You really love rage baiting moderators, right?

Tl;dr: “you will get more conservative with age” 🤦

It is one thing to self-examine one’s own realistic agency in this world, but another thing to fall into a self-defeating mindset like that.

Well, there is also an aspect of cognitive dissonance involved that makes people ignore or reject certain notions if they feel helpless about them.

It is actually a feature as far as bureocracy and diplomacy is concerned. If a language is the non-native language for more or less everyone, no country has an advantage in negotiations due to rethorical skills and so on.

And besides, the only other real options would be French or German, and really no one wants that.

Currently in university or so, and there is a large countryside vs. city gap.

In my experience there has been a relatively recent massive improvement in English skills by the younger generation. Anyone 35+ is still very much behind though. As an elder Millenial myself, it actually caught me on a wrong foot carreerwise as being able to speak English well is no longer considered to be a selection criteria for many jobs, because so many can do it and it is assume a given.

I am sceptical of this… most likely the definition is slightly different between the countries and that causes most of the difference. Like for example one country might count car accidents that happen during working hours into it, while another one might not consider that a workplace accident.

Yeah, everytime this topic comes up I ask if they personally had such an experience or have personally witnessed one, and it is always only some 3rd person story from social media or so. Truely terrifying how people can be manipulated like that.

Probably? I have not tried it myself to be honest.

I am not sure how intercompatible the modules are. It might be that you have to chose between them.

It is a modular system that includes a module for microblogging. But it can also be turned into something else.

The amazing part is that most of them will strongly refute this and believe that they are resisting against “the system” and are being oppressed.

Recent models run surprisignly well on CPUs if you have sufficient regular RAM. You can also use a low VRAM GPU and offload parts to the CPU. If you are just starting out and want to play around I would try that first. 64gb system RAM is a good amount for that.

China, which slammed the move as “discriminatory”, banned exports of Nexperia products in retaliation. While most of the company’s chips are produced in Europe, around 70 per cent are packaged in China before distribution.

Finally an article that explains why China can ban the export of chips made in Europe. And the reason is as stupid as I expected 😒

This is even worse than I expected 🤦

Preislich etwas merkwürdig gestaltet. Ok 1TB per Nutzer kostet natürlich, aber wer braucht das bitteschön? Wirkt ein bisschen wie das die da was verkaufen was erwartungsgemäß 95% der Nutzer niemals brauchen werden aber trotzdem mitbezahlen (d.h. man braucht es nicht wirklich als Hardware vorrätig zu haben und das ist somit Reingewinn).

Accountable based on what laws? The real issue is that these things are perfectly legal regardless of who does it and that there is also almost no way to hold a supplier accountable for software security breaches (besides the fact that it is too late then anyways).

What I don’t quite get is how the Chinese owners can block the export now, even though the Dutch intervention was specifically to prevent them from being able to do that, no? The mass-media articles I have read so far on this also seem confused. Anyone got a clearer idea on this? Did the Dutch intervention just come too late or is there some legal technicality?

I don’t see how that makes a big difference. As the Polish example clearly shows, the laws right now are inadequate to deal with this and it took 3rd party hackers to reverse-engineer it after the company extorted significant amounts of money from the operator to re-enable the trains. And the icing on the cake is that now these hackers are in court, not the company.

And from an IT security perspective, it doesn’t matter much to an attacker if the remote operated backdoor to shut down these busses is put there by a Chinese or European company (which would likely be using Chinese tech for that anyways).

Online updates and remote diagnostics are usually an advertised feature and might even have been a selling argument as it appears to save costs in maintenance… until the Polish vendor turns off their trains because the operator dared to try to repair them themselves (yes that is not a “Chinese” problem).

News at 10: guy watched yoghurt commercial on Youtube and is now expert on Solarpunk 🤦