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First comes fodder, then morals. When will US libs understand that. How does it feel there, up on your high horse, telling the pedestrians to stop wearing leather boots they should be vegans?

Try calling for solidarity instead of attacking people for wanting what's due to every human by sole virtue of being human. Food, shelter, those things aren't wishes of someone trying to deny the same to others.

note: “Europe” here refers to imported European culture in America

Yeah I was already wondering it's not like actual Europeans get defensive about our influence. There's nothing European about WASP(ish) culture, they're about as European as chuds with Greek statute avatars are Greek: It's a fetish, a signifier to dangle around in front of one set of people to consider themselves superior, and then hide when they're facing the Old Continent proper, then it's "Europoor", "we pay for your healthcare", whatnot. It's a culture which refuses to recognise itself, and thus is forced to define itself in opposition to others, for doing otherwise would imply acknowledging that the cultural highlight of the year, what everyone is talking about for days and weeks on end, what unifies them as a people, are the ads during superbowl. When pressed, then, you point their mind, deliberately or not, to address the question "are you actually European", and of course they'll get defensive you're attacking the charade surrounding the core of their identity. If I were pressed to describe that kind of culture in a single sentence I would choose a single word: Alienation.

And I still can't find a phone that has a replaceable battery, proper IP rating, and doesn't cost an arm and a leg, alternatively, costs thrice as much as the potato display and CPU would warrant. You can get two of the things, but not all three. I won't even begin to speak of having an unlocked bootloader, or, while having the rest in place, also a flush camera. FFS I'd be fine with no camera I just don't want a hump. I'd be fine with 720p, it's a tiny screen after all, but good contrast and not 8k doesn't seem to be a thing that companies think anyone would be interested it.

Stop fucking innovating, just apply lessons already learned. Design a phone with the mindset of designing a bottle opener.

Alles wie geplant. Wenn die Millionäre in der Rezession pleite gehen können die Milliardäre alles billig aufkaufen.

Teens have a perfectly functional frontal cortex thing is they are still figuring out when to actually use it. They can be perfectly adult one moment, or in a particular area, and completely stupid in the other. Visiting Auschwitz, one might presume, would be a situation where an Israeli teen isn't a rage of hormones. Be that when racing shopping carts.

Sense of right and wrong develops way earlier.

Ireland is luring the EU subsidiaries of those companies to Ireland by being, in comparison to other EU countries, a tax haven. Luxembourg does something similar, that's where e.g. Amazon is.

Without those policies US companies would still have EU subsidiaries as you need to have one to operate in the EU. And a lot more money would stay in the EU, instead of flowing to the US. In short: Trump is complaining that Ireland, to the benefit of US companies, is a traitor to the EU's tax offices.

Yep.

I have no idea but this article includes a section. German manufacturers feared a tariff war and aren't as exposed to Chinese competition in the first place as unlike e.g. the French German companies aren't competing as much on the low-budget market.

Euro-English pop quiz: Is a bottle of Schnapps an instrument, or a facility?

250k to 600k, depending on estimation, number bought at a time, and also model. The 250k is apparently the cost without taking development expenses into account. Overall, since 2005, probably less than 10k missiles were built so that's also the number without significant economies of scale.

The different models are basically the same but with different amounts of fuel (and thus also longer/shorter), prices shouldn't differ drastically. Basically they started out building a missile that could hit a target when it was launched upside-down, spinning, pointing in the wrong direction, from a jet and then said "well slap a bit more fuel on that, it definitely won't mind launching upright from the ground".

The full list hasn't been announced, the stuff applying from the first of April are the same counter-measures applied last time (which won the trade war) in response to 8bn of harm done by US steel and aluminium tariffs, then another, as of yet unspecified, package will come into force mid-April, responding to another 18bn.

Notably, this is an administrative act and pretty much automatic. Applying the Anti-Coercion Instrument ("trade bazooka") with all the goodies (suspension of IP rights etc) is a political decision, the commission can make a proposal based on its own assessments and complaints, or complaints of member states, but ultimately it's the council which decides whether things get implemented. Qualified majority, that is 55% of states representing 65% of the population, unless fewer than four states vote against at which point the population quorum doesn't apply.

Belgian brand, now owned by Mondelez. Store-brand copies are just as good and way cheaper, anyway.

Running vanilla linux on that kind of device is silly, kernel-wise android has very sensible features and ui-wise it's not even a competition.

Now, getting lineage (or similar) on a phone that doesn't cost an arm and a leg for comparatively potato hardware, like the Fairphone, that's another issue.

Or how about a steam deck with an m.2 slot for a cellular modem. Also, headset, because I'm not going to hold that thing to my ear. But still, android compatibility is an issue: The reason I even have a shoddy smartphone is to use things like public transit and package delivery apps.

They started the whole thing. They invented and implemented a whole programming language to implement the thing. Then they integrated Stylo (Servo's CSS engine) and a couple smaller bits into Firefox which made it a hell a lot faster. Then they set Rust free and shelved Servo because from the perspective of Firefox going forwards with rewriting more in Rust would've been a lot of investment for diminishing returns. Stylo was the big one, enabling before unseen parallelism in rendering.

Servo, even with FSFE funding, still has ways to go. Ladybird, I wonder why they even bother. If they want a C++ browser engine that hasn't been touched by big money then there's KHTML, Webkit/Chromium's direct ancestor. There's a reason KDE dropped development: It wasn't worth the effort. Qt wasn't willing to pick it up either.

Quoth Article 8:

1. Where point (a) of Article 6(1) applies, in relation to the offer of information society services directly to a child, the processing of the personal data of a child shall be lawful where the child is at least 16 years old.
   Where the child is below the age of 16 years, such processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that consent is given or authorised by the holder of parental responsibility over the child.
   Member States may provide by law for a lower age for those purposes provided that such lower age is not below 13 years.
2. The controller shall make reasonable efforts to verify in such cases that consent is given or authorised by the holder of parental responsibility over the child, taking into consideration available technology.
3. Paragraph 1 shall not affect the general contract law of Member States such as the rules on the validity, formation or effect of a contract in relation to a child.

The referenced point (a) is in the conditions for data processing to be lawful:

the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;

In essence: The age of consent is 16 when it comes to your personal data. A completely different question is whether lemm.ee even processes personal data, even more so in a matter that requires consent. Because unless you doxx yourself lemm.ee knows nothing more about you than your IP and, presuming best practices, only keeps limited logs around for strictly technical purposes which don't need consent. That point (a) is only one condition under which personal data can be processed, there's also b, c, d, e, and f.

...not that I'm saying that the legal notice is bad it's good. It's overzealous and overcautious going beyond the letter of the law and event intent, reaching into the fabled realms of actually giving a fuck. Like, if the law says "assault is bad" then this notice is saying "please all cuddle, ok?"

I guess Bookchin would be a good start. And then some western-compatible Zen, like Peter Ralston. Be sure to trace that stuff back also through your own culture because none has really forgotten it, it's just been suppressed, before you go all "grass is greener on the other side" and try, often in vain, to adopt foreign forms while you could just as well realise what you already have and put fuel on that ember.

France has Helios, Germany SAR-Lupe (with the successor SARah in partial operation), Italy, COSMO-Skymed. The systems are integrated, I wouldn't be surprised if Ukraine has pretty much full access. Has had, for ages.

Not a matter of instruction set, though. Current RISC-V designs are built from scratch by companies pretty much doing their first chip and/or design studios out of the microcontroller space, if say AMD would spend a year slapping a RISC-V insn decoder onto their existing designs that shit would fly.

I guess of the big performance vendors Quallcomm will be first, they have a bone to pick regarding ARM licensing.

There's also a lot of efficiency in hardware-specific kernels. A generic rocm build vs. one with hand-written kernels (not even for the proper card just a close enough one to have the same instructions) is like a 10x performance drop. That's on the matrix multiply up to convolve these tensors level, on the layer above that you then have things like smart memory management and scheduling as well as minimising how much work needs to be done in the first place (re-ordering operations so tensors stay small) and stuff.

You can port cuda code to vulkan or opencl -- but you're going to have to reimplement all of that. Just getting the BLAS layer to not suck is a challenge.

Being worried about war is a different thing than worrying about losing.