Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

@micahflee This is key takeaway, in my humble opinion:

"Tesla is having issues selling cars right now. You are burning unsold inventory that they can then claim to their insurance... The protests and boycotts are going strong. You don’t need to burn cars to make yourself heard."

@tarakiyee @sovtechfund Really great news! I hope this means that more places in the world can have their mapping freed. OSM is widely adopted in #Austria and local government data is synced with OSM. The OSM maps are clearly more accurate than #GoogleMaps. When properly supported, the OSM model works better than proprietary, company-owned mapping.

@jan what features do you need that are missing there?

@a_sator Too often people seem to overlook that neutrality was also a key part of what got the Soviet Union to leave #Finland, and kept them out since World War II. We'll see whether joining #NATO will be as effective.

@a_sator This seems like a good reason to consider alternate approaches to just throwing money at European militaries. Our Kreisky government demonstrated an excellent example of such leadership. They fully embraced #neutrality and figured out how to make that an effective defense policy. This also would apply on the European level. We don't need to drum up war plans against China and Russia. We wouldn't defeat them anyway. We can accept that, and make better policy for all involved.

@jan Debian works well with #podman these days, a release gets 5 years of support.

There are all too often complaints about #Debian: "why does it have such old packages". There is a really lovely property of properly maintained stable distribution. The only changes made are to make it more stable and more secure, e.g. targeted bug fixes only. New bugs come with new features, or even more general, new bugs come with new code. So if a release of software is already addressing the need, then new features are just adding more risk of problems

#security #stable #distro #software

@mnalis I totally agree that the jobs are important. Propping up highly inefficient, failing industries to save jobs is a problematic strategy, with a clear history to learn from. Skilled factory workers can make other things. Europe is already dominant in the railways industries, so if money shifts from cars to railways, that's an easy win. There are more opportunities like that, like we do pretty decent in wind mill manufacturing.

Aaahh now I get why #ElonMusk pivoted so hard to #politics! #Tesla is starting to fail as a company, making luxury cars while affordable electrics cars are in demand. And Europeans resent him getting involved in politics here, so avoid the company. Classic crony capitalism: use state power to prop up oligarchs. This is not innovation.

It goes to show you that it is at least as important to express one's opinions by choosing where one buys as it is to vote in elections.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/02/25/why-tesla-stock-is-plummeting-today/

I keep reading media reports raising alarms about how the European auto industry is in trouble. I honestly see that as a positive thing. If the EU has fewer car makers, we'll have more incentive to invest in more efficient things like railways, walkable cities, cycling infrastructure, etc. And we'll be much less dependent on foreign fossil fuels that drive the wars going on.

@elgregor @kriom clearly that is not the case I'm talking about. A device in Spanish in Spain tells the surveiller little. A device in Finnish in Kazakhstan might uniquely identify someone.

@kriom yes, exactly. It is even in the file name, e.g. config.de.apk

@kriom I'm not sure I quite understand the question. One thing we could implement is letting the client download the whole package, so the server cannot see the metadata from the split APKs. Then locally, it would only install the split APKs that the device needs. This would keep the benefit of less disk space usage, but it would use all the bandwidth still.