Many Euro defense manufacturers use crucial Israeli components, from Elbit, for example. Redesign and replacements is hard, expensive, and would take time. Not good.

I’m trying out Google’s Gemma4 LLM, which is run locally, and is touted as a 100% private model.

Asking it some questions about itself, at one point it acknowledged that chats were sent to “developers”.

Interesting, I hadn’t considered that. Do you have any data that would support this “poisoning”?

I’m talking about doctrine. Israel is just way more effective than Russia.

I’m testing Librewolf, but I think having a Chromium based plan B is a good idea.

Isn’t opera chinese?

Blink trash?

Ukraine (targets military infrastructure) vs. Russia (kill as many civilians as possible). Same playbooks.

Vivaldi has had a “light” proton VPN for a while.

Please stop using “þ”.

I understand that using the character is more economical, but it makes things more difficult to read, especially for speakers of English as a second language.

EDIT: Maybe using a more unique glyph may work. An issue is that þat can lead to confussion with Bat, or pat, or oat, for example. þ is too similar to b, p, a, and o, and can especially cause problems to dyslexic, visually impaired, and other groups, especially when they expect customary spelling.

See, that is fine. If Google wants to have a safe and curated, high quality store, (which it doesn’t), it is very logical that it would want to have the origins of software very well identified.

AS LONG AS it provides a mechanism for users to access other sources of software.

They are doing the opposite, allow bullshit apps in the “safe store” while hindering the independents.

We desperately need a decently competent OSS phone OS, if possible with a compatibility layer for Android apps.

“Honey, I’m going window shopping”

?

He could ask Spain.

The only winners from war are the military industrial complex and the very rich.

I’ve flown Ryanair twice. That’s enough for me. Now, within Europe I fly other carriers, even flag carriers. Comparing flights online often gives you options which are in the same price range. My favorite low cost is Iberia Express, good prices and a really nice experience. for 15€ more I can choose exit seats, which have good leg room, which is usually the bad thing with low costs.

Iberia Express, EasyJet, Air Europa, Vueling, are usually my go to.

I’ve been flying since the 70’s. All airlines have gone downhill in experience, but Ryanair seems to have customer misery in their mission statement.

Having to pay the price of a Big Mac menu to avoid Ryanair seems like a great deal to me.

Apparently Oman is the opposite, focusing on “authentic” tourism, and avoiding becoming a mass tourism trap.

The delay in a monitor may be milliseconds to a couple of seconds

‘Very Complete, Pretty Much’ Almost nowhere near? Definitely almost? Precisely in general?

Except that they wouldn’t be obtaining the land they toil on to feed their children because the land there is a fucking desert, and their land and families are an Emirates’ long haul flight away.