The important part:

This week, Bill White, the US ambassador to Belgium, criticized the country for its approach to Jewish ritual circumcision and accused the country of antisemitism.

White slammed Belgium’s handling of a case in Antwerp, where three Jewish men who perform ritual circumcision – known as “mohels” – are under judicial investigation after they allegedly carried out procedures without doctors present. In a long post on X, White demanded that Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgium’s health minister, intervene in the case.

You lost me at electron…

“Personal data doesn’t get piped to the state in the United States,” he said, referencing concerns that the Beijing government has laws requiring firms to hand over data for Chinese surveillance and espionage purposes.

So, have we forgotten about Edward Snowden’s discoveries?

Please don’t mix AI with LLMs. LLMs are surely overhyped and I guess they will never reach the quality they promise. AI on the other hand is used in many aspects, successfully. For many years protein folding was extremely difficult. Google threw AI at it, now it can be regarded as a solved problem.

Bei uns wurde ein Neubau gebaut mit pellet Heizung. Seitdem stinkt es im Winter regelmäßig, im Sommer auch, aber nicht so oft.

Unfortunately nowadays the quick chargers at the supermarkets are occupied most of the time, at least in my area. As I try to go shopping only once per week, this is to much of a risk for me. 5 minutes at the gas station is just easier 🙁

This! The next public charger is a 15 minute walk away, I would have to pick up the car once it has finished charging, and they are costing an arm and a leg. So it’s more comfortable and cheaper to drive a combustion car, even though I like the silence and torque of an electric car.

I doubt this is a majority speaking. A few people may be petrol heads and love the roaring sound of a v engine (or an underpowered r4 with a loud exhaust). Most Germans drive standard cars, where the manufacturer is trying to make the engine as writer and smooth as possible. Their real fear is that their electric car won’t take them the 1500km to their holiday destination, without any stops, with a caravan in tow, which they will do once per year.

Just run an exe from github, who does who knows what. Trust me bro…

Which were rather underwhelming according to done sources.

Das ist kein Krieg, sondern eine äääh, dreitägige Spezialoperation.

As an engineer, thinking of designing the metal connectors needed for this, this gives me nightmares.

You’re not too far off: there are water kettles and rice cookers (Xiaomi) and vacuum cleaners with app support (and definitely not collecting telemetry…)

Do kannst dich nicht von einem Milliarden Unternehmen erwarten, das die automatischen Übersetzungen geprüft werden, oder?

Und der Arzt so: mit ihrem Blutdruck bekommen sie Mal die ganze Bandbreite an Medikamenten. Außerdem sollen sie Mal mehr entspannen, schon Mal mit Yoga probiert?

A few days ago the US plans to collect biometric and DNA data of visitors/tourists was published. I wrote that the EU will surely soon plan to do the same. I f***ing told you man… It sucks to be always right ☹️

Laws can be changed, just think of the kids! And the terrorists!

Hear my words: in a few month the EU will require DNA as well. Right now they are going: write that down, quickly write that down…

There is GSconnect, it’s the gnome version of KDE Connect. Haven’t tried it, though.

Logitech M650 it had very quiet buttons and a freewheeling scroll wheel. Wheel click is not quite as quiet, and the thumb buttons are noisy. Another downside is that after roughly a year the plastics have worn down, moving and sometimes the buttons are clicking due to getting stuck.