I’m not sure in which bubble you are living in, but US is notorious for flip flopping on their policies with each new presidency. Each new president that comes in and reverses most of the things the last president did. That’s literally has been the case since the country’s founding exactly because of the separation of power.

That is why Biden keeping many of the previous Trumop policies was noteworthy and scary for the rest of the world.

Wasn’t directed at you, but people that just downvote since they have nothing to counter the point. Hence the reply is to my own comment.

95% of what he did was through executive power, which he had full control over.

On many other issues, however, Biden retained the essence of Trump’s approach. Key documents issued during Trump’s first term characterized China and Russia as strategic competitors of the United States, a framing Biden embraced. Biden kept the Trump-era tariffs on China and expanded controls on technology transfers that began under Trump. He executed the Afghanistan withdrawal agreement negotiated between Trump’s team and the Taliban, remained outside the Iran nuclear deal, and, like Trump—but unlike President Barack Obama—provided lethal aid to the government in Ukraine. Biden sought to extend the Abraham Accords, a key Trump-era foreign policy success in the Middle East, and over time, he attempted to make Saudi Arabia a U.S. treaty ally. The two administrations could hardly have been more different in style and rhetoric. In the underlying substance of their policies, however, there was more continuity than the casual observer might have appreciated.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/trump-biden-trump-foreign-policy

I don’t understand Firefox diehards. Nobody is telling you not to use it, but you can’t seem to deal with any critique of the company that owns it.

They are far from perfect and made many terrible decisions like buying ad company, failing to open source Pocket as they promised, abandoning any real development of the browser, not supporing new standards that counter Chromium dominance, paying millions in salaries to their CEO and managment.

You hate and criticize all of the same actions when it’s another company, but then turn around and defend Mozilla when they do it.

I too use Gecko based browsers ([email protected] and [email protected]), since they are less bad than Chromium, but being less shit doesn’t make it great…

People hoped that Trump and exceptionalism was a blip to survive through and it would be gone after 4 years. The way I see it, the real hit to America’s reputation was Biden who continued a lot of the exceptionalist policies that Trump started. Now Trump 2.0 is continuing the exceptionalist policies, but added pure fascism on top of that. Even if Trump is gone and fascism doesn’t prevail, I don’t expect the exceptionalism to go away.

Mozilla is 100% in LLM business these days too.

“We must not reach a state of hunger – not for practical reasons, and not for political ones. They simply won’t support us, and we won’t be able to complete the mission of victory,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this week, explaining his dramatic reversal in allowing “minimal humanitarian aid” into Gaza.

War criminal.

I read that Ubuntu is planning on integrating AI as part of the kernel. Will be interesting to see if it follows downstream if they go through with it.

This is just sad. The community about Europe makes steps that are against Europe’s own Charter of Fundamental Rights.

As a result, Germany has cracked down on legitimate criticism of the actions of the Israeli government, including on Jews and Israelis, academics, civil society and artists, who face restrictions on their rights to expression and protest, alongside funding cuts and bans on organizations.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/11/germanys-muddle-antisemitism

The only recourse here should really be to move the community.

Seems plausable. Just look at Shenzhen, it had robots and automation for years now and they seem to be suplimenting human workforce not replacing it.

But that seems to only be possible with tight govermental oversight. China has that to the extreme, but I don’t feel that optimistic in countries that run under capitalism.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250518233726/https://www.wired.com/story/how-the-signal-knock-off-app-telemessage-got-hacked-in-20-minutes/

Of course they did…

I don’t buy it.

The alleged misconduct happened in 2023 December. Internal investigation was conducted and closed. Then the allegation was made publically just as arrest warrant was issued for war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and US promised to retaliate. Patented US handiwork to me.

Even if it were true, that doesn’t make the arrest warrant less relevant, but this way all the genocide supporters can pretend they are not the bad guys…

I can’t get past the irony of this article being on fascist friendly platform when it complains about fascism.

Lets hope it stays open source.

It implies that Apple payment system is the only “private and secure payment system”. Which is false, as we covered every single payment processor operating in the EU (as in allowed to take payments from EU citizens) is private and secure as that’s a requirement for them to even be able to operate in the first place.

If the warning was “App uses external payment processor”. That would have been a different story, no?

If the app developer uses non-Apple payment processor, those refunds would be handled by that payment processor. The potencial app removal would be handled by Apple or alternative store it’s installed from.

I wouldn’t be surprised if some of those apps are using payment processors outside the EU to circumvent this.

You misunderstood. It’s based on the country they are operating in (not where they are based). If they take payments from EU citizens, they are bound by EU law.

All banks/approved payment proccesors operating in the EU comply with that as it’s mandated by law. Note that I said operating, not based.

Old Microsoft tactic. It’s good to see that Apple is determinied to surpass Microsoft shitty reputation.