App Developer. Metal Listener. PC Gamer. Works at https://xitter.gq/t.co/4CgZQolTSe, previously https://xitter.gq/t.co/g75meWhVrE, also makes apps at https://xitter.gq/t.co/VDsk2gcnhi
Graz, Europe
Joined April 2008
- Tweets9K
- Following784
- Followers369
- Likes2.1K
Lukas Burgstaller retweeted
Okay:
- Attached bottlecap
- Schengen, expanded to Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria
- The euro joined by Croatia and Bulgaria
- Air passenger rights (older, 2004, newly updated 2025)
- Galileo satellite navigation
- EU-Canada trade deal (CETA)
- EU-Mercosur trade deal
- EU-Japan trade deal
- EU-Singapore trade deal
- EU-Vietnam trade deal
- EU-Indonesia trade deal
- End of roaming charges, extended to 2032
- Price cap on calls and texts to other EU countries
- USB-C common charger
- Geo-blocking ban for online shopping
- Streaming subscriptions that work abroad
- Payment Services Directive (PSD2), no card surcharges and open banking
- Instant payments regulation
- EU Digital Identity Wallet
- eCall automatic crash alert in new cars
- Automatic emergency braking in new cars
- EU-Alert emergency warnings on phones
- Single Digital Gateway for cross-border admin
- No more apostille stamps between member states
- WiFi4EU free public wifi
- DiscoverEU free Interrail passes for 18-year-olds
- Erasmus+ (older, 2014), budget nearly doubled
- European Universities alliances
- European Solidarity Corps
- EU Digital COVID Certificate
- Joint COVID vaccine procurement
- Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA)
- EU4Health
- Europe's Beating Cancer Plan
- European Health Data Space
- NextGenerationEU joint borrowing
- SURE short-time work loans
- 15% global minimum corporate tax
- European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR 3), euro clearing back in the EU
- Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA)
- European Green Bond Standard
- Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) on defence
- European Defence Fund
- European Peace Facility arms for Ukraine
- EU military training mission for Ukrainian troops
- Act in Support of Ammunition Production (ASAP)
- Strategic Compass and the 5,000-strong rapid deployment capacity
- European Defence Industrial Strategy
- Security Action for Europe (SAFE), âŹ150bn joint defence loans
- ReArm Europe / Readiness 2030
- First ever Commissioner for Defence and Space
- Military mobility funding
- IRISÂČ sovereign satellite constellation
- EU Space Programme and the EU Agency for the Space Programme
- rescEU shared firefighting fleet
- 5G security toolbox
- Foreign investment screening
- Foreign Subsidies Regulation
- International Procurement Instrument
- Anti-Coercion Instrument
- Dual-use export control regulation
- Temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees
- Candidate status and accession talks for Ukraine and Moldova
- Ukraine Facility
- âŹ90bn joint-borrowing loan to Ukraine
- Sanctions on Russia (older, 2014), big packages from 2022
- Russian banks cut from SWIFT
- Russian oil embargo and oil price cap
- Russian gas import phase-out
- Western Balkans Growth Plan
- Global Gateway
- REPowerEU
- Gas storage regulation
- Joint gas buying through AggregateEU
- Coordinated gas demand cut
- Windfall levy on fossil energy profits
- Electricity market reform
- European Climate Law, net zero by 2050
- Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
- Emissions Trading System reform and the Social Climate Fund
- Renewable Energy Directive, 42.5% by 2030
- European Wind Power Package
- European Hydrogen Bank
- Methane regulation
- Nature Restoration Law
- Ambient air quality directive
- Drinking water directive
- Urban wastewater directive, polluter pays
- Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA)
- Conflict minerals regulation
- European Chips Act
- Net-Zero Industry Act
- Batteries Regulation with battery passport
- European Battery Alliance
- Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) on batteries and hydrogen
- EuroHPC supercomputers, including JUPITER
- InvestAI and the AI gigafactories
- Horizon Europe and the European Innovation Council
- Ecodesign regulation, no destroying unsold clothes
- Right to repair
- Ban on products made with forced labour
- Ban on vague greenwashing claims
- General Product Safety Regulation
- Common Agricultural Policy (older, 1962), current version 2023 to 2027
- Unfair trading practices directive protecting farmers
- Geographical indications reform for food, wine and spirits
- EU-China agreement protecting European regional products
- Geographical indications for crafts, like Murano glass and Delft Blue
- Creative Europe (older, 2014), current programme 2021
- Culture Moves Europe grants for artists
- Music Moves Europe
- European Year of Cultural Heritage
- European Capitals of Culture (older, 1985)
- New European Bauhaus
- European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage
- Ban on importing looted cultural goods
- 30% European content on streaming platforms
- Culture Compass for Europe
- European Media Freedom Act
- Anti-SLAPP directive protecting journalists
- European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO)
- Rule of law conditionality on EU funds
- Annual Rule of Law Report
- Article 7 against Hungary
- Whistleblower protection directive
- European Labour Authority
- Work-life balance directive, paternity leave
- Adequate minimum wages directive
- Pay transparency directive
- Women on boards directive
- Violence against women directive
- European Child Guarantee
- European Accessibility Act
- European Disability Card
- Rail passenger rights (older, 2007), recast 2021
- Trans-European Transport Network (older), revised 2024
- Single Market Emergency Instrument
- EU Inc (proposed)
- Digital euro (in negotiation)
- Next EU budget at close to âŹ2 trillion (proposed)
- European Competitiveness Fund (proposed)
- AgoraEU culture and media programme (proposed)
- Savings and Investments Union (proposed)
- European supervision of big stock exchanges and crypto firms (proposed)
- Scaleup Europe Fund (launching)
- Startup and Scaleup Strategy
- Digital Omnibus simplification (proposed)
- European Business Wallet (proposed)
- European Innovation Act (expected)
- Quantum Act (expected)
- Cloud and AI Development Act (expected)
- Chips Act 2.0 (expected)
- Biotech Act (proposed)
- Advanced Materials Act (expected)
- Industrial Accelerator Act (expected)
- Circular Economy Act (expected)
- Critical Medicines Act (proposed)
- EU Space Act (proposed)
- European Grids Package (proposed)
- 2040 climate target of 90% (in negotiation)
- European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP)
- Defence Readiness Omnibus (proposed)
- Military mobility package (proposed)
- European Drone Defence Initiative and Eastern Flank Watch
- High-speed rail linking European capitals (plan)
- Single cross-border train ticketing (expected)
- EU Customs Authority (in negotiation)
- European Affordable Housing Plan
- Union of Skills and cross-border recognition of qualifications
- EU-India trade deal (in negotiation)
- Montenegro and Albania accession
- Qualified majority voting in foreign policy (under discussion)
Lukas Burgstaller retweeted
There is a new read-it-later app, Paper Press, and it's deeply integrated with my RSS reader Fiery Feeds.
Also Fiery Feeds 2.16.0 with new sync services and iOS/macOS 27 support is now available.
voidstern.net/archives/4275
Lukas Burgstaller retweeted
Can you believe we've reached a point in tech where a package named "is-even" has millions of downloads?
hey guys, there is this thing called the modulus operator, and it works JUST FINE
Lukas Burgstaller retweeted
Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that characterized Microsoft during its darkest monopoly days. Theyâre in full âcut off the air supplyâ mode in Cupertino, pursuing Epic for a $73m legal bill in a lawsuit they partially lost. But the red midst of vindictiveness is blinding Appleâs view of history, and making them repeat the mistakes it took Microsoft two decades to undo.
Itâs the ultimate monopoly irony too. Apple owes its entire modern existence to the fact that the DOJ was breathing down Microsoftâs neck in the late 90s. This legal threat made Microsoft desperate to prop up a semi-credible alternative to their Windows and Office monopolies, and Apple fit the bill perfectly. A basket case of a company, with an irrelevant, shrinking marketshare, in dire need of a lifeline.
So in 1997, Microsoft invested $150m into Apple, and promised to bring Office and Internet Explorer to the Mac. Back then, these were crucial monopolies without which any platform would struggle. This saved Apple, but it didnât save Microsoft.
In Redmond, they were still bent on total domination. At the height of its monopoly power over the internet, Microsoft had an incredible 94% marketshare. It used this marketshare to seriously slow down the evolution of the internet, as it continued to perceive it as a threat to the Windows and Office cash cows. And it worked. They really did slow down the evolution of the internet, and even disbanded the IE team, once total domination was assured.
But Microsoftâs brutish tactics also managed to turn an entire generation of developers against them. And the bill for that didnât come due until Windows Phone. Nobody, and I mean nobody, wanted to lift a finger to help Microsoft gain a foothold in mobile. The wounds from the late 90s and early 2000s were still fresh in many developers minds. So many cheered as Apple went from underdog, favored by developers for their embrace of Unix roots in their operating system, to the dominant player on a new platform.
Microsoft has had to work hard to undo that poisoned relationship ever since, and under Satya Nadella, seems to have broadly succeeded in that mission. Microsoft is no longer developerâs enemy #1, Apple is.Â
Now thatâs not a universal statement, just like it wasnât for Microsoft. There are hardcore Apple stans who will defend every atrocious monopoly abuse they commit, just like there were hardcore Microsoft stans doing the same in 2000. But the vibe has swapped. I donât know of many developers brewing a burning hatred for Microsoft these days, but I know plenty of developers who feel like that about Apple.
Apple would be wise to study the long arc of Microsoftâs history. Learn that you can win the battle, say, against Epic, and end up losing the war for the hearts and minds of developers. And that while the price for that loss lags beyond the current platform, itâll eventually come due, and theyâll rue the day they chose this wretched path.
Lukas Burgstaller retweeted
Met a guy who switched out of CS into corporate law. He said âyou guys are lucky, you can just run your code to make sure it works. Nobody finds compile time exceptions in my contracts until they make it into a courtroom, and even then the judge is often older than gccâ
Lukas Burgstaller retweeted
In a parallel universe where the Bluetooth Settings screen has not been designed by backend engineers.
Lukas Burgstaller retweeted
This meal cost me $2479 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.
Lukas Burgstaller retweeted
The down-side of AI is that it commodifies everything to the point where nothing has meaning anymore. The first 2-3 spirals were cool, likewise 4-5 checkerboards, but it only took days to descend into meaninglessness â now branded as a genre.
Lukas Burgstaller retweeted
Game changer! With Xcode 15 you can comment out inline.
#iosdev
Lukas Burgstaller retweeted
Apparently, it is how you compute the integer division of 455 by 10 in JavaScript.
The answer was upvoted 27 times.
I don't know what to think at this point.
Lukas Burgstaller retweeted
appNews: Fiery Feeds: iOS-Version jetzt mit neuem Split View-Modus und weiteren App-Icons appgefahren.de/fiery-feeds-iâŠ
Lukas Burgstaller retweeted
Fake-News-Schleuder eXXpress liefert ein Lehrbuchbeispiel dafĂŒr, wie Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit heute funktioniert: Man wirft den Leuten eine unausgegorenen Gedanken an den Kopf und tut dann so, als wĂ€re das gleichberechtigt mit Wissenschaft. (Thread)
Lukas Burgstaller retweeted
Fiery Feeds for iOS Added an In-App Split View Mode That I Wish More iPhone Apps Offered macstories.net/ios/fiery-feeâŠ
Lukas Burgstaller retweeted
This is insane đ€Ż
Someone folked Chrome to render web pages in a terminal đ€Ż
Def not your average indie hacking project. This is why I love builder community so much đ
fathy.fr/carbonyl