That’s great, because this will mean I can train a generative AI on all copyrighted music and tune it accordingly to reproduce those works exactly, but claim it just does this randomly, because “AI works in mysterious ways”…

Bin mir sicher, dass sich da ein Kickback-Scheme mit Ferrero etablieren ließe…

That’s why Plasma is built to support different shells, optimized for different form factors which allows to do this stuff like the Netbook shell in the past or now Plasma Bigscreen for TVs or Plasma Mobile for smartphones.

That’s actually what they’re doing. They built their own messenger based on Matrix.

You might want to watch the latest “Rare Earth” video “I Overheard a Secret Chinese Meeting in Micronesia on Vacation” for some context what’s going on in this region…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shXCsemt-js

I thought diamonds for industrial applications are nowadays all synthetic? So does this mostly affect jewellery?

Does anyone have some insights here on the state of natural/synthetic diamonds?

A Brezel has to be eaten fresh. Once it’s older than 30 minutes it gets stale and stops being a proper Brezel!

Nowadays, ironically some of the best Americana music comes out of Sweden by First Aid Kit.

Same here! Before that, I used initially Netscape, then Konqueror on KDE, whose engine KHTML became the foundation of Safari/Webkit and thereby 90% of all browsers nowadays and only started in 2006 or so to exclusively use Firefox.

Fairphone have been dealing with this problem of unsupported chips for quite some years now (the hardest lesson learned was probably selecting Mediatek for the FP1) and they’ve become better and better at it - up to the point, that they chose not a mobile, but an IoT SoC for the FP5 for which they got Qualcomm to commit to much longer support than ever before. I don’t see why reason, why they shouldn’t manage to stick to this commitment in this case. On top of that, they’re even working with Qualcomm to allow for replacable SoCs for future upgrades without having to replace the whole mainboard incl. storage etc.

Fairphone offers 8 years of software updates and aims to reach even 10.

It might be expensive when you compare it to the lifetime of a regular phone, but compare it to what you’d spend instead on regular phones within the potential lifetime of 7-8 years of the FP5 (minus 1-2 minor repairs).

zram did wonders back then to the performance/usability of Palm/HP webOS devices, especially the 1st Pre.

If you calculate what you’d spend on regular phones with a 2-3 year lifetime instead of a single one for 8 years (even including a few repairs), it might be actually cheap.

there’s a great board game around the idea of building a functioning ecosystem called Cascadia

And since its creator is a software developer, there’s also a free and OpenSource online version of it.

Especially the one called “Capitalism”, which has now more followers than any other religion in the world!

…but Merkel opening the floodgates to mass migration

Please don’t replicate right-wing talking points. She didn’t open any gates - she just decided (contrary to all countries around us) to not suddenly shut our open borders when millions fled war and were seeking for refuge.

She basically did, what she always excelled at: sitting it out and doing nothing, then selling it as her political success. Active change was her constant enemy.

The idea of a digital Euro is, to be a digital cash equivalent. No central insurance involved that could track the payment, should work offline, … Just without the hassle of having to deal with physical coins and bills.