at least a kilometers away and is often unavailable.
The comparison to gas is irrelevant and nonsensical since it takes minutes to fill up and gas stations are plenty. If I had an electric car I would want to charge it overnight near my home. That is not possible for me and I don't see that it is possible for many others.
>There's plenty of opportunities to charge your vehicle over night
A kilometer away and I would occupy that spot for the entire night. It is pretty obvious why I would not do that.
I don't really care about your theory crafting what I could and could not do. It is obvious that this is the reason Hybrid owners don't use their electric mode as often, since they can avoid going to great lengths to charge their car.
In Germany you get tax benefits when buying a plugin hybrid instead of a pure gasoline car ... There's always been the legend that people return their leased PHEVs and the charging cable is still wrapped in plastic in the trunk and has never been used. Maybe there's some truth to this after all.
I guess the subsidy is too high if people bought these in preference to conventional ICE and then didn't take advantage of the improved mileage.
I am not entirely sure what the government could have done instead. Subsidizing public charging might have worked better - free fuel is a strong incentive - but then maybe people simply drive more. Or perhaps more likely they buy a hybrid thinking they'll charge it but find it to inconvenient.
As a car owner, I wish to see governments to invest in public transport. Cars mean freedom, and I love mine, but we shouldn't really use them for regular routes, like for commuting to work.
If you don't want a third party app store, don't install one. TaDa ... Nothing changes for you. Now let the rest of the people, that want to use THEIR phone as THEY want, let them.
Well, thank you for "oversimplifying it"
But, the existence of a 3rd party app store, with "zero cost" to developers apparently, would almost certainly force someone in need of an app for some purpose to use this app store.
If I have a tool, lets say I buy a 'doorbell' camera. Right now, the "app" must be curated and qualified and verified clear of defects, malware, etc by App store policy and review. (not that they are 100%, but it's a pretty decent process).
When a 'free app store' shows up, then this same doorbell camera company will just pop their app, which will become a much shittier version of what would have been available, into some shitty app store, and, not bother to make a better version.
What will happen, in practice, is that there will be some percentage of apps that become shittier and only available from the shitty 3rd party store, and not the curated (and not free) app store.
So, no, it won't be a simple matter of just "don't use that store", there will be more factors at play.
At least for Germany there are cases, where police officers have leaked information about people that they have access to through their systems. Especially leaking data about political opponents to certain groups.
I don't know which case you're thinking of but generally the trend seems to be police officers leaking data about (perceived) left-wing activists to far-right groups.
There is a known far-right extremism problem in the German police force and military, e.g. the founder of GSG9 (think German SWAT) and a brigadier general and former commander of the KSK (think German SOCOM/SEAL) published a book with a far-right publishing house, which was the first in a series of incidents that led to the KSK being reformed in 2020 to (hopefully) address the systemic far-right extremism problem.
There have been credible claims of ties of far-right terrorist groups like Combat 18 and NSU 2.0 to the police. E.g. in one of the biggest news stories there was a find of not only a disturbing cache of weapons and body bags but also "kill lists" found to be sourced from police computers.
There are obvious ideological reasons why police officers are more likely to be supportive of far-right extremism than, say, far-left extremism. That isn't to say police officers are generally far-right but maintaining the status quo, opposing disturbances of the public order and enforcing the letter of the law fit better with conservatism than progressivism and social justice movements, let alone radical leftism.
- Germany‘s OpenDesk: https://www.opendesk.eu/en
- Netherland‘s MijnBureau: https://minbzk.github.io/mijn-bureau-infra/