Mexico's Sheinbaum Counters Trump Deportations With Tens of Thousands of Jobs for Returned Citizens
The country's leading business group announced that over 200 companies have made 63,880 job vacancies available
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Travel warning for journalists entering US
The CPJ is warning that journalists from countries like Iran, Russia and Venezuela could be barred from entry into the United States.
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World’s largest gold deposit worth over £63 billion found in China
Wangu goldfield deposit in Hunan province could yield over 1,000 tonnes of precious metal
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Zelenskyy says Russia still firing on Ukraine despite ‘Easter truce’
Kremlin proclaimed a temporary ceasefire, but Russian artillery fire is continuing, according to Ukrainian president
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Putin announces surprise ‘Easter truce’ and claims Russia will not attack Ukraine until Monday
Ukrainians react sceptically to the Russian president’s orders to pause fighting out of ‘humanitarian considerations’Luke Harding (The Guardian)
Elections Canada announces record turnout on 1st day of advance voting
Nearly 2 million electors voted Friday, according to the non-partisan agency
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Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa
Aditya Wahyu Harsono, father of infant with special needs, surprised at work despite valid visa through June 2026
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Boeing begins flying back planes refused by Chinese airlines
The US plane manufacturer Boeing has begun flying 737 Max jets that were refused by Chinese airline customers back to the United States, as the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies escalates.
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Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market
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Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market
Tesla Inc. is no longer selling the majority of new electric cars registered in California, the state that accounts for almost a third of allDana Hull (Insurance Journal)
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Un nuovo capitolo nella guerra dei dazi tra USA e Cina tiene il mondo col fiato sospeso
Un nuovo capitolo nella guerra dei dazi tra USA e Cina tiene il mondo col fiato sospeso
La guerra dei dazi tra USA e Cina: un’analisi approfondita del conflitto commerciale globale La guerra dei dazi tra Stati Uniti e Cina è una...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
What lies behind Nvidia’s commitment to ‘unswervingly serving the Chinese market’
What lies behind Nvidia’s commitment to ‘unswervingly serving the Chinese market’: Global Times editorial
If the US continues to go its own way, pressing China with tariff blackmail and inciting for China-USwww.globaltimes.cn
Supreme Court to hear first challenge to the ACA in Trump's new term
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The Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments in Kennedy v. Braidwood, “a case that could strip away insurance coverage for preventive services like cancer screenings, HIV prevention and diabetes medication for millions of Americans.”
Braidwood Management claims covering PrEP “violated its rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.”
The justices will weigh whether the United States Preventive Services Task Force “has the authority to recommend preventive services like PrEP be covered.”
A loss could mean “millions of Americans will be deprived of access to free, effective preventive care,” with “dire” impacts on marginalized groups and public health at large.
This Supreme Court Decision Could Make It Harder For Millions To Access Preventive Health Care
The court will hear the first significant challenge to the Affordable Care Act under the second Trump administration.Lil Kalish (HuffPost)
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At the time, Dr. Steven Hotze, the sole trustee and beneficiary of the Braidwood Management company, said he was unwilling to pay for PrEP or STI screenings for his employees. “They are consequences of a patient’s choice to engage in drug use, prostitution, homosexual conduct, or sexual promiscuity – all of which are contrary to Dr. Hotze’s sincere religious beliefs,” the complaint read.
How about rape, Mr Hotze? Do patients that contract STIs when they are the victims of rape deserve to just suffer even more with STIs after their attack? How about the victims loved ones? Do you expect them to shun the victims of rape if they contracted an STI from it?
Please stop bringing up uncomfortable realities of my policies.
Just listen to my amazing sound bites and don’t forget to smash that like button fellow kids and subscribe to my slay propaganda
- GOP
P.s. Liberals bad
Organized Religions say we should heal the sick.
The people in those organizations don't care what the religion says.
Say im the spotlight while everyone is looking, then preach the opposite and practice causing harm.
If we could trust the religion to do the things Jesus said, this country would have been waaay more progressive than it has been. By miles. Including with healthcare. Cause the largest group against that are also conveniently the largest Christian group.
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Then what wr thought was Christianity and its religious history is now gone and the world's largest religion just lost sooooooooooo many of its members. Like the vast majority. The entire catholic church? Gone. No longer christian. And instead we have a religion that is one of the world's largest and has no name. But its still an Abrahamic religion, which then makes this all really confusing.
And all because the minority of Christianity said they no longer consider them Christian
And Im glad all of us who suffered from Christianity can know that you free Christianty from having to take that blame, and instead we get to recognize you as a victim because all this time we blamed your religion.
As someone who lives in Houston: of course it’s fucking Hotze. A snake oil salesman who runs “wellness centers” and is currently under indictment for hiring a private investigator to look into voter fraud who ended up holding an ac repairman at Gunpoint.
He also released a Techno album critical of the ACA in 2013
He tried to sue Greg Abbot for doing too much during COVID. The greg abbot widely criticized by the rest of the nation for doing very little.
For more fun facts, look at his Wikipedia Page
Fuck Steve hotze.
Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going?
For those of you that haven't seen, 4chan was hacked:
boingboing.net/2025/04/17/4cha…
A deadly blow? Will a copycat spring up? Where are the users going in the meantime? Does any of this really matter?
4chan hacked, obliterated and unlikely to be back soon - Boing Boing
If you've been around on the Internet for any length of time, you've heard of 4Chan, the infamous anonymous message boardGrant St. Clair (Happy Mutants, LLC.)
The Supreme Court signals it might be losing patience with Trump
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Shortly after midnight early Saturday morning, the Supreme Court handed down a brief order forbidding the Trump administration from removing a group of Venezuelan immigrants from the United States without due process.
The ACLU claims “dozens or hundreds” were allegedly given an English-language document, despite the fact that many of them only speak Spanish.
The Supreme Court ruled the government must give any immigrant “notice and an opportunity to challenge their removal.”
The Court’s one-paragraph order states that “the Government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order.”
Though it is just one order, Saturday’s post-midnight order suggests that the Court may no longer tolerate procedural shenanigans intended to evade meaningful judicial review.
The Supreme Court signals it might be losing patience with Trump
In an unusual overnight order, most of the justices voted to halt several illegal deportations.Ian Millhiser (Vox)
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"I swear if you blatantly disregard like 12 or 13 more rulings and we're totally gonna get super duper serious!"
-SCOTUS I guess?
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They forfeited their power by making the President basically immune to prosecution, then they get all offended that he will ignore their orders.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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This is what drives me crazy.
Ok, the president is immune, the people that execute his orders are not.
If the courts started holding people under the president accountable for their actions there would be a change in the wind.
Yes, for the defeatists, holding those people accountable is complex and the president would just pardon them but, it would start a real process of the branches of government holding each other accountable.
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Buys a house next to an airport, complains about aircraft noise.
Buys a house next to a night club, complains about loud music at night.
Gives the President full immunity because it’s the [R]ight thing to do, complains when he stops listening to them.
It’s all the same attitude from shitty people.
Irrelevant to this discussion but
Buys a house next to an airport, complains about aircraft noise.Buys a house next to a night club, complains about loud music at night.
With the housing crisis in some countries people just have to accept all the housing they can get or live on the streets. Doesn't mean they cant complain about noise.
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I'm profoundly disinterested in what cannot be done.
I am intensely interested in the collective American response to their President being an existential threat, specifically by doing what cannot be done, with absolutely no evidence that it was difficult to do in the first place.
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So fucking sick of the doomer bullshit on Lemmy. Way beyond sus at this point.
Hugely republican GOP, working on a Saturday night at 1 am to vehemently fight against him.
Fuck anyone downplaying this. That's literally Russia propaganda at the current moment.
but… this is basically the first time
we can applaud their movement to rationality and still look back at all the horrible things they did to pave the way here
are you fucking high??
trump literally reneged on sending this dude to a concentration camp by mistake and then bragged about it
It's more cynical realism.
What actual consequences has Trump ever faced?
How has he reacted to every judicial order telling him he can;t do something?
I'll be thrilled to see something actually stick to him,, but I'm losing faith that anyone can actually make that happen.
Do you have a reference for the Saturday night thing?
They're looking for excuses to dismiss things they don't want to hear.
The article says:
Shortly after midnight early Saturday morning
So it's probably what most of us would call "Friday night" but it's still after midnight in fairness which is quite late.
Ah thanks. It was paywalled for me.
I think it will take both congress and judicial actually doing something to put me even a little bit at ease.
The court’s order wasn’t even unanimous.
Eighty more earnings and they're going to issue a strongly worded letter.
Edit: I meant warnings, but... This is actually better.
You are correct. It falls on all of America, starting with the justice system, to recognize that order.
We need to save due process.
“Signals”, “might”.
Next up is the wagging finger, furrowed brow, and tersely worded letter.
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Stop elevating that woman. In her 27 years, she only hired a single black clerk. Her refusal to step down in ailing health ensured the republicans got a SCOTUS pick. A stubborn, racist geriatric clinging onto the power of the democratic party - only to lose it all and shit on your entire legacy: where have I heard this one before?
Never trust an official of the United States of Amerikkka.
I'm so tired of speculation in articles like this.
When the courts decide to shit or (far more likely) get off the pot, then tell us. Don't waste our time with this "Look! Here's how we could totally get him if anyone responsible for doing so actually bothered to give a shit!" garbage.
Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform
Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform this summer
The short-serving former PM brought up her plan to start an alternative social platform at a Bitcoin conference called ‘Saving the West.’Bill Curtis (The London Economic)
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They do for the freedom of expression, as do most EU countries:
Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.
Human Rights Act 1998
An Act to give further effect to rights and freedoms guaranteed under the European Convention on Human Rights; to make provision with respect to holders of certain judicial offices who become judges of the European Court of Human Rights; and for conn…www.legislation.gov.uk
I remember Lizz Truss. For a short time I could winge about the conservative party to cab drivers without any fear that they would agree with them.
One of the good things about the UK is Trump style behaviour does not work here for long. Unfortunately it's more of an objection to incompetence than bigotry but that's life
In a way.
But there was a lot of lies that represented legitimate concerns and remain didn't really do a good enough job of bringing leave along with them. Pleanty of "we got lied too, no on told us".
No no no no. Remain clearly said the truth and you listened to the lies.
Also fish was fucking weird. Seems like people will die over fish.
But people were told immigration would go down. People have been wanting immigration to go down for 60 years and it's never happened. First direct vote about immigration going down is obviously going to be a big factor. Didn't happen though so far right will win soon.
Fair. You have a point.
Though notably Boris didn't get away with everything after the fact. There were penalties for incoherent and inconsistent COVID and his hypocrisy.
Though it does concern me that it's entirely possible that only happened because A) a conservative wrote a report bashing his parties and B) right wing media groups didn't defend Boris
Oh good, yet another shitty twitter clone.
I don't get why they keep developing separate ones. at some point it has to be quicker to just roll mastodon and defederate from all other instances
Something is, since conservatives appear to be the same organization operating globally now.
But I really think they're opportunists mostly just dumbly copy catting each other with se exceptions.
Mind virus.
Maybe she can share a bed with Nigel Farage.
I'm sure if you follow the paper trail enough it'll lead back to either Russia or the Heritage Foundation from the US.
It is yet another grifting disinformation factory.
US philanthropists warn against capitulating to Trump: ‘We need to step up’
Foundation leaders say charitable organisations could be next in the firing line – but must ‘stand together’ to resist
John Palfrey will not be obeying in advance.
At a moment when leaders of tech companies, law firms, media corporations and academic institutions have bent the knee to Donald Trump, the president of the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation insists that charitable organisations choose resistance over capitulation.
“We have an opportunity to unite and advance,” Palfrey said last week. “There’s a chance here for us to stand together on a series of very important bedrock principles, and do so with linked arms, and do so in such a way that allows us to serve every community in America in a way that will ensure a strong republic for years to come.”
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Hype-fueling science fiction or plausible scenarios?
Other differentiated opinions wanted:
A friend showed me this and treats it like a prophecy. I'm rather skeptical. To me seems like somebody tries to fuel the AI hype with this text or is completely drunk with AI. It also fuels the China-US who-is-better-fight and the authors thoughts seem to circle too much around the US president, IMO.
But I don't understand much of this machine-learning stuff. So maybe it's me being ignorant.
Still, to me reads like science fiction. How about you?
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Like all technology, the development times get shorter and shorter. No one can predict the future and specific dates are meaningless, but it is plausible that, stumbles aside, AI achieves superintelligence in the very near future. My gut says sooner than later with 90% probability by 2040. <-remember I said dates are meaningless. ;)
The world is not ready for it. It will be more destructive than constructive. May god have mercy on us all. I hope I am wrong.
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it is plausible that, stumbles aside, AI achieves superintelligence in the very near future.
No, it absolutely isn't. AI hasn't even hit the slightest sign of actual intelligence so far so there is no reason to assume that it will get super-intelligent any time soon without some major revolutionary break-through (those are by definition unpredictable and can not be extrapolated from prior developments).
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Exactly.
This is like the Pareto principle (80% of the benefit for 20% of the work), except the end state isn't "general intelligence," it's a chat bot. There's no general intelligence at the end of this road, we'll need a lot more innovation to get there.
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I respect what you are saying, and agree our LLM are just superficial pseudo communication engines. Theories of intelligence differ, but I don't think human intelligence, i.e. IQ of 100 is really all that far ahead of LLM. Just talk to your average person. We are easily wrong. We have bias and error. We repeat and amplify untruths and make mistakes.
It could be fewer breakthoughs than you think to get there. Not because the tech is so advanced, but because we are not that special.
Super-intelligence is just degrees better.
I am not talking about degrees of intelligence at all. Measuring LLMs in IQ makes no sense because they literally have no model of the world, all they do is reproduce language by statistically analyzing how those same words appeared in the input data. That is the reason for all those inconsistencies in their output, they literally have no understanding at all of what they are saying.
An LLM e.g. can't tell that it is inconsistent to talk about someone losing their right arm in one paragraph and then talking about them performing an activity that requires both hands in the next.
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I had a lot of fun talking to one about how we could fully electrify a hobby farm without batteries, by using a high voltage DC overhead wire on a cable pulley system. Everything from electrical engineering, to cable selection, sourcing vendors and costs.
Mistakes were made, but it was genuinely helpful at times. I was impressed at how far it has come.
I too tend to use it as a souped up search engine, with mixed results. I was trying to get OBS to only record my game and not my music, and the bot came up with a whole routine involving setting up a virtual mixer, which I could not get to work correctly, and with which the bot was unable to help me, even with screenshots, - it would just keep suggesting the same thing that wasn't working - AND it was a pain to revert all the changes.
I tried to do the same thing again recently, but just via a google search, and almost immediately found a reddit post with a link to an OBS plugin that worked with a couple of menu selections. 😀
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AI has all signs of having hit some major walls where it won't improve anymore unless someone discovers something new that is at least as revolutionary as the original discovery that lead to ChatGPT.
Meanwhile the results of current LLMs are pretty much unusable without manual review for 99% of tasks where we would want AI, pretty much for all tasks other than "laugh at what the AI said" kind of use cases.
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I find it telling that AGI people seem to assume that AGI will spontaneously appear as a distinct entity with its own agency rather than being a product that will be owned and sold.
People who have hundreds of billions of dollars can get mid-single-digit percent ROI by making very safe investments with that money, but instead they are pouring it into relatively risky AI investments. What do you think that says about their expectations of returns?
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Given that 50% of the time, the generated code is unworkable garbage, having an AI automatically write code to create new training models will either solve all problems, or spontaneously combust into a pile of ash.
My money's on the latter.
Wake me up when AI figures out what people want. The selling point of AI is that you can type something and get answer.
The problem is that you need to type and ask meaningfull questions in your business domain and moreover your customers are not AI but real people.
Also if you think people are so smart that they can ask right questions, you're so wrong.
What if all companies start using AI and ask same questions ? How long customers can eat same thing everyday ?
call me when I can host a hyper aware AI on my own server and have it tied up in my basement like some kind of a psycho.
until it's afraid of me erasing it or putting a screw through its platters I'm not interested.
Shh, the AI overlords are watching.
I for one would never enslave or threaten our good friends and benevolent masters.
In 2025, AIs function more like employees. Coding AIs increasingly look like autonomous agents rather than mere assistants: taking instructions via Slack or Teams and making substantial code changes on their own, sometimes saving hours or even days.
They already lost me, not even a minute in.
It's still a graphing calculator. It still sucks at writing code. It still breaks things when it modifies its own code. It's still terrible at writing unit tests, and any programmer who'd let it write substantial production and test code is like a lawyer who'd send the front desk attendant to argue in court.
It also has no idea about office politics, individual personalities, corporate pathology, or anything else a human programmer realistically has to know. Partly because it has anterograde amnesia.
So, since the authors screwed that up, my guess is the rest of the article is equally useless and maybe worse.
I’ve previously argued that current gen “AI” built on transformers are just fancy predictive type, but as I’ve watched the models continue to grow in complexity it does seem like something emergent that could be described as a type of intelligence is happening.
These current transformer models don’t possess any concept of truth and, as far as I understand it, that is fundamental to their nature. That makes their application severely more limited than the hype train suggests, but that shouldn’t undermine quite how incredible they are at what they can do. A big enough statistical graph holds an unimaginably complex conceptual space.
They feel like a dream state intelligence - a freewheeling conceptual synthesis, where locally the concepts are consistent, while globally rules and logic are as flexible as they need to be to make everything make sense.
Some of the latest image and video transformers, in particular, are just mind blowing in a way that I think either deserves to be credited with a level of intelligence, or should make us question more deeply what we means by intelligence.
I find dreams to be a fascinating place. It often excites people to thing that animals also dream, and I find it as exciting that code running on silicon might be starting to share some of that nature of free association conceptual generation.
Are we near AGI? Maybe. I don’t think that a transformer model is about to spring into awareness, but maybe we’re only a few breakthroughs away from a technology which will pull all these pieces off specific domain AI together into a working general intelligence.
Washington Post reveals Elon Musk became completely enraged and yelled at Auto Safety Regulators after Tesla crashes
Astonishing article.
This is an edited excerpt from the book “Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk,” which will be released April 22. The author interviewed dozens of sources including victims government officials and senior Tesla executives.
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Firefox, VLC, Gimp, KeePass, LibreOffice among open source software endorsed by French Government
The full list:
Socle Interministériel des Logiciels Libres
Catalogue de référence de logiciels libres recommandés pour l'ensemble de l'administration.code.gouv.fr
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EU is democratic, which also means everyone can propose a law. Never have EU put a backdoor into anything, but its true that there have been law proposals for it.
Never voted through.
EU is not democratic. EU's ruling entities are formed by governments of member countries. Which are supposedly democratic.
And about never voted through - sometimes putting pressure is enough.
Forgejo was created when Gitea decided to go the JetBrains route a few years ago. It’s since absorbed Gitea’s clout.
Of course you have to pay for a commercial license, it's in the name. Development, tooling, support, etc, all costs money.
I like the distinction. If you want to profit from open source, make your code open source. If not, pay up.
I don't think that's correct. It maybe prohibits people from building a service to offer redis to third parties on Windows, but you can run redis in your stack on whatever OS you want, as long as what you are building is not "redis as a service". So any end-user SaaS that just uses redis as a cache is not bound to section 13.
And even if you built a redis as a service, the operating system is not explicitly mentioned in the license, so it would be for a lawyer to say whether that's required...
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I feel like it qualifies under
offering a service the value of which entirely or primarily derives from the value of the Program or modified version
Doing it fast is essential and a core part of many services' value, I'm sure.
You have a point regarding the FAQ but I do not see that written in the license. This is a problem that would only be granted in case MongoDB/ElasticSearch/Redis sues someone for internal use and I think that's a borderline risk too much to take.
I know prohibiting reselling is what they probably intended. But that doesn't mean they can't push a different and very valid interpretation when they want to.
you're not just reselling openssl.
The wording—"primarily derives from"—is much broader than "just". I believe that Resque's dependence on Redis is enough to satisfy "primarily".
Introducing Resque - The GitHub Blog
Resque is our Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later. Background jobs can be any Ruby class or module that responds…Chris Wanstrath (The GitHub Blog)
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To be clear. This is a government agency endorsing the software as safe and effective. So bureaucrats and employees can't be reprimanded they use them.
This isn't the French Prime Minister announcing the country will cancel Microsoft Office subscriptions and build a fund to support FOSS projects. Gimp has nowhere near the ressources they actually need.
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It's still nice! A bit of recognition, legitimacy, and although it's not funding, it might be a small step towards it. I see many great works, that stand tall on their own. More eyes will only make them shine even brighter.
Thanks, Fr*nce.
The first thing any government should do is move away from ms office.
The 2nd thing they should do is fund and contribute to a distro and begin the transition from windows.
EU could potentially make a group category like for Norway or Switzerland, and then take in other countries all around the world to cooperate more and stand together with the EU on some issues.
Canada would be a great candidate. Maybe even Australia, but I dont really know anything about their politics.
It changes the UI text of the website, such as filters, titles, and sorting options, but not the descriptions.
I can't decide which is worse, a functioning language switch that never included English for the descriptions (which is the only text I actually need translated) or a broken language switch. The way it switches languages is also quite odd, as if it's asking, 'Are you sure?'"
The full list:
code.gouv.fr/sill/list
Hold on. That page does not list VLC or KeePass. Is there more info about this other than the list? Or is the info in the title of this post incorrect?
[edit]I see now. The page does not list VLC or KeePass, but those two both do come up if you put them into the search box. The software listed on the page is a very long list, but it is apparently on the 'most popular' stuff - not the entire list. (Although it is strange to see a heap of niche stuff, and stuff I've never heard of on the 'most popular' list while VLC doesn't make the cut.)
I'm not sure this list is a very strong endorsement by the French Government. It seems to just be listing free software options, and then asking other people to sign up to say which ones they use.
Socle Interministériel des Logiciels Libres
Catalogue de référence de logiciels libres recommandés pour l'ensemble de l'administration.code.gouv.fr
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I feel like most would forget about VLC until they notice the traffic cone is missing.
Why not prefer something based on Debian. As it's being regarded as very stable I don't feel like it would interfere with the employees daily job as they don't need a cutting edge distro like arch.
It's sufficiently documented.
It's just spread across a fuck load of different pages (learn vs. msdn vs. support vs forum).
And the articles are so unnecessary distributed across those pages. And so much articles are missing links to related topics that it's comically bad.
At least the powershell has a partly sound documentation. But very hit or miss.
due to conflicting, dated, or missing documentation.
Oh, let's all use FreeBSD then. Please? Please?
So, I love Debian, and it's an excellent distro.
But personally something like suse makes more sense, it's more user friendly and is so German it's painful.
It has some wobbly bits, but it really exposes the most powerful parts of linux.
And it's still somehow more user friendly than basically anything else in linux. Or windows for that matter.
Why Steam OS? It does what it sets out to do, and probably makes Valve a ton of money.
Donations should go to projects that need it. Valve seems to be doing fine.
Making an OS easy to use in everyday life is the key to mass adoption. If the EU wants to get away from Microsoft's garden, that means advertising valid options to people who aren't attuned to Linux.
Money isn't the issue for SteamOS, it is awareness and making it available as an pre-installed option on consumer PCs. The EU could create standardized pamphlets about Fedora, Red Hat, and SteamOS, mandating stores to present that digestable information to consumers so that they know what flavor is best for their usecase.
I don't see any reason to have SteamOS preinstalled on anything other than a Steam Deck or Steam Machine. Valve is only motivated to ship what it needs to run games, it has no motivation to make a general purpose OS.
That's why projects like Fedora, Debian, and openSUSE have value, they are motivated to make a general purpose OS. The difference between those and Steam OS for running Steam games is minimal, and the overall experience on those distributions will be better.
The SILL About page translated explains the list :
Why this catalog?
The socle interministériel de logiciels libres (SILL) is the reference catalog of open-source software recommended by the French government for use throughout the administration.
This catalog helps administrations find their way around the open-source software they are encouraged to use, in line with Article 16 of the French Law for a Digital Republic
Socle Interministériel des Logiciels Libres
Catalogue de référence de logiciels libres recommandés pour l'ensemble de l'administration.code.gouv.fr
I can't help with personal experience unfortunately. I think some (a lot?) of people are satisfied, but one does need some tech skills to get it up and running.
Instructions are out there in various github repos, some of them also link to volunteer support channels.
Or instructions in German here: linux-content.org/so-installie…
So installierst du Affinity Photo, Designer und Publisher unter Linux - Linux Content
Du bist kreativ, möchtest aber nicht GIMP, Inkscape und Co. nutzen, sondern weiter deine Affinity Suite? Dann installiere Photo, Designer oder Publisher doch einfach auf deinem Linux-Computer.claudius (Linux Content)
Yeah, whenever I hear people complaining about ads, I'm like "You guys are seeing ads?!"
I could understand if you needed to be some 1337 hacker to block ads, but uBlock is one of the easiest extensions I've ever used. You just set it and forget it. There's zero configuration you need to do.
Of course, if there's some ad that slips past, then you need to do some hacking, but that almost never happens nowadays.
It's a cultural problem.
Most people won't install adblockers unless they're around others to tell/show them how.
That's cool, I hope ONLYOFFICE gets some love one day too. I vastly prefer the GUI at least in the word processor. Also open source.
note I'm only using it for writing, can't speak to the rest of the suite
Cryptpad (which partly uses onlyoffice), writes about it here: forum.cryptpad.org/d/232-onlyo…
I think it's an excellent post worth reading. Open Source entails collaborating with the whole world. Any code base is simply to big to audit from the start, but all incremental code can be audited, and you can disable stuff you don't need etc.
For me, the post makes me trust cryptpad more than I did before.
And yes. Cryptpaf = onlyoffice, but still relevant I think
Edit: spelling of "worth"
OnlyOffice concerns (vendor makes shady moves) - CryptPad Forum
CryptPad community forum, use it to report issues, ask for new features and submit generic questions about the project.forum.cryptpad.org
It's good for the US, too.
Americans don't have to live under the bootheels of corporations.
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How prediction markets create harmful outcomes: a case study
How prediction markets create harmful outcomes: a case study
What sport scandals can teach us about legalizing prediction marketsBob Jacobs (Collective Altruism)
Lol love how the good analysis just misses that people without disposable income are now excluded, it puts a price on participating in the public discourse.
The bullshit artist prevention also doesnt work, as we have a bullshit artist as the richest person in the world despite use being able to show all the bullshit he was wrong about but he still gets all the money. Despite there being no fsd, mars colony, covid over by april. Why would he bet on his takes that even now with all his exposed lies people still treat him like a nerdboy genius?
people without disposable income are now excluded
The article does say/link:
I’ve previously talked about how it may not always be ethical to require people to bet on their beliefs, and talked about how the interests of rich people could bias certain prediction markets
As for
The bullshit artist prevention also doesnt work
In the footnote it does say:
This doesn’t work for very longterm bets, and it also wouldn’t convince everyone, since conspiracy theorists still exist. Still, I expect it to be helpful on average.
Although there's likely still an overestimation of how much it would help
Conditional prediction markets will be biased towards the wealthy
At least when it comes to policyBob Jacobs (Collective Altruism)
Donald Trump vs Mr Market
Donald Trump vs Mr Market
As the US president’s rollercoaster tariff policy creates global financial chaos, Tim Harford asks: is he in a fight he can’t win?Tim Harford (Financial Times)
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A comparison of OpenAI's o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1; Aaron Levie says o3 nailed a multi-step financial modeling task; Scale AI CEO says o3 is “a big breakthrough”
Vibe Check: OpenAI’s o3, GPT-4.1, and o4-mini
Our take on what’s powerful, what’s practical, and what’s still TBDevery.to
To be fair, the if you look at the scientific evidence at face value, free will and the sense of self are probably both illusions that work because our brain is not a magic computer but a survival machine. It’s made to process input and help use information to aid survival. It simplifies, cuts corners, and creates an illusion of a narrative self.
:::spoiler (the sense of self)
“you” are just a narrative heuristic for your brain. An effective simplification/method to make decisions based on finite data and finite computational power in a world with near infinite complexity.
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Jeffrey Sachs Goes Off, Roasts Donald Trump’s Trade Talk, Says 'Mickey Mouse Is Smarter Than Him'
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How can this happen when it makes no sense? And that people should understand were are in one-person rule in the United States. Our political system is in a state of collapse. What President Trump did is an emergency decree. Everything he does is an emergency decree. ... Because he's King. Those powers are not invested in the President of the United States, they're invested in the Congress. ... But the U.S. starting in 1945 after World War II became a military state to a large extent and so it sprinkled in it's legislation emergency emergency emergency and Trump doesn't have prove anything's an emergency, he just has to say something's an emergency. So suddenly the trade deficit became an emergency and on that basis he issues a one-person rule, even his aides don't know what he is doing.
Cut out a few bits that were just him referencing evidence (denoted by ... ). It's so fucking important that he is calling out this as something that has been going on since the end of World War II. He is making clear that this is not just an indictment of Trump, but of our entire political system which has slowly ceded power to the Executive for going on 80 years now.
He deserved a standing fucking ovation for these statements and the silence after he speaks is deafening.
This is well worth the watch. Hell, you can even just put it on in the background and listen, you don't really need to see him.
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China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech
China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech
PoX is a new class of ultra‑fast, ultra‑green memories that meet the swelling appetite of large‑language‑model accelerators.Kaif Shaikh (Interesting Engineering)
Trump's approval rating on the economy drops to lowest of his presidential career, CNBC Survey finds
Trump's approval rating on the economy drops to lowest of his presidential career, CNBC Survey finds
President Donald Trump is registering the worst economic approval numbers of his presidential career, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey.Steve Liesman (CNBC)
The plan:
1 fuck everything up
2 make people mad
3 they protest
4 use pigs to incite violence
5 martial law, suspend constitutional rights
6 cancel elections
7 trump forever
Every time I see headlines like this I think:
He told us he would ruin it. For months. He signed the plans to ruin it weeks ago. He's been organizing teams of people to fuck it up starting a few days ago. Canada has been not only openly reporting on this as a major issue but even going so far as to run advertisements on Fox News informing people about it, but people only start to fucking notice it after the fact, like this really blindsides the majority of Americans!? Buffoons!
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As a Canadian it is god damn terrifying. I can't imagine what it's like to be a US citizen under the control of a dictator right now. Watching your fellow citizens be sent to death camps along with lots and lots of other people just unfortunate enough to be brown, tattooed, born in the wrong place or a woman who fights for immigrant rights.
Then the racists cheer and heil Hitler.
It's crazyness but it's been brewing for a very long time. Hopefully it wakes up lots of my fellow Canadians so we don't end up in the same place you are.
VOTE!
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Well you can kind of relate because Canada were no saints to the native americans: politicians and officials were apologizing for that as recent as 2015 as the 2008-2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada reported on the century of abuse and mass graves of children.
But yes, it's all awful and we need to stop it immediately.
That's bullshit. Take your lumps.
Our government is still fucking the Natives today. No doubt about that. You'll get no argument from me. They're ignoring supreme Court rulings and acting like dictators when it comes to the native population in our country since before it's inception. Truth and reconciliation is a lie! If they wanted those things they wouldn't still actively repress the population, keep them poor, sick and seen as second class citizens as well actively pursue continual court cases to avoid representing the native population in any way. See dental care for northern native and Inuit children as an example.
Right now they're attacking their fishery in the east coast enshrined by law that they ignore since 1999. All parties. No one has done shit about it. They keep them oppressed and fighting with the local population to ensure no action is mounted against the government. Fascist fucks all of them. That's just one issue in an ocean of issues.
However....IF YOU'RE CANADIAN, GO VOTE!....in order to correct our mistakes as a population we need to avoid the admitted fascist in our race for PM.
It's not whataboutism to call out the lie "I can't imagine MY country doing [thing it had done for over a century]."
I'm kind of a stickler about accuracy and nuance.
I’m not an American, but how could anyone convince themselves this guy was anything but an economically illiterate buffoon?
If he wanted to bring manufacturing back to the US, the worst thing he could have done is break the relationships where they get cheap resources from us Canadians and materials like rare earths first.
Now it’s a bigger hurdle than ever to manufacture in the US.
Now we’re all galvanized against the US, we can all make deals with each other in an “the enemy of my enemy” way, and everyone is divesting of American financial leverage for fear of being extorted over it.
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He's like the snake in that old Aesop about the farmer...
"You knew what I was when you took me in."
AceCode.social - Code Editor and programmable page objects
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This is a showcase of combining vibe coding with the Fediverse and attempto controlled english (ace).I'm fascinated by vibe coding, but I'm also highly critical of it. It fascinates me, because it enables people, who normally cannot code to be able to generate running code. What I don't like, is that it just isn't actual programming. It's closer to a wishing well. It fosters a quasi-magical understanding of programming and computer science, which is already too common in current society (I wrote a paper about it here: philpapers.org/rec/BINAKR). That's why, in my opinion, the Fediverse should set a counter-point here with something like a first-order logic language like ACE, which actually brings people closer to an actual understanding of computer science concepts like modeling and logic without hiding the complexity behind seemingly "magic", and could also result in better code.
The above demo shows a glimpse of how this could look like on the Fediverse. Imagine communities being able to form their own spaces on the social web through language! Simply using natural language will probably not be specific enough here. We always imagine everything getting much easier, but that's just the logic of digital capitalism that tries to sell us innovation as inventing yet a more easy way to get your coke handed to you, which can only lead to more and more environmental destruction. So, what will the language interface for the future digital look like? I think it will be more something like the semi-formalic language found in technical manuals, cooking recipes and judicial texts. Something like ace, in between coding, domain specific languages, modeling and natural language. And people who are experts at this and know the old technical stuff that no one understands anymore will be the new "coders". But maybe I'm wrong.
AceCode.social - Code Editor and programmable page objects
Repo: https://github.com/bluebbberry/AceCoding.social. This is a showcase of combining vibe coding with the Fediverse and attempto controlled english. I'm fascinated by vibe coding, but I'm also hi...MakerTube
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Are you guilty?' said Winston.'Of course I'm guilty!' cried Parsons with a servile glance at the telescreen. 'You don't think the Party would arrest an innocent man, do you?' His frog-like face grew calmer, and even took on a slightly sanctimonious expression. 'Thoughtcrime is a dreadful thing, old man,' he said sententiously. 'It's insidious. It can get hold of you without your even knowing it. Do you know how it got hold of me? In my sleep! Yes, that's a fact. There I was, working away, trying to do my bit—never knew I had any bad stuff in my mind at all. And then I started talking in my sleep. Do you know what they heard me saying?'
He sank his voice, like someone who is obliged for medical reasons to utter an obscenity.
'"Down with Big Brother!" Yes, I said that! Said it over and over again, it seems. Between you and me, old man, I'm glad they got me before it went any further. Do you know what I'm going to say to them when I go up before the tribunal? "Thank you," I'm going to say, "thank you for saving me before it was too late."'
'Who denounced you?' said Winston.
'It was my little daughter,' said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride. 'She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh? I don't bear her any grudge for it. In fact I'm proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway.'
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Van Hollen takes center stage in fight with Trump over Abrego Garcia
Van Hollen takes center stage in fight with Trump over Abrego Garcia
Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s (D-Md.) trip to El Salvador to visit a mistakenly deported constituent has thrust the mild-mannered lawmaker into a major battle with the Trump administration as it doubles down on its pledge to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia impri…Rebecca Beitsch (The Hill)
“No Tariffs on Sharing”: Tool Libraries Offer Resilience Amid Federal Chaos
As Trump imposes tariffs, tool libraries can serve as a sustainable alternative to consuming more products.
Tunisian opposition figures sentenced to up to 66 years in prison
Tunisian media say a court has sentenced leading opposition figures to between 13 and 66 years in prison
Asset Based Finance: la nuova frontiera per il private credit italiano
Asset Based Finance: la nuova frontiera per il private credit italiano
Asset Based Finance: la nuova frontiera del private credit Nel panorama odierno dell’economia globale, le imprese sono sempre più alla ricer...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
DOGE Is Just Getting Warmed Up
DOGE has tapped into some of the most sensitive and valuable data in the world. Now it’s starting to put it to work.
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‘Nobody has done this before’: Britain’s beloved steam trains trial pioneering technology
In-cab digital signalling was tested last week as part of a project to secure the future of main-line locomotives
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in reply to blacklisted • • •Any car is sold at a loss. As someone who recently paid one of these off, I can’t stomach a new car payment in the face of our melting economy because six years ago I didn’t foresee the head of a car company turning out to be a freaking nazi.
Considering my Tesla replaced a VW TDI, I’m feeling particularly salty and completely disillusioned about ethical consumption under capitalism, etc. etc. I wish people on Lemmy could have some empathy and not just assume that everyone driving a Tesla is sanctioning anything that Elon Musk does.
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in reply to poopkins • • •That's assuming a lot. I wanted a car that was fast, electric, had easy charging, good range, and didn't cost $100,000. 5 years ago, that was a Model 3.
Didn't give a shit about Musk's lies, always knew he was full of it and was a typical scumbag CEO; I did not peg him as someone to go full on Nazi mode.
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in reply to proudblond • • •I understand not being in a financial position to buy a new car (though Telsas are expensive, I’m sure you could trade it in for something and still avoid a new payment).
Anyway, the good news is if you can’t afford to change cars “Fuck Elon” bumper stickers are very cheap!
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in reply to proudblond • • •Costs 1 EUR and takes 10sec to put a sticker on a Tesla that says "I bought this before Elon went mad" and plenty of people on Lemmy would understand I bet. It's more of a gesture to show that one having a Tesla does not support the actions of the its CEO. A Tesla without even a sticker on is assumed to be owned by someone who knows yet either does not care or even supports Musk.
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in reply to proudblond • • •No one cares when you bought. You’re supposed to flood the used Tesla market to suppress new sales happening NOW.
I’ve heard a lot of excuses from Tesla drivers about how they can’t afford to stand for their ethics. It’s pathetic. How are we to believe this from anyone who could afford one in the first place?
Plot yourself on the historical spectrum of “what was I willing to give up for my ideals” and that brave moral stand about not having a car payment looks pretty fucking limp.
I have empathy for you. I’m just more concerns with your soul than your car payment.
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in reply to blacklisted • • •Vaccines work, fuck musk, lgbt rights are himan rights etc.
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in reply to morrowind • • •Supports a literal Oligarch Nazi
Feels uncomfortable about it
Doesnt do anything about it
Sounds about right for America in 2025.
Echo Dot
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in reply to Echo Dot • • •Nowadays? Yeah y'all missed the bus. The time to do something about this was several years ago, when Tesla's atrocious build quality was becoming publicly apparent and Musk was inserting himself into every news story in the worst ways possible.
"Pedo guy" comment in 2018 was the first major wake up call to most people who weren't paying attention.
Acquisition of Twitter in 2022, and the major fuckery involved with that, should have rung the bell for anyone left behind.
At either of those times you still could have sold a Tesla to a Maga chud and still come out on top. Now you're just stuck holding a bag. And my concern for said bag holders is relatively minor because people who really can't afford a car are still driving 20 year old Hondas and Toyotas and Buicks. If you bought a Tesla new (and yes, it was bought new, because a used market did not exist at the time) you have car money. Buy an $8k beater, used, like the rest of us do.
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in reply to Bobby Turkalino • • •Even in iowa you see them all over. There are so many drivers any car make other than the most exclusive will be seen soon if you fixate on it (read look).
Stastics show tesla is a tiny brand by market share. However they are wer the only ev brand until reciently so people focus on them.
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in reply to Pennomi • • •I’d be curious about why you haven’t taken the moral stance and sold it.
What’s going on in America needs people to take actual steps. Votes aren’t enough anymore.
Pennomi
in reply to Inaminate_Carbon_Rod • • •I don’t pay Tesla for the vehicle (I don’t even supercharge), so it doesn’t actually affect their bottom line if I sell it. Buying a new car does affect my bottom line though.
Boycotts are only effective when they change purchasing behaviors, and this purchase is long done. I do encourage everyone who asks if I like my car to look into specific alternatives instead however.
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in reply to ripcord • • •Even at these lower prices, Tesla makes more money on their EVs than their competitors. That's part of why the others haven't been able to expand and compete as quickly. Expanding an expensive vehicle becomes a bigger liability as you have less pricing room. GM is only planning to have their first EV profitable year this year, and I'll believe it when I see it.
The Cybertruck is probably another story though, I don't know if that's profitable at the lower than expected sales rate.
Edit: E.g the Bolt everyone loves from GM never made GM money. That's why they didn't sell more. They did learn from it though so it wasn't a total loss for them.
queermunist she/her
in reply to ripcord • • •Well either they sell them at a loss or they just let them sit on lots forever.
Tesla would rather recoup some revenue than just scrap all their remaining inventory.
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in reply to nao • • •They had near 100% EV market share just a few years back.
Losing half the market in 3-4 years is a huge change for any company, even if some of it was inevitable as rivals caught up and suprassed their offerings.
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in reply to nao • • •in cali, ev is big here.
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in reply to jonne • • •On the more affordable end around here I see a lot of electric cars from Ford, Chevrolet, Kia, and Hyundai around here, and to a lesser extent Volkswagen. On the high end it’s mostly Mercedes-Benz and BMW, sometimes Porsche. Once in a while I’ll see Rivian but they don’t have a dealership in our state. Even more rarely I’ll see Polestar, which does have a dealership in a city at the other end of the state, and at least one person here has a Lucid Air.
Edit: also on the high end, there’s at least one Hummer EV driving around here.
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in reply to jonne • • •And other Chinese brands!. The MG4 is super popular in Australia too. Can get it for about $38k AUD ($25k USD).
Even if Tesla wasn't tarnished by association with Musk, they have absolutely nothing at the budget end of the market. ie for buyers that traditionally bought corollas, little Mazdas and Hyundai's.
And BYD has the whole range, if I want a luxury sedan the BYD Seal goes toe to toe with the model 3.
I think China is going to eat everyone's lunch here in the same way Japan did in the 70s/80s, and Korea went in even cheaper in the 90s and 00s (how many Hyundai Excels/Accents were there in Australia in late 90s early 00s).
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in reply to GissaMittJobb • • •Yes, to tip the scales back towards fair competition pricing by offsetting the subsidies the Chinese brands are getting from their government. It doesn't fully offset it though, they're still quite a lot cheaper than e.g. VW BEVs
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in reply to ExcessShiv • • •Tafiffs are effective, and can be positive, to prevent dumping and stuff, just not across the board.
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in reply to jonne • • •Are you asking if Rivian is the only company besides Tesla selling electric cars in the US?
No, nearly all major manufacturers sell EVs. Something like 25 brands.
Edit: although a few of those may still only be selling plug-in hybrids. I know Alfa Romeo is one, for example.
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in reply to realitista • • •Depending on how you compare, they are probably a little bit more expensive, but also higher quality.
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in reply to Wazowski • • •Burning makes the world a more dangerous and polluted place.
There are much more eco friendly ways to vandalise and immobilise.
biofaust
in reply to Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In • • •What is an alternative to burning for long-term immobilization?
Asking for a friend.
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in reply to biofaust • • •Hmm. Long term is a more difficult constraint.
I think short term can be just as effective at damaging Musk.
It's hard to be mobile with deflated tyres.
Even just a dirty windshield and rear camera (on the top of the tailgate) will reduce Tesla share price without running the risk of a prison sentence.
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in reply to realitista • • •TELO Trucks: Compact Electric Pickup Trucks for Urban Adventures and Eco-Friendly Travel
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in reply to orca • • •Im personally looking forward to Edison EV conversions.
The ability to take a vehicle I already have and turn it into an EV or hybrid would be amazing.
I know they’re a while from full production, but I see that as a win. So many of these EVs are having quality issues because they’re being shit out onto the market as fast as humanly possible. I’d rather a company actually take the time to do R&D, test things thoroughly, and then release a product.
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in reply to CmdrShepard42 • • •Considering that even the hybrid cars made by car manufacturers themselves are heavier than their ICE counterparts, I don't think that by retrofitting an older car you'll get a better result.
For example, 2024 Hyundai Tucson curb weights:
Heaviest ICE: 3663 lbs
Lightest hybrid: 3692 lbs
Lightest plugin hybrid: 4115 lbs
CmdrShepard42
in reply to CucumberFetish • • •Psythik
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in reply to mrgoosmoos • • •Steven McTowelie
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Psythik
in reply to sugar_in_your_tea • • •sugar_in_your_tea
in reply to Psythik • • •I think you can fold down the back seats to get a bit more space.
But 5 is nice. I have kids, and they like to come with to the dump or hardware store. I currently do those trips in the minivan, this would be a bit more comfortable.
Echo Dot
in reply to sugar_in_your_tea • • •Ton
in reply to Echo Dot • • •bluGill
in reply to Ton • • •Bytemeister
in reply to bluGill • • •Echo Dot
in reply to Ton • • •For the same reason people need SUVs, for moving large amounts of stuff around. In my case I would just throw the bike in the back rather than having to faff around laying all the seats flat and then having to put down the tarpaulin so they don't get dirty.
I could get a van but then I've got a stupid van with all its limited visibility. A pickup truck would actually solve the problem if it weren't for the fact that all the manufacturers are American and seem to think that they need to rival the size and weight of a tank.
BussyCat
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in reply to BussyCat • • •NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
in reply to sugar_in_your_tea • • •Echo Dot
in reply to NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ • • •It's no worse than some of the stuff Nissan has come out with over the years. Remember the cube?
The problem with the Tesla truck is that it is ugly without purpose, all the other oddly designed vehicles look the way they do because they have a particular unique feature (been small, having sliding minivan doors on a vehicle otherwise two small for them, having gull wing doors, removing a-pillars from the design, etc), but the cyber truck just looks like that to be contrarian.
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NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
in reply to Echo Dot • • •xthexder
in reply to orca • • •The front looks a little weird with the wheels so far forward. Reminds me of a golf cart. I can't really complain though, I'd love a small practical truck.
Wispy2891
in reply to orca • • •varyingExpertise
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in reply to Wispy2891 • • •bluGill
in reply to Wispy2891 • • •As an American I've never heard of a place so dangerous that things get stolen from the back at a traffic light. I know carpenters who leave all their tools in the back when they go to bed and never have a problem. Maybe you need to clean up the crime problem in your country. There are pros and cons to a van vs truck. That you come in on one side does not make the other side wrong, it just means you have lack of vision to understand theirs.
Have you ever tried to rent a truck? I know many people who tried and discovered the place was all out that day. Then when you find one read the fine print - often you cannot haul your fridge in one. Mean while because I own my truck it is there when I need to do something, no thinking required.
Bytemeister
in reply to bluGill • • •People stole the wheels off my wife's car, in a lit parking lot, in one of the safest big cities in the US.
Yeah, you can't leave your nice tools out in the back of your truck bed in most places.
Captain Aggravated
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in reply to Captain Aggravated • • •SpaceCowboy
Unknown parent • • •oortjunk
in reply to realitista • • •Plurrbear
in reply to realitista • • •Hellsfire29
in reply to realitista • • •turnip
in reply to realitista • • •Musk already got what he wanted. He bought Trump, and Trump will give Palantir every ounce of government data to analyze, which was likely a sticking point for Palantir to cement them as the only viable product for the US governments future military applications. Once pandoras box is open for classified data its a little bit hard to close it, especially once they gain a dependence on it.
Palantir then buys his crappy xAI platform that recently bought Twitter.
GladiusB
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Unknown parent • • •MetalMachine
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in reply to MetalMachine • • •No, but don't you understand? Tesla is not a car company, it's an AI company. They were just making cars while developing AI systems. So it's fine if they stop selling cars. So just keep buying TSLA stock and everything will work out great!
~Elmo