Ok, thanks for explaining it.

a subset of play store features, notably a client for GCM/FCM so push notifications work

So are push notifications then reliant on Google? Wondering not just for de-Googleings sake but for privacy too.

Thanks for this comment. There is LineageOS with microG pre-installed and it sounds like that might be easier for a noob like me.

Thanks!

Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

Links to notepad-plus-plus.org

Yea idk enough about to computers to know if I should click that or not…

owing to a slight miss on revenue

Nope, try again.

spending surged 66% to $37.5 billion in the latest quarter … approximately 45% of the company’s $625 billion in remaining performance obligations (RPO)—a key measure of future cloud contracts—is tied directly to OpenAI

Ding ding ding! That’s right, OpenAI, the company where being profitable is a physical and mathematical impossibility!

All your data are belong to us.

No. Your initial comment is whataboutism. The cartoon is not.

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This cartoon is about Ukraine.

It’s so funny to see capitalism trying to cover it’s ass. Since when does having a great harvest translate to free food for everyone? Gimme a break. The reason those 4 million kilos of potatoes are being given away is that the capitalist who was holding the futures contract for these potatoes decided to take a loss instead of have the potatoes delivered to market, since the price of potatoes would not have yielded him a profit. The point of capitalism is to yield a profit, even for life’s basic necessities. In this case, it wasn’t even the futures trader that arranged the giveaway- it was the people who did. The trader didn’t plant or harvest a single potato, but he was placed in charge of four million kilos of food. It really goes to show that we don’t need these people at all- we can manage much better without them.

Auto-translation of linked article:

Try to imagine a quantity of four million kilograms of potatoes. Four million kilograms - that’s 4000 tons, the weight of 800 adult elephants, stacked as high as the Berlin TV Tower. It’s a lot that could fill hundreds of thousands of people.

These potatoes are stored in the halls of a farm south of Leipzig, neatly sorted, cool and dry, best food quality. And they have a problem: no one wants them.

The story of these potatoes is a story about the absurdities of our food system. A trader had ordered the harvest, but when the potatoes were harvested and stored, it was clear: the supply on the market is greater than the demand. The market price had fallen, the offer too big. What is no longer profitable for trade becomes a burden for the producer. Financially, everything was settled, but the potatoes remained.

Shortly before Christmas, I received an email from Ecosia, a search engine we had just reported on. Ecosia is the Berlin company that plants trees with its advertising revenue – over 200 million worldwide. Chief Financial Officer Wolfgang Oels wrote that there is contact with a farm south of Leipzig that has to destroy 4000 tons of potatoes. “Do we, as Berliner Morgenpost and Ecosia, want to make this a joint action?”

We can. We want. And we need your help.

The largest potato rescue in the city

The plan is simple: Ecosia finances the transport from Saxony to Berlin. The Berliner Morgenpost helps to organize the free distribution.

We are looking for distribution points throughout the city: parishes, schools, sports clubs, neighborhood initiatives, social institutions or private individuals. Each collection point receives one ton of potatoes, free of charge, to distribute to all who can use them (Agria variety, firm cooking!). They can help distribute - and show together with us what is possible if we treat food for what they are: valuable.

It’s so funny to see capitalism trying to cover it’s ass. Since when does having a great harvest translate to free food for everyone? Gimme a break. The reason those 4 million kilos of potatoes are being given away is that the capitalist who was holding the futures contract for these potatoes decided to take a loss instead of have the potatoes delivered to market, since the price of potatoes would not have yielded him a profit. The point of capitalism is to yield a profit, even for life’s basic necessities. In this case, it wasn’t even the futures trader that arranged the giveaway- it was the people who did. The trader didn’t plant or harvest a single potato, but he was placed in charge of four million kilos of food. It really goes to show that we don’t need these people at all- we can manage much better without them.

Auto-translation of linked article:

Try to imagine a quantity of four million kilograms of potatoes. Four million kilograms - that’s 4000 tons, the weight of 800 adult elephants, stacked as high as the Berlin TV Tower. It’s a lot that could fill hundreds of thousands of people.

These potatoes are stored in the halls of a farm south of Leipzig, neatly sorted, cool and dry, best food quality. And they have a problem: no one wants them.

The story of these potatoes is a story about the absurdities of our food system. A trader had ordered the harvest, but when the potatoes were harvested and stored, it was clear: the supply on the market is greater than the demand. The market price had fallen, the offer too big. What is no longer profitable for trade becomes a burden for the producer. Financially, everything was settled, but the potatoes remained.

Shortly before Christmas, I received an email from Ecosia, a search engine we had just reported on. Ecosia is the Berlin company that plants trees with its advertising revenue – over 200 million worldwide. Chief Financial Officer Wolfgang Oels wrote that there is contact with a farm south of Leipzig that has to destroy 4000 tons of potatoes. “Do we, as Berliner Morgenpost and Ecosia, want to make this a joint action?”

We can. We want. And we need your help.

The largest potato rescue in the city

The plan is simple: Ecosia finances the transport from Saxony to Berlin. The Berliner Morgenpost helps to organize the free distribution.

We are looking for distribution points throughout the city: parishes, schools, sports clubs, neighborhood initiatives, social institutions or private individuals. Each collection point receives one ton of potatoes, free of charge, to distribute to all who can use them (Agria variety, firm cooking!). They can help distribute - and show together with us what is possible if we treat food for what they are: valuable.

They tried their best :(

An Australian app, so you can say “Epstein” on this one but still not “stop the genocide and colonisation of Palestine”. At least the hate speech manager (for now) isn’t an ex-IDF Zionist and the platform (for now) is not expressly pro-Israel / pro-genocide.

The deal was “sign this free trade agreement that includes our intellectual property laws and we will give you free access to the US market” but now the US has imposed tariffs on EU goods so there’s really no reason to continue honoring US IP laws.

Yea, and making a car is done in the most wasteful and inefficient (i.e. most profitable for certain people) way by like, shipping the components for the steering wheel to Guatemala, having them put the airbag in there and then shipping the assembled steering wheel to Mexico to have it be put on the steering column, then shipped to wherever the car is finally assembled, then shipped to where it is sold.

On a Chevy 😅

One way of looking at it is that we literally cannot afford war. I mean moneywise. Nixon removed the dollar from the gold standard in order to finance the Vietnam war, which the US lost in the military sense but won in the sense of the military industry making a whole lot of money. Literally more money than was even possible.

Israel can probably make you one of those.

Good idea, but might have to come in like France did in 1971 (they rolled up to NY harbor in a destroyer). For some reason I don’t think it’ll work like it worked for de Gaulle.