@nprofile1q... any insight into why zlib-rs is faster?

@nprofile1q... i remember talking to the IT dept of the VPRO (dutch national tv chan, 1 of many) - 3-4 people in total, completely addicted and vendor-locked into US services, i remember their SSO was super expensive, for a 10th they could've commissioned their own free sw variant and paying for maintenance would've been a fraction of that further on. the opposition to this was massive, despite the huge costs savings - very un-dutch...

@nprofile1q... you must be (raises hand flat) this old to fully understand this joke...

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... let's not forget that the UK is the founding partner of the FVEY and i am less than enthusiastic about a private equity firm challenging any request for cooperation in the interest of "national security".

@nprofile1q... are you trying to out-dutch the dutch? 🤣 the problem is not the cloud act - the problem is that this (as in any government service or any national infrastructure) is not owned by the dutch state.

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lighyears, pah, galaxies....
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-------> sovereignty

(last time i checked, the UK has a law that puts you in jail if you don't surrender your passwords, so maybe no cloud act, but still fucked up justice system)

@nprofile1q... good article, but

"oh fuck me" this quote:

"Solvinity, which is based in Amsterdam, has a foreign owner in Vitruvian Partners, a British private equity firm."

(solvinity operates the dutch government citizen identity service)

really a british Private Equity firm is better? Who the hell approved that sale? this is all sooooo dutch.

@nprofile1q... i don't want to spoil too much, but John Scalzi's Starter Villain is very very relevant and one of the most funny books i read in years....

@nprofile1q... ah, you lost me at bar... :)

@nprofile1q... watching or doing? i can tell you doing is like a drug, all those delicious dopamines and endorphines...