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Backend developer at https://xitter.gq/t.co/3XUKoTLelg. Past: Android @ https://xitter.gq/t.co/LRNg3EX92i, https://xitter.gq/t.co/3A2146DK8o, Avast, Inloop (co-founder).

Slovakia
Joined October 2009
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Germany started with this packaging bullshit, it was super hard to ship books for me to Germany (but some people got Cryptocurrencies and Tamers of Entropy). Now this has expanded to whole EU and it's completely retarded. EU is regulating itself into irrelevance. What a completely batshit crazy idea, only politicians or career bureaucrats that have never created anything useful in their lives could have invented this.
🚨🚨🚨🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 Auch wir bei Blocktrainer sind von der neuen EU-Verpackungsregulierung betroffen und leider hat das auch ganz konkrete Konsequenzen für unseren Shop. Seit dem heutigen 12. August 2026 sorgt die EU-Verpackungsverordnung (PPWR) beim grenzüberschreitenden Versand an Endkunden für erheblichen zusätzlichen regulatorischen Aufwand. Wer Waren direkt in andere EU-Mitgliedstaaten versendet, muss sich mit den jeweiligen nationalen Vorgaben des Ziellandes auseinandersetzen. Dazu gehören nun unter anderem Registrierungspflichten, Systembeteiligungen, Mengenmeldungen und die Benennung eines Bevollmächtigten. Und zwar nicht einmal zentral für die gesamte EU, was ja irgendwie noch akzeptabel wäre, sondern für jedes einzelne Land separat. 🤦 Das bedeutet in der Praxis: Aus einem eigentlich simplen Versand eines Buches, unseres „Blocktrainer Terminals“ oder eines anderen Artikels aus unserem Shop wird plötzlich ein regulatorisches Projekt mit unterschiedlichen Registern, Dienstleistern, Meldepflichten, laufenden Gebühren und möglichen Sanktionen in zahlreichen Ländern. Und irgendwann muss man sich als Unternehmen dann auch die Frage stellen, ob dieser Aufwand noch in irgendeinem vernünftigen Verhältnis zu den dort erzielten Umsätzen steht. Für uns lautet die Antwort für einen Großteil der EU aktuell leider: Nein! Deshalb haben auch wir uns dazu entschieden, den Versand aus unserem Shop in andere EU-Länder bis auf Weiteres einzustellen. Eine Ausnahme machen wir für Österreich. Dort werden wir uns durch das regulatorische Wirrwarr arbeiten und die notwendigen Anforderungen erfüllen. Natürlich nicht, weil der bürokratische Aufwand dort weniger oder sinnvoller wäre, sondern schlicht deshalb, weil unsere Verkaufszahlen in Österreich groß genug sind, um diesen zusätzlichen Aufwand wirtschaftlich noch zu rechtfertigen. Für viele andere EU-Länder sieht diese Rechnung jedoch vollkommen anders aus. Das Absurde daran ist ja, dass die Europäische Union eigentlich einen gemeinsamen Binnenmarkt schaffen möchte, in dem Waren möglichst unkompliziert über Grenzen hinweg verkauft werden können. In der Realität entstehen für kleinere Händler aber zunehmend nationale Registrierungen, unterschiedliche Verfahren, zusätzliche Dienstleister und damit auch laufende Kosten. Das Team von unserem Partner @copiaro hat die Problematik in einem ausführlichen Beitrag sehr gut zusammengefasst. Man sieht wieder toll, was für ein Schwachsinn entsteht, wenn Regulierung zwar auf europäischer Ebene beschlossen wird, die praktische Umsetzung aber zu einem Flickenteppich aus nationalen Anforderungen führt. Große Konzerne können dafür Compliance-Abteilungen aufbauen und die Kosten tragen und rechtfertigen. Kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen müssen dagegen irgendwann einzelne Märkte abschalten. Und genau das tun wir jetzt, schweren Herzens. ⬇️ 🇩🇪 Deutschland: Versand wie gewohnt. 🇦🇹 Österreich: Versand bleibt bestehen und wir nehmen den zusätzlichen Aufwand auf uns. 🇪🇺 Andere EU-Länder: vorerst kein Versand mehr! Wir hoffen natürlich, dass sich die Situation künftig vereinfacht und wir den Versand wieder auf weitere Länder ausweiten können. Bis dahin bleibt uns allerdings nichts anderes übrig, als unsere Ressourcen dort einzusetzen, wo der regulatorische Aufwand noch in einem vertretbaren Verhältnis zur Nachfrage steht. Schade für unsere Kunden. Schade für kleinere Händler. Und vor allem eine ziemlich besch***e Entwicklung für den sogenannten europäischen Binnenmarkt. 😡 Euer Blocktrainer-Team
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We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany…
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"Everyone wants to believe that they'd support "the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers". That they too would cheer for those who are "not fond of rules". But they won't and they don't. Most people are either aggressively or passively conformist." world.hey.com/dhh/to-the-cra…
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Mario Draghi's new report on EU competitiveness doesn't mince words. "Across different metrics, a wide gap in GDP has opened up between the EU and the US, driven mainly by a more pronounced slowdown in productivity growth in Europe. Europe’s households have paid the price in foregone living standards. On a per capita basis, real disposable income has grown almost twice as much in the US as in the EU since 2000." "First – and most importantly – Europe must profoundly refocus its collective efforts on closing the innovation gap with the US and China, especially in advanced technologies. Europe is stuck in a static industrial structure with few new companies rising up to disrupt existing industries or develop new growth engines. In fact, there is no EU company with a market capitalisation over EUR 100 billion that has been set up from scratch in the last fifty years, while all six US companies with a valuation above EUR 1 trillion have been created in this period. This lack of dynamism is self-fulfilling." "There are not enough academic institutions achieving top levels of excellence and the pipeline from innovation into commercialisation is weak. [...] However, while the EU boasts a strong university system on average, not enough universities and research institutions are at the top. Using volume of publications in top academic science journals as an indicative metric, the EU has only three research institutions ranked among the top 50 globally, whereas the US has 21 and China 15." "Regulatory barriers to scaling up are particularly onerous in the tech sector, especially for young companies. Regulatory barriers constrain growth in several ways. First, complex and costly procedures across fragmented national systems discourage inventors from filing Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), hindering young companies from leveraging the Single Market. Second, the EU’s regulatory stance towards tech companies hampers innovation: the EU now has around 100 tech-focused laws and over 270 regulators active in digital networks across all Member States. Many EU laws take a precautionary approach, dictating specific business practices ex ante to avert potential risks ex post. For example, the AI Act imposes additional regulatory requirements on general purpose AI models that exceed a pre-defined threshold of computational power – a threshold which some state-of-the-art models already exceed. Third, digital companies are deterred from doing business across the EU via subsidiaries, as they face heterogeneous requirements, a proliferation of regulatory agencies and “gold plating” of EU legislation by national authorities. Fourth, limitations on data storing and processing create high compliance costs and hinder the creation of large, integrated data sets for training AI models. This fragmentation puts EU companies at a disadvantage relative to the US, which relies on the private sector to build vast data sets, and China, which can leverage its central institutions for data aggregation. This problem is compounded by EU competition enforcement possibly inhibiting intra-industry cooperation. Finally, multiple different national rules in public procurement generate high ongoing costs for cloud providers. The net effect of this burden of regulation is that only larger companies – which are often non-EU based – have the financial capacity and incentive to bear the costs of complying. Young innovative tech companies may choose not to operate in the EU at all." More: commission.europa.eu/documen….
Dear Mario Draghi, a year ago, I asked you to prepare a report on the future of Europe’s competitiveness. No one was better placed than you to take up this challenge. Now, we are eager to listen to your views ↓ xitter.gq/i/broadcasts/1mnxeAPOD…
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Signal strongly opposes this proposal. Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees. This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice. It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.
Replying to @echo_pbreyer
🇬🇧🚨Beware: The #ChatControl proposal which has been stalling could be adopted by EU governments after all. France is considerung to give up its resistance. The "compromise": Either you agree to have your chats scanned or you can no longer share&receive pictures/videos and links! Read all about it: patrick-breyer.de/en/majorit…
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Friend with years of iOS and Android experience is going to have some capacity available. He is deep problem solver. He’ll dig to the bottom, so no one else has to go there, ever. If you need someone special like that, LMK in DM.
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📢 Join our team as a React Native SDK Engineer! If you're passionate about mobile development, ready to innovate and work on a product that impacts 1 billion end users, this could be your next challenge. getstream.io/careers/job/593…
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Daniel Novak retweeted
here is sora, our video generation model: openai.com/sora today we are starting red-teaming and offering access to a limited number of creators. @_tim_brooks @billpeeb @model_mechanic are really incredible; amazing work by them and the team. remarkable moment.
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Unpopular opinion - striving for too much flexibility and clean architectures in code, more often than not leads to an overly complex codebase that rarely takes advantage of the supposed benefits.
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Ukraine will always remember what our Slovak friends did for us. Warm welcome for Ukrainians fleeing the war, humanitarian aid, arms supplies, support for granting Ukraine EU candidate status and allowing tariff-free exports to the EU. We are lucky to have Slovakia as a neighbor.
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OH MY Our extraterrestrial helicopter spotted the parachute and back-shell that guided the @NASAPersevere rover to the surface of Mars over a year ago. And what a sight🤩 Space debris crash-landed on another world snapped by an aerial drone. What a timeline we live in.
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In addition to U.S.-produced weapons, we have also worked to facilitate the transfer of capabilities from our Allies and partners around the world. I want to thank the Slovakian government for providing an S-300 air defense system to Ukraine. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room…
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Hopefully, it is now extremely obvious that Europe should restart dormant nuclear power stations and increase power output of existing ones. This is *critical* to national and international security.
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Zatím největším zklamáním v celém tom průseru je Big Tech. Firmy s obrovským vlivem a hromadou peněz mlčí…:-( Google EU věnoval 2m usd v reklamě (jako fakt?!), Facebook teprve nyní stopne reklamy ruska… 🤮 – at Doubice, Česká republika
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Some statistics to start the year: During 2021 Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total, which is comparable to the electrical energy consumed by a country like Argentina. Related CO2 emissions were ~64 Mt; enough to negate the entire global net savings from deploying EVs.
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Out of curiosity I dug into how NFT's actually reference the media you're "buying" and my eyebrows are now orbiting the moon
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The moment that my team dreamed of for years, now a reality. Dare mighty things. #CountdownToMars
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For those wanting to see a concession speech, this one by John McCain — congratulating Obama in 2008 — is worth watching again. See how he faces down the boos from his own supporters. Very few greater moments of humility.
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KDE Connect has been removed from @GooglePlay for violating their new policy on apps that access SMS [1]. The policy has an explicit exception for companion apps (like KDE Connect), but it was removed anyway and *there's no way to talk to Google*. 1/N [1] support.google.com/googlepla…
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