Mastodawn

@notjustbikes I recall your video about self-driving cars ignoring rules and lobbying for exclusive access as the only mode of transport. Well, that was prophetic: https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo

Expecting driverless taxis to respect bike lanes “too high a bar” – because customers want to be dropped off in them, autonomous vehicle firm Waymo tells cyclists

Waymo, the autonomous driving tech firm whose so-called ‘robo-taxis’ are now roaming the streets of London, has allegedly told cycling campaigners that expecting their driverless cars to respect cycle lanes is “too high a bar” – because their customers want to be dropped off in them.But Waymo has denied making such a claim, instead pointing ... Read more

road.cc

Jon Koops 🇪🇺Apr 18

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅Apr 17

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116408720976324749

Doesn't work without a Google/Apple-tied device btw. There is absolutely no story for how this would work on a desktop, anything without a Google/Apple account, or open source OS at all either.

Jon Koops 🇪🇺Apr 18

Jim Killock Apr 17

Unacceptable.
US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/microsoft-us-tech-firms-lobbied-eu-secrecy-rules-datacentre-emissions

US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret

Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

The Guardian

Jon Koops 🇪🇺Apr 5

Tilton Raccoon Apr 5

This comment sums up why I’m so tired of programming in 2026 pretty well

Jon Koops 🇪🇺Apr 1

RE: https://mstdn.social/@VoltEuropa/116251270684633227

If you are looking for a party that would never vote for Chat Control, here it is.

Jon Koops 🇪🇺Mar 30

Alex Russell Mar 30

Not a surprise that @43081j's post on JS ecosystem bloat is *extremely* kind and patient towards the people who are polluting the Node/NPM corpus, so I'll say what he won't: if the people who are promoting the bloat can't produce live customers demanding forward-compat for a ancient runtimes + modern dependencies, we all need to shun and reject these sorts of net-negative contributions:

https://43081j.com/2026/03/three-pillars-of-javascript-bloat

The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat

A brief look at the three main causes of bloat in our JavaScript dependency trees, and how we can start to address them.

Jon Koops 🇪🇺Mar 30

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Jon Koops 🇪🇺Mar 30

@slightlyoff @43081j I know at least of one prominent OSS developer whom goes around and aggressively adds backwards compatibility to packages they adopt, even back to Node.js 0.12. Of course most of it is done by adding packages they also maintain to provide ponyfills for APIs that have been stable for well over a decade by now.

I don’t know if it is some kind of ego stroking to inflate downloads on packages, because I cannot see any reason why else this would be done.

Jon Koops 🇪🇺Mar 29

GeofCox Mar 28

I often joke that Brittany is the most left-wing region in France - and has the highest number of cafés and bars per capita... but perhaps the two aspects are more closely linked than I thought.

This article - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/27/progressive-paris-far-right-french-capital-food-culture-community-extremists - links the increasing number of car-free and non-commercial social spaces in Paris with its continuing extraordinary left voting record - and suggests that the well documented disappearance of such spaces in the US and elsewhere may be a factor in the rise of the extreme right.

Progressive Paris has many weapons to fight the far right, but the best? Spaces where you can simply hang out

Drop into any of the French capital’s ‘third places’ and you’ll find food, culture, community – and an antidote to the disaffection extremists feed on, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

The Guardian

Jon Koops 🇪🇺Mar 28

RE: https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/116290492261515628

This is genuinely eroding any trust I have left in the Parlement. This proposal has been rejected so many times, and they just keep brute forcing it.

The centrists and the Christians are selling us out, as well as large swaths of the left and right. Take a good hard look at the list and you can clearly see thr traitors, remember them well for the next election.

Jon Koops 🇪🇺Mar 24

Frédéric Jacobs Mar 24

Somewhere at the French-Swiss border.

🛃 French border agent:
Excuse me sir, what is in the truck? Do you have anything to declare?

🚚 Truck driver: Just a cloud of 92 #antiprotons in an innovative portable cryogenic Penning trap.

🛃 French border agent: 🫠 🫠 🫠 I'm sorry, I think I owe you some money or something. I don't have the right form to deal with antimatter.

https://home.cern/news/press-release/experiments/base-experiment-cern-succeeds-transporting-antimatter