What is the state of Linux enterprise software these days? For most personal desktop activities, there are solid Linux options. But are there good options for ERP, Mail/ Calendar, Learning Management Systems, (video)conferencing, Knowledge Management? These days a lot of that kind of software runs in the browser on the client machine, but the server is still Windows.

Exxon sposored radical political groups in Europe that insulted colleagues of mine.
They contracted the DCI group for propaganda activities. - these are people I don't want to make business with.
I am furious as a European that last year the EU delegation hired the DCI group for a minor contract.

When the iPhone came out, it was more or less the first phone with an acceptable virtual keyboard, one that did not require a stylus to operate. And while there were a few peeps who prefer the physical keyboard, the vast majority seemed to prefer a virtual keyboard and more screen real estate. When my place of work introduced BYOD, people couldn't wait to get rid of their corporate Blackberry. I don't think it was a choice forced by the industry; it was industry following the market.

But you're right, it did result in physical keyboards disappearing as an choice. I do think (hope) that non folding phones are here to stay, if the industry follows the market.

I love this platform! +++

so why don't they file a competition complaint?

It is after all illegal to leverage a monopoly position to get another.

I recall a EFF staff member used X in a very poisonous way, long before X became poisonous.

Very interesting!!! I want to watch this as a movie!

Each to their own. You have no choice when it comes to the notch and the ribbon (unless you decide to not use a Mac or MS Office). But while it's clear that there is a market for folding phones, it's also clear that it's not for everyone. Folding phones are not going to replace regular ones anytime soon.

We can only hope.

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That's already happening. For instance, a Ukrainian company called The Fourth Law produces a $50 "autonomy module" that can take control of a suicide drone for terminal guidance. It works in certain use cases, but for true autonomy where you can do more with fewer operators, they need advanced sensors and better processors. As the IEEE article mentions: that increases cost, power requirements, and heat and EM signatures. Acceptable for an expensive precision missile, but not for small swarming suicide drones. Maybe a satellite with edge processors such as mentioned in TFA can act as eye-in-the-sky and direct drone swarms to their targets, providing at least part of the sensor data and AI compute, without the added latency of a round trip to a ground station for data processing.

Solar, wind, nuclear = plenty of spare carbon free energy. The idea of storing nuclear power came from the fact that the nukes of the time were by far the most economical in cost per MW when ran at max output.

I must stress that Joi Ito lost his job at MIT because he received by Bill Gates money from Epstein for his media lab. Also Richard Stallman lost his office there because a student campaigner took offense in his defense arguments of diseased colleague Marvin Minsky as a visitor of Epstein's island.

Under these circumstance I think it is appropriate not to name any academic institution after Bill Gates.

Apart from that I recall his companies treatment of Guido Sohne incident and his support for right wing extremist networks in Europe.

I'm Dutch, our only option for hydro is to dam off part of the North sea, pump out water, then let the water flow back in through turbines. It's probably not cost-effective. This is a variation on the old Lievense Plan (which had a large basin filled with pumps, and drained through turbines). Interestingly, the original plan was not just for storing cheap wind power, but also for storing and balancing cheap nuclear power.
Note that some nuclear power plants can run load-following (for instance some of the French ones).

Clearly, more research is needed... MORE!