Obviously they should have. Still, it’s neither the same government that allowed the sale nor were relations at such a low point in the past.

It’s also different to depend on China for providing some resources (like wafers) or for China to literally own the company. In case of the former, you can diversify (albeit at possibly large expense) prior to tensions. In case of the latter, any attempt of the Dutch branch to diversify would be blocked.

But I agree, far too much depends on China. It’s a ticking time bomb waiting to happen.

Dammit, I failed that one too already.

Wait, so nationalizing companies is theft?

China is not a victim. Their interests go so obviously against Dutch national security by way of brain-draining Nexperia.

Every foreign-owned company that attempts to do this should be nationalized. Without exception.

For similar reason Gazprom Germania was nationalized by Germany. They engaged in sabotage by refusing to fill gas storage sites before winter so they lost their right to be independent.

Me too. I’ll even make them full AI.

Please send me $2 billion by Tuesday. My salary as yetAnotherUser CEO & CTO is a modest 20 million/year. Results are expected to appear by 2030.

My requirements are bidirectional communication. If the buttplug doesn’t register and decode clench-morsecode, I will not use it!

Not the same group. The EU is very much heterogenous and not just a homogenous blob.

I’m pretty sure this group was also publicly against chat control.

Fair enough, I thought the “Fuck the colorblind” meme/image was somewhat known and changing it to “Fuck the imgur-blind” would make sense.

At least it will – presumably – make more sense for nearly every single British person that might see this in a couple of hours.

Though I do agree imgur sucks. I usually use img.bb when I need external image hosting, catbox occasionally blocks the IP address(es) of my VPN.

You didn’t put this on imgur! Now every Brit can tell what it says >:(

I now see how posting this at 12 am UTC could lead to more colorblind people than British people stumbling across this meme first.

Block and move on if you care so much about someone not conforming to grammar conventions in the most harmless manner imaginable.

Just imagine your comment under someone using all lower case letters instead of capitalizing Proper Nouns and the beginning of sentences.

You support Palestine because you believe they are the victims of genocide.

I support Palestine because I believe they are the perpetrators of genocide.

We are not the same.

According to the FAQ (warning: very wordy):

The goal of the project is not to slightly improve some aspects of insecure devices and supporting a broad set of devices would be directly counter to the values of the project.

The expectation is for people to buy a secure device meeting our requirements to run GrapheneOS. Broad device support would imply mainly supporting very badly secured devices unable to support our features. It would also take a substantial amount of resources away from our work on privacy and security, especially since a lot of it is closely tied to the hardware such as the USB-C port control and fixing or working around memory corruption bugs uncovered by our features.

What Russia says and does is very much different. Russia has thus far supported every single EU-“skeptic” movement from Britain to Armenia. Hell, just two days ago an article was posted about how yet another Russian botnet attempts to prevent Armenia from deepening ties with the EU:

https://theins.ru/en/news/285805

To some extent, though I still often hear people using the 12 hour system.

Just yesterday I’ve heard someone complain about their night shift which starts at 6.

Especially because in German you can’t say “half 17” for 16:30, only “half 5”. You save two whole syllables with this way over “sixteen thirty”!

Yes, the joke is that being raped makes you a woman. Not very funny imo.

Hasn’t he admitted to changing his opinion after learning about the effects on children? I’m not in the loop about this.

But yeah, you definitely shouldn’t treat his words as gospel. A lot of questionable-at-best stuff in there.

I sometimes like to read his political posts:

https://www.stallman.org/archives/2025-jul-oct.html

And honestly? I mostly agree with them? Like this:

ABC ordered to pay Antoinette Lattouf another $150,000 for unlawful termination over Gaza Instagram post.

But a company faced with enormous threats wielded by fascist officials who demand that certain views be suppressed will treat such penalties as the normal cost of sucking up.

The [Israeli] army says that HAMAS is using apartment buildings for “surveillance”, and has bombed some of those buildings to destroy them. Based on this logic, the army might bomb every tall building in Gaza City with the large bombs that the US is providing

He has some questionable beliefs as well, though for unusual reasons. He accepts non-binary people but refuses to use they/them pronouns because he doesn’t like the ambiguity of singular/plural pronouns. So he has invented the neopronouns per/pers to refer to singular non-binary persons. I genuinely think no other person on this planet could hold this opinion.

Not gonna lie, that’s such a boring, corporate term.

Germans use the much more creative expression of travelling to Balconia.

When I met Ralph, he actually gave me enough fentanyl to overdose every day for a century.

(I haven’t met Ralph [A false precondition says nothing about the truth of the postcondition])

Do we know this?

I suspect they usually compress videos at most a couple times (for each resolution) and then keep the results cached somewhere. At least for popular videos that combined take up 99% of bandwidth. For 0 views videos I’d imagine they only store the highest resolution and compress it further down on demand.

I’d argue DRMing all those popular videos would take up so much computing power it cannot be offset by ads.