benjhm

Hope she sticks to her position.
Glad to see at the end "the Party of European Socialists suspended Smer and Hlas."

No, as it happens I think pure-functional is over-hyped too, except for specific massively parallel tasks. I'm not an expert on any programming ecosystem, I'm a climate scientist who codes a complex future-scenarios model and like the multi-paradigm nature of scala, with a lot working out of the box, without many dependencies. Scala's sophisticated type system catches most errors, so I don't have to run loads of tests like the python people do, yet with Scala3 syntax it's even more readable than python, and just works in the browser through scala.js (it helps js and scala share a lot of concepts). It’s a pity we have cycles initial hype - disappointment - slow but steady fixing - then obscurity so just when everything starts to works well, people move away to next hype.

I note the lemmy devs are working on converting their gui from react to rust too - let's see if this works out - but maybe it's too low-level a language for this.

I think it would only be a win if euro-comm does the same for WhatsApp, otherwise the fakes just get less transparent. And maybe this is all part of authoritarian countries cutting the world off from european ideas, see my other comments.

To go a bit further, if you like conspiracies, maybe this was the whole point - instructions from the Kremlin, and big cash from Saudis inter alia...- to break the concept of shared global discussion, noting twitter also played a key role in western support for Ukraine too. They are late - that ship sailed, but we don't yet have another, be careful what you wish for.

Suppose this happens - his stated dream of global town square dead - except it was already because most people in the world live neither in Europe nor US. China has wechat behind their great firewall, russophone areas have vkontact and telegram and their alternate reality, meanwhile, in much of the rest of the world I fear Meta dominates (even in francophone Europe, and Africa so I'm told).

So - forcing europeans to rethink could give the fediverse an opportunity - but it also hasn't penetrated much globally, the real challenge is to broaden beyond english speakers and north-atlantic. How to do this? One issue is fediverse is best on desktop, while most people in developing countries are using small screens. But it's not just about tech - there are big japanese fedi-communities with little interaction with the west, presumably due to language barrier.
A decentralised system could even thrive in authoritarian states, if there is some way to protect server admins. I recall twitter seemed to play a key role during the Arab spring, what's the replacement ?

Seems like a key new paper, but not surprising to me. It takes a long time to melt ice kilometers thick, so it's the integral of warming that counts. However once its altitude drops below a certain level, the snow on the top becomes rain, and it can only go down.

threshold GMT between 1.7 °C and 2.3 °C

could be not far away now -and note also (abstract):

even temporarily overshooting the temperature threshold, without a transition to a new ice-sheet state, still leads to a peak in SLR of up to several metres

Makes sense, hardly news, but helps to restate periodically. All three need to show they are serious by closing down coal power fast - China still has a lot. CO~2~ emissions per capita in China have been higher than european average for many years now, their response was always 'so what about US'.
25 years ago I made a presentation with some climate-equity model graphics at the Energy Research Institute in a village some 10km beyond Beijing, the director Zhou Dadi (a key policy guy) said - "well we have plenty of experts who could make such model calculations, the problem is trust, the reason I believe you is that you came on the bicycle" - as I had (and also by train from europe). I doubt he'd say anything like that now, in the concrete jungle they have built since.

Yes I like those things, what bothers me about the original question, is the implication that for many countries it would never be "realistic", in that case no good futures are realistic anywhere in the world. So, maybe the question should be adapted slightly, by adding "first" before the ? ?

Moi, en tant que parent en Wallonie, j'aime bien ces nouveaux rythmes. Je dirais qu'on pourrait aller même plus loin - par exemple maximum 4 semaines de 'grandes vacances' (qui sont terribles pour occuper les enfants), en faveur des semaines fin mai / début juin ou le temps est plus favorable pour voyager en nature, vue l'évolution du climat. Nos rythmes académiques sont derivés du 19e siècle (ou plus tôt), il faut oser repenser parfois toutes les traditions. Donc, ayant aboli les vacances de Pâques, faisons de même avec Noël, parce que quand toute l'Europe a des vacances au meme semaine, les transports sont trop chères pour que les familles dispersés se réunissent.

We all have to share the same atmosphere. So what's the point to have some eco-topia in just a few countries ?

Modern privacy is good for 'business' trips, but I recall good discussions with strangers on old-fashioned sleepers, if the evening is long enough.
As the lines get faster the distance for one night should increase, not just replicate previous services.
ÖBB advance prices can be good value, but I wish they'd lower the supplements for inter-rail. We'd still use old couchettes for a family trip.
General link campaigning for more night trains in europe: back-on-track.eu

In our family we have two e-bikes - one smaller one larger, also many normal bikes, no more car. They are especially useful to get up the steep hills to the side of our valley, and also to pull shopping or dog in a trailer - up to 50kilos ok. Both e-bikes fold so they can easily go on the train. Both e-bikes were bought directly from china online, as we are not rich.
The smaller one is slower but manageable by low-teen-kids too. The larger one will go about 80km, pedalling, with small hills.
We find e-bikes don't make us lazy, rather they encourage us to make more trips, and pedal faster - still get fit.
So the european law that enforces pedalling rather than cruising is good, however the low european limit on e-bike power is unfortunate, maybe designed by people in flat countries, you need more power for hills or heavy loads.
We'd like two more to enable family trips, but those are too rare to justify the cost, and also no e-bike can last a whole day - for that we'd need solar panels on a trailer - project for later ...
[p.s. note - overlap with !solarpunktravel@slrpnk.net ]