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”…

Bei Holzverbrennung gibt es auch eine seltsame Querfront über alle Milieus hinweg:

Konservative Ecke:

• so haben wir schon immer geheizt und es hat uns nie geschadet
• Abgase/Feinstaub ein Problem? Das ist doch nur grüne Verbotspropaganda!
• Das ist mein Holz! Aus meinem Wald! Damit mache ich, was ich will!

Grüne Ecke:

• Holz ist ein nachwachsender Rohstoff und natürlich. Daran kann aus Prinzip nichts schlecht sein!
• Aber ich verbrenne doch nur mein eigenes Holz aus meinem Selbstversorger-Wald
• Die Hackschnitzel/Pellets werden doch nur aus Resten hergestellt

Allen gemein ist, dass man sich Holz immer mit einer selektiven Betrachtung schönredet, aber nie das Gesamtproblem betrachtet und ggf. mal seine eigene bestehende Einstellung dazu überdenken will. Es gibt (außer vielleicht dem Preis) keinen einzigen Grund, der heute noch für eine Holzheizung bzw. generell die Verbrennung von Biomasse spricht.

Kann meine Messstation bestätigen…Jeden Winter das gleiche Trauerspiel. Andererseits aber halt auch überhaupt kein Wunder, wenn 90% der Nachbarschaft Holzöfen/Pelletheizungen hat 😩

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.

Dieses Thema kann gar nicht genug Öffentlichkeit und (finanzielle) Unterstützung der Forschung bekommen. Es gibt leider so viele, die es richtig hart erwischt hat. Dummerweise geht das aber eben damit einher, dass man sämtliche Kraft verliert, dafür “Öffentlichkeitsarbeit” zu betreiben. Die meisten Betroffenen verschwinden einfach aus ihrem sozialen Umfeld und erst recht aus der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung.

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.

“Mittelständisches Unternehmen” ist ein seeeehr weit dehnbarer Begriff!

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

What can be done is to stop electing neo-liberal/right-wing/conservative politicians in the EU, so Frontex can be turned upside-down to do the job it’s needed for - helping people at our borders, instead of actively or passively killing them!

…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.