“The pressure in Europe is enormous,” he said.

War crime and genocide tends to create this kind of pressure. Not applying pressure would be a moral failure, doing business as usual is wrong under the circumstances.

He warned that cutting off dialogue could have long-term geopolitical consequences.

Netanyahu and its government have ignored multiple calls from multiple sources to allow more aid, minimize civilian casualities. It has damaged an EU building in Gaza.

They’ve demonstrated they’re not listening to those calls. It’s well past time to impose sanction, put real economic and diplomatic pressure.

One doesn’t cancel the other.

“In Europe, the demand for electric cars is significantly below industry forecasts,” it said. The plant, which makes an electric version of the Explorer SUV, would move to one shift per day instead of two beginning in January, the company said in a statement.

Hopefully they’ll consider making smaller and cheaper EVs, instead of the more expensive SUVs. Europe is not the USA.

Yep, using ChatGPT is a way to increase one’s environmental footprint.

And the energy cost doesn’t appear to be fully passed to users yet, as OpenAI isn’t profitable yet. There are even free LLM services. So users don’t have an insentive to prefer less polluting alternatives, such as classic search engines.

Another downside is that Google is no longer releasing the source code for monthly security updates, only for quarterly ones. This, in conjunction with other delays in OS source code, means most custom ROMs can’t ship monthly updates anymore. Add this to the pile of other things that make it harder to mod your Android phone in 2025.

Great, Google is making AOSP-based, Google-free ROMs less secure. To accomodate corporate partners that are unable to do monthly bug fixes.

Privatizing Profits and Socializing Losses, brought to you by the fossiel fuel industry.

Nice. I hope it makes Signal suitable for public official required to archive communications.

Currently signal users probably have no backup, or use a Signal fork that support archiving in a less secure way.

Privacy Badger go beyond blocking cross-site cookies:

Privacy Badger comes with other advantages like cookie blocking, click-to-activate placeholders for potentially useful tracker widgets (video players, comments widgets, etc.), and outgoing link click tracking removal on Facebook and Google.

Privacy Badger can detect canvas-based fingerprinting, and will block third party domains that use it. Detection of other forms of fingerprinting and protections against first-party fingerprinting are ongoing projects. Of course, once a domain is blocked by Privacy Badger, it will no longer be able to fingerprint you.

https://privacybadger.org/#How-is-Privacy-Badger-different-from-Disconnect,-Adblock-Plus,-Ghostery,-and-other-blocking-extensions

I quikly gave up on correting those bots. Either you’re lucky and made a prompt that induced it to generate a decent answer. Or you’re not, and there’s no point in correcting it. In that case you’re better off doing whatever you were going to do without a LLM.

I wasn’t familiar with Drop Site News and had a quick look, seems legit:

• Jeremy Scahill is co-founder of this outlet. He’s a well known investigative journalist. Also co-founder of The Intercept. Author of Dirty Wars.
• Lee Fang is co-author. He’s also investigative journalist, formerly at The Intercept.
• Media Bias / Fact check assessment rate the outlet Mostly factual, with a Left bias.

He should at least have “DO NOT DEVELOP MY APP” tatooed on his forehead.

Is there a TL;DR which are more trustworthy or privacy friendly?

I had a quick look, it’s a pretty long writeup of different ways in which all those apps are bad.

Some simple actionnable recommandations would be nice.

Because it’s cheaper to buy.

It’s also why people keep buying from third party sellers on Amazon/Temu/Shein. Even after a report revealed most toys bought this way fail to meet EU safety standard, meaning they’re likely dangerous and illegal to sell in the EU.

https://www.inkl.com/news/temu-shein-and-amazon-to-be-held-liable-by-the-eu-for-dangerous-and-illegal-products-they-sell-report-says

A well informed, technicality litterate, reasonable person wouldn’t.

Many reasonable people start/keep using those products. All of this is somewhat obvious for tech hobbyist. Others may not be fully aware or the risk, or don’t consider they’re particularily at risk. The norm is to use those services and apps. There is strong peer pressure to use those service to stay connected with people and organisations.

There’s a need for more or at least better education around being safe online, and protecting personal data. An education that’s free of big tech influence/sponsoring.

The AI made mistakes, according to the humans, flagging an estimated 350 publications as questionable when they were likely legitimate. That still left more than 1,000 journals that the researchers identified as questionable.

That’s quite a large error rate.

Good luck to Ukraine.

I wish they didn’t publicise details on how the mines were discovered, and how they were destroyed. It’s an interesting read, but the Russian army may also find this intetesting.

That’s awesome.

Don’t stop there. The transition to renewables and electrification could also help, by reducing the import of oil, gas, and coal from Russia.

There’s opposition from some EU countries to sanctions against Russia. Hungary and Slovakia for instance still depend on Russian oil gas, and are blocking or delaying sanctions. Other countries import Russian gas https://www.financial-world.org/news/news/financial/28200/hungary-and-slovakia-oppose-eu-sanctions-aiming-to-halt-russian-energy-imports/

This dependance on fossil fuel is putting the EU in a terrible situation where it imports from its agressor. Those billions of import contribute to Russia’s budget and war effort.

Reducing import and reliance on fossil fuel from Russia, or elsewhere, is as important as helping Ukraine defend itself.

Is it producing steam?

The moral high ground vs Donald Trump? That’s a very low bar. You’d have to try very hard to do worse.

Also, not everything in the world revolves around that selfish man.