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My grandparents were bombing each other.

So you literally missed the bit where he was going on about antisemitic conspiracy theories being "the actual truth"? Crikey. Appears no one has any context these days.

I think you need to watch the videos not look at the photos as the videos show more unambiguous context and do not come with a narrative explaining them away. These are plain and simple nazi salutes.

If it's the ADL, they don't speak for everyone and they do not speak for me.

I'm literally German descended, living in the UK with little to no shit given about Trump whatsoever at all. This is Musk. What I do have a problem with is my friends and my families having a history going back nearly 100 years of misery, death and loss from the ideological constructs he's pushing for the last few years.

You can be a statesman and show respect, honour and decorum or you can be like that. There is no place in our political landscape anywhere for this.

So quite frankly stop gaslighting.

You need to understand that despite what people believe in the US, Europe is ideologically different and has a longer memory. There are literally reminders everywhere around us every day of last time.

That's literally unambiguously a nazi salute. I've seen them before, from actual nazis. Because I am descended from one unfortunately.

It's shameful and at no point does any word play and excuse making around it make it ok. This needs to stop now. Right now.

Add to that the literal support for the far right parties definitely and conclusively aligned with nazi ideology, such as the AfD, it's terrible for everyone.

Feels like Amazon are turning into Microsoft slowly. Try everything, spread themselves too thin and then shitcan it later. I am reluctant to use anything other than their core IaaS and EKS stuff. Some of the ancillary stuff appears to be maintained by two drunk guys in a shed somewhere as well.

Perhaps they did and got told no and decided to take it anyway?

Defending themselves with technicalities and expensive lawyers may be financially viable.

Zero ethics but what would we expect from them?

I can assure you I’m a plain idiot, not the idiot savant.

This is slightly poetic after the flights diverted due to the Starship debris the other day.

Also remind me never to fly Delta.

Not really had any problems with that and I'm older than you are. And quite frankly I didn't have any money really until I hit about 35. I just lived within my means.

Oh this is nothing. One of my colleagues does that and adds random colour changes, underlines and font face changes. It's like working with a serial killer.

Quite frankly, it's cultural and the thing I hear a lot is simply: fuck that for a job!

I could quite happily get on fine at one of those big American style startups but I don't get excited about hype, I don't have the work culture it demands and I don't have a price on my soul. I'd rather earn a lot less, have extreme stability, have better family time and balance. On top of that there's something tasteless and unethical about a lot of the big startups. Do they really bring good things to society? Do I really want to be part of that?

If I can walk away with half the money, live a modest life and stand with my principles intact, I will take that over twice the money.

I don't think this is political at all. It's not a race either and we have no innate responsibility to build things like this.

Hardware engineer here, from a qualification perspective. I worked for a large American defence company and was invited to work in the US. I declined.

The work culture, social and economic stability are terrible. Education is expensive or poor. Regulation and standards are poor. Not a good place to bring up a family.

Extrapolating this point outward, I don't think there is really any community computing.

Most people I know literally still to use the lowest common denominator of communications because corporates have managed to screw up interoperability in their land grabs to build walled gardens. The lowest common denominator in my area is emailing word documents or PDFs around. Same as we have been doing for the last 30 years. The network effect there was Word being the first thing on the market.

All other attempts have been entirely transient and are focused in either social matters or some attempt at file storage with collaboration bolted on the top. The latter, OneDrive being a particularly funny one, generally results in people having millions of little pockets of exactly what they were doing before with no collaboration or community at all.

If we do anything now it's just personal computing with extra and annoying steps.

And no, 99% of the planet doesn't use github. They just email shitty documents around all day. Then they go back home and stare at their transient worthless social community garbage faucet endlessly until their eyes fall shut.

Our tradition of electing morons into ministerial positions continues unimpeded by rationality, logic or perhaps even competence. I expect to see a resignation at some point in the future.

Fortunately their civil service underlings and our judiciary are slightly less incompetent when applied in large numbers.

This isn’t the only risk. There is also the problem of radicalising people. This has been a big problem in Europe.

No one gives a fuck in this industry until someone turns up with bigger lawyers. This is behaviour which is written off with no ethical concerns as ok until that bigger fish comes along.

Really puts me off it.

Back to Gopher. They'll never get us there!

How else are you going to load a hideously incorrect AI summary block without your initial page latency being through the roof?

Urgh sorry EFF but you’ve lost me on this one.

There is actual harm done to democracy on these platforms. A democracy requires informed voters to function and the platform does the diametric opposite by misinforming them. Any attempt to regulate this or promote or moderate has failed simply because an actual structured funding source is misinformation. The only option to keep democracy standing is to kill it.

I’d expect the EFF to have some well read social or political staff. Apparently they don’t and are quite happy to spout absolutes.

I heard someone say it's like trying to land the Statue of Liberty. Turns out the statue is actually shorter.

We should have our own sovereign comparable technology companies in Europe by now.

Fail.

Sold the fundamental industries out to Philips who sold it to the Chinese.

Yes, when someone uses it to weaponise or manipulate the population via spreading lies and misinformation.

I think the Greeks worked that one out a couple of thousand years ago or so...

Free speech does not mean there is no accountability for what you say.

To be fair the model S wasn't like that the last time I drove one (hired 2022 model S). It's less of an iPad than the model 3 is. What is however terrible is none of the trim fits, the constant distractions and attention it requires and after driving a European car, it feels like I'm driving a Temu android tablet.

Hired Polestars since. Those just work, are put together properly and shut the fuck up when you're driving.

I'd buy a Polestar 2 if I had somewhere to charge it. I hired a few over the last couple of years. Basically an electric Volvo. Everything just worked and they aren't particularly expensive.

You're not wrong on the issues of the EU.

But Musk is not helping or solving any of those problems.

Even conflating the two is idiotic. Sorry.

There was nowhere to charge in the 8 other places in the UK I've lived that aren't London in the last 50 years...

Yeah I get that. I'm mostly berating my own country.

All vandalised, not operational or permanently busy here. Not offered at work. Plus I work from home anyway.

Interesting.

So why does it work for Norway but not in the UK? My options are:

1. Drive to the local high power charging station and pay more than a tank of petrol for half the range.

Oh that's it.

And places you can park your car outside your house, unlike the UK.