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  • HOW CONCERNED should Europe be at the rise of Herbert Kickl, the leader of Austria’s hard-right Freedom Party, the FPö? Following the collapse of attempts by the country’s centrist politicians to keep him out of power after his party came top at an election last September (though with only 29% of the vote), Mr Kickl now seems likely to become chancellor. The FPö has been in government before, as a junior partner. This time, it looks as though Mr Kickl will get the top job. That is bad news for the country: he has called for a “Fortress Austria” free from asylum-seekers and employs rhetoric with Nazi overtones. And it consolidates a worrying pattern of Russia-sympathisers gaining power across central Europe.

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  • No lol the amount of power that cloud services use is atrocious. The serverless trend makes things add up. It’s cheaper in terms of hardware but oh boy do all those layers of abstraction make things heavy, especially loading of the applet, communication to other applets. (I’m forgetting if applets is the correct name).

    I actually don’t belive the ~5% figure at all—especially with the track record of honesty (or the lack of it) these companies have.

    Sure, datacenters are rather efficent, but times 330 million people in the US adds up.