Wie realistisch ist es denn alles ordentlich zu schützen? Sowohl von praktischer, als auch finanzieller Perspektive.

Ich glaube es gibt in unserer heutigen Gesellschaft so viele Vernetzugen, dass man kaum alles wirklich schützen kann. Wenn es nicht irgendein Strommast oder Umspannwerk ist, dann ist es Bahn Infrastruktur, das Wehr auf einem stark befahren Fluss oder sonst irgendwas.

Konkret in Bezug auf russische (oder sonst ausländische) Sabotage ist für mich das Problem, dass wir gefühlt bis heute immernoch keine wirklichen Konsequenzen als Gegenmaßnahmen haben.

Mal angenommen das hier waren die Russen, was ist dann unsere oder Europas Antwort? Ich habe das Gefühl Russland kann eigentlich relativ entspannt den Takt vorgeben.

Yeah, and it certainly isn’t just china. Tom Scott had this video some years ago by now, that imo is a nice example how different a warehouse could look when it is designed for robots rather than humans.

Imo one issue is that humanoid robots might be useful in settings where they replace humans in existing structures or work alongside them.

But for deeper automation you’d want to design workflows from the ground up with robots in mind. And in that case I bet that humanoid robots are hardly ever the optimal solution.

I think AI might often have the same issue where it speeds up existing, but flawed workflows. Which, when thought up from the ground up, might have a better solution that is a deterministic program. But where AI is fast to throw on a problem and outside of energy comparatively cheap, robots are a much higher investment in a space that usually has lower profit margins than software/services.

Wobei Merz leider gerade dabei ist zu beweisen, dass das Geld auch mit mehr finanziellem Spielraum nicht in nachhaltige Projekte geflossen wäre.

With iPhones i think it’s less about durability (and especially in the software department they were always great in terms of longevity), but more about repairability in case something does happen.

As far as lightbulbs go the issue with potential planned obsolescence doesn’t go way just because of the swap to LEDs. First there are a type of bulb even today that use some form of filament and second the part that gets damaged is usually some kind of capacitor or other electronic part that gets run with too much voltage and too hot. Don’t have time to watch it again, but i remember finding this video from a few years ago interesting.

That’s my main problem as well. He is also constantly in a conflict of interest with his other companies, particularly xAI.

If Tesla were to ever reach those insane valuations, they’d have to succeed (and dominate) in fields like self driving, robotics/automation and ai. Fields that xAI is also pursuing or could possibly expand into.

Elon has a stake in Tesla, but he holds more percentage wise in xAI and even increased his stake there when he made them buy X for an imo very unrealistic valuation. It’s exactly like you say, he is and will continue to pit these companies against each other (and maybe start new ones) to increase his share.

I think he’s also exploiting that somehow a lot of the valuation still seems to hang on him, although particularly in the case of Tesla I don’t know what he has done for the company in recent years (if he’d have developed xAI inside the company we could maybe talk, but he purposely did that outside because he wanted more ownership stake).

Berkshire Hathaway would kind of be the antithesis to this I think. If I understand it correctly they barely pay their directors, but instead they simply hold quite a bit of shares, so doing well for the company also benefits them.

I do agree with the notion that phones in todays society are hugely important and spending money on what for most people might be their most important computing device is valid.

But the thing is that you really don’t need to spend this kind of money to get all the performance 95% of people need. Unless you want a foldable phone or NEED the telefoto-lense that is often reserved for higher end models (but I assume even then there are cheap options),

As an example here in Germany you can get a pixel 9 for under 500€, if you get a cheap mobile contract even cheaper (I pay 15€/month over 2 years and got a free pixel 9 with the mobile plan). All the performance you need and makes great photos. And for anyone who wants lots of storage there are still phones with sd card readers

A bit surprised that the adidas adizero Evo SL didn’t get any mention. Feels like it got a ton of love from reviewers and I can confirm that especially for the price it is a great shoe. Picked up a pair for 90€, which imo is good value in today’s market for a shoe of this performance level.

I guess it would be very similar to the Nike Pegasus Premium that got best overall in the workout category? It also is a lightweight workout shoe with not plate, but a slab of high performance foam. However value wise it has a MSRP of $150 vs $190 for the Nike.

Since I just saw this in the self-host weekly post:

Do not upgrade to 13.0.0

Seems like there is a bug and one should use 13.0.1

See here

Laut Wikipedia hat vor ein paar Jahren auch Vodafone als letzter Anbieter das sim locking aufgegeben (und auch damals anscheinend nur bei iPhones).

Hab meine letzten zwei Handys über Verträge gekauft und beides mal war es ein original verschweißtes Gerät wie ich es auch im Laden kaufen würde. Keinerlei Anbieter Apps oder sonst was.

Also zumindest preislich sind zumindest die guten Verträge (vorausgesetzt man wechselt nach Ablauf) nicht zu schlagen, wenn man auch ein Gerät braucht. Gibt auf mydealz regelmäßig gute Angebote.

GrapheneOS wollte ich bei Gelegenheit auf meinem alten Pixel testen, hab aber bisher leider einfach noch nicht die Zeit gefunden.

den Bootloader zu entsperren schaltet KI-Features ab?? Ich glaube du verwechselst da ganz schön was.

Ich beziehe mich da auf Artikel wie z.B. diesem von Golem. Wird aber auch in fast jeder anderen bootloader unlocking Anleitung für pixel 9 erwähnt. Aber ja der Schalter funktioniert.

Und ka warum es “sonen komischer Vertrag” sein sollte. Das ist nen absoluter Standardvertrag von bekannten Anbietern und nichts obskures. Den oder ähnliche haben tausende Leute in Deutschland.

Hab ich ehrlich gesagt nicht unbedingt vor, da ich keinen Vedarf habe im Moment und es eventuell mit meinen Banking-apps Probleme machen könnte + eben anscheinend manche Google KI-features dauerhaft abschaltet. Aber es gibt auch sonst genug Info, dass man beim Pixel 9 den Bootloader entsperren kann. Außer eventuell im Fall mancher Ami-Geräten von Verizon, wo dann allerdings der Schalter grau hinterlegt und deaktiviert wäre, wie die Optionen darüber.

Noch nicht getestet, aber ja mein Pixel 9 hat anscheinend zumindest die Option dafür in den Einstellungen

Bei Smartphones habe ich bis jetzt nicht gebraucht gekauft, weil es einfach oft Verträge mit extrem guten Konditionen gibt. Ich hab z.B. grade ein Pixel 9 für das ich mit Vertrag 15€/Monat zahle. Sagen wir ich würde stattdessen einen extrem günstigen Vertrag für 5€/Monat nehmen, dann kostet mich das Handy über die Laufzeit 240€.

Eventuell könnte ich mir auch günstiger was gebrauchtes kaufen (da bin ich mir aber nichtmal sicher), jedoch habe ich hier ein neues Gerät ohne Stress, mit Garantie und 100% Akku. Soviel lässt sich dann vermutlich auch nicht sparen, wenn man gebraucht kauft und bedenkt, dass ich das neue Gerät vermutlich länger nutzen könnte. Im Vergleich mit den exorbitant hohen UVPs sähe es natürlich anders aus und bei iPhones kann es sicher auch nochmal anders sein, da die neu selten bis nie reduziert angeboten werden.

What I don’t understand about the whole thing is who ends up holding the bag of all that debt?

Like banks that lend them billions must be intelligent enough to know how private equity takeovers like this work. So if they lend them money, they surely would want to get that off their books asap. But who do they sell it to? I can’t imagine there is any type of reinsurance for this, since insurance providers should know even better.

I imagine some of the debt is to employees and small contractors, but can that really account for such a massive sum?

Flora incognita might be worth a look?

Doesn’t seem to be open source, but otherwise it should be reasonably privacy respecting.

It’s a free publicly funded academic project developed by a German university and the max-planck institute, so that already means the incentives are aligned much differently than with commercial products.

I assume most if not all data collection can be opted out of (german law is relatively strict in that regard and I assume a public project will follow them quite closely) and whatever gets collected at least goes to helping scientific projects. It apparently works offline

Imo the title falsely implies that Lego not being a US company means they are completely independent and unaffected by US actions.

Lego presumably does substantial business in the US and thus is beholden to US jurisdiction and the whims of Trump to some degree. Them dropping diversity and inclusion from their reports just shows their priorities. However on that note Lego still being family owned lets us pin this decision more squarely on some particular individuals, rather than the usual vague mass of shareholders.

That is just a very stupid idea. The best thing for all of us everywhere is for the most rational and well-informed people to vote. The fact that everyone gets a vote is unfortunate for all of us because that includes voters who vote against the public interest, but it is necessary for a free democracy.

Seems like you are arguing for meritocracy here, which has it’s own set of problems.

Even if you want to make the argument that some are informed enough, they are far, FAR fewer than in the adult populace. You do not want to broaden that window.

Honestly, this sounds exactly like an argument that could have been made in a debate about whether or not black people or woman should be allowed to vote.

I think you said it yourself, democray needs to endure that sometimes people just don’t vote in the same way or for the same reasons as it suits ones own views.

Yes, i think we should definitely pay more consideration to how our democratic system works on a more mechanical level, and not just specific opinions. Glad to hear i am not alone in this and i imagine that other suggestions like e.g. the use of ranked choice voting would be much less controversial than this one.

Now, we both agree that the age filter is imperfect. It’s a heuristic, a rule of thumb. You rightly point this out, and you interpret this fact as if there should be absolutely no filters at all. For you, any filter would be imperfect or problematic.

I’d say the age filter is perfect. But it only filters for the one thing it measures: age.

My argument is that (here in Germany) when i go to vote there are 4 requirements asked of me:

• Citizenship (although in some more local elections i think this isn’t even a requirement as e.g. other EU residents are for example also allowed to vote). Which is a binary classifier, one either has it or does not. I’ve had it since birth

• That i am currently not stripped of my voting rights. Something that (rightfully) is done extremely rarely and on an individual basis, e.g. for high treason or bribing officials. Here in Germany it’s also always a temporary measure for a maximum of 5 years.

• There are some limitations based on residence. For example federal elections seem to require that you’ve lived at least 3 months in Germany during the past 25 years (with exceptions for some professions).

• Age, currently being over 18 in federal elections, 16 in some state and regional ones. Again a binary classifier, once you pass the threshold it becomes irrelevant.

The last aspect of course is that it is done so by ones own free will.

Now this i think is what you are going for, but i don’t think it has anything to do with the age requirement. It’s required from anyone that votes regardless of age. And in fact we already have a system in place that we deem sufficient enough to decide it, since we already have citizens where it might be in question like e.g. someone with an intelectual disability which can voice their wish to vote and sometimes receive help in doing so. Similarly if you have physical issues and are e.g. blind or can’t read you can get support to allow you to vote. Prisoners who are not able to control a lot of their circumstances are able to vote. Notably we do not care about whether or not you vote “badly”, for the wrong reasons, or for someone we disagree with.

The filter for this imo would be the same as for anyone else. A declaration that you want to vote and that you do so free of duress. This filter could imo be fulfilled by a child stating their wish to vote just the same. However as stated somewhere in another comment above i’d be fine with having an additional requirement here that the first vote would need to be either in person or that one would need to actively apply for it (and if not the automatic registration comes at a certain age), in which case we’d probably need to give children some options on where to do this, e.g. in school.

I’m reading your post and it reads just the same as what applies to many adults.

I know that I would have voted for a liar with a corrupt past, because of facebook ads of their party I assume. “oh look, they are apologizing and they regret it! they look so honest!”

I can’t even get started how many politicians have a corrupt past here in Germany and got plenty of votes.

nowadays? they just post a tiktok video that they’ll give money to all below 20 if they are elected

Here in Germany parties actively ran on the promise of raising and fixing the pension levels in an already unsustainable system. Alongside other gifts to certain voter bases. The one left out (I assume partially because they are not able to vote): The youth.

I also think you vastly overestimate the amount of influence underage voters would yield. Especially in our demographic structures and based on the fact that a significantly lower share of them would actually make use of it. They certainly wouldn’t have the power to introduce sweeping changes against the better judgement of other voting blocks. But you are right that they might influence smaller changes.

To take one of your examples i could see that for something like the smartphone ban. But would that be so bad? It might be a good thing, but i don’t think this is conclusively proven. In return it is probably something being pushed by a large majority that might not even use a smartphone on a daily basis or at the least is very far removed from the current level of technology. And it also wouldn’t all need to be negative. Take for example the stop killing games petition that is quite popular on this site. That one might suddenly gain some more supporters, which are actually affected by it.

However i’d also see a need for more studies. And i probably wouldn’t just make a major shift like that instantaneously, but rather in a gradual way and maybe lead with changes to smaller more local elections first. Which might give opportunities for such studies.