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What is this whole thing about Europe being behind on AI? Do Mistral and DeepL not exist? Yes, I know DeepL is niche, but IMHO it is the best translation model out there.

Don't worry about the small web. Most people running the small web don't do it for others but themselves. They don't care whether they have 5 visitors or 1 million. Visitors are ju…

Airbus was never born as a European giant. It was a merging of many national champions (Aérospatiale, DASA and CASA) that were each already making full airplanes. They figured out …

The poster is the author of the website. So I think it's self-promo mixed with "hey, look how interesting is the amount of 'bureaucracy' involved when one wants to move out of Germ…

> “AI makes it easier”, was it hard to stumble across out-of-context clips and photoshops that worked well enough to create divisiveness? Yes. And I think this is what most tech-li…

> In fact firefox now allows you to preview the link and get key points without ever going to the link[1] > [1] https://imgur.com/a/3E17Dts This is generated on device with llama.c…

"When Congress passes new emission standards, [Honda] hires 50 more engineers and GM hires 50 more lawyers." The quote is attributed to Soichiro Honda, in the book Driving Honda: I…

One of these features is "Active Hood" or "Pop Up Hood" which uses pyrotechnic to pop the hood of the car in case of a frontal collision with a pedestrian, thus making the front ho…

> The wg.Go Function > Go 1.25 introduced a waitgroup.Go function that lets you add Go routines to a waitgroup more easily. It takes the place of using the go keyword, [...] 99% of…

You were young without kids or any other responsibilities, so you had spare time to nerd around. Not everybody is in that position. With this requirement you would create a bias to…

I would create an unwarranted bias towards people working for companies doing mostly opensource. If their previous job was writing safe code for rockets and airplanes, the candidat…

Yeah, I'm confused by the article. Following this logic, any interview sucks because of the stress it puts on the candidate. So what am I supposed to do? Hire based on a home assig…

Another security article recommending fail2ban again... Please don't do this. Run SSH behind some layer. Some people use Wireguard, and that's okay, I prefer spiped [1] because I c…

Last time I checked, the sale and advertising of alcohol is highly regulated in most EU countries.

I expect Lobste.rs's outage to be totally unrelated to Heroku's, just pure timing coincidence. From the last archived version of lobste.rs/about: https://web.archive.org/web/202506…

Yes, it needs to be done in a fair manner. France used to have a tax (Impôt de Solidarité sur la Fortune) which was anybody with more than X millions of assets had to pay 75% of in…

There was a study in France showing that for rent subsidies.[1] In France, the state pays max(rate * rent, cap) for apartments for students, unemployed and poor workers. Usually pe…

In this example, it's easier to just do "ln -s /usr/bin/git ~/bin/g" instead of creating a bash script... But that's just my opinion.

There are multiple cases in Germany (where I live). I cannot find them all, but "Pimmelgate" is a famous one where one guy on twitter (that's what it was called at the time) told a…

The low river issue 2 or 3 summers ago was overblown. When there is not enough water, the production can be slowed down to use less water. Regarding what happened during that heatw…

Granted, I'm not a native German speaker, but that's not my understanding of the "Impressumspflicht" law, if that's what you're referring to. The law is mostly targeted at media an…

How are VMs solving this issue? You cannot just snapshot them and migrate them to another provider. You'll get different local-IPv4 and different IPv6, etc.

I'm not a lawyer, but AFAIK, age doesn't influence your social score, tenure does. If I'm a 30 year old with 10 years in the company, I will have a better score than 50-year-old yo…

Not in my circle. Usually, threatening to sue is enough. I know people who increased their severance package because they said that "they wanted to talk to the lawyer from their le…

" Rechtsschutzversicherung ." You want it to include " Arbeitsrechtsschutz " I would also advise you to include defamation, in case somebody sue you for defaming them. Usually many…