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We had a very nice partial solar eclipse in the UK on the 12th towards the late hours, which gave Spain a spectacular total eclipse at sunset. Was preparing to watch it, which kind of went into the mission failed successfully territory.

Unprecedented heatwaves, wildfires burning in France, electricity and water shortages in Hungary... And we only keep going churning out products with lifetime limited by design like no tomorrow. There just not going to be a tomorrow if we don't at least try addressing, well, a huge lot of things. The Right to Repair laws in the EU are great that they exists, but I feel we really need to go further. Much further. And frankly not just for the environment.

There is hope for Hungary after all, the possibility for a change after sixteen years. The elections concluded, ballots counted, the long-ruling party lost, the two years of effort by Peter Magyar cumulated in an absolute landslide victory with a chance of rethinking and starting anew. The old billboards are torn down, no more propaganda, the country is waking up, hopefully towards a better future.

Looking at a bit broader picture around the recently emerging age verification laws and other related regulations, how smartphones took over our world in the past decade or so. Not overly comfortable about the whole thing, even my own ideas about it, but here we go.

Seeing where the digital world is going with regards to recently emerging regulations, age verification and the ever lurking chat control, thoughts and opinions. Do we really need to turn into a surveillance-state to keep children safe?