Sounds like whoever decides these things knows nothing about IT.

I guess as a user I just don’t want all my apps to open a tab in my browser. I want to move apps between virtual desktops and monitors independently and I don’t want my app’s window to be clattered by all the menus from my browser.

All this is already possible with most browsers.

[X] hasn’t replied to POLITICO’s repeated requests for comment.

lol

Not the main point, but I found this interesting:

Regnier also justified the Commission’s continued use of X as a platform for corporate communications, despite the severity of anti-EU comments posted by Musk over the weekend and the platform’s decision to suspend the Commission’s account for paid advertising.

The EU executive uses 15 social media platforms and hasn’t made a decision to suspend its use of X, Regnier said.

All these platforms are ways to “get in touch to citizens, stakeholders, to do some outreach work, to precisely speak about what we are doing in the EU,” he said.

Statements comparing the EU to Nazi Germany are “part of the freedom of speech that we very much praise in the EU,” which “allows even for the craziest statements that you can imagine,” Chief Spokesperson Paula Pinho said.

The Commission stopped “using paid advertising or any paid services for X” in 2023 and its regular account remains open, Regnier said.

The EU does this already. And I agree, $140million is not much, EU-wide. Last I heard it was just 1 member state who issued a similar fine - times 27 that would already hurt a little.

All the dumber that Musk is making such a stink about what is really less than peanuts to him.

It shows that opposing trumpism isn’t a political stance anymore, it’s just common sense now - in most places around the world.

All major browsers can do this - with the exception of running something in the background I guess. But that is exactly the sort of usage scenario where an Electron app is the worst choice. Coding a separate utility with no GUI would be the sane thing to do here, not put whole browser stacks into memory.

Oh, yet another International Diplomatic Incident.

I totally agree with all 200 of them. Apart from environment/climate issues, this will once again allow the US to dominate a market through reckless lack of regulation. In other words, on the backs of not only our planet but also people who do not benefit from it at all.

Just one example: one of Musk’s datacenters runs on gas-powered generators! The air is so bad that people who live nearby are getting sick already.

It’s because people want cross-platform apps and web is the easiest way to do it.

Just use the website then? There already is a suitable browser installed on every system. But no, must have apps. Makes it easier to stop people from having opinions about data collection and such. And the full browser stack needs to be fully reproduced each time. It gets really ridiculous when these apps sit idly in the notification area. Not to speak of security implications because electron apps and such usually don’t get timely updates.

No, Razer, your “mouse driver” does not need to load Chrome at all times, when I’ll only ever look at it once.

It’s funny; on Linux such devices work perfectly but many users complain that they “aren’t supported” because there’s no UI (that sits uselessly in your notification area and eats memory).

Putin visits New Delhi, even spends a night. That is big news.

I hate both guys and think they’re bad for their respective countries (and beyond), so nothing good can come out of this…

If AI is truly an intelligence

And as of 2025 and the foreseeable future, that is where that argument ends.

I am not a Luddite.

doG, I can so relate to this.

The opposition (politically or socially, conversationally) will always try to put you in the extreme opposite corner of whatever they oppose about you. Be it “socialist dreamer” instead of real market economy with social policy, or this. What happened to meeting in the middle? It seems online polarization has made it into our everyday minds.

14.2.84 miniplenty malquoted tariffs rectify times 3.12.83

on November 28, 2025, with many of our questions still left unanswered, Vultr closed GreatFire’s account at Tencent’s request. In doing so, Vultr acted as Tencent’s vehicle to extend Chinese censorship well beyond the borders of China.

Totally agree. However, freewechat is up - guessing they changed providers pretty quick, maybe already saw this coming. Let this be the Streisand effect they (and China) deserve.

Essentially, that is what they’re being paid for.

Ignorance is BS

I see what you did there, Guardian.

Whether he really knows or doesn’t: it’s bullcrap anyhow.
It shows the authoritarian structure that is to replace everything. Being responsible in your job was never desired. Let alone being qualified.
Having people like him on the totem pole is a win-win for everybody higher up.

Those that have a conscience are already shocked.

…through illegal electrical connections.

“The results of the TNB review found that the estimated loss due to the electricity theft case at the premises was RM22,744 and the police arrested a 60-year-old local man and seized 30 bitcoin mining machines and a TP-Link modem unit.

“The case is being investigated under Section 37(1) of the Electricity Supply Act 1990 and Section 427 of the Penal Code and the police are conducting a thorough investigation including tracking down the suspects involved in the case,” he said in a statement today.