I can’t speak for the UK, and I’m not even sure about the situation in the Netherlands, but two things I’ve observed here:

1. More and more businesses are cashless, and those who aren’t at least handle less cash.
2. There are machines that I kinda want to call reverse ATMs, which allow you to deposit money.

So I suppose for the remaining uses, they’ll “just” have to travel longer distances?

Ladybird is pretty infeasible in terms of getting to a point where you can realistically use it for normal web browsing, though.

It’s a great project, but it’s not proof of the viability of writing an engine for the modern web.

Then there’s Mozilla, which is an actual nonprofit and builds its own engine for Firefox, ie does not solidify Google’s grip on the internet (eg can feasibly keep supporting tracker blockers like uBlock Origin).

(Which is not to say that I’m not sympathetic to Vivaldi as well.)

The article is a somewhat kludgy translation of this one, I believe, which doesn’t use the word “majority”. But yes, it’s a plurality, the largest of the three groups (vs 39% remain, and the rest unsure).

Presumably they want to make them enthusiastic about rail travel, so having to suffer through DB would be counterproductive.

I believe I did read somewhere he also had a visit planned a couple of years ago, but that that was cancelled because of the pandemic.

Dutch PM / prime candidate NATO chief.

I didn’t know that, but that’s nice.

Now how do I dispose of the card once it’s expired? 🤔

I don’t get the supposed reasoning behind that, as in: how are unions creating a “lords and peasants situation”? Who are the lords, who are the peasants?

(Perhaps he’s thinking about the common American implementation, where you have union workers with union privileges, and regular workers without? And then the former would be the lords? Although even union workers don’t rule over their non-union colleagues, I don’t think.)

(Caveat: I don’t really know the Swedish system either, but I doubt he was talking specifically about that.)

The actual report also doesn’t limit itself to the far right btw, according to the article:

In France, the report said, last year’s pension changes were “enacted in a manifestly undemocratic legislative process” after the government used special constitutional powers, while journalists in Germany now faced criminal prosecution if they published judicial decisions that are not publicly accessible.

“Rule of law” refers to everyone being treated the same in the eye of the law, a basic democratic principle (as opposed to e.g. the king being allowed to do whatever they want).

It’s not about whether and how much the law is broken in general.

I was wondering if I had to go into why straw-men are bad for a discussion, but figured odds were likely you already knew. But assuming the goal is to find common ground and/or convince other people, then including straw-men makes those people assume you’re not understanding their point, and then dismissing the rest of whatever you’re trying to say.

I hope it’s more useful now.

when we take everyone from developing countries

Just pointing out that this is a straw-man, and that discussions get better without them.

We’re in an interesting political stalemate right now, with current polls showing Wilders’ party (the PVV) at around 50% of voters

Ehm, which polls are that, and are they reliable? Every poll here has them at about 49 (out of 150) seats, i.e. one-third of voters.

(And of course, polls that are not near elections are very unrepresentative of what would actually happen if elections were to take place.)

Even if it’s not aimed at EU citizens, they’re collateral damage. And the only reason is that they don’t want non-EU citizens to be able to benefit from this.

(The security risks this carries for EU citizens prove that this is not for security.)

But Mozilla Corporation which is fully owned by Mozilla foundation is a multimillion dollar industry

Yes, but that money is not going into shareholders’ pockets. It can be used by the Foundation to support its mission.

Also, its seems Google is its primary sponsor:

Google is the primary customer. It pays Mozilla, and in return, Mozilla sends people to Google Search.

It also doesn’t really matter, since you don’t need that argument: Google is already a browser vendor as well. And the same question holds: what commercial benefit do they stand to gain, and how? I also still haven’t seen an answer to that question about Mozilla.

Also your post orginated from Mozilla. org. People keep sending mozilla links in their remarks to prove their point; but it is actually validating my concern more and more

Are you saying that Mozilla lied, and that those European experts and organisations did not actually sign that letter? Because it’s easy to just search for their name + eidas and verify their actual stance. For example, I just did that for EDRi, whose stance is here:

In the full paper we also explain how the proposal could break web security by forcing government access to the security systems of web browsers, which would have devastating consequences.

(That is not a Mozilla link, btw. Mozilla’s website is just an easy place to link to since it has rallied people around the cause and aggregated their voices to a single place, but it refers to a very diverse group of actors, many of whom have no financial benefit to gain. Whereas the lobbying group you’re linking to is just representing a group of CAs.)

I’m sorry, but all this fear-mongering about

This is just another example of US big tech companies trying to control all decisions about security to favor their own commercial interests

when referring to a non-profit is not really convincing. Especially considering that the open letter calling the proposed changes harmful has been signed by experts and organisations from all over Europe.

I’m not sure what commercial benefits they think Mozilla will get from not being forced to allow untrustworthy certificates, but it’s clear that the certificate-minting orgs behind the ESD have a lot to gain if they would be.

(It’s unclear to me why you referred to ESD, an industry lobbying group, as a “trilogue” BWT? In an EU context, that usually refers to the European Parliament, Commission and Council.)

That year he had a brain hemorrhage whose fallout grew worse over time while his wife’s health was also in decline.

And we don’t even know when that picture was taken.

(Though I suppose this is more a snarky comment about Trump and Biden, in which case, carry on :) )

If only they had thought of that:

The (…) law provides for an assessment of each case to ensure that spouses act freely and do not put pressure on one another

Mayor Anne Hidalgo argued that SUVs are both dangerous and bad for the environment;

It’s also size and height of the hood.