It's not that they now changed something with data collection and sharing within the update. They always did it, all services free of charge do it and most that cost money likely take the extra money as well.

It's now that they tell you in a short and informative way (1st sentence) and ask for your consent.

What's really infuriating, are websites and services that have an "Accept All" button but no "Reject All". Instead you have to manage individually and sometimes I have to flip 30 separate buttons to disable data sharing, where they even call advertisers a 'necessary 3rd party' requiring interaction on top.

As per the 1st sentence of the article, it's less about being there but about asking questions:

Shell will no longer give press conferences when presenting its annual and quarterly results.

Journalists will be allowed to call in and listen but not ask questions

So even when supporting Shell and buying shares to attend, there won't be a press conference with questions and answers.

More and more business in Sweden are refusing to work with Tesla. Suing will surely solve this problem. Big brain move there.

We had this submission yesterday already and the title is very misleading. No one has to support Israel, but one state in Germany demands to recognize Israel's right to exist.

This is kinda known since the war started and Lukashenko presented a map of the 'special military operation' with attack paths into all of Ukraine, as well of Moldova. It was never just a few regions of Ukraine as Russia keeps repeating, it was the whole country and more from the beginning.

Any search engine will do for: Lukashenko map attack

Why Vladimir Putin Is Embracing every country’s Far Right

Because they are siding with him.

And in 2024 there is the upcoming presidential election in the USA, where Russia certainly will try to influence the elections (again) and side with the far right, too.

Musst nicht einmal schlecht sein dort weit oben zu stehen:

Erfasst werden alle in einem Staat anfallenden Verpackungsabfälle, unabhängig davon, ob sie in der Industrie, im Handel, im Büro, in Geschäften, im Dienstleistungsbereich, in Haushalten oder auf einer anderen Ebene erzeugt werden.

Die wichtigsten Verpackungsmaterialien sind Glas, Papier und Pappe, Kunststoffe, Metalle (Aluminium und Stahl) sowie Holz.

Es könnte auch heißen wir setzen mehr auf recyclebare und schwerere Verpackungen aus Glas bzw. auch Pappe ist schwerer als eine Plastikverpackung. Die Statistik geht rein nach Gewicht. Wir könnten also einfach ein solideres Kreislaufsystem bei Verpackungen haben und auf diese Weise mehr Gewicht in die Statistik bringen. Darauf geht der verlinkte Artikel leider nicht ein.

Bspw. die Biscotto American Cookies von Aldi auf meinem Tisch hier: Letztes Jahr hatten die noch einen hauchdünnen Plastikeinsatz innerhalb der Plastikfolie. Jetzt ist es ein dickerer Träger aus Pappe für die Kekse.

Original title:

Spain and Portugal could finally be getting a high-speed train link

Would be nice to not change the title, which also changes the statement.

Spanish rail operator Renfe’s plans for expansion could mean trains direct to Lisbon and Porto from Madrid

The designs for all the plans need to be finalised and approved, but still, it all sounds pretty exciting.

But that is also a lesson we all learned in life at some point. The moment you share information like that or even ask for permission, you share the responsibility. That other person might not like being (partially) responsible and therefore simply say no.

I once had a leg injury, felt good about doing a tour on the bicycle, as short distances were no problem. So I asked my doctor back then if it was OK. That moment, I shared the responsibility for my health. With my doctor being involved and a very small risk for further injury being present, he of course had no choice but to say no. No bicycle riding at all. In hindsight, not asking would have been the better option, as any risks were super small and riding worked fine. Yet, I put the burden on someone else to carry the responsibility with me instead of me alone.

tl;dr He just should have done it without saying anything. Big PR move with a spinning Ferrari going around the world... instead of this now.

The European spendings and commitments for Ukraine are higher than US. As it should be.

Here is the tracker: https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/

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I understand 'worst sales' but 'worst performance' doesn't really fit. It's in my opinion this is a fantastic performance on the market. With right to repair, longer software support, some models with replaceable batteries, we can use the phones longer and make the industry more sustainable and consumer friendly. For the last years already, the model feature upgrades were marginal and it's fine that way.

In the future, I'd hope for further technical and regulatory development in that direction, resulting in further reduced annual sales numbers.

I'm quite disappointed by most comments so far talking about RAID and data loss. That is not what RAID is for at all.

RAID is for uptime/availability. When a drive fails, the system will keep running and working. For companies, that would lose thousands of currency per hour with a downtime, this is super important that the system keeps running. At home, it's convenience that you can order a new drive and replace without hours of setting up and copying before you can watch the next episode again.

Backups are against data loss. If a single drive fails, a RAID fails or you get some encryption malware or an employee destroys stuff on purpose, then everything is destroyed. It doesn't matter if it was a single, any RAID, HDD or SSD. You order a new drive, make a new volume and restore the data from your backup.

"Fifty terrorists arrived in vans, dressed in military uniforms," she said.

It is not far from the Gaza Strip, from where Hamas fighters crossed over at dawn to launch their attack. They infiltrated towns and villages, taking dozens of people hostage.

How is that possible to get that many armed people and vehicles across THAT border? I have never been there, I only know pictures of parts of the border from media, with barb wire fences, walls, concrete blocks, surveillance cameras, military checkpoints. Pretty much a border made to prevent anything like this.

Does anyone have further information where or how they managed to get that many people with that much equipment into Israel?

It's a good article, just a dumb headline.

I have a few catchy alternatives to offer: Sweden’s slam dunk military... Sweden’s AI powered military... Sweden’s mystery military power...

The article has lots of good information though regarding Sweden's leading edge military technology in multiple sectors, military structure & size and geopolitical opportunities for NATO with Russia's aggression in mind.

Finland in NATO is already a huge gain for the defence alliance. Sweden would as well lift NATO's abilities to new heights. Membership is not 100% guaranteed yet, just one step closer and a positive outlook in Turkey. Hungary already stated they would follow Turkey's position.

Signal’s operating costs: around $40 million this year

• $14 million a year in infrastructure costs
• $6 million annually, goes to telecom firms to pay for the SMS text messages Signal uses to send registration codes to verify new Signal accounts’ phone numbers
• $19 million a year or so out of Signal’s budget pays for its staff. Signal now employs about 50 people

Staff budget seem crazy high with about 50 people. That's an average of $31.666 per month per employee.

Katalin Karikó, born in 1955 in Szolnok, Hungary, senior vice president at BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals until 2022, now external consultant.

Drew Weissman, born in 1959 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA, RNA researcher and patent holder, that were used in the BioNTech & Moderna Covid-19 vaccines.

For everyone only reading headlines: Those are not Russians trying to leave.

A total of 91 undocumented migrants have tried to enter Finland on its eastern border since August. These are third-country nationals who used Russia as a transit country and applied for asylum in Finland.

91 at official border crossings in 3 months is nothing, but they need to keep an eye on the situation. So far, Russia is no longer stopping them from crossing towards Finland without documents. On the border between Belarus and Poland they area already a step further and migrants are being used as desperate tools to breach the border and fences towards Poland.

Also the article is dated Dec 1st, quoting a Greek source article dated Nov 28th. Nearly 2 weeks old reporting.

It's disappointing that they only exclude the information use regarding ads.

So they will still track everything users do and profile them, just like any other free user. And they can sell to everyone else who pays for user data (e.g. AI learning, market research etc.). With that wording, they could even sell to ad companies, if they e.g. use the data for some algorithm optimisation in their tech department. So they leave the door open to keep selling the data to 3rd parties, while already charging the user 'starting at' 12.99€.