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Honestly, just use Debian. It can run under 200MB of RAM (default install), so it beats all distros on the list except for TinyCore and SliTaz, and it actually has packages.

Future of the EU: Parliament’s proposals to amend the Treaties by Parodper in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

The solution is not to ban lobbyist (a big part of the EU legislative process is listening to outside organizations), but to put them on equal footing to normal people.

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Future of the EU: Parliament’s proposals to amend the Treaties (www.europarl.europa.eu)

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Full proposal

From that link:

a more bicameral system and fewer deadlocks in the Council, through more decisions by qualified majority voting and the ordinary legislative procedure;
a fully-fledged right of legislative initiative, and a co-legislator role for Parliament for the long-term budget;
an overhaul of the rules for the Commission’s composition (rebranded as the “European Executive”), including the election of its President (with the nomination to be done by Parliament and the approval by the European Council - a reversal of the current process), limiting the number of Commissioners to 15 (rotating between the member states), enabling the Commission President to choose their College based on political preferences with geographic and demographic balance in mind, and a mechanism to censure individual Commissioners;
significantly greater transparency in the Council by publishing EU member state positions on legislative issues;
more say for citizens through an obligation for the EU to create appropriate participatory mechanisms and by giving European political parties a stronger role.

Some changes missing from that link that I found interesting:

Switch from «High Representative» to «Union Secretary» and «President of the European Council» to «President of the European Union».

I very much prefer the old names, and I don't like the downgrade from High Representative to Secretary.

Parliament now chooses by itself how to divide its seats between member states.

Not really in favor of this, this should be the European Council's job.

More power to the CJEU for resolving inter-institutional disputes, and involving it in the process for suspension of EU membership.
Gives more agency to the European Defence Agency and gives the CSDP its own budget. It also copies NATO's article 5 wording for mutual defense.
Amending the treaties needs the approval of 4/5 of member states.

That would currently mean 22 out of 27, so no more French-Dutch veto.

Adding the risk to cross planetary boundaries when considering environmental policy (?)
Adds a more concrete language, from «may» and «suggest» to «shall» and «enforce».

England to diverge from EU water monitoring standards by Parodper in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

I didn't know US speakers refer to their states by acronyms. We don't do that in my country.

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Voting age for European elections (foros.fediverso.gal)

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https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_ATA(2023)749767

Stupid question, but what makes Linux, linux? by Parodper in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Apart from being open source what is Linux?

The codebase in git.kernel.org's torvalds/linux.git

Could I not create my own operating system that is different to windows or Macos and call it Steve

Of course, in fact many people have done so: TempleOS, MINIX, SerenityOS, etc.

Is there a guide somewhere to how well Lemmy / kbin / Mastadon / etc interact? by Parodper in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not that I know of, but here are some between Lemmy and Mastodon:

Upvotes in Lemmy don't translate to favorites in Mastodon
From the Mastodon side communities are normal accounts that boost published posts.
From Mastodon Lemmy's posts are top-level messages (i.e. not a response), and comments are responses to the original message.
You can post to a Lemmy community from Mastodon by publishing a post and tagging the community (@community_[email protected])

Chinese economy expected to have slipped into deflation as recovery falters by Parodper in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

It's a bad thing because the economy slows down and companies have less income, which means less pay for the workers.

Austrian leader proposes enshrining the use of cash in his country’s constitution by Parodper in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

While I do agree that cash is very handy, that sort of thing doesn't belong in a constitution.

Appimages, snaps and flatpaks by Parodper in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Flatpaks for graphical apps and guix for CLI programs and libraries.