Possibly they meant they don't require tipsters' personal information, not that people didn't add the information on their own initiative. Like slashdot can claim that they don't retain personal information, but still some slashdotters might have included personal information in their posts, which slashdot does not control. A few use real names, others advertise books or software code they have published that are traceable to their name.
As far as I can tell, this is an Android phone minus the phone.
Yes, there is a whole Android Walkman series from Sony. A dozen models currently, priced 200-800 €.
Why are they building this?
For people who want a high-resolution DAC that can drive headphones. Many people have phones that don't have a jack, as Sony phones (that do have a jack) are not available everywhere, at least not in subsidised plans.
Oh. For "audiophiles"
Audiophiles will buy one of the 800 € Sony Walkman models. A $5,900 MP3 gold-plated player is not for audiophiles, it is for the petromonarchy elites who literally don't know what to do with the money and don't buy normal stuff. Like they already own gold-plated iPhones and buy their Lamborghinis from a vending machine.
The GnuPG people wanted a minor revision of RFC 4880. Instead, another independent overhaul was selected and became RFC 9580. Since GnuPG team only wanted small changes in RFC 4880, only supported that RFC only. See "A schism in the OpenPGP world" https://lwn.net/Articles/95379...
It also implements standards that the GnuPG team refused to implement.
I forgot the Renault Twingo, full price 21,090 € (full price), made in Slovenia. EVs are not expensive anymore, even the ones made in developed countries.
The base price for an EV made in Europe is 25,000 € with the Renault 5 E-tech, entirely made in France including the battery. This is the full retail price, before any government subsidy you might be eligible to. Today, Citroën presented today their 2CV Electric, target price 15,000 €, made in Italy, announced for 2028; again, this is the full price.
It reminds me the days I needed DoubleSpace to fit DOOM on my 20 Mb hard drive (or whatever it was).
I don't understand why you think the line is strange. The line is "being photographed, filmed or audio-recorded without knowing it". The sole purpose of the smartglasses is to record people, most likely without them knowing it, therefore a ban is pretty much the obvious thing to do. As a reminder, spy cameras, aren't allowed, including in Norway. A head-mounted camera is obvious, people are aware they might be filmed, so no reason to ban them. Only using such cameras without consent isn't allowed.
The Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East https://irknipchi.ru/ was founded in 1934, when Plague was an important problem. IT could be thy have shifted their main focus while keeping their name. According to this long blog post about the current incident https://alexwasburne.substack.... , in the 1970s the USSR secretly repurposed certain academic facilities with production of bioweapons, a programme called Biopreparat Plague was one the potential bioweapons. This particular institute is not on the list collected by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... I am NOT speculating that the recent incident is connected to bioweapons; I am speculating that former bioweapons programmes might have helped the "Plague Institute" to survive one century while the importance of the plague infection has decreased.
A true FOSS solution may have encouraged wider adoption since there would be no licensing fees and things like serves costs could be handled by the EU on behalf of member states.
The basic solution is FOSS. An individual, a school or a business of any size can self-host the AGPL-licenced Elements server for free, and use their FOSS client from F-Droid.
What they charge for is buzzword-features like "Corporate oversight", "Dynamic scaling".
The "Sovereign" offer for governments is an airgapped deployment (internal communication of intelligence agencies)
Basically they're a service company around a FOSS solution.
Information taken from: https://element.io/en/pricing
why not take an existing open source product, pour money into it to make it meet the EU requirements?
1) The Pro version isn't open source, but purchasing their proprietary offer also supports the AGPL version of their server
2) The EU wasn't going to develop anything internally, it's not what they do; they open a tender for the supply of services. They wrote the tender to somehow exclude Microsoft, maybe they wrote "must be based on an open protocol" (Elements is based on Matrix). Any company, whether local FOSS developers or large IT consulting companies could have proposed to do what you suggest, take a fully FOSS offer and take it to the needs of a government organisation. Maybe Elements won because they have an existing offer and not only promises.
Just to make sure, the AC is joking on that all of those are famous French games that might be obscure elsewhere. "Coup fourré" is one of the moves in Mille Bornes.
Here "5 richest kings" is to be understood as "rich as Croesus". It intends to describes the huge gap between once-upon-a-time (medieval) kings and miserable peasants. Not today's realities.
uninstall kwalletmanager.
And the winner is...
Acrtic:
USSR 38011
(NB The first list of mine referred to the Atlantic)
The F-15 Eagle: If it's up, we'll shoot it down. If it's down, we'll blow it up. -- A McDonnel-Douglas ad from a few years ago
