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Well, this is huge: https://www.un.org/global-digital-compact/en UN member states committing to digital policy - 14-17 commit member nations to promoting 'digital public goods', and it's all about open source, open standards, open data, etc. -
Well, this is huge: https://www.un.org/global-digital-compact/en UN member states committing to digital policy - 14-17 commit member nations to promoting 'digital public goods', and it's all about open source, open standards, open data, etc.Well, this is huge: https://www.un.org/global-digital-compact/en UN member states committing to digital policy - 14-17 commit member nations to promoting 'digital public goods', and it's all about open source, open standards, open data, etc.
h/t @downey
The one thing I find gut wrenching is that the title for the linked PDF... https://www.un.org/global-digital-compact/sites/default/files/2024-09/Global%20Digital%20Compact%20-%20English_0.pdf shows it was authored with %&#*en MS Word. Insidious and counterproductive.
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More goodness concerning Microsoft - just hearing on RNZ news that 3 Mile Island nuclear plant (near where my mum lives in Pennsylvania) will be re-ignited to generate power..More goodness concerning Microsoft - just hearing on RNZ news that 3 Mile Island nuclear plant (near where my mum lives in Pennsylvania) will be re-ignited to generate power.. for a Microsoft computing facility. What an unworthy motivation for a rather bad idea... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident
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A domain I bought for a project that never materialized is expiring tomorrow, and it is not getting renewed.@algernon I've currently got about 15 future disappointments like that. But perhaps it's better to be hyped up and then lose the hype than it is to never experience being hyped at all.