Nemo_bis

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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
Check the International Cooperative Alliance. There's a list of national federations and you can find coops from there. https://www.ica.coop/en
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Thanks for checking! I often wondered how long they could survive after the gmane drama. Someone at that company must have worked very hard to keep it going against all odds.
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
FedNow is probably more similar to TIPS, which has been running in the euro area banks since 2018, building on SEPA instant credit transfer. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/target/tips/html/index.en.htm...
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
Did you have to pay extra fees for the service?
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
A large portion of SEPA bank accounts can now use TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) on TARGET2/T2. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/target/tips/html/index.en.htm... My mid-sized Italian bank ha
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
Wasted opportunity though. The ECB is adopting Kafka. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/ecb.prototype_summar...
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Amazon can shut them down any time by cutting their access to data, AFAIK.
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Letterboxd is already owned by a corporation, Letterboxd Ltd. https://opencorporates.com/companies/nz/3628371
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
That sentence means: "By joining Amazon, GoodReads was not sued to death by Amazon for using book catalog data from Amazon".
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
You know that's Amazon too, right?
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
https://bookwyrm.social is very easy to use (but unfortunately it's proprietary software).
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For the longest time, Google had an agreement with Twitter to get new posts in real time with a firehose feed. It was active at least in 2009–2011 and 2015, not sure about the current status. https://variety.com/2015/di
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
I would bet that the first multinational organization to corner an intercontinental market was the apostolic church of Rome. If https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_international_trad... is right, the necessary te
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
WikiTeam is working on the archival, with the usual XML dumps and image dumps. You can follow updates and see how to help: https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/issues/465#issuecomment... https://wi
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
I agree with both. Hence I think it's better to have a legal structure which is flexible enough to allow multiple funding models.
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
I'm not sure either. :D But having some explicit support directly in core hopefully means that we recognise wikifarm support as an essential feature and that over time there will be more collaboration to share good methods to run wikif
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
It's very difficult to set up a proper non-profit able to handle both donations and commercial services in the USA. You'll end up spending fortunes on laywers. It's much easier to use a jurisdiction where the law already does
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
Actually, MediaWiki 1.38 and MediaWiki 1.39 (released in November 2022) is already set to help run wiki farms more easily: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/New_configurat...
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
On "starting a new nonprofit": yes please, it's about time to have an entity with proper accountability. Miraheze is mostly volunteer-run but it also needs a commercial side (such as selling premium features/support, and
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
Cookies were regulated by the ePrivacy directive back in 2009. The case raised above is about someone who had access to see the users' IP address. Handling training and authorisations for people with access to personal data is an ongoi
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
My guess is that they used some of the XML dumps we of WikiTeam keep at https://archive.org/details/wikiteam , that not everyone at Miraheze was necessarily aware of.
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There's also a summary in the press release: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230609IP...
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
Indeed. After the vote of the Parliament, the Council needs to also approve the final text. But in practice the ministers only rubberstamp whatever Coreper (the ambassadors) have approved, and Coreper deals with dozens of matters in any one
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
Yes, but that's the ePrivacy directive, not the GDPR.
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Reducing e-waste is an important part of addressing climate change, which is the most important issue, so: Yes.
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They wouldn't be orphan if we knew who holds the corresponding rights. Selling the liquidated estates could help with certain out of commerce works, but I wonder how many such cases exists. Usually other publishers buy the catalogue ju
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That can't work, because the suppliers will be bankrupt already. However one could something like Portico, which keeps journals in archive and releases them to the public if the original goes down. Manufacturers could be forced to depo
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Also, Microsoft nowadays is very much in the business of mass surveillance. This "feature" prepares the ground for a future with client-side scanning and upload filters running all your "local" data and "private&quo
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It [also]( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dubsmash&oldid=11... ) had suffered a data breach and went from competing with TikTok and musical.ly to being two orders of magnitude smaller than the combined Ti
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Actually, there are several enforcement actions which mention the CLOUD Act. https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?search=%22cloud+act%22&title=Sp...

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