The new EU rules on the Right to Repair enter into force today!

They will support consumers in repairing their defective products instead of replacing them by:

🔸 obliging producers of certain products to offer timely repair service at a reasonable price
🔹 requiring these manufacturers to offer spare parts
🔸 extending the legal guarantee for the repaired product
🔹 creating a European repair platform to find suitable repairers.

Learn more 🔗 https://europa.eu/!NqPMj4

#EUGreenDeal

Good #BBC explainer on #Modi, who is now stuck with a #coalition as much as #India is stuck with Modi, at least for now

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn00xl6n8ldo

EVM Data Mismatch: 5,54,598 Votes 'Discarded' across 362 Lok Sabha Seats

Exclusive: In several Lok Sabha constituencies, there is a mismatch between EVM polled polled and counted.

#LokSabhaElection2024 #EVMs #VoteCounting #VoterTurnoutData #india

https://www.thequint.com/news/politics/lok-sabha-elections-2024-evm-data-mismatch-between-votes-polled-and-votes-counted

Wanna join the development team in charge of the official Python bindings for the Qt Framework? 🐍

We have an opening for the Qt for Python team, which is currently developing PySide and Shiboken! 💻

If you know C++, Python, and perhaps a bit of CPython internals,

Join us! https://www.qt.io/open-positions/python-and-c-software-engineer-all-levels

#pyside #qt #shiboken #qtforpython #cpython #cpp #python

Do you have something to say about free/libre/open (FLO) software, hardware, or culture? I'm recruiting on behalf of two CFPs closing this month! Whether you've presented hundreds of times or never before, I'd like to hear from you, and I'm sure the rest of the community would too. The events are FOSSY (8/1-4 in Portland, OR) and SeaGL (11/8-9 in Seattle, WA). Please see more details in posts to follow and remember: Submit Early, Submit Often!

#opensource #freesoftware #linux #cfp

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The story of why Elon Musk fired most of the election integrity team after saying he would expand it is stupider than I even imagined. The team's manager liked a tweet calling Elon a dipshit.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/28/elon-fires-half-of-extwitters-election-integrity-team-because-a-manager-liked-a-tweet-calling-him-a-fucking-dipshit/

I've seen the #Microsoft #OneNote hype and warned the users of long-term lock-in effects. Then OneNote failed and people lost (parts of) their data.

I've seen the #Evernote hype and it happened again.

Now, I see the #Obsidian hype. (At least the file format is an open one.)

🤷

https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-choices/

If you want to spare yourself some effort, think of starting with a solution with no lock-in: https://karl-voit.at/orgmode/

#Orgmode #Emacs #PIM #publicvoit

Megacorp execs were interviewed about the #WGA strike & were quoted saying their goal was to "break the WGA," and to drag things out "until #union members start losing their apartments and homes"

After corporate counsel reminded the execs of *labor laws*, an update was released saying that actually the execs did not want to make workers homeless in retaliation for exercising labor rights because that would violate #labor laws so its all a big misunderstanding

https://deadline.com/2023/07/writers-strike-hollywood-studios-deal-fight-wga-actors-1235434335/

It's not often I get personal on my Substack but I felt compelled to share with you the story of my condition.

Throughout my childhood, I endured relentless mockery due to this condition, which ultimately played a transformative role in shaping my identity today.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-im-so-short