Markoff

so instead using Meta product you suggest using Google product, great alternative for Europe independence

it's like when they wanna get rid of Visa/MC by switching to EU apps, which will require Google/Apple verification, what an improvement...

useless advice - Prague firemen are not on bsky, Prague public transport company is not on bsky, Czech state police is not on bsky (though at least this one seems to be unofficially on mastodon), literally no institution here use bsky

https://zpravobot.news/@PolicieCZ

then fine them for leaking private data or something the leaker done illegal, but certainly not for keeping the source secret, how is that illegal? I mean who knows if the source isn't her family? at least here in Europe you have right to refuse testimony against a close family member in court if your statements could bring criminal charges against them or yourself

this sounds exactly same to me, why should she be forced to testify/reveal her source? just because you/police/investigators are incompetent to find the source without her help, so basically giving her daily fine for their own incompetence?

before opening the article - what dictatorship is this? China, NoKo, UK?

after opening - US - not exactly surprised in Trumpistan...

I fail to see how is data scraping company different from Nitter instances.

yeah right, if I search for "Prague" I am certainly looking for porn/dick pics, same with pretty much any city you search for

this just says you never use search feature

that's my experience with using anonymous search on Nitter instance as well, so hardly anything about me using it without any account

On related note I really like serializer.io to read HN (I disable other sites it supports) in chronological order and have it synced across multiple devices under unique URL

seems all instances except xcancel.com stopped working

https://status.d420.de

I left Twitter few years ago as active user, it was not really giving me anything in return for contribution, I was still passively reading few accounts I followed through Nitter and used also Nitter redirect for all Twitter links in news articles.

If Musk thinks by shutting down Nitter instances I will return to Twitter he could not be further from truth, it doesn't really provide me anything essential I would not find elsewhere. It's almost as Google thinking I will ever pay for Youtube premium, if adblockers would stop working.

> Screen time is not that new a problem. Kids have been put in front of the TV since the 70s or 80s.

apples and oranges, kids in 70s and 80s had this TV everywhere they moved? in car, public transprot, in playground, everywhere? completely different thing from screen always available in your pocket

TLDR

most of the mobile data connections are FAR from gigabit connections

I have at home 1 Gb fiber line, but outside you would not get even to 1/10th with mobile data especially if 5G has bad signal

One corner of US internet is insisting that the Earth is flat

same information value, why is this even here and not flagged into oblivion?

In this longitudinal study, cumulative average screen viewing time was associated with lower academic performance but not working memory, with the strongest effect sizes seen for single screen viewing time occurring in early infancy.

Cumulative average exposure models showed that screen viewing time over childhood was consistently associated with poorer academic performance but not working memory.

operating return on sales (operating profit margin) - percentage of overall revenue the company keeps after paying its bills, NOT per car

Highly relevant advice if you want to cut your carbon footprint :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcx-nf3kH_M

not really long time, certainly not 20 years, digital camera quality by the end of 90s was pretty bad (at least those for reasonable prices, bought my first by then) comparable with phone cameras by the end of 00s, where you had relatively decent Nokia Symbian phones, so the difference is like ~10 years, similar with social media (Facebook), which was becoming a thing by the end of 00s

but I agree with overall sentiment digital cameras allowed basically unlimited number of photos compared to film cameras and were revolutionary in this aspect not being limited by expensive film rolls and related expenses

I really doubt there were any Chinese tourists outside China in the early 90s, they didn't (yet) have the purchasing power to travel to Europe, seems you are confusing them with Japanese, who were known for this behaviour

Summary

Blume says overhead costs remain more than 30% above comparable firms

Four German plants not expected to reach competitive capacity utilisation in the 2030s

Volkswagen supervisory board meets on September 4, sources say

Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume warned on Friday that the car sector's problems would only intensify in the coming years, arguing deep cost cuts were needed to keep Europe's top automaker afloat as it gears up for weeks of crunch talks over a planned revamp. Blume's comments, made in an internal company memo seen by Reuters, come as Volkswagen is undergoing what is considered to be its largest-ever restructuring, possibly ranging from a fresh 50,000 job cuts to the carve-out of some divisions.

Squeezed by aggressive Chinese competition rushing to Europe, falling profits in China and painful import tariffs in the United States, Volkswagen is struggling with declining profits and costly overcapacity in Europe.

"The situation is more than critical," Blume said in the memo, adding that while current margins of less than 4% were solid in the current environment "it is by no means sufficient to generate enough funds in the long term for new technologies, new products and our sites".

Blume, who will next week tour Volkswagen plants at risk under the current turnaround plan, said the German carmaker's overhead costs remained more than 30% higher than those of comparable firms, adding this had to be tackled to remain competitive.

Volkswagen's supervisory board is scheduled to meet on September 4 to continue its discussion on the turnaround plans, according to people familiar with the matter.

While the group has not officially quantified the size of additional job cuts, sources have told Reuters it could be an additional 50,000, effectively doubling the group's planned layoffs.

"The frequently cited figure of around 50,000 jobs worldwide is not a fixed target," Blume said, adding it was derived from the company's cost objective relative to the competition and served "as an indicator of the scale of action required".

In July, Volkswagen unveiled plans to drastically cut its model lineup and further pare back capacity. The controlling families behind VW earlier this month dialled up the pressure on all stakeholders and demanded dramatic restructuring efforts.

Four Volkswagen plants in Germany -- Emden, Hannover, Zwickau and Neckarsulm -- are not expected to reach competitive capacity utilisation in the 2030s, Blume said, but stressed that there is no decision yet on specific plant closures.

Sites have made progress in some areas, he said, but it is not yet enough, even without considering the pressure from new competitors from China and their plants in Europe.

something something people being used to decimal system

personally I prefer exact percentages instead of fractions, but apparently people in news/PR disagree with me

point is still same, they visit the site not for the interest in site itself, but to take the photo and that's pretty stupid reason to visit any site, though yeah "mainly" is doing there some heavy lifting

I think you missed the point, they say 4 in 10 "people want to visit a place TO take some photos", not to take photos while visiting, but visit TO take the photos as primary reason of the visit

"Polarsteps is a popular travel planning, tracking, and sharing app that automatically plots your route on an interactive world map using your phone's GPS. It functions as a digital travel diary where you can add photos, videos, and stories, letting family and friends follow your journeys in real time."

for people like me who dunno about this secret, seems basically like Travelblog.org with few extra features

> article about how traveling nowadays needs to be documented and is about experience as much as your feeds... I... felt old.

this has nothing to do with nowadays really, people were documenting their travelling and sharing it with family/friends since invention of camera, personally I take photos to serve as my memory, not really to share them, I may share them through whatsapp private chats with my parents and maybe 1-2 friends who could find them interesting, in past I've had travel blog/diary as well, but certainly didn't visit any place or take any photo for my readers

> I often saw hordes of Chinese tourists (but there are of course simply a lot of Chinese people) take turns in front of a waterfall (on flip flop or even heels), have some pics taken and go back to the bus.

Japanese were doing this decades ago before Chinese, it's just that Chinese now have money (unlike Japanese who can less and less aford to travel abroad) and there is lot of them, so they just replaced Japanese doing this superfast photo tours (at least in Europe)

> I also visited food-markets and saw food stalls with large lines of people, where as some had hardly any people waiting, I ask: Why this stall? "It's popular on Chinese social media"... One by one they snapped a pic as the cook made their meal, and waited for >30 mins to do so.

again, nothing new, Lonely Planet guidebooks had same effect in past and for me they were pretty good list of places to avoid for accommodation/food

> Wow 5 weeks in Malaysia, you could have done Thailand, Vietnam, etc, etc as well!" Well yeah but I like to take some days to explore and not rush and get to know a nice restaurant and eat there again and rent a scooter or bike and drive around a bit.

5 weeks for mainland Malaysia is really a bit much, KL needs few days to city sightseeing and enjoy food, cameron highlands few days to do hiking, penang again few days to enjoy food, history and hiking, perhentian islands few days to snorkell and enjoy beach and you cover pretty much everything without repeating same stuff, <2 weeks in very very laidback pace for these 4 locations considering Malaysia is compact and there are cheap/fast air tickets/buses, I also don't like to rush, but not everyone has months long vacation or gap year to travel so people wanna see as many places as possible, so I can understand them, I spent travelling around SEA around year, but still can't imagine spending 5 weeks in row in Malaysia or basically any other country besides China (not in SEA, but neighbor), I would get bored

been there during Nyepi and would strongly recommend everyone to avoid Bali during this holiday, but overall whole Bali ain't interesting (better go to Lombok, Java or elsewhere anyway)

I was prety much imprisoned in my guesthouse room and I was not even allowed to switch on the light, when I turned on light the owner came to tell me to switch it off, so you are supposed to sit in your room in dark

in general it is supposed to be holiday about ghosts going around island so with empty streets they can't see people, but it's interesting that these ghosts are somehow unable to see policemen or journalists taking photos of empty streets, so much for all people being equal, they should stop this nonsense or tourists should vote with their wallets and don't visit Bali and then they can enjoy their hypocrisy

is there some hackable watch with MIP display for this price and without brick dimensions as watch in article (basically hackable new Amazfit Bip)?

I wish there was something like this for China where you could see normal street life live, but for obvious reasons that's impossible.

shame it is such a low quality, one would expect 720P be decent, but this is practically unwatchable due to heavy compression, likely the most famous place in Japan and they can't afford Full HD webcam with proper bitrate?

I really doubt that, I recommend checking Bulgarian supermarkets, one of the poorest EU countries, yet their dairy products cost like double or triple the prices in Czechia, 3.5% milk you can buy here in promo for 0.4EUR, same in BG would cost double or triple in promotion, same with cheese/yogurt, heck even vegetables/fruit are pretty much same as Czechia with much lower purchasing power, Croatia and Slovakia expensive as well, it seems smaller the country, lower the competition, higher the prices, regardless of the salaries

huge dimensions comparable to bricks sold by Garmin, key new know when Casio will produce something with F-91W dimensions

if I have to choose between used Amazfit Bip for 15-20$ or pebble time 2 with worse (bigger) dimensions, worse battery life (even compared to 5+ yo Bip battery) and not even built in GPS for 200+ $ it's pretty easy choice

pebble PR team enjoy downvoting me

and as someone who want dumb watch you have tons of options compared to someone who just want small watch with notifications which will last at least one month and have real AOD

no such thing besides old Amazfit Bip and overpriced pebble time 2 exists, everything else has either no battery life or looks like brick on wrist (greetings to Garmin and Casio)