They will “float some measures”. We’ll see what Germany and France will say. So far Germany is still pushing hard for ICE cars because they are to shortsighted to invest in EVs and France is blocking a lot of developments so they can export electricity from their nuclear plants to other countries.

I think Trump bets on getting lots of bribes. He doesn’t gives a shit about US energy infrastructure.

Yes, but why using sandboxed play services is not enough? What identifiable data are you leaking? Especially with VPN.

Why do you say that? This story doesn’t say anything about sanboxed play services. If you’re using actual google account even with sandobxed play services you’re obviously handing over your data to Google. If you’re not logged in how using sandboxed play services a problem?

Polish MTG, basically. Be careful who you cheer for.

Yeah, I wouldn’t trust anything LLM says.

The jury ordered Meta to pay the maximum penalty under the law of $5,000 per violation, totaling $375m in civil penalties for violating New Mexico’s consumer protection laws.

Meta: I guess I will only be able to spend $79.635.000.000 on my next useless venture.

What might actually help: only show people content from groups and people that they follow, preferably in chronological order, rather than suggesting new groups and pages algorithmically all the time and thereby increasing the likelihood of children interacting with strangers on the Internet.

You would simply have big groups like “I ❤️ New Mexico” where people will comment on the same posts and interact. If you would limit all the content including comments and likes to users someone personally follows without the ability to discover other users you would turn facebook basically into WhatsApp. It would definitely solve the issue but it would also make the platform look empty and kill it. Which would not necessarily be bad but sadly killing facebook is too radical for anyone to support.

I know, 100% agree. It’s not a lot of work but people will quickly find another thing to get angry about and move on. Trying to fork systemd over this feature is completely pointless.

Try to gather a team of seasoned engineers to keep and evolve the project;

What is there to evolve? Just keep it up to date with the mainstream project while applying this one patch. This is as useful as the signatures that prohibit use of comments to train LLMs.

MX Linux. But it’s as pointless as only driving cars without onboard computer not to get tracked.

Just tell your AI agents to reduce the RAM usage and install size by 20% and let them rip. How hard can it be?

I mean… if NATO collapses and is replaces by some other alliance he will lose his job. Of course he’s doing everything he can to preserver it.

Looks like we will stop burning fossil fuels soon. One way or another…

Maybe I’m an optimist but most European countries an EU itself still have healthy and independent justice system. Even when extremists take over power in individual countries and at EU level they still have to operate inside the legal system. Situation like in US where the top court was completely taken over by political actors and is actively undermining all institutions is way less likely here, if at all possible. EU of course has many different, serious issues and I’m not saying that for sure nothing bad will happen here but I think most countries are safer as part of EU than being independent. Basically what I’m saying is that Brussels will most likely fall last. Once it’s down we’re all fucked.

EU is not a guarantee but creates some friction against autocratic takeovers. When countries like Poland or Hungary try to weaken the rule of law EU has some tools at its disposal to discourage it. It doesn’t always work but countries not in EU have even fewer protections. Also EU justice system is often the only thing protecting people from errors and abuses of national justice systems.

I agree but still, nothing you mention is necessarily bad for Canada. EU is leading the world in pretty much any policy you can think of: consumer protections, privacy, environmental policies, energy, women rights, worker protection, anti-corruption, freedom of press… The list goes on. (there may be some Asian country that’s more progressive than EU but Canada will not join it to form a union. EU is the only real option). So the question is: are Canadians as progressive as EU or not? If they are than joining EU will protect them from their own government. Everything you said will simply serve to make sure that Canada’s government will not take away some rights people want. If Canadians are not as progressive as EU then yes, it would be a problem because EU would force them to adapt some policies they don’t wont. So the real question Canadians need to ask themselves is if they like what EU is doing or not.

I don’t see the level of commitment as an issue. It provides stability. If Canadians want to protect their rights from authoritarian take overs like in US joining EU and losing part of their sovereignty is actually a good thing.

The way I see it EU requires (at least in theory) certain level of rule of law, independent justice system, anti-corruption measures and so on. Once country fulfills those requirements and joins the Union EU institutions have tools to make sure member countries keep adhering to those standards. I think Canadian institutions are at a level that would allow them to join EU and I don’t see how EU making sure that Canada stays a healthy democracy would be bad for them. I don’t see any conflict of interest here. Politically and economically Canada and EU have many common goals. I think both would benefit. Then again, I’m not that familiar with internal politics in Canada. Is there anything where Canada and EU would clash and being together in the common market would be a problem for either side?

Time to start self hosting.

The time was 10 years ago.

Let’s hope we will never find out if that’s true.