If the AI bubble pops I hear the US economy is fucked.

Wanna get invaded? Cause that’s how you get invaded

Man, imagine the paranoia. You literally have a russian puppet for president, but are worried about infiltrations by communist spies from Cuba.

Or you could do one better and come to romania to see some of these busses (especially the 70s-80s Saviems) still in service lol.

The irony, I swear

Edit: To add, we’ve had a similar situation with the romanian diaspora in europe voting mostly for the anti-eu candidate during the presidentials. The mind boggles.

Time to fire up Anno 2205

Not sure what this is meant to accomplish, as I doubt its actual mission is “a show of support”. In fact, there is a risk the visit might inflame anti-EU sentiment, much like the public talk between Macron and Romania’s Dan inflamed all the russian trolls before presidentials. On the other hand you shouldn’t avoid doing something in good faith just because the russian trolls might complain, as they’d just find something else to shout about.

Not sure why you’re downvoted, it’s true. China doesn’t like dealing with smaller players and they’re not afraid to say it. russia bullies smaller players. The US has kept appearances for a while but now they’re in full break up EU mode. They all want to see a divided europe and are working towards that, because a divided europe is easier to ignore and can’t set standards by itself.

Old rupert is probably buying himself an island for his safety bunker/palace.

Does anybody have the original study? I tried to find it but the link is dead ( looks like NANDA pulled it )

This reads just like the news we had of antiwar protesters in russia a few years ago. Except you know, it’s the uk this time.

Finally, a sane fuckin approach to the tarriff madness. But it’s probably due to them exporting to the US a lot less than what they’re importing.

On another note, I really hate that trump’s buffoonery is helping brics. They used to be just a bunch of greedy autocrats but now this asshole is giving them common ground to stand on.

This whole article is goddamn infuriating:

“We’re very used to proving our age in lots of different areas of life at the moment, and it makes sense that we do so more assertively when it comes to online activity,” he said.

“I think people actually think it’s pretty weird that you are age checked when you want to buy a can of Monster, but you’re not age checked when you access certain material online.”

No one that is sane thinks that is weird, peter. No one. If anything they think the new age verification is weird.

Chris Sherwood, chief executive of children’s charity the NSPCC, said Friday’s new rules mean services “can no longer evade their duty for protecting children”.

It is NOT THE SERVICE’S DUTY TO PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN. IT’S THE PARENTS’!

Derek Ray-Hill, interim head of the Internet Watch Foundation, meanwhile welcomed the new rules for sites allowing porn but said “there is still more to be done”.

But of course there is. Derek wants to know everything about your kinks when you log in.

Many of the sites which operate age verification services say they do not retain ID, videos or images required for them to carry out age checks for any longer than necessary.

Which can mean six fucking months for all we know.

Anyway, I welcome the age of paper porn and VPNs in The UK.

I’ve seen way too many couples (married or otherwise) that influence each other to vote Trump and other populists to believe that you can single out loneliness as a main cause of the rise of the far right. Lonely single males are on the rise, sure, and it’s a problem that needs dealing, but i’d wager most of those 3 million new single people are mostly old folk, since Germany’s populatin has been aging rapidly in the past decades.

Weren’t polynesians a bunch of warrior tribes that pretty much hunted some pacific birds down to extinction and when they got their hands on gunpowder weapons one tribe pretty much obliterated every other tribe?

Oh, I see we moved on to the “too late to do anything about it now” phase already

We’re in the honeymoon phase, shit didn’t hit the fan yet. Problem is we devs are fucked either way. If productivity does increase, then workforce demand will go down especially for entry level devs and seniors will be relegated to vibe coding and fixing AI bugs. If it all goes south then layoffs, because line must go up!

Company I’m at also does the forced AI and it’s all but mandatory now. Problem is as code monkeys we’re past the point of heading down to the Winchester for a pint until it blows over. They’re pushing so hard in order to “not fall behind” that you literally can’t escape it. I think even malicious compliance won’t cut it. And when 8/10 companies that dictate the market say that “this is the future”, then this is the future they’ll make whether we like it or not.

Edit: the silver lining is that we’re working with tools that are better than copilot at generating menial work like generating boilerplate code, unit tests, release notes, walls of text for app documentation etc.

Not sure. This phone seems better in some regards and worse in others, so I’d say wait for reviews.

As for me I probably won’t get it. Already have a fp4 I got in a sale to experiment with and see if I can completely degoogle and couldn’t ( not completely anyway ). Now it’s more or less a paperweight that I might revisit in the future, when my daily phone kicks the bucket. The dealbreaker is Android15 because that’s when they shoved gemini in, so any phone with Android14 and security updates will do fine. God I hope that linux phones finally get off the ground already

I know I know, but it was really convenient to keep a spare battery and do a quick swap on the fp4.

Is it me or did they get slightly more vague on their marketing materials, wrt the environmental impact ( at least compared to fp5 ) ?

Also the battery seems a bit harder to replace, as you now need a screwdriver. It does appear to be more flush, so it may be due to size constraints.

Edit: and there’s “more” replaceable parts because the back is split in two. That split might prove better for durability tho, because pulling the back on their older phones felt like it would break every time.