Lenovo Daydream VR camera. Worked ok at first, but was soon after abandoned by Google and Android dropped support for it as well. These days an expensive brick. Oh and the battery became a spicy pillow as well 🤦

So you think it is just because they are rich now? Well bad news for you: most of the Russian and Chinese population isn’t rich at all.

And anyways, you mean “rich” like the US where people can’t afford health and childcare because they are being exploited by capitalists and have to spend nearly all their waking hours working shitty jobs to pay for their inflated mortgages and rent?

And why do you think they are not doing better right now?

Like I don’t want to defend the USSR or China under Mao at all, but the USSR had significantly higher birth rates when it still existed, and the one child policy of China was precisely implemented because they had a too high birth rate back then.

However the common situation now is that neither have any longer and that seems to somehow correlate with them adopting capitalism like pretty much the rest of the world. Of course correlation isn’t equal to causation, but the comment that started this argument was much less “moronic” than your’s.

You seem to confuse democracy with capitalism 🤦

I was referring to a different but similar case where someone intentionally spread mis-information about supposedly hardcoded things that turned out to be a complete nothingburger as all of it was behind an admin toggle. The same seems to be now true for this old issue you specifically pointed out here.

It is true that there is some experimental stuff in Piefed, which is part of the relatively rapid iteration of features, but looking at the code and also the explanations given by the Piefed development team I can really not see any malice in those settings. It is perfectly normal that things get overlooked or implemented partially and when someone reports a bug (like a missing admin configuration setting) it usually gets fixed quite quickly, and at least in my experience without much discussions.

You are jumping to conclusions. I think it is generally worthwhile to discuss the use of LLMs for making moderation decisions and also using them to produce ideological profiles of users.

A while back, someone realized that piefed was hard coded to give negative reputation to certain people, regardless of what settings the admins had made.

Please don’t spread old mis-info or at least back this up with actual links to the source-code (and if we are talking about the same thing, this was clearly debunked).

As for the OP post, this is factually correct and I have seen the evidence. Although maybe Rimu should have been more clear in pointing out that this seems to be not an official instance tool, but rather something some moderators have cobbled together themselves.

Because there is no capitalism in Russia or China? Last time I checked they are very much capitalist countries since more than 40 years now. And the one child policy is basically abolished in China, which no real effect on the low number of children born.

Right, except they also shut down all the ones that aren’t super old, outdated and unsafe.

Two of them, which just barely didn’t make the minimal threshold of not having been operated already beyond their original intended lifespan. They were just as unsafe and outdated as the others.

The ERC is not alone in seeing a surge in applications for grants. At least a dozen funders have seen submissions rise since 2022, which many suspect is the result of researchers using artificial intelligence models to write applications more easily.

That is what is the core issue. And they will have to put measures in place to sort those out one way or another.

I used to live in a city that had a large British base which got shut down during that time. The local media was full of stories of how that would negatively effect the economy and such, but overall it barely made a dent, and not having these drunk soildiers causing trouble every weekend sure was an advantage 🤷

The French are sourcing more uranium processing from Russia then any other place. And while they do attempt to reduce that, the processing in the EU fell even more between 2023 and 2024 according to the data you linked (thanks), which clearly shows there is insufficient local capacity to replace the large Russian dependency.

Oh and you are right it is the US and Canada. My bad, but it doesn’t change the fact that it would be just another foreign dependency partially in a country that is weaponizing such dependencies.

Do Germans actually care about reactor safty instead of burying their head in the sand like other nations with super old nuclear power plants like to do?

No, this was a rational move based on economic factors and actually caring about reactor safty of half a century old and outdated designs.

You need to take your head out of your nuclear villiage bubble and rationally assess the situation.

I am not even against running existing nuclear power plants that are somewhat recently build and relatively safe. But building new ones makes absolutely no economic sense and is actively bad for the climate since much better alternatives exist.

The construction is state funded, and the majority state owned operator has high debts because it isn’t actually profitable on its own, and those debts are ultimatly underwritten by the state so another form of subsidy.

And that doesn’t even account for insurance costs which because it is owned by the French state are not done at all or not realistically priced. And decomissioning costs and nuclear waste disposal costs are also not priced in.

The French state pays a lot to keep up the false public opinion that everyone benefits from the cheap nuclear power, when in reality it is a heavy burden on their state budget and only done for national security reasons (and sunk cost fallacies).

The French highly subsidize their nuclear power. It is not cheap at all and according to the French president, it only makes sense because they are a vital component of their nuclear arms industry.

This is plainly false. The plants where at a age where they had to be practically rebuild, with only components like the power connection or the cooling towers still usable with newly build reactor blocks. And the OP example shows that the power connection can be better reused for grid battery storage.

And the total amount of nuclear power in Germany was never enough to entirely replace coal burning. So at best the ongoing phase out of coal burning would have been slightly faster, but in reality the necessary reconstruction of nuclear power plants would have bound investments for at least a decade. All the while the coal buring would have also continued, but at a higher level because the urgently needed funds for grid extensions to serve renewable energy would have been wasted on building new nuclear power plants that produce no energy at all in the decade they need to be constructed.

You really need to stop riding a dead horse 🤷

The French have been also sourcing most of their uranium processing in Russia and are only slowly diverting to other suppliers.

And the comment wasn’t about the physical volume or the total cost, but rather the structural dependency on uranium processing facilities in Russia. It is true that there are also western processing facilitues, but those are mainly in the US (great alternative /s) and not nearly enough to easily switch to.

Somewhat in agreement with the first point, but not at all with the second. Most of these nuclear power plants are half a century old and had been overhauled already to the very limit of what was economically feasible. Continued operation would have meant building new reactor blocks next to them and decomissioning the existing ones.