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Their money shows up, their troops don't. NATO could send their own troops and probably liberate southern Ukraine quite quickly, but they're reluctant to get their hands dirty. The only way Russia is fighting NATO is how Nazi Germany was fighting the US on the eastern front: equipment and supplies.

And yes, Russia has taken some towns, but so has Ukraine. Ukraine just took Lyman back (again) as well as a bunch of land north of Lyman, undoing recent Russian advances there. It's the same story in many places: Russia spends a year making some small gains and extreme cost, and then Ukraine takes most of it back again.

It's a stalemate. There hasn't been any significant progress from either side in years. And what Russian progress there is, comes at a steep cost in lives, whereas Ukraine recently took some ground with nothing but drones.

Yeah, was it really 1 cent per kg? That seems hard to believe.

Different conflict, though. That's just the US, not NATO. Because the rest of NATO knows very well what an utterly stupid and pointless war that is.

Do you mean a metaphorical front? Because on the ground, it's been a stalemate for the past year or so. Ukraine is often taking back chunks of territory.

Russia is claiming to fight NATO, but NATO hasn't even shown up yet, but Russia is struggling. If NATO were to go to war with Russia, there would be very little that Russia could do. The one thing they might be able to do is the reason NATO has been holding back.

Potato prices increased 15 fold!? Is that not a typo? From €10 per tonne to €150 per tonne. I can't help but wonder if a zero wasn't dropped somewhere. If not, this is insane. I hope I'm missing some context somewhere.

There was a great TV show on BBC recently. Not as detailed as the book perhaps, but really drove the point home very effectively.

There are way more asteroids near the Earth than I thought.

I've taken a hiatus in my journey through Iain M. Banks' Culture novels to reread 1984.

Didn't Schleswig-Holstein switch and make back the migration costs within a year?

Cobbling together something resembling the original is a cool idea, but don't the originals still exist somewhere? Surely not all of the original prints have been destroyed? Aren't there movie archivists somewhere carefully preserving every version of every major movie?

I also remembered that scene and the early Jabba the Hutt scene from the novelisation. And because I knew them from the book, I initially loved it when the Special Editions added them back. Until I realised they don't really work. Well, Biggs does, but Jabba becomes much less terrifying from having Han talk to him like that and even walking over his tail. Jabba being just a feared name works so much better.

What about Bladerunner? It also has a bunch of different versions, with some pretty big changes: with or without the voice over.

Is there a better standard available? As far as I know, XMPP is a real standard. If it's outdated, is there a better one?

My apartment was built before EVs were common and doesn't have charging in our underground parking. And it's apparently difficult to add (some neighbours looked into it).

And do people in rural areas frequently need to drive 1000 km per day? EVs have had a pretty decent range these days. Not enough for long haul trucking, but good enough for most things short of that.

But urban traffic is absolutely a perfect fit for electric micromobility vehicles. Less so for cars in general.

I would expect that in rural areas, it's much easier to simply charge at home. It's harder when you live in an apartment and park on the street.

> We shouldn't be bullying people delivering trillions of dollars of value to society.

Sure, but what about the people who consume trillions of dollars of value?

That is exactly what this article is about. Censoring people in order to interfere with an election, most likely on direct behalf of Donald Trump. That is far beyond anything the EU would ever ask for.

Usually. Because usually it's governments that are censoring specific people to push a certain narrative. This time it's Facebook censoring specific people in order to push a certain narrative.

Can't we just ban Facebook everywhere? I bet that will make a lot of people a lot happier in a lot of different ways. It's ridiculous how much power over our lives and our internet experience we've given to American Big Tech companies. Time to roll it back.

Not so much autocorrect, but Excel is very eager to interpret things as a date, which may be useful when you're dealing with dates a lot, but it disqualifies it for anything related to serious data.

People also used it to collect COVID data during the pandemic, and a lot of data was lost because someone accidentally opened it in an older version of Excel.

It's one of my pet peeves. Excel should not ever be used to maintain data. It's a fancy calculator.

In my personal experience, performance is better than I've ever seen on Windows. But less subjective benchmarks exist. Apparently, if you have an AMD GPU, performance is likely to be better on Linux, if you have Nvidia, it's probably better on Windows. I have Nvidia and no complaints.

Still, regenerating a limb sounds very useful. I'd sign up for that.

The article complains about a lot of questionable design aspects of the human body, including menopause. Only us and a couple of whales (and apparently one specific chimp population I wasn't aware of?) go through menopause, making us infertile long before we die. Why is that? Wasn't more kids supposed to be better?

I recently learned about this (not sure if it was a YouTube video or an article): apparently, it's not that we become infertile long before we die, it's that we live long past our fertility ends. And the reason for that is really simple: old people have accumulated a lot of knowledge that is valuable to teach to younger generations. The alternative is not to be fertile longer, but to die younger.

Presumably, menopause only occurs in species that learn and teach, and are able to accumulate so much knowledge that it becomes useful to keep experienced individuals alive longer so they can continue to teach.

Governments have a lot of laws that they don't enforce, or enforce only lightly. For example, weed is still illegal in Netherland, despite many decades of tolerating its use.

I don't think they're banning all AI generated code, just projects that are primarily AI-generated. They'll probably also object to PRs that are entirely AI generated. Or at least they will when they become a problem.

https://dawo.community/ is definitely the most 'Dutch Government'-looking Linux community website I've ever seen.

> I can imagine Excel being quite useful.

As long as they use it for actual calculations, and not to maintain tables full of data.

I use it, but only through the web interface. I suppose websites spy too, but I hope Firefox with the right extensions offers sufficient protection.

Gave up? There are more Linux games than ever. Most commercial games work fine on Linux now. Some through emulation of some sort, others completely natively, because most gamer engines support Linux natively, making it trivial to do so. And as a gamer, I can't really tell the difference between the two.

If you mean Linux-only classic open source games, like Angband or Battle for Wesnoth or something, they still exist, but the demand has clearly gone down because now almost all games work on Linux. Except the ones with anti-cheat systems that rootkit-style access to your system.

But this time, focused on AI safety (just like all the previous ones).