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Possibly intelligence and propaganda reasons. Russians have been linked to alt-right propaganda campaigns and the last thing the secret services want is for those efforts to integrate further into their country’s society. A vacation visa also implies that the Russians will go back and the same security agencies would be all kinds of paranoid about what happens in the meantime

I’m not sure which open index the EU is planning on using but I sure hope it’s not the Open Web Index because when I last had to use that it turns out that they forgot to embed the links that were contained in the texts they scanned

As for why that’s bad: hyperlinks are basically THE best way to figure out which content is relevant compared to other content. PageRank, the algorithm that got Google famous, is based on articles linking to each other to figure out which articles are the most valuable (it’s the articles that the most people link to, similar to how in science, the most important papers are usually the ones with the most citations). Open Web Index doesn’t have any of that information, it’s all just text, combined with the link where the crawler scanned that text

Depends very much on the language you’re using. Haskell and ocaml do fall into that category, whereas erlang and scheme are also functional languages with fairly weak typing.

If there is one thing that connects functional programming as a whole, it is that in FP, program flow is managed mostly through function application, instead of if statements and for/while loops.

This Arch story reminds me a lot of a r/talesfromtechsupport story that went remarkably similar but had a less happy ending for the Linux enthusiast, where he basically disabled the TPM and couldn’t access the company network because the network seemed to only allow trusted machines.

Can’t find it right now but maybe I can do some digging once I’m on a computer