zoobab

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Comment · 3 days ago
It has the davantage that you can finally find out what those apps are sending back home, including your private data.
Comment · 3 days ago
The only thing that works is fines.
Comment · 3 days ago
There are several alternatives, like for example a political party where 1000 random citizens are picked up for analyzing and voting on every file. Next file next 1000 batch of random citizens are picked.

We could also let people vote directly on their own laws without intermediaries.

Comment · 3 days ago
"crypto contracts had the potential to replace much (although not all) of the bureaucracy around governments and justice systems"

It's a matter of time.

Comment · 3 days ago
This is why I believe we should do something else than elections of politicians.
Comment · 3 days ago
That was the same for the software patent directive, we had leaks of amendments proposed by big companies, we could see that Members of Parliament were just copy pasting them.
Comment · 3 days ago
I am sure with LLMs the time to craft those tools to fetch the data and put them back in a git repo (for example one repo per legislative project) would not be too hard to do.
Comment · 3 days ago
The authors are lobbyists of big corporations nowadays.
Comment · 3 days ago
I proposed Git and Markdown instead of XML for EU law making in the European Parliament, they went with their own custom web editor to manupilate XML. And failed.
Comment · 5 days ago
Qwen 3.8 Flash with Strata here, the problem with Strata is that you cannot easily share the server as the performance will collapse outside of a single user.
Comment · 7 days ago
Insane.
Comment · 8 days ago

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