Please hit us with tariffs. Pwetty please mista twump! I need my family to take Buy European seriously!

Yes! It’s a great Google Apps alternative. What’s missing is public transport schedules.

There’s a General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) which is an open data standard for transit passenger information. It was developed in the US, but maybe it could be used in the EU too if it doesn’t have a European alternative? We could all email or @ the public transport companies of our areas and ask them to publish these. Or even @ the @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu here and on other social media.

Public money, public data, public code.

Edit: holy shit, GTFS was developed by Google! It might be how public transit systems world wide are publishing to Google! We should tell our public transit systems to make that data open to everybody, not just google!

As soon as the conservos and “social democrats” get their heads screwed on straight, it’ll happen. Promise.

I’m not saying it “like” anything. I’m stating that they are not escaping anything but moving from problem to future problem.

Isn’t email easy to use? Do people know that it’s federated? Probably not, but it’s easy to understand because they have been exposed to it for so long that it’s natural to them without knowing how it works. Why do you assume the same cannot happen for the fediverse? It’s basically social media built on top of email.

The major mistake people make is trying to explain technical stuff to people who don’t give a fuck. “Look at your email account, it’s YOURNAME@WEBSITE, well, that’s the same for lemmy and mastodon, pick a website you like, create an account, and that’s it”. Everyone knows what a website is, everyone knows what email is, everyone knows (but probably hasn’t realised) that they can send emails to SOMEBODYELSE@OTHERWEBSITE, that’s it.

Yep. That’s exactly why I’m saying it’s centralised.

It’s right there in the title “Astrazeneca’s boss has warned Europe is falling behind as it steps up investment in the United States.”

We will return Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week.

Epic puts forth a peace proposal: If Apple extends the court’s friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we’ll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic.

What does this mean?

You sure about that?

And if they were, why does Public Money, Public Code exist?

Because Bluesky is centralised. You went from one serial killer’s house to another. You don’t know which serial killer owns your new house, but you’re hoping they’ll be nicer than the previous one. But at least their house is nearly as nice as the old serial killer’s house.

For example geographical data (cadastral, soil quality, air quality, public transport routes, public transport schedules, official hiking routes, …), statistical data, publicly funded research, data coming out of publicly funded anything actually (internet speeds, crime stats, police brutality, parliamentary attendance, and so on), and a bunch more. That shouldn’t be published on proprietary platforms for a fee, squirrelled away in a physical archive only accessible by travelling there, shouldn’t require a freedom of information request, or whatever else is put in the way.

Similar to the “Public Money, Public Code” campaign.

Fuck proprietary US tech products. Proprietary European tech products are only marginally better because they have to abide by European laws. Europe should not only push for European products, but also for open source and open data. Hopping from one sizzlingfrying pan into another one with a small flame underneath is but one step. Eventually we have to jump out of frying pans altogether and away from the fire or proprietary software.

Ayyy, gotta have that monaaaay!

Let me guess, they’re moving to Bluesky?

We need a campaign to convince the other 56%.

If it’s done with opensource and opendata, decoupling won’t be a problem. In fact, it might even give the EU less leverage. They can threaten to stop supporting or developing an opensource project or providing open data, but any other nation or group can decide to continue.

People living in Berlin and using opensource should request their public transport authorities to share the data with openstreet maps. I bet public transport schedules can be embedded into it.

If you live in Germany, @ them somewhere or send them an email. The more people do it, the more they’ll find it important. If you are in a Berlin community, ask them to join in. A single @ or email won’t convince them, but it’s a start.

Public offices would have to work with OSM. Right now they have exclusive deals with Google and actively publish their stuff to Google. Public offices should be publishing to OSM instead, but their citizens don’t give a fuck.

It’s a pity it isn’t open data, but no opensource project has been able to replicate their interface and make the data available, so I guess this is the best we can do at the moment. Still, my goto when looking for alternatives.

Nor should they.

I don’t even know what “it” is. A recommendation algorithm? But peertube already has a “similar” video section to the right of all videos. Does this replace that? Techies really have a problem with presenting stuff to laymen.