In Italy, many of these invoicing challenges have already been tackled through a nationwide standardized system.
Every invoice—whether B2B or even B2C (receipts included)—must be sent electronically using a government-defined XML format. This invoice includes predefined metadata and is digitally signed by the issuing party. Once ready, it gets submitted to the national tax agency’s centralized system, called the Sistema di Interscambio (SdI), which validates and registers it before forwarding it to the recipient.
This system essentially acts as a clearinghouse: it ensures all invoices go through the same format, are verifiably issued, and are automatically recorded on both ends. For consumers (B2C), the invoice still goes through the same pipeline and is made available in their personal portal on the IRS website, while the seller can still email a copy (PDF) for convenience.
This centralized and machine-readable approach has eliminated a lot of the fragmentation seen elsewhere. There’s no vendor lock-in, no OCR, and no AI needed to parse PDFs—just a signed XML file going through a common pipeline. It’s not perfect, but it shows how much smoother things can be when the rules (and formats) are defined at the infrastructure level.
> Every invoice—whether B2B or even B2C (receipts included)—must be sent electronically using a government-defined XML format
So not a universal standard then. Imagine having to implement a different format for every country you do business with...
For the Netherlands there is a similar (but slightly different I believe) XML type format required if you want to do business with the government. Initially a company successfully lobbied to get their closed-specification version to be the mandated standard for government, to get the XML spec you had to become partner (I believe for €8k/year or something).
Luckily they are now performing a XKCD 927 and have defined a few new (this time open) standards, which they aim to consolidate into a new spec that complies to EN 16931. EN 16931 is the EU compliance standard for e-invoicing.
Indirect reflected light like you get from a piece of paper, or an e-reader, or almost any everyday object, yes, I can see how that is easier on the eyes.
But in the case of a projector, the screen is lit by extra light; I'm not sure the situation is all that different from a regular monitor.
Is there actually people using siri? It’s pretty useless here in Italy. Most conversations I guess could be something like “raise the volume” “call mom” or stuff like that.
Yup, looking at their statement it leaves open a door for Linux.
Shipments are expected in the current week so we'll see right away if the boot loaded is locked or not.
Yup, I do not expect much on performance side either, Apple is still paying a premium price to TSMC and their architecture has already been proven valid with growing support.
It would be cool if with the end of the Qualcomm deal more Chips producers would start adopting Windows On Arm with their current lineup (Mediatek, Samsung etc) in order to provide a new life to the low end segment of the market that is definitively not price2performance competitive with x86.
You'll need to wait a bit until a new device tree comes for these devices. Given that support for the ThinkPad X13s with the same SoC is coming along... going to happen pretty soon.
For others similarly interested, it turns out "X13s" is not "multiple X13 models" but rather "X13s" is the model number: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx/th... and is currently listed at USD$995 for "Gen 1" and all the way up to USD$1570 for the high end
