Big techs are a problem. Should we worry that Europe does not have this problem at home?

Everything would be better if we had many smaller companies and organizations doing this stuff instead of just a few, but huge.

It is the same technology, but from ‘virtual’, ‘private’ and ‘network’ only ‘virtual’ and ‘network’ kept their meaning. The network is no longer ‘private’, when all traffic goes through a third party (unencrypted on their side!).

Because the easiest argument against tech giants is “they hurt children”. If the tech giants can ‘prove’ they don’t serve children the argument is gone. So the techs are lobbying for age verification. They don’t even care if it works, when it is not their responsibility. Of course the problem is not about the kids only, but the whole business model based on advertising, data collection and manipulative algorithms. But it is easier and better for business to age verify and ‘ban social media for kids’ than to fix actual problems.

Now they just need to pay someone else. When a single veto is enough, that is not a high price.

Wasn’t the big part of their global market China? Why would they buy European, when they are perfectky capable of building their own BEVs, probably much cheaper.

They kept the energy, together kinetic (related to they speed) and potential (related to their position). They actual speed/velocity has been changing all the time as the energy has been exchanged one for the other.

What else could they say? That their air defence just doesn’t work?

1. Iran have been involved in the war in Ukraine for years. Ukraine has better reasons to fight it than USA or Israel.
2. Ukraine’s involvement is on the defence, they don’t bomb Iranian cities. And the drones they shoot are not only targeting USA and Israel directly.
3. Ukraine is still fighting for survival and they have to make some tough choices to fund that fight. Unlike West Europe they can’t just say ‘fuck off, we won’t help you’ to their important or potential arms suppliers.

Yes, it is not a great place for them to be in, but in their current situation I find this is quite justified.

Aircraft Carriers are not very stealth anyway, are they?

And then Putin can say he stopped selling gas to Europe. Rare chance for him to tell truth.

PV is already cheap and other parts of tge infrastructure are lacking. In my opinion it makes sense to drop subsidies for PV, it will easily grow without them. Infrastructure modernization and energy storage should be subsidized instead. To pull investments where they are needed most.

Neither Israel nor USA want democratic Iran. At most they want a new corrupted regime that cares about Iran/USA interests rather than wellbeing of their own people.

Have you ever tried to use Upstart? It was afwul, in practice it was worse than sysvinit+lsb, in a time one woukd thought any new init system can be better.

There was no way to properly define any complex servixe dependencies, especially with optional or alternative components. And making mistake in defining service forking behaviour would open lock the system down so it could not be cleanly shut down. Those were serious flaws in both design an implementation.

I made a mistake trying to use it in a Linux distribution I was co-developing. So much time an effort lost, when we could directly switch to systemd. But systemd was described as ‘work in progress’ an Upstart ‘practically production ready’ then.

It was the milk, though.

I have seen coconut milk sold as ‘coconut drink’, even though it is not used as drink. That is stupid.

I am sure thet had more than a single microphone. So it is most probably all about the mix. Include crowd noises only when that is convenient.

One more s would be needed, to be sure

He wouldn’t dare to do that in Moscow

When JIRA practically stopped supporting self-hosted installations we migrated to YouTrack and it worked quite well. Not as powerful, but the simplicity also comes as an advantage.

Which would mean they are moving in the wrong direction. Death penalty is a tool of totalitarism, not a characteristic of a healthy democracy.