I am so happy that we allowed for unlimited military spending with the change of the Grundgesetz last year. Nothing bad could come from this…

Up to three years…

So embarrassed for our government. Doing everything to make sure our industry does not have any future for a more month of profits.

But isn’t this exactly the thing the article is talking about? Using the degraded batteries that are no longer fit enough to be used in cars, but might still have 60-70 % capacity and be well suited for slow charging and stationary energy storage.

Hm, ETFs usually grow by about 7-8 % historically. The US dept grew by 7,9 % historically. Is all the growth we see just money being borrowed?

So you are telling me an app is encrypting the shit out of every message so it can secretly delivered to another person. An then the persons phone decrypts the message an broadcasts it to an apple server, so it can get send back and make the phone go ‘ding’?

Shouldnt the notification be handled inside signal somehow, so this is the only app with the decrypted message?

What is next, everything from my ram needs to go through google servers to be transmitted to my display?

Happy to see things still moving into the right direction.

Somehow this looks so much like Aperture Science.

Feels like investing in an Ai company so they have enough money to buy your GPUs, but with a bit more death and suffering.

Isnt it a security bonus, if not all data is sent throught the edge “VPN”?

Nordstream 3 announcement in 3, 2, 1…

And they have enough people to maintain and inspect the hundreds of thousands of reactors that are going to be built, if those small reactors work?

If there is no supplier of some parts inside the EU left and you want to subsidise a finished car that isn’t missing some parts.

“In another sign of the vitality of the Berlin-Rome partnership, Italy, Germany and Belgium co-hosted a pre-summit gathering of 19 member states. The Italian prime minister’s office, the Palazzo Chigi, said the group discussed initiatives needed to “relaunch Europe’s industry”, including a review of the emissions trading system, the EU’s carbon pricing system.”

Yeah sure, please kill the one good system that effectively promotes long term decarbonization.

Ok, so Mastodon can post to lemmy, does this also work the other way around? And could I follow persons on mastodon somehow woth my Lemmy account? Does this show up as a small community?

Maybe in hindsight it would have been better to have kept the nuclear power running, phasing out coal first and limit our CO2 emissions. (Who am I kidding, we would still emit the same amount of CO2, because we would have phased out coal already and Germany is only 2% of the problem…) But maybe we avoided fallout in central Europe and noone will know, which version of the past we decided against.

I have mixed experiences with LLMs and linux. While it helped a lot with the basics, like what partitions are needed and how to set them up or how to prepare the bios, it failed miserably, when my mint Installation on my old laptop would not boot. It got into a loop suggesting the same not working solution over and over again. The first normal search result had the correct solution that worked flawlessly (some problem with asus laptops).

I hope they follow through with it. And I also hope they allow for quick incremental changes instead of aiming for the perfect solution right away that will take a decade to develop and implement. Just to be clear, I think it should be the far goal to be fully independent from US and other non-EU software.

Everyone was happy when they could outsource dirty and labor-intensive jobs to China and benefit from the cheap products. China gladly took on these tasks and built a monopoly. Now, it is the sole source for most minerals and rare earth elements because everyone else stopped producing them. China is now moving up the value chain, processing these raw materials into higher-value products. However, the world has become so dependent on China’s mineral supplies that countries cannot block trade with China without risking their own production halts, since China could also stop selling the materials they rely on. This is already happening with rare earth minerals and other critical resources like tungsten.

Only way put of this would be a long time strategic investment into local manufacturing capacities, but it will cost a lot and take a lot of time. And China will dump the prices until those companies go out of business again and then we are back at the start. Happened with solar, is happening with batteries, I wonder what will be next…

Somehow, statistics rarely reflect the massive trade surplus the U.S. enjoys in digital services. Link The country deliberately shifted its focus away from manufacturing, outsourcing production globally. With the freed-up capacity, it built a digital empire that generates billions of dollars annually.

The catch? This digital surplus flows almost exclusively into the pockets of a few corporate leaders. Meanwhile, the majority of people are left with shrinking incomes from former manufacturing jobs, jobs that once distributed wealth more evenly across small businesses and the workforce.