Idiot implies it’s a human

Except when the error is in the chip architecture.

Yeah, not really. First example I can think of:

https://www.ah.nl/producten/product/wi170625/ah-frikandel

Omnivore here.

I say if you don’t even care what meat is in your sausage, meat replacement is fine too.

Whenever better-not-ask-mistery-meat is an acceptable option, meat replacement is acceptable as well.

If you’d buy that without checking the ingredients, you get what you get. Might be pig, chicken, goat, horse, beef, nutria, or lentils. If you don’t care, you don’t care.

Italians are the least of your problems. I just informed the French that Tarte Flambé is now pizza. I’d start to say your prayers.

Well, you don’t need to watch porn at all then…

Used to live in Belgium, I still have itsme and it works like a charm. I sometimes use it to authorise big transactions from my KBC account. The KBC app also works perfectly, BTW, which I still use because the online services of German banks mostly suck.

FP4 with /e/OS

It’s a little more complicated than that.

What Google is trying to do does not apply to degoogled ROMs.

On the other hand there are FOSS apps that might just not be viable without the users in the Google ecosystem.

Think for instance of something like Grayjay, which just might be killed by something like this, as it will never be allowed by Google, and won’t survive with just deGoogled users.

“Even simultaneously” says dr. Lechter.

I’m confused. The layout of the hardware switches is fundamentally different between ANSI (the US one) and ISO (all the european ones).

You see a normal UK keyboard has an extra switch near left shift key, and the double sized enter, etc.

This also means that the two keyboards need different stabilizers.

How do you expect a set of caps to transform a US keyboard into a UK one?

Switching between UK and any other Euro layout is easy peasy, but US? Nope.

I think there are several small mistakes here.

Germany changed its own position after the 12th of September, the meeting on the 14th of October is still the commission, in particular the meetings of the interior ministers that need to decide whether to push the proposal forward to parliament, which then would have to discuss it, amend it, vote on it.

It never died. It also never even got to parliament. It got bounced back by the council (i.e. a council representing the states governmebts) because enough of the states said "no way this is even worth discussing. So it went back into the working group to come back with a new proposal. It keeps bouncing up sometimes in a better state, sometimes in a derangedly bad one like the current proposal.

Basically as long as people who understand how bad that stuff is for privacy are outnumbered by people who believe that online pedo rings are a major societal issue… It’ll keep coming back and have to be pushed back over and over.

Not really “thwart”, more like “Þwart”

Yeah, AFAICT that’s not what agentic AI is supposed to mean.

Agentic AI is supposed to be AI that can run tasks autonomously. The typical examples would be order you take out by clicking around in a browser or phone app.

Edit: and anyway the current proposal, even in it’s most degenerate form, is not suggesting anything remotely as criminal as having everyone’s activity constantly summarized. It’s “just” supposed to be a content filter that will report “illegal” content. This is horrible in many ways, namely the fact that in the best case false positive would massively outnumber real positives. The safeties built around these reports also seem too low. So the picture I send to my wife of our child playing in the bathtub would stay in a state database for years. Fuck no. And I could go on.

But nowhere is anyone remotely proposing having an AI send a fucking daily summary of instant messaging activity.

What does agentic AI even mean? If it’s this thing Altman keeps talking about It’s mostly scifi. The thing that’s being proposed now is not anything I think people would call agentic AI. It’s closer to an automated moderation filter. And it’ll never work anyway.

There is no guarantee that this regulation will ever pass at all. Hopefully it won’t, not this time around or in this form.

Apple leaving on principle? It operates in China with plenty of compromises.

Signal on the other hand might.

I’m not even disagreeing with you.

But I think you’re looking for nuance in places where I honestly don’t think you should expect to find it.

That doesn’t mean that the conversation isn’t happening in many places, at least among people that care in the slightest about these issues, but even about things like the economic viability of industry on this continent.

There is a tricky balance we all need to keep, between brushing away the issues, and not being able to acknowledge successes.

Even in terms of the short headlines that reach the less interested people, it is important to show that the efforts we are doing have had an effect.

We’re of course nowhere near done (and possibly never will be).

Nobody’s talking about it? Which bubble are you in?

I really hear and see it talked about plenty, anywhere slightly smarter than the “lowest common denominator” information channels.

The settings available in KDE are what you saw, no more no less. The underlying infrastructure however is usually way more powerful than that.

A few laptops ago I had made a pretty nice config for my touchpad enabling way nicer features than I had access to in Windows.

That was using xinput, which I expect won’t work because you’re probably using Wayland. Looks like the replacement is libinput.

As usual, the Arch wiki looks like the place ti start, no matter the distro:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Libinput

Azerty may be amongst heinous crimes of French design.

These proceedings are incredibly slow.