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Hungary elections live: Orban has conceded defeat after 16 years in power

A good day for Hungary a good day for Europe. Putin's most valuable asset in the EU is losing power, Hungary's descent into autocracy is at least taking a brake if not having a chance of getting reversed.

This is an achievement of the Hungarian people that did not fall for the increasingly desperate disinformation by the largely Fidesz controlled media and to a a small extend also to JD Vance's support for the Tisza campaign ... by interfering into the Hungarian election and backing the Fidesz regime, like Russian propaganda was doing as well.

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Framework founder says that ‘personal computing as we know it is dead’ — vows to keep building ‘computers that you can own at the deepest level’

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It has indeed. One with 8GB RAM, not upgradable. Strictly limited to MacOS, no Linux no nothing.

Don't get me wrong, it is a fantastic offer but decisively non-modular and non upgradeable and no freedom of operating system choice. Framework's laptop's are the opposite, they are modular, upgradeable and easily repairable, with replacement parts being sold at a fair price.

The new Apple Neo has come a long way with a relatively clean interior and decently easy battery replacement procedure. That is less their own doing though and more them preparing for new EU legislation mandating exactly that.

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Framework founder says that ‘personal computing as we know it is dead’ — vows to keep building ‘computers that you can own at the deepest level’

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Hyprland might have some toxic community issues but calling it the project of Nazis is outright disinformation. The guy behind Omarchy is also likely not a Nazi, he might be called right extreme through, certainly anti-Islam and anti-Immigration. Nothing of that bleeds into the Omarchy project which has really nothing to do with politics. Now the question is are you going to support an apolitical project that you like for its merits, if the key person behind it is far right, or do you not?

I can understand both positions but just supporting such a project, doesn't make every supporter a right extreme, let alone a Nazi. That is hyperbole.

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Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated | TechCrunch

I personally started to use Qobuz. Their algorithm isn't great, their target group is more the more distinguished music listener but their library is pretty much as big as any others plus they do have the largest library of hi-res music too and they actually sell also hi-res and CD lossless music if that is of interest to you. Most importantly though, they have a "ban-AI-music" stance on their platform. Soon enough, one will have to rely on platforms like that if one does not want to wade through a sea of AI slop.

The downside is that Qobuz is a bit more expensive than others (while paying the most to artists however, as far as I know).

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U.S. buyers fret as the average cost of a new car nears $50K

There is always a choice. If those overweight SUVs would be resting like lead in the showrooms and only the smallest and most cost effective offers actually move, producers would adapt. They aren't. (I am aware that producers do their best to advertise those high margin oversized cars but that doesn't change the above).

In Europe we have been seeing a similar trend, for some time. However I am happy to report that this appears to be changing right now. Not long ago, almost all new EVs were some oversized and overweight SUV stuff for fantasy prices. Finally however, we are starting to see more and more compact EVs that are practical, reasonably sized and relatively reasonably priced as well. Take the Renault 5 and soon the Renault Twingo for example. The former in a good version with big battery 33k EUR, the latter 20k EUR.

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes defeat after ‘painful’ election result

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GrapheneOS calls on privacy focused app developers to boycott European Unified Attestation

They might think that they are upholding open source secure communication but what they are really achieving with it is fortifying the US big tech duopoly. There are other aims than theirs, of maximum security, in the EU we are facing the real and very relevant issue of digital sovereignty, which is separate from the ambition for getting hardened mobile systems. Sure, possibly legislation would be preferable to regulate and open up what Google's Play Integrity API is doing, but as long as that legislation does not exist, creating alternative systems is crucial.

I can't shake the feeling that this isn't really about the UA but the private feud of Graphene OS developers with pretty much every single other alternative OS or degoogled android. Yes, they are all less secure than Graphene OS, primarily because Graphene OS relies on huge man power effort by Google to keep the firmware at the cutting edge with swift security updates. That is all good and fine, for their cause but it is not the only legitimate cause out there.

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Ditch SUV's

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Bonnet height for private vehicles should be tightly regulated, they are a key contributer to lethality in car accidents yet increasing every year. I could imagine some steep increase in taxes (at least at purchase if nothing else) the further you deviate from a defined reasonable height. People do care about money, make lethal asocial choices more expensive.