I recently talked with a guy who builds software for small & medium sized German insurance firms and he says almost all of their clients are working on removing US services from their tech stack due to perceiving them as highly risky. This includes cloud services, office tools, AI tools, etc. So far he said the switch is a mixed bag with some successes and some blunders, but the push is very clear.
Highly anecdotal stuff, but maybe this cut is deeper than I expected.
Venture even further north into this Hyperborean warrior nation, if you dare. Vague caravan paths lead the traveler through rugged fjords and high mountain passes to an isolated sea-side town. #travel #historycromwell-intl.com/travel/icela…
Traveling through Eastfjords, up the east coast en route from Breiðdalsvík to Seyðisfjörður. Fjords, isolated lighthouses, a high mountain pass, and snow.
Help Echo, a disabled trans woman flee texas, especially with the changes that have occurred in the state due to the election result. She does not feel safe in Texas anymore and would need our help to migrate to a safer state. She is also unable to work due to her disability. All donated money would be used for relocation and to find shelter.
>800 people were killed & 2,500 were injured after a 6.0-magnitude #earthquake rocked the mountainous areas of eastern #Afghanistan on Sunday night. The death toll would probably rise as rescue workers scrambled to reach communities stranded in isolated valleys hardly reachable by road.
The epicenter was near #Jalalabad, a city of ~200k people, but most of the destruction took place in the province of #Kunar where dozens of villages with mud & brick houses were hit.
I just had a video call over Signal with @joynewacc from Gaza.
Farah, or Joy, as she prefers to be called, is a 22-year-old Palestinian author and poet studying English Literature at the Islamic University of Gaza, which has been bombed by Israel.
She lives with her mother and four siblings in a shelter, trying to survive the genocide being committed by Israel.
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Tratta di donne cinesi in Svizzera: cinque indagati Al termine di un’inchiesta durata tre anni la polizia bernese ha smantellato una rete internazionale di prostituzione - Le vittime sono 146, per lo più asiatiche rsi.ch/s/3080399
A partire dal prossimo 8 settembre la fornitura di elettricità per lo stato brasiliano amazzonico di Roraima sarà garantita dalle strutture del Sistema interconnesso nazionale (Sin). (ANSA)
Jeans baggy, T-shirt bianca, bomber nero: il kosovaro Edon Zhegrova conquista i fan juventini con un look anni Duemila portato con naturalezza disarmante
In Milan-Bologna del 14 settembre il francese e l'inglese si ritroveranno contro, un mese esatto dopo i pugni nello spogliatoio di Rennes che hanno messo fine alla loro esperienza con l'OM
The problem with the German automobile industry is that they have this huge portfolio of patents and other types of intellectual property related to the internal combustion engine and all the mechanical parts needed to turn it into a motorcar. Switching to electric cars makes all that i.p. worthless. An electric car is technically much simpler than one with a piston engine, it needs much fewer parts, it's really horrible if you're a car manufacturer making shitloads of money from machines that burn ancient organisms and turn them into speed.
@LordCaramac @wordmark I was always perplexed by teardowns of electric vehicles where it was obvious that the designers didn't realize they could 'factor out' entire categories of components.
Like, you can probably make this -better- without differentials, a transmission, or a lot of that stuff that moves the hot stuff around if you think from the ground up instead of from the perspective of throwing an electric motor where the engine currently sits.
I'm still waiting for a grocery-getter subcompact that has the electric drive built into each wheel.
@DarcMoughty @wordmark When I look at electric car designs, I always wonder why so few of them go with one motor per wheel, built right into the hub. That way, you can just electronically regulate the rotational speed of each wheel separately, no need for any transmission whatsoever. Add another motor for steering to each wheel, and you can even steer all four wheels individually, which means that you can drive sideways if needed, which should make parking much easier. I have to admit, however, that I have never owned or driven a car, never had a driver's license, never took a single driving lesson. I don't like cars, and I have so far managed to get along without driving.
@LordCaramac @DarcMoughty @wordmark I think it'd shake the motor to pieces and/or damage the road, depending on how heavy it gets. That's the usual reason to avoid "unsprung weight". the moving bouncing bits attached to the suspension should be as light as possible
otoh some bikes have hub motors so it'd be perfectly feasible (technically) to have a more bike-derived urban grocerygetter with hub motor. e-quadricycle perhaps
@jackeric @LordCaramac @DarcMoughty @wordmark I think this is right - I saw a YouTube video a few months back by a car company (perhaps Telo?) explaining why they didn't go with hub motors, and unsprung weight was the main reason.
@planettimmy @jackeric @DarcMoughty @wordmark Well, a car that's sufficiently light, small, compact, should be able to work with hub motors. I'm thinking of something like Japanese kei cars or like the small cars European automobile companies used to make before everything started to get bigger and bigger. With four motors, I don't think any single one of those motors would have to be any more powerful than 6kW, bringing the entire car up to 24kW (roughly 32HP), which should be sufficient for a small compact car, it's all the original VW Beetle had.
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@LordCaramac @wordmark Truth. I worked for such a German company. They tried to find a niche in electric vehicles, and there are some, but the real cash cow for that company was tires. Plus, they can always simply buy companies that are good at electric vehicles components if the need to. They typically bought 50 to 100 companies a year to get the intellectual property they wanted.
"offering the least amount of actual productivity"
I used to do the weekly productivity reports for a company. A spreadsheet with all the numbers for all the production sites in Holland. The only location without productivity numbers was the location I sent the reports to. They did not appreciate any jokes about that.
but without managers, who would make arbitrary decisions to spend millions on consultants to reorg the company to "Unlock Synergy" and "Accelerate Time to Market" or whatever the buzzwords of the day are.
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Il termine arabo che dà il nome alla Global Flotilla indica un approccio esistenziale ma anche un tratto identitario dei palestinesi, difficile da tradurre
#enigmasegreto un bel souvenir dai paesi baschi: durante un trekking fra i monti al confine con la Francia, veniamo investiti da una corrente di aria gelida che esce da un tunnel (adiacente ad una cascata naturale), sulla volta d'ingresso del tunnel compare la scritta "AMNISTIA TA ASKATASUNA", sulla prima parete troviamo questo enigma
Sono simboli zodiacali per lo piú, credo ci sia da fare sostituzione e traduzione
Gotta love a request for proposal stating that both these things are required: - a fixed timeline that will ensure on-time delivery - comfort with ambiguity and agility when requirements change
La imagen es una ilustración colorida y abstracta que presenta un personaje amarillo con una cabeza estelar, caminando sobre una hoja flotante en un río. El personaje se encuentra en un paisaje verde con plantas y árboles curvados, y un sol rojo en el cielo azul con una nube azul. El río está representado con líneas azules onduladas. En la parte inferior de la imagen, se encuentra el texto "HABITAR OTRO PAISAJE" en azul. La ilustración tiene un estilo artístico simple y expresivo, con colores vibrantes y formas abstractas.
Proporcionado por @altbot, generado de forma privada y local usando Ovis2-8B
850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home since Assad’s fall, UN says
> An official with the U.N. reguee agency UNHCR says that since the fall of Bashar Assad’s government in December, some 850,000 Syrian #refugees have returned home from neighboring countries.
The room is spectacularly lit by natural light, pouring in from the #ArtDeco skylight.
Viewed from certain angles, the core of the skylight is reminiscent of a large all-seeing eye staring down at you. Levers, valves, switches, knobs and dials line all the wall panels
Large, sweeping, crescent-shaped control panels encircle one side of the room.
Special K is an abandoned Art Deco power station control room in Hungary. The oval room features an immense skylight, reminiscent of an all-seeing eye.
What happens if Substack continues with their lock-in of writers, but other platforms on the open social web can offer better distribution and discovery?
Legnago per Gaza: sit-in tutti i giorni e presidi per quattro sabati consecutivi pressenza.com/it/2025/09/legna… Sabato 30 agosto, dalle ore 8 alle 13, si è svolto a Legnago, in Piazza Garibaldi, il secondo presidio per Gaza promosso da un ampio fronte di associazioni del Basso Veronese. Dopo il positivo esordio della settimana precedente, l’appuntamento ha… Redazione Italia
Another indictment of the #BrokenTimes by its former columnist Charles Blow: "My last years at the paper weren’t my most pleasant...The zombie thing that came to be published under my name had a dwindling trace of my breath in it. It was no longer fully my voice." substack.com/inbox/post/171514…
I only hear people with computers who say "I want to become a farmer, carpentar" etc. You won't here a farmer wanting to be a computer person, It's upto you what you make of this infomation
It's pretty common from people who work in picking fields and lumber to say they envy us for being computer literate so we can move all over and work from anywhere. You need to meet more farmers ^__^
back when I was visiting my village, there, farmers didn't know what computers are used for, so they didn't say these stuff to me, although they were staring at me very curiously when I was using my refurbished thinkpad in middle of the fields 😛
Redox OS Gets COSMIC Reader Working, Other Improvements To This Rust OS
The open-source Redox OS operating system project written in the Rust programming language is out with its status update covering August 2025... phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-Aug…
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in reply to TechAltar • • •The funniest example was one firm switching to Zoho mail. They said using an Indian service was way less risky than using a US one.
It's hard to describe how much goodwill towards America Trump's policies have erased.