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66% of canadians have an unfavourable view of the USA
Vietnam is on position 4 (consider they were at war 55 years ago), where as most of NATO is at the bottom, even below Russia.
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66% of canadians have an unfavourable view of the USA
Vietnam is on position 4 (consider they were at war 55 years ago), where as most of NATO is at the bottom, even below Russia.
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Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
I can only hope that the A.I. bubble bursts in time when I need to buy a new computer.
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YSK that americans can now deduce private jet expenses from their taxes
Finally! Do you have an idea how expensive those things are and how much my wage slaves must work for that?
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Are egg producers inflating prices during the bird flu outbreak to boost profits?
Yes
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Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation
Just confirms my experience that whenever "there is an app" for a device, it is a red flag as the device's ecosystem is fragile: when the vendor looses interest in maintaining app or servers, your device turns into a brick. Plus, those apps demand suspicious permissions like access to the address book or the ability to make phone calls.
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Dropbox CEO slams return-to-office mandates, compares them to outdated malls and theaters
Dropbox seems to be different than other companies. It is known to have migrated back from AWS to their own infrastructure at a time when ever other CEO was propagating to migrate into the cloud. Article is from 2019, though: https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/21/three-years-after-moving-off-aws-dropbox-infrastructure-continues-to-evolve/
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Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim
Please submit a second copy of that letter, but replace Windows with Android, PC with Mobile, Microsoft with Google, and Edge with Chrome.
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Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT
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Those would be harvested to train LLMs even without asking first. 😐
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EU-Kommission reagiert: Volker Wissing warnt vor EU-Schreckensszenario - angeblich Millionen Dieselfahrer betroffen
Der Vorfall bestätigt wieder die Vorurteile, die man über die FDP hat:
Aus der Kommission heißt es, […] es sei vielmehr ein erwartbares Manöver der FDP, sich vor den Landtagswahlen in Sachsen, Brandenburg und Thüringen als Vertreter der Dieselfahrer zu positionieren und Vorurteile gegen die EU zu befördern.
Und am Ende des Artikels:
Betroffen sind dann nicht Millionen Autofahrer, sondern die Autokonzerne, die womöglich viele Millionen Euro zahlen müssten. Doch das würde diejenigen treffen, die die Verursacher des Dieselskandals sind, nämlich die Hersteller.
Also kurz vor Wahlen spielt man sich zum Retter der Dieselfahrer auf (die gar nicht bedroht sind), mit der eigentlichen Absicht, die reichen Autokonzerne zu schützen, die bei Abgastests in der Vergangenheit belogen und betrogen haben. Nebenher zerstört man als Kollateralschaden das Vertrauen in die EU, was ja letztendlich Wasser auf die Mühlen rechter Parteien ist. Wer wählt denn eigenlich noch FDP?
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What is the most visually pleasing package manager (in terminal)?
ArchLinux's pacman with ILoveCandy option enabled.
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What is the most visually pleasing package manager (in terminal)?
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The "C" in the progress bar is alternating between "c" and "C" to give the impression of munching.
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Was kostet ein Kind bis zum 18. Geburtstag?
Um euch das Click-bait zu ersparen: „Bis zum 18. Geburtstag geben deutsche Familien also im Durchschnitt 164.808 Euro für ein Kind aus.“
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104-0
I guess this refers to MiG-24 vs. F-15. Wikipedia writes:
The appearance of the MiG-25 sparked serious concern in the West and prompted dramatic increases in performance requirements for the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, then under development in the late 1960s. The capabilities of the MiG-25 were better understood by the West in 1976 when Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defected in a MiG-25 to the United States via Japan. It turned out that the aircraft's weight necessitated its large wings.
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Is there a downside to using Tailscale when it comes to privacy?
If you do not trust Tailscale as a company, here is an open source re-implementation of the server called headscale. Some/all clients are open source as well. So, you can review all components yourself or pay for a professional third-party review. Otherwise, if you take a binary blob from any origin, including Tailscale, and have it run with privileges on your server, there are few limits on what this blob can do. Yes, backdoors are technically possible, but probably bad for Tailscale's business if that ever came to light.
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Streit um Atomkraft: Union will sechs AKWs reaktivieren
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Wie war das nochmal mit „der Markt wird das regeln“?
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German court bans LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals
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If you tell LinkedIn they do something illegal, they'll just ignore you. If you ask a court to tell them, they'll at least have to make a calculation what is cheaper: complying with a court order (less profit from using your data) or ignoring it (more legal fees). We will soon know.
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YT Community fact checking rule
Google is outsourcing their job to you, because you doing it for free is even cheaper than paying some poor fellow in India a dollar a day.
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Heathrow isn’t crowded, it’s travellers walking on the wrong side, boss says
normally Europeans keep to the right
This clearly demonstrates that, should the United Kingdom ever re-apply for membership in the European Union, not only will it have to adopt the Euro and the metric system, but also switch to right-hand traffic. 🙃
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Microsoft Drops AI Sales Targets in Half After Salespeople Miss Their Quotas
If AI is so good, why not firing the underperforming sales agents and replacing them with AI instead?
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Digitaler Euro: Europas "Anti Trump Währung" nimmt Kurs auf
Die App wird wahrscheinlich nur in Googles und Apples Läden verfügbar sein und sich jederzeit auf Geheiß des US-Präsidenten rauswerfen oder abschalten lassen. MMW