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- on Scania’s new battery solution enables 720 km range in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 2d ago
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on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes in c/games@lemmy.world · 2d ago
Well I guess it’s good they patented it, at least that means the others can’t do it.
I question why they would give their own games such a disadvantage, but whatever
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on Why are games priced in € (EUR) the same as $ (USD)? in c/games@lemmy.world · 2d ago
It depends on the tax system, Europe and North America have it work differently.
When I buy supplies in Europe for the (Swiss) company I work for I often get the B2B website that does not display the VAT, but then in the final checkout step and on the invoice the VAT is definitely there.
I’ll try to explain the differences the best I know them:
In Europe everyone along the value creation chain pays the VAT to their suppliers and collect the VAT from their consumers, and in the end only the collected tax minus the tax paid out to suppliers goes to the government. So in effect everyone pay the tax on their part of the value creation.
(Example: You buy inputs for 100€ and pay an additional 10% tax (10€) to suppliers. You turn them into products worth 500€ and when selling them collect an additional 10% tax (50€) from buyers. Then you send 50 - 10 = 40€ to the government, which is also 10% of the 400€ value you created. The other 10€ reach the government from your suppliers and their suppliers)
In the USA the sales tax is only charged on the final sale as it goes to the consumer market. As long as you can prove you aren’t a final consumer you don’t pay the sales tax.
(Example: You buy inputs for $100 and pay no tax since you are not an end customer. You turn them into products worth $500 and when selling them to end customers you collect an additional 10% tax ($50). The entire $50 goes from you to the government.)
The economic effect should be roughly identical, but one system could be easer to game, the other more complex to administer.
Edit: Another thought, maybe the European System makes it easier for the EU because the revenues are automaticually distributed fairly according to where the value creation happened in an integrated economy system with multiple countries.
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on ah yes in c/animemes@ani.social · 4d ago
That doesn’t solve the issue of you not having perfect information, which the post alludes to.
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on GDPR trap Smart Glasses: Why Ray-Ban Meta wearers can be held liable in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
The way I see it is that the European style gives the government a monopoly on recording in public.
I’m not really sure how that follows, they too are bound by the laws protecting the privacy of those being filmed. For instance license plate readers are not legal and had to be taken back down in places where regional governments put them up. I’m quite glad of this recently as more and more bad news regarding Flock and Palantir comes out.
How does that work in Europe? You see someone committing a crime and you just keep your phone in your pocket? Because it’s against the law? “Excuse me, sir… May I have your permission to record you beating this person to death? Thanks!”
The weighing of legal interests applies in such cases. The violent person may have a legal interest in their informational self determination, but the victim has a legal interest in being aided against the violence, even if it’s only by the indirect measure of creating proof, and the public also has a legal interest in the prosecution of crime. The latter two are weighed more highly that the former.
It’s the same fundamental idea as the smashing of other’s car windows being illegal, but becoming legal if it is committed during aiding people in mortal danger.
Regarding police: Courts have determined that the public has a superior right in keeping police in check, compared to the right of privacy of the involved officers. And thus filming them during operations is allowed. On the other hand just filming them when nothing is happening, or if they are eating their bread rolls on break is not allowed, because then their privacy is the only issue at play.
It makes things a little more difficult to determine, I admit. But then I think we see police pushing their boundaries either way. We had a case go to the Federal Court (of Switzerland, we’re also a Federation) recently where the police were taken down a peg, after one of them blocked a camera claiming the bystander had to follow his order to stop filming even though she was not interfering with their operation and simply documenting.
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on GDPR trap Smart Glasses: Why Ray-Ban Meta wearers can be held liable in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
Very American-coded take. In Europe you have the right to your personal data anywhere.
We don’t do “no expectation of privacy in public spaces”
Informational Self-Determination, is the term to search for if you’d like to learn more
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on C shark shark in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 16 Sep 2026
How is this related to shark?
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on World-first biological data center packs 16 mn living human neurons in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
I reject the notion of calling this a data center. A single rack with 20 little pods is not a data center.
They just want to be a data center, because data centers are currently on investor minds.
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on The Wirule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 Sep 2026
Fresh version with more pixels
If you don’t like dark mode, you can take another one here: npr.org/…/tv-writer-david-simon-weighs-in-on-the-…
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on This Sentence Is Not A Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 Sep 2026
In German there is this one poem made of contradictions:
Dunkel war’s, der Mond schien helle,
als ein Auto blizeschnelle
langsam um die runde Ecke bog.
Drinnen sassen stehend Leute,
schweigend ins Gespräch vertieftAnd I foget the rest…
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on ‘The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All’: Anthropic Researcher Quits Dramatically in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
People take that shit seriously. If I remember right discussion of it was even banned on the LessWrong forums because they considered it an information hazard.
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on Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Algorithm: a specific step-by-step procedure for solving a problem or accomplishing some end
Software is full of algorithms.
I know there is also the recent meaning where “algorithm” stands for recommender systems and algorithmic curation, but I expect lawmakers to be a little more precise in their wording.
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on actual picture of me in c/femcelmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 Sep 2026
We need even sooner noodles
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on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
The “Lite” version is what gorhill made to at least work with Manifest v3 as well as possible, though he does not like that he is limited to Googles filtering framework with it.
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on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
the 2nd one is a scam that google never tried to remove
It’s a little more complicated. uBlock was the original name, gorhil handed it off when he felt the maintenance burden became too high. Then he forked it to make his own uBlock Origin version.
At some point later uBlock was bought up by the AdBlock people, who in turn were later bought by the AdBlock Plus people.
So it’s not a scam exactly, more like an inbred sideline of the royal family.
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on States can regulate prediction markets [gambling] as gambling, federal appeals court rules in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
I hope the supreme court doesn’t backstab them yet again
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on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 31 Aug 2026
any CompSci grad I’ve worked with couldn’t write code for shit
Damn, that sounds pretty bad.
We had tons of math and theoretical work too, but we also programmed a fair amount: We had to write a renderer in one class, a compiler in another, various Android apps in a third, and in one elective I took we wrote a micro kernel OS as well.
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on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 31 Aug 2026
Density comes into it if we are measuring buoyancy. The weight of the displaced water is equal to the weight of the buoyant object, and the ratio of volume submerged vs above water should give a way to determine density, but I don’t have the precise method in my head right now.
However assuming all you want is the volume, you simply need to fully submerge the object (by applying enough downward force if its density is too low), and the displaced volume is equal to the objects volume. The displaced water will have to flow to the top of the container, so by measuring the rise in water level and multiplying with the base area of your container you can get it easily.
Just make sure you don’t accidentally also measure your hand if you’re pushing down the sphere.
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on AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable” in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
That would be the funniest outcome, the entire bubble pops because the idiots in charge still have not figured out how a supply chain works, or what the effects of tariffs are.
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on Microsoft totally breaks Windows Defender virus scans in trying to fix a 0-day flaw in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
Yeah it sounds weird, right? Microsoft also has in the minimum requirements that it needs 20 GB of storage, which seems incredible to me. Maybe they are expecting companies to strip out more before embedding it in devices.
Anyway, for our purposes it seems Windows 10 IoT Enterprise is missing only very few things. I believe the Microsoft Store, Xbox App and Cortana are not on there. Supposedly you can add them back if you need.
But since I converted an existing Windows 10 Pro install, I even kept those (not that I want them…), and I’m still getting the security updates.
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on Microsoft totally breaks Windows Defender virus scans in trying to fix a 0-day flaw in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
keep using 10
And make sure you convert your install to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021. Security updates until January 2032.
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on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything in c/games@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
That seems like a good distribution for digital art and entertainment.
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on GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
I think it was time on October 26, 2018.
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on Nvidia AI Chip Found in New Russian Missile, Ukraine Says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
It’s the NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16 GB. From the Ampere family, 3.5 years old. Small Tegra SoC.
I guess something like this is a typical dual use good, and doesn’t fall under the AI Chip export restriction either because it’s too weak. Seems like it would be trivial for Russians to import them from China or India or whomever really.
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on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
Not just Nvidia.
For a start of who the shovel sellers might be, you can take a look at the list in his post that Torsten Slok used to calculate his margin numbers:
Note: Data as of 2Q 2026 and for OpenAI (1Q 2026 estimate from PitchBook) and Anthropic (2Q 2026 estimate from Financial Times). Averages are equal-weighted bucket averages of Energy & Grid (Constellation Energy, Vistra, NextEra Energy, Vertiv, Eaton, Arista Networks), Silicon & Equipment (Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, TSMC, SK Hynix, Samsung Electronics, Micron), Compute & Cloud (Super Micro, Dell Technologies, Foxconn, Equinix, Digital Realty, Amazon/AWS, Microsoft/Azure, Alphabet/Google Cloud, CoreWeave, Nebius) and Models & Applications (OpenAI, Anthropic). Sources: Bloomberg, PitchBook, Apollo Chief Economist
In short according to his research the people currently making a profit or at least positive margins, are the people who build chips and memory, who build energy infrastructure, and who build servers and data canters.
I would like to see the distinction between Servers (Super Micro, Dell Technologies, Foxconn) and Datacenters (Equinix, Digital Realty, Amazon/AWS, Microsoft/Azure, Alphabet/Google Cloud, CoreWeave, Nebius) but he seems to have put them together.
Also I heard from our local news that ABB (which is Swiss, Edit: apparently also Swedish) is profiting too, they belong in the power category.
And I wonder why Arista goes in the Energy category, I’d see them and Cisco, and Juniper, and Extreme, and Nokia in a separate network category.
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on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
‘Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers’
Which profits?
Ah, now I see the actual quote is: “[…] the AI boom’s profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers.” he means the profits of the shovel sellers, not AI profits.
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on Why nano gets used in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 10 Aug 2026
By the way, regarding integration, I just learned from a colleague last week that he uses emacs for editing remote files too. You can just open a file as:
/method:user@host:filename, with method being ssh or ftp for example
I’ve worked with very few truck in my life. And those were in our conscript military.
So I’m just trying to confirm, do commercial trucks have spare wheels? If yes are they usually behind the cab or somewhere else?