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  1. Comment on EU's Ursula von der Leyen wants Canada to become bloc's first associate member in ~society

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    European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday she wanted to ​open the door to Canada becoming the EU's first "associate member" in a push to forge new links among allies in "an openly hostile world".

    European Union lawmakers gave ‌a standing ovation after she made the proposal and then walked over to embrace Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, who was in the European Parliament to hear her annual State of the Union address.

    Carney welcomed von der Leyen's proposal for "a far stronger, more ambitious alliance in the future," his office said, adding: "Canada and Europe should secure our strategic autonomy through deep cooperation in the full range of strategic capabilities."

    He did not mention associate membership.

    Trump threatened to take action against the EU if it moved forward with the proposal.

    "If they do that, if ​I think it's at all a hostile act, I will put very serious tariffs or stop trading with Europe on many things," Trump told reporters en route to an ​event in North Carolina.

    6 votes

  3. Comment on Billing for web hosting in ~comp

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    If it's actually a static site, then the hosting for those is essentially free nowadays. @skybrian mentioned Cloudflare Pages and Netlify, but also, for example, all the major git forges offer one...

    If it's actually a static site, then the hosting for those is essentially free nowadays. @skybrian mentioned Cloudflare Pages and Netlify, but also, for example, all the major git forges offer one (Github Pages, Gitlab Pages, Codeberg Pages), and there are many other options. A lot of cloud infrastructure companies offer it for free because it attracts customers and barely costs anything for them to serve static pages from their established infrastructure. They're also a lot easier to maintain than a VPS and automatically set up deployment from your git repo. I'd say definitely go with one of those unless you need to host some additional services that actually need a server.

    As for billing, since the services themselves are entirely free, it just depends on how much regular updating of the site you'll be doing.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+. in ~tech

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    Btw, for people who aren't aware (because I wasn't until recently), the Fairphone hardware and firmware is fully made by a Chinese ODM called T2Mobile. I assumed their manufacturing chain was like...

    Btw, for people who aren't aware (because I wasn't until recently), the Fairphone hardware and firmware is fully made by a Chinese ODM called T2Mobile. I assumed their manufacturing chain was like that of Framework, but apparently they do the hardware design (to the extent the ODM allows them to, eg. no headphone jack) and everything else is done by T2Mobile.

    7 votes

  5. Comment on Anthropic's Dario Amodei calls for AI oversight, joined by Sam Altman and Elon Musk in ~tech

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    It's pretty unfair to dismiss what the Chinese labs are doing as just distilling output from American models. Unlike "Open"AI, their research is actually open, and they use a lot of novel...

    It's pretty unfair to dismiss what the Chinese labs are doing as just distilling output from American models. Unlike "Open"AI, their research is actually open, and they use a lot of novel tecnhiques to improve and optimise their models. The distillation argument seems to mostly be a narrative pushed by Anthropic to downplay what the Chinese labs are doing.

    5 votes

  6. Comment on Deciding whether (or not) to have a child in ~life

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    Are we? AFAIK we are not doing it at the rate we hoped for, but many countries are still successfully reducing them.

    reducing emissions, which we're already failing at

    Are we? AFAIK we are not doing it at the rate we hoped for, but many countries are still successfully reducing them.

    7 votes

  7. Comment on The four-color theorem gets a rare new proof in ~science

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    I hate the four color theorem. I can't believe that it's true. I choose to ignore all the proofs and wait for someone to finally disprove it.

    I hate the four color theorem. I can't believe that it's true. I choose to ignore all the proofs and wait for someone to finally disprove it.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on Software for humans in ~tech

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    Not Codeberg/Forgejo, which is what this site recommends.

    All of them, github, bitbucket, gitlab, every single service that hosts git repos is vibe coded now

    Not Codeberg/Forgejo, which is what this site recommends.

    9 votes

  9. Comment on Graphene speed issues and general wonderings in ~tech

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    The only known performance issue related to GrapheneOS is slightly slower initial app loading times due to improved memory isolation (https://grapheneos.org/usage#exec-spawning), and AFAIK even...

    The only known performance issue related to GrapheneOS is slightly slower initial app loading times due to improved memory isolation (https://grapheneos.org/usage#exec-spawning), and AFAIK even that is basically unnoticeable since Pixel 6. I've had a 7 Pro with Graphene and don't really remember having much performance issues, now running it on a 9 Pro XL and there definitely aren't any.

    Never had issues with internet speed, it's the same as on all other systems

    despite installing MicroG via Vanced Manager

    Are you actually using the Vanced Manager? Because if so, that has been outdated for a very long time at this point, and you should be using Morphe (the main recommendation nowadays, previously ReVanced) or one of the many open source YouTube clients

    https://fmhy.net/mobile#android-youtube-apps

    7 votes

  10. Comment on UN says world will miss its climate target, warming must be reversed in ~enviro

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    Has eco-terrorism ever got anything done? I thought it didn't do anything for systemic change and only made people see all eco-activusts as crazy lunatics. Kinda like how PETA does more harm than...

    Has eco-terrorism ever got anything done? I thought it didn't do anything for systemic change and only made people see all eco-activusts as crazy lunatics. Kinda like how PETA does more harm than good for the animal rights movement.

    9 votes

  11. Comment on UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size in ~humanities

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    Wow, that is great. I never heard of that projection before, but I'm on board now. Unfortunately I don't have 3D goggles or shoes with toes, but I do type in Colemak.

    Wow, that is great. I never heard of that projection before, but I'm on board now. Unfortunately I don't have 3D goggles or shoes with toes, but I do type in Colemak.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size in ~humanities

  13. Comment on 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project in ~tech

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    The article doesn't mention it being enshittified in any way. They changed their website, but there have been no negative product changes so far.

    The article doesn't mention it being enshittified in any way. They changed their website, but there have been no negative product changes so far.

    9 votes

  14. Comment on What are your "how on earth did I not learn this sooner" tech moments? in ~tech

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    Another text selection tip: in a browser, you can hold Alt to highlight the text of a link without clicking the link

    Another text selection tip: in a browser, you can hold Alt to highlight the text of a link without clicking the link

    10 votes

  15. Comment on What workplace absurdity are you forced to live with? in ~life

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    Have you tried booking the seats next to the emergency exits? I hated flying economy until I started doing that. On international flights with large planes you sometimes basically get as much leg...

    Have you tried booking the seats next to the emergency exits? I hated flying economy until I started doing that. On international flights with large planes you sometimes basically get as much leg space as on business class in those seats. Another bonus is that when the plane is not fully booked, often nobody wants to pay extra for a middle seat, so it's empty and you get even more space to yourself.

    Also, don't buy the seats in the front row that are often advertised as "extra leg space". They sometimes cost even more than emergency exit seats, but they don't have the extra space under the seats in front of you, so you end up having less leg space.

    5 votes

  16. Comment on Post-tooth extraction diets! in ~food

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    I got my wisdom tooth extracted recently, I just ate soft stuff like soups or mashed potatoes for the first 3 days, and then ate pretty much normally, just trying to mostly chew with the opposite...

    I got my wisdom tooth extracted recently, I just ate soft stuff like soups or mashed potatoes for the first 3 days, and then ate pretty much normally, just trying to mostly chew with the opposite side of my mouth.

    4 votes

  17. Comment on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? in ~tech

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    I think at least a part of it comes from the abundance of what we came to call "AI slop". I like AI and use it myself a lot. However, I despise AI slop. I hate reading AI-written text, using...

    I think at least a part of it comes from the abundance of what we came to call "AI slop". I like AI and use it myself a lot. However, I despise AI slop. I hate reading AI-written text, using vibecoded apps and seeing AI images everywhere.

    Like you, I am also one of those "early adopters" who closely followed the news on GenAI since AI Dungeon days. When DALL-E 2 first came out, I also signed up for open access, generated some janky pictures and even had an AI-generated profile picture. I still think the technology and models are incredibly amazing, but I would never even think about using an AI-generated pfp anymore. (I also don't really follow any AI news anymore because most of them are just incremental model releases with benchmaxxed scores)

    7 votes

  18. Comment on Why do I see every service nowadays use a squiggly line for their loading/progress bars? in ~design

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    If you're talking about Android, that's because it's a part of the new Material Design 3 Expressive style system that Google introduced last year. They don't have to be wavy, and the spec itself...

    If you're talking about Android, that's because it's a part of the new Material Design 3 Expressive style system that Google introduced last year.

    They don't have to be wavy, and the spec itself calls it an "Option to apply a wave to the active track for use cases that would benefit from increased expressiveness". But I guess the devs just like to use it since it's new and fun.

    https://m3.material.io/components/progress-indicators/overview

    https://m3.material.io/blog/building-with-m3-expressive

    30 votes

  19. Comment on Operation Bluebird launches Twitter.now in ~tech

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    The favorite design feature of every AI is Put everything into rounded cards Make some of those cards have one colored border See here for a few other examples. I dont think the overlap is small,...

    The favorite design feature of every AI is

    1. Put everything into rounded cards
    2. Make some of those cards have one colored border

    See here for a few other examples.

    I dont think the overlap is small, theres a very distinct look to vibecoded websites which sticks out immediately if you recognize it.

    wouldn't the reliable detection make it undesirable and immediately changes the meta?

    Change the meta for whom? Those hallmarks are an artefact of the training data. The AI companies have no reason to specifically finetune their models to change how they design websites, and most users simply don't care. Just how an overuse of random bold font, "it's not just X", "load-bearing" and stuff like that is usually a pretty obvious sign of LLM writing, and yet it still exists and people using the LLMs often don't bother changing the style.

    7 votes