When the UK was in the EU, UKIP was their largest party. For France, Le Pen's National Front party was the largest. And they aren't alone. There's a number of right wing EU parties.
And it's due to get worse, if we bring data into it. Many countries in the EU are swinging to the right. Polling is indicating right wing parties will have a solid majority in the EU parliament this year.
Tbf if you actually look into Mozilla's "AI" plans, it's for stuff like better offline translation, better screen reader and image description functionality for disabled users, finding alternate sources for articles, and so on.
It all runs locally, is trained on open source models with ethically sourced training data, and doesn't send your personal information to Mozilla.
I don't think it should be treated in the same way as Google or Microsoft's AI implementations. People should actually look into things before they assume they know everything.
Nuclear plants are designed to withstand a passenger jet flying into them, as well as minor direct missile barrages.
And with modern reactors, they can't really have Chernobyl-style meltdowns — if the cooling system fails, the fission stops by itself with no active involvement required.
I.e. you have to actively keep modern fission reactors going otherwise it stops on its own, as opposed to actively keep it cooled and safe, like the reactors of the 60s/70s.
Nuclear energy has, by a staggering margin, the lowest death toll of any form of energy generation per kW produced. And almost all of these come from Chernobyl, where 31 people died due to the explosion, then a further 46 died due to radiation poisoning from the cleanup.
By far the biggest issue with modern nuclear is the cost and them taking 7-12 years to deploy, as opposed to safety. SMRs are supposed to help with that aspect, but not enough have been rolled out to get a very good picture of that.
Really we have two choices, because renewables can't provide 100% of our energy mix yet:
build out nuclear as a base energy load and massively decrease fossil fuels in the short term
ignore nuclear and temporarily build out more fossil fuel plants, hoping that planet-scale energy storage will become cheap and extremely ubiquitous in a very short timeframe.
Wind and solar cannot provide all our energy. Nuclear does not replace wind and solar, it complements it. The sun doesn't always shine, and the wind doesn't always blow.
Yes it costs more than burning gas or coal, but that doesn't take into account the environmental cost or the cost on the health of living things.
And yeah we do know how to store nuclear waste for *hundreds of years. We do so already. I don't know where you're getting the "hundreds of thousands of years" from. Even old reactors althat don't recycle waste didn't have half-lives anywhere near that long.
That green party estimate is so laughable I'm not even going to comment on it further.
The WHO states it could be up to 4,000 in the long term, but may be substantially lower. The UN Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation concluded that even this figure is far too high.
Harvard university says that 8.7 million people die from greenhouse gas emissions each year. And that doesn't even account for direct accidents from generation and coal/gas extraction. Having a nuclear base load would save millions of lives, and do a huge amount to curb fossil fuel emissions. But "greens" want us to keep burning fossil fuels.
Battery storage and connecting grids together (which we do already) doesn't even come close to solving our energy needs. And no it can't be built way faster. We cannot have worldwide, practically unlimited, cheap battery storage right now.
Don't get me wrong, I really, really want to live in your fantasy world, but for now, that's all it is.
A feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real time for conversational patterns associated with financial scams, has sent a collective shiver down the spines of privacy and security experts who are warning the feature represents the thin end of the wedge. They...
No, it's enshittification. The "en" prefix has nothing to do with electrics. Cory just spoke about tech platforms because that's what he always talks about.
Every once in a while I'd watch Discovery and think oooh this part of this episode is good, they're hitting their stride! They're figuring out what works and what doesn't!
And then it just collapses back into mediocrity or annoyance.
At least SNW has been almost entirely excellent, IMO.
I've not seen Prodigy yet, and I mostly love LD, although it can be a bit too rick and mortyish for me sometimes. I guess that makes sense because they poached some of the people that made R&M. SNW is excellent.
Company tries to cut costs by outsourcing to another company with lowly paid employees in another country, often India or Pakistan, where the outsourced labour (that all too frequently hasn't been properly trained in the company's procedures) often doesn't share the same first language leading to misunderstandings, made worse by the difference in office hours meaning the teams often can't communicate with eachother in real time (the timezone factor is a big one IMO).
It's an issue affecting a lot of tech companies right now, including where I work (HPE). But I guess it must work out as being cheaper despite the issues, otherwise it wouldn't be happening.
OnlyOffice has amazing compatibility with MS office formats and has an interface quite similar to the MS apps.
But if you want something a bit more feature rich, LibreOffice is the way to go.
I know it's not really what you asked for, but unless you want to run an ancient version of the office suite in Wine, it's the way to go. The MS office web apps on MS's website is also an option.
Not surprised. When China disregarded their promise of keeping Hong Kong under a separate system, and started violently cracking down on the populace, the UK kicked up a fuss about it and offered to take on HKers that wanted to get out of there, and it pissed China off.
Unsurprising that they'd send their spies alongside the genuine migrants.
The problem is, X11 doesn't really work fine for modern usage.
It kinda falls apart with multiple monitors, especially when they require different scaling or refresh rates (or both), HDR support would be incredibly difficult to add, it's buggy, it's virtually impossible to maintain or add features. Often fixing a bug breaks things, because the bugs in it are so old that programs have actually been designed around them, or even to utilise them.
Now imagine trying to adapt X for use with VR/AR displays and all the differences in window management that'll be required for that.
It's a security nightmare. Any app can see what any other app is doing. That means that if you have a nefarious app, it can scrape any information on your screen, without even needing root privileges. Then there's a load of other vulnerabilities.
The developers have moved to Wayland because X is structurally unfixable.
Onshoring the EV supply chain to Europe would cut the emissions of producing a battery by 37% compared to a China-controlled supply chain, according to new analysis by Transport & Environment (T&E). This carbon saving rises to over 60% when renewable electricity is used. Producing Europe’s demand for battery cells and...
We all want fewer cars on the road. Objecting to cars/buses/other road-using vehicles (which will certainly be here for the short-medium term future whether people like it or not) transitioning to using clean energy in both the production and usage stages of their lives achieves nothing other than keeping us burning fossil fuels for longer.
Even if everywhere could use rail, it will take decades to build that infrastructure out everywhere. In the meantime, cars, buses, vans, and lorries exist and they should be as clean as we can make them. You're letting perfect be the enemy of good.
That might be possible in cities (if we're being extremely generous to your position). But not everyone lives in cities, some of us aren't that privileged. What do those people do, stay at home?
You're living in another universe if you think it's possible to move away from road vehicles in the short term.
Road vehicles will exist for the foreseeable future. So they may as well be as clean as they can be.
People who live away from all settlements make up maybe up to 5% of population
You made that up.
and they can all roll coal and it would still be a net win if the vast majority of people take a tram or train instead of a car or plane.
Or they could drive EVs while the places where it makes sense to build out rail can build out rail. That would be better. Encouraging sticking to petrol/diesel for cars/buses/vans/lorries is worse.
Also people living in the middle of nowhere have no infrastructure to recharge their cars anyway
???
Believe it or not, people who live outside of cities still have electricity. I even have running water, too.
You are not living in reality if you think electric vehicle adoption can be fast enough to have any effect on climate change.
Never said it would solve climate change or anything. I said it's better than what we have and would be a preferable change. We can't go all rail in all circumstances any time soon. Probably ever.
Building a proper electric train and tram network on the other hand is doable in a short timeframe while being cheaper.
No it isn't. It's doable in some places and takes a long time. Seriously, have you not seen how long large infrastructure projects take? Now imagine you try to do the same projects everywhere all at once. There wouldn't be the resources or the expertise for it.
What you are asking for is more pollution.
Look, I get that you're young and privileged enough to live in a very urbanised area, but not everybody has that luxury.
Cars will be around for a long while. You can plug your fingers in your ears and pretend they won't be, but they will. It's weird to want them to continue polluting (or even roll coal) when there's an easy way to make it better.
This sounds exactly like when people oppose nuclear because it's not "pure" enough. You know what that causes? Sticking to coal/gas for longer.
Wait, so you want government investment to focus on electric cars even though it won't have an impact on climate change?
I'd appreciate it if you didn't jump to conclusions about what I said.
I want governments to enforce moving away from ICE vehicles and towards BEV ones as they are demonstrably far cleaner both in terms of climate change and particulates that affect the local environment.
No, BEVs alone can't reverse climate change. Neither can rail. They can both only be one part of the solution, which will obviously be a multi-pronged approach with many changes required in almost all aspects of our lives, not just transportation.
I want that investment in rail
You speak as if I don't. I was very clear that I do want that.
...because rail is most likely to have the largest impact while being doable in a short term for the vast majority of the population.
And this is where we differ. Building out rail will take decades, and even then won't even come close to serving all populations or all usecases. That means for the time being, cars, vans, buses, and lorries will be used for a long time to come. My position is that while these exist, they should be as clean as possible, your position seems to be switching between "let's get rid of them immediately" (which isn't feasible for obvious reasons) and "get rid of environmental regs and let them roll coal", which I don't like the sound of.
I get that your an American
I'm not. Since I'm posting in the Europe community, you'd think it'd be obvious that I'm from Europe, but oh well.
...that car companies have propagandised to oblivion but public transit works
Like I said, but you refuse to listen to, I like public transportation and want more of it. Please stop deliberately strawmanning. You're the one who wants to get rid of buses - an extremely effective form of public transport - and seemingly wants to scrap environmental regulations on cars. I should be asking you if you're some kind of auto-industry shill.
and it works better than electric cars for most people.
Assuming that's true, what of the rest? Fuck them? What of those who need ambulances called out? Let them die? Firefighters shouldn't have access to roads to get to places and put out fires? Lorries and vans shouldn't be able to deliver to places? People who live rurally (~5-35% of the population depending on where in Europe you are) can get fucked?
I said government funding for transit should focus mainly on rail as that would actually reduce pollution.
As would BEVs
Private entities should obviously be free to develop EVs
You were saying they shouldn't have roads to drive on.
but I never advocated for the removal of busses, ambulances, firefighters and enviourmental regulations. Where the fuck did you even get that, or are you arguing with someone else?
They require road infrastructure, which you said we should do away with.
EV adoption would take far longer than decades
EV adoption is happening right now.
We're likely hundreds of years away from removing road travel.
If you want EV mass adoption there needs to be used EVs available for around 5000 to 2000 euros
We're already going to get EV mass adoption. It's happening now and will continue. And 2000 to 5000? Lol, pull the other one. Cars cost far far far more than that and they're everywhere. You're just making up nonsense, again.
To fix climate change you don't need to serve literally everyone with EVs
Point me to where I said that. I've said the opposite. Stop with this strawman bullshit.
you need to reduce emissions enough and rail would serve the transit needs of more people than EVs ever could so that's where I want government funding for transit to go to.
Rail is part of it. As are BEVs. Like I said. Are you even reading?
You seem to be more in the camp that we need a perfect solution that serves every person on the planet but EVs can't even do that.
No, I'm in the realistic camp. You're in the fantasy camp. "Just get rid of cars and everyone have rail, we can build rail to everybody's houses within 5 years extremely cheaply!!"
I'm bored and want to practice my Rust skills. I am the creator of open-tv. If you have any idea for a linux desktop app, even if it seems quite complex, I will take it.
Enshittify/enshittification must be the most overused and most incorrectly used buzzword going around at the moment. Even more so than "AI".
People shortening application to app is not enshittification.
Application is a pretty cumbersome word, too. "Look for XYZ in your application store", "Go to application view", etc just doesn't roll off the tongue as well.
They're not really made for power efficiency, but rather space efficiency. ~4 E-cores fit into the size of a P-core.
They're there to boost multi-core performance without having a huge die-size or increasing latency in the P-cores when doing lightly threaded tasks, essentially.
I don't understand what your point is here? Fossil fuels were instrumental in the industrial revolution so we have to stick by them forever, planet and people's health benefits damned?
Nah. Use the most appropriate tech available. Which is now renewables, electric motors, etc.
Dangerous opinion, I've recently moved to Fedora after Ubuntu and after customising it on the GNOME desktop, it's literally Ubuntu (But better) in every way except no snaps....
The ad itself depicted a mechanical crusher destroying artifacts of human creativity. A trumpet, guitar, sculpture, piano, drawing board, paints, a metronome, several analog cameras, a turntable, and hi-fi equipment were among the much-loved items yielding to the machine's unstoppable force.
The Dash to Plank dev doesn't want to support Wayland. You could use Dash to Panel or dash to dock instead, they've been the community favourites for years now.
Or of course you could use the standard Gnome workflow.
EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during 'Replay' moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being highlighted in...
This is an argument publishers love to make, but it's bullshit. Yes, games (assuming you ignore in game purchases/DLC, which you obviously shouldn't but I digress) have got cheaper in real terms due to inflation lowering how much $60 is really worth, while games have stayed at that price tag.
It's also true that development costs have went up.
Now, here's the part that game publishers conveniently never talk about: distributing games is far cheaper now. We're usually not shipping pallets of discs that take up loads of space and cost money to physically create and transport, while also having to build in a profit margin for all the middlemen along the way, including for the retailer. We predominantly buy games digitally.
On top of that, gaming used to be niche, now everybody does it. The market is far larger, so they don't need to charge a lot to still make bank.
It gets worse. Not only did they remove the the cluster and shifted everything to the infotainment a-la Tesla, but their system for detecting if you're looking at the road (for alertness/safety reasons) immediately starts screaming at you when you glance over at the speedometer on your infotainment screen. Who tf designed that system?
Just got a steam deck and immediately checked out the desktop mode, and I was somewhat surprised to see KDE and pacman as opposed to GNOME and apt, I have nothing against the former though a strong preference for the latter, anyone know why Volvo went in this direction?
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Nabiha Syed will join the Mozilla Foundation as [their] next Executive Director ( foundation.mozilla.org )
The linked article is the intro message from her. I copied a part of it here:...
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s3e9 "Defiant"...
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A feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real time for conversational patterns associated with financial scams, has sent a collective shiver down the spines of privacy and security experts who are warning the feature represents the thin end of the wedge. They...
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Instagram and Facebook under EU investigation for causing child addiction and harm ( www.theverge.com )
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/12699069...
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Hey does anyone know how to get microsoft suite apps on linux?
I want to get word, excel, powerpoint, onedrive and copilot on ubuntu, anyone know how?
UK charges three with working for Hong Kong intelligence as cases against Chinese and Russian spies mount across Europe ( www.aljazeera.com )
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Wayland usage has overtaken X11 ( lemmy.world )
Source: https://linux-hardware.org/?view=os_display_server...
European made batteries could be 60% less carbon intensive than Chinese, researchers urging Europe to support investments ( www.transportenvironment.org )
Onshoring the EV supply chain to Europe would cut the emissions of producing a battery by 37% compared to a China-controlled supply chain, according to new analysis by Transport & Environment (T&E). This carbon saving rises to over 60% when renewable electricity is used. Producing Europe’s demand for battery cells and...
Taking your ideas for my next linux app
I'm bored and want to practice my Rust skills. I am the creator of open-tv. If you have any idea for a linux desktop app, even if it seems quite complex, I will take it.
Linux 6.9 released ( lore.kernel.org )
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Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs ( www.theverge.com )
Fedora
Dangerous opinion, I've recently moved to Fedora after Ubuntu and after customising it on the GNOME desktop, it's literally Ubuntu (But better) in every way except no snaps....
Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad ( www.theregister.com )
The ad itself depicted a mechanical crusher destroying artifacts of human creativity. A trumpet, guitar, sculpture, piano, drawing board, paints, a metronome, several analog cameras, a turntable, and hi-fi equipment were among the much-loved items yielding to the machine's unstoppable force.
Can't figure out how to get Plank working on Wayland
Hey y'all...
EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again ( www.techspot.com )
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Xperia announcenment launch May 15th 2024 ( www.youtube.com )
Does anyone know why SteamOS is based on arch rather than Debian?
Just got a steam deck and immediately checked out the desktop mode, and I was somewhat surprised to see KDE and pacman as opposed to GNOME and apt, I have nothing against the former though a strong preference for the latter, anyone know why Volvo went in this direction?