When you actively have to resort to undocumented hacks to get your OS to do what you want, especially respecting your privacy, things are wrong in several ways. Probably the classic that you are not the consumer, but a resource (in this case, most things you write or view) being used and monetised. I could hope at least GDPR and somewhat better consumer protection laws could help users in the EU, but it still needs enforcement. Getting rid of that OS is of course preferred.

Yikes, inventing the bus again. Or to be specific, the concept of "routed taxicabs" has already existed for long, as "Marshrutka" in parts of the former Soviet Union. Running larger private vehicles like vans with full sets of seats on fixed routes, but only stopping on demand - it looks quite like what the "innovative" company Uber intends to introduce. Quite typical, especially in the 1990:s as a result of underfunded regular public transit.

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Well, maybe do some machine learning data injection (which is a quite available branch of attacks) in material scraped without permission to make their generative models output images of Tianmen square, Winnie the Pooh or maps with neither Taiwan nor Tibet :-)?

Also, as they at least on paper claim to follow international treaties, it could be a more reasonable case for applying some trade policy.

The British initiative has some good points. It's a bit strange, that many parts of society has accepted widespread copyright infringement and ignorance of /robots.txt when done by corporations to feed their generative (or plagiarising, depending on your point of view) models. While file sharing, even small-scale, was given harsher penalties, IP blocking and law changes to help mostly the large corporations.

It would probably be much better the other way round - that some regulated personal non-profit sharing was allowed, transferring of anything you paid for to any kind of device would be perfectly legal - but scraping of any creative content without explicit agreement, especially by for-profit organisations for generating competing works, would give harsh penalties. Collecting royalties from corporations to artists agreeing to scraping would also be at least a more worthy task for writers / composers / movie-makers organisations.

Regarding drunk-walking / brute forcing: Doing it with any computer, quantum or not, will produce *all* non-gibberish texts of the message length with equal probability. So you have no idea if what you found was actually the cleartext message. At least given that the one time pad is used correctly, as you say.

I would be more concerned about his actual far-right / white supremacist tweets, as well as use of symbols from such movements. And very outspoken support for far-right groups, including AfD which in some regions in Germany is classified as a anti-constitutional far-right extremist groups, by court decisions based on constitutional writings specifically made to avoid getting a Nazi party to reappear.

I was a bit surprised too, but it makes strategic sense. Air travel is still reliant on refined fossil fuels, which is both dependent on world politics (even if Canada has some extraction of raw oil), and will face restrictions or taxation if climate policy required to meet Paris Agreement targets are actually enacted. Like France banning short-distance flights in favor of TGV trains. Battery technology for air travel is still range limited, and biofuels are expensive and limited in supply. Investing in rail is a way to hedge your bets to stay relevant.

Also, they are a large operator of long-distance passenger traffic in Canada. Using their expertise, customer relations and organisation could be useful.

Whatsapp is popular i Europe, sure. But especially in privacy-conscious Germany, Signal (with a better security record, and seemingly less problematic ownership) seems to be a quite popular choice.

I have rain when commuting at most 5 days a month. Why would that affect commuting? Maybe add a few minutes riding time, bring you rain gear and perhaps woolen garments if it's cold also. Of course you have mudguards and good lights anyway. It's not a big hassle - people in the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and such are not made of sugar.

We don't have temperatures over 30 degrees often (yet, it depends on how the more ignorant parts of the world population keep doing climate-stupid stuff), but I have been riding in such temperatures. You drink a more, possibly pour water over yourself if really hot. Take a shower when you have arrived - most places of employment have a shower somewhere. On the way back, stopping at a nearby lake for a short swim is nice, too. The trains usually work, also.

Why would that be weird? Unlike your desk or office light, parking space for a private motor vehicle is certainly not something you need to get your job done. Only - perhaps - for getting to the job, which is usually something you pay yourself.

And yes, of course we try to discourage driving. Better for everyone - less congestion, less costs for widening roads, better air quality ... and employees switching to riding instead of driving usually have less sick days, which is probably of interest to employers. Also, usually less risk of getting stuck in traffic.

If it's provided directly by the employer, the taxable value is based on the price of commercial indoor or on-street parking in the neighborhood. Which can vary quite a lot between urban and rural, for example.

In a normal city (from my European perspective), most employees can get to work by transit or cycling. Many, if not all, do. And if parking is hard to find, there tends to be an equilibrium where some changes from driving to other transportation (or working from home), freeing parking space. There price of parking may also affect modal choice - since a few years, free parking at work is considered an employment benefit at least in Sweden, and should be paid tax for. Which kind of makes sense - a free transit pass would probably incur the same taxation. So parking at work may cost similar to commercial parking facilities.

But US cities are not as well-provisioned with transit and cycling networks, as I understand?

Interestingly, UK shifting to renewables and cutting fossil gas usage, is directly bad for Russia too: Beside the positive climate impact from lower consumption, It means the UK can export more fossil gas from the Northern Sea fields to mainland countries still dependent on fossil gas (like Germany and Austria). Which makes it easier for them cutting Russian gas exports (which will occur now when the gas transit agreement through Ukraine ends) - and cutting Russian income to the invasion finances.

I still hope the whole of Europe rapidly phase out fossil gas, also for climate reasons.

Well, I realise the US has rather horrible motor vehicles too, but yes? Two bad ideas does not make one of them good.

Yes, it sounds rather light-handed with 25 USD for something that may account for a whole year of CO2 emissions on a sustainable level (1 ton / year) [1]. It's a bit better in the EU - here 18 years old may have the chance to win one month of free rail travel (with an Interrail pass). Discovering neighbor countries (which EU likes for integration) and learning more sustainable habits - trains in EU have quite low climate impact in general.

[1] A good tool to check emissions is the Flight Emissions Map: https://www.flightemissionmap....