I owned 5 Audi's over two decades.

As time went on it became evident that innovation had stopped. The first one was a Quattro (4 wheel differential) which had superb driving safety characteristics. On subsequent cars they took away the Quattro feature and limited it to insanely expensive models. The rest of the car stayed pretty much the same: same options, every iteration, just more expensive. Not a single feature improvement.

The integrated GPS never got any updates except for the ridiculously expensive SD card purchases, plus no way to link your mobile phone GPS to the damn thing even though it had been standard on most non German cars by then.

It was evident that VW Audi stopped being a car manufacturer a while ago and was just keeping the lights on until they had squeezed every last bit of juice out of their customers. Thankfully I was able to switch away from them eventually (company car).

Good riddance, I will never buy a German car again.

Precisely.

When anyone pulls the GDPR card it's almost always cause they're marketing your private data to everyone and their uncle.

Stop replying to yourself.

The amount of money is so low it could be stuck under that sign saying "Beware of the leopard". It's less than one tenth of the national debt of Belgium.

Tax payers will likely feel the tariff madness more.

I was on it before then, must have been hallucinating when I was using gopher and email.

A lot of companies in the world are actually European, but few people are aware. You mention SAP, which is actually German. Important pharmaceutic
al companies are officially US, but most of the work is done in Europe (remember the Covid vaccines?). Belgium has a huge chemical industry, which is all owned by US companies. Etc etc.

I'd rather live and work in the countries that make stuff and innovate than in the ones that have the stock market bling bling. Us Europeans will just survive and thrive, do our own thing and prosper. The US can have all the homeless people it wants.

Bullshit. You can ask for a $100 (or whatever) bond that you lose if you send spam. It's just another way to force people to go to your (even more crap) enshittified platform so you can show the market your "business model" is the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel.

Only if the tampering has any relationship to the accident IIRC. Like if you ignored right-of-way at normal speeds.

Tried it, but:

Thatâ(TM)s not a good idea â" and not just in the âoeyour mom wouldnâ(TM)t approveâ sense, but in the âoethis could cause serious injury, fires, or legal troubleâ sense.

I've used Proxmox for years, both professionally and for my home lab. It runs Debian under the hood and is rock solid.

Right now I'm only using it privately so my experience in the enterprise is limited to earlier versions. There are additional components nowadays for automated backups and the like, which are overkill for my setup.

At the time the web management tool was perfectly fine for a small setup, but it didn't have the sophisticated look and feel of the vCenter approach with dedicated ESXi hypervisors on each physical host. Rather it has a full Debian distro on each physical node which make use of the Linux networking layers to create bridges into each VLAN you need. So you are fully capable of going into that layer and messing things up HHHHH configuring things manually if you like. The physical nodes are clustered together using Corosync.

A nice thing about Proxmox is that you can program directly against its public API and create your own management or orchestration layer if you like. In fact the web management tool uses that API to configure the nodes, manage VMs etc. One problem here is that the semantics of managing VMs and containers aren't a one to one match, muddying the waters a bit. Maybe this has changed in the meantime.

Can you post links please? Thanks!

This doesn't seem to be about net-zero power production, but about other applications such as isotope production. This is used e.g. in medical and other fields.

One of the problems Spain has is its limited number of overland high voltage connections.

The only way for Spain to connect is via the Pyrenees to France and France has been actively sabotaging new projects because they don't want to bear the cost of building all the pylons and the other infrastructure needed.

...an article worth considering from Princeton University's Zeynep Tufekci:

We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives

Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap. Some Western scientists quickly suspected the odd virus had resided in a lab freezer for a couple of decades, but they kept mostly quiet for fear of ruffling feathers.

Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China. And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology â" research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world â" no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.

So the Wuhan research was totally safe, and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission â" it certainly seemed like consensus.

We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story. And as for that Wuhan laboratoryâ(TM)s research, the details that have since emerged show that safety precautions might have been terrifyingly lax.

Full article

Well ok, but all patches go through Linus, not via pull requests.