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  • Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers | TechPolicy.Press

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  • Places in Germany and Denmark are moving not only away from US servers but US software.

    The reason is "digital sovereignty"

    So they're investing in open source solutions. If it works there will be a reason and options to move for political reasons.

    If it works and saves money expect a bigger shift.

  • What’s the Opposite of Fascism?

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  • Communism often coexists with Fascism.

    Communism is not the opposite of fascism.

    Thinking capitalism and humanism incompatible is irrelevant when discussing what is an opposite. Communism certainly isn't it.

  • Massive Attack to take all songs off Spotify

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  • Spotify instantly gives you what the record companies paid for the algorithm to give you.

    "Digging" isn't hard. Give it a go.

    But it sounds like you're listed to "tracks" not albums. Frankly that's your biggest mistake.

    If you like lots of tracks other people don't, you'll always be struggling against an algorithm trying to feed you 3 minute songs nobody hates.

    Listen to albums and every time you follow a rabbit hole you'll have 40-80 minutes of music to listen to at least once, multiple times if it's good.

    You'll find albums that are worth listening to as a whole and some you'll keep tracks in playlists.

    Personally I moved from CDs to Spotify to YouTube music, to buying CDs again, soon to have them on Jellyfin.

    Once you get into actually listening to albums, 3 or 4 albums from eBay or charity shops are what I'd have paid for a subscription and if I need to take a break I've still got my old music and don't have any more to pay.

    You can of course sail the high seas if you're strapped for cash or want things instantly. I consider the big 3 labels harmful and have only bought second hand copies. I try to buy from independents and smaller labels when I can directly.

    The harm of the major labels is pretty big and frankly streaming has become their most harmful tool. I want to avoid supporting that model or supporting the big 3.

  • Massive Attack to take all songs off Spotify

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    1. Talk to other human beings about music.

    Music is not meant to be a solitary hobby. Share what you like, they'll share what they like.

    1. Like a piece of music? Look up that producer, or record label if it's small. Look up the session musicians. Don't just look up the artist.

    Generally it's not just the artist that makes the music top tier. There are other great professionals involved in the background and good people hire other good people to work in the background.

    This is easy. Once you start doing this you end up with a queue of albums you want to get round to listening to. It's easy enough to find too much music yourself without an algorithm. You start finding the artist radio a waste of your time.

    The rabbit holes I've been down following a producer, guitarist, or bassist, etc. are usually very rewarding and often you pop up in another place you knew already after finding out about some lesser known great music on the way.

  • A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?

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  • I'm not sure that works. There were 20 shillings to the pound.

    So £0.75 a week.

    This inflation calculator:

    https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator

    £75 in 1843 is equivalent to £8,310.96

    So 15s then is equivalent to £83.11 a week, £4321.72 a year.

    40 hour week (which is implied to be too low). ~£2.08 an hour

    So if he worked over 40 hours you're talking a sub £2/hour wage. Around $2.70 in US money.

    I suspect the stat relies on converting to dollars before applying inflation as GBP to USD was about 1 to 5 then instead of about 1 to 1.33

    It's fun but I wouldn't want to denigrate Dickens by saying he got poverty wrong to make a political point.

  • Fairphone’s new cables and chargers are LONGTIME®-certified. Here’s what that means.

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  • Since they got rid of the headphone jack and started selling disposable Bluetooth earphones I don't pay any attention to fairphone.

    It's not just the headphone jack quality has plummeted since the 3, yes you can get security updates but the warranty returns mean you're probably putting more into landfill than buying a Motorola every 2 years.

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  • Hands appear differently in different positions all over the frame in the photo so I maintain the hand pattern is less consistent and harder than lens blur.

    But you're right as the blur is a fingerprint you can match it to a lens and prove a photo is real that way.

    It could be a useful tactic as much of AI detection is a way to find and prove AI fake so far.

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  • Just my guess. I could be wrong:

    As the lens blur is mathematically fairly simple and spread across the whole image it's likely already consistently replicated by AI in a similar way to real photos.

    It's easier for generative AI to spot, "understand", and replicate a mathematical pattern than the number of fingers on a hand or limbs on a body.

  • Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought

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  • Fuck you

  • Trump Ends Union Protections for NASA Employees, Citing 'National Security'

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  • With Dijon mustard!

  • U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business

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  • Because Biden paid them with grants to build in the US. It's that simple.

    Beyond that there's stability and the likelihood of not being invaded or facing natural disasters.

    There's meant to be government, legal, and financial institution stability too.

    As well as intellectual property defense, trade secrets and NDAs.

    Material supplies are meant to be stable too.

    When you're investing in something as specialised as chip manufacturing, labour is a fraction of your concern. Both short and long term.

  • The Fairphone 6 no longer feels like a compromise (except in the US)

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  • Real complaint.

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  • Still an idiot.

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  • "For the amount of space it takes to include a second speaker or second camera it doesn't really make sense when you can just plug in an external one"

    You sound like an idiot.

    I can buy a phone from HMD that's more repairable, more modular, and has sustainable features.

    Fairphone has been a busted flush since they ditched the headphone jack. It's just the most obvious sign amongst many they started making landfill phones.

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  • You got to benefit from the 80s and selling off of all our national assets to prop up our economy for 2 decade's

    You lived in the good times and called it "the cold war".

    From a millennial give us our stuff back (to the state who gave it to you).

  • Know before you buy: starting today, EU’s new labels shake up the smartphone market

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  • This happened with appliances. They ended up with the silly A++++ ratings added in 2010 as otherwise everything would be an A.

    In 2021 they decided to redefine grades instead. A fridge at A+++ became a C. A became the top grade again.

    It's also worth noting that as they push the whole scale and G into being more efficient that essentially bans products that can't achieve a rating.

    if everything becomes an A the system has worked and increased the efficiency across the market. They'll adjust the goals every 5 to 10 years.

    The EU battery life measure is going to be the most interesting battle ground in my opinion. "All day battery life" will have a measured metric in hours.

    If the EU have managed to make that metric representative of an amount of screen time in a busy day it could become the first thing consumers look at. Or at least a deal breaker when that number is too low.

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  • Edit: Disregard. I have the 13, not the 12.

    ~~Normal laptop formfactor. You can have a touch screen as an option but it doesn't do the full 360 fold round into a tablet.

    I own one and the hinge goes 180.

    It's an excellent laptop, I grabbed one when the first AMD board was available and it runs Fedora flawlessly and has windows on an SSD when I need it.~~

  • Antizionism ≠ antisemetism

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  • To exclude certain Semites from the definition of "antisemitism" based on religion...

    The definition of antisemitism is anti Semite.

    As long as we come across people playing language games while excusing a genocide.

    It' could be reasoned it's not accurate to call Israel's actions "antisemitic" as that has been chosen as meaning only Jewish related hatred.

    It can also be reasoned that it's perfect valid to call Israel's actions "anti Semitic" as this is a genocide against an Arabic speaking Semitic population.

  • The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.

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  • No headphones jack.

    Trash generating hypocrites.

    HMD are doing everything better than fair phone now with their latest models. More repairable, more flexible, long term support and updates.

    Cheaper too.