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Re:Portugal considers 80 per cent EV purchase subsidies on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:18PM (#50322423)
Another subprime loan crisis in the making.

Giving away expensive car loans to the equivalent of food stamps recipients is just predatory behaviour, but this time it's coming from the government!

It's not even the top 20 shitshow from this grifter government, it will sneak in from the backdoor.

Re:Flatpak – An Insecurity Nightmare on Monday October 19, 2026 @07:55PM (#50159572)
Are the Debian devs preventing you from running software on your machine? They even document how to create your own packages, and running your own repositories.
Re:Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust) on Thursday September 24, 2026 @08:00PM (#49838415)
Clouflare is modern day Crypto AG, performance is the side deal they use for recruiting.
I went and checked, a big house in Porto, in the Marquês area (very much one of those purple streets in Monopoly) goes for over a million euros, and she casually mentions she bought two!

Five years ago the golden visas was still in effect, so the A2 language thing is just for show, she bought a luxury home so she has permanent residency.

Of course the healthcare is great compared to the US, she doesn't work so doesn't pay taxes to fund it. It's probably genuinely top of the line, there are several central hospitals in almost walking distance.

So this is like a profile of someone who bought a house in Brooklyn that likes to walk in Central Park and go to Bellevue for free.

At least she lives in the house, it's better than leeching off some working family with usury rents.

Re:Moving to Portugal: Complete Guide for Americans on Saturday June 20, 2026 @05:21AM (#48607718)
A 4k a month salary puts you in the top 10% of earners, make sure your guillotine insurance is in order.
So, it's not automated and the title is a lie? Just submarine marketing for "digital nomads" to come buy overpriced shit and crowd out the locals.
If it's automated, why bill nearly 2 grand? For running a script?
Re:Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability on Monday May 11, 2026 @07:25PM (#48102117)
Is it growing?

Don't they report annualized revenue AKA the best month times 12? How is that comparable?

Some of those missiles go up to 12M$, they launch several of them at once, and the estimate on the drone price might be 7k$.

In can the math was not lopsided enough.

They might be counting sightings over Israel, Iran, and GCC countries.

I have seen many social media videos of fireballs in the sky in the last few months.

Taking a gun to protect from rattlesnakes? Why not a big stick?
Re:John Ternus to become Apple CEO on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @06:05PM (#47855183)
It's not a tax, Tim Apple gave him the gold personally, with cameras in tow, he did not submit the ACH data to the IRS.

It's bending the knee.

Why degrade himself, what can Trump do that their trillions cannot cushion?

Re:John Ternus to become Apple CEO on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @06:02PM (#47855144)
> So you think he is a Trump supporter, then?

He literally gave him a gold trophy! How is that not support? It's beyond compliance in advance.

To a president hell-bent on overturning Obergefell v Hodges, even.

He gave him more gold than Maria Corina Machado.

Re:John Ternus to become Apple CEO on Monday April 20, 2026 @10:01PM (#47843656)
> no overt politics

Excuse me? Giving a literal gold trophy to the God-Emperor Trump is not politics?

Re:Astral to Join OpenAI on Friday March 20, 2026 @03:45PM (#47459640)
"Someone" was the original mysql creator. It was a brilliant way to get Oracle cash then havr his own company. Getting a cake, and eat it too.
Bannon was already jailed for failing to adhere to a congressional subpoena.

What he probably means is being killed in prison, "suicided" when the cameras are mysteriously off, but this doesn't make sense, he's in the side of the oligarchs.

Re:The Pentagon threatens Anthropic on Thursday February 26, 2026 @05:07PM (#47172633)
They would leave to what company? Microsoft? OpenAI? Grok? All those are defense contractors as well.

Now, if you said "the Deepseek" guys, that would be different.

Re:Portugal: The First Global Empire on Friday February 20, 2026 @10:14AM (#47089027)
Mayve he will come back on the 500th aniversary, looking forward to that.
Re:Portugal: The First Global Empire on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @06:34PM (#47067906)
> Navegações

You mean "Descobrimentos", although that is kinda old fashioned.

They were "discovering" lands, the same way I discover Disneyland when I get there from the first time.

Re:Portugal: The First Global Empire on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @06:31PM (#47067882)
Also unmentioned is the disastrous intervention in the Moroccan civil war of 1580, where the teen king and most of its nobles were killed, leading to 60 years of Spanish rule. This is not at the apex of the empire, but close.

Also, Henry the Navigator downright stole or cajoled most of the "inovations" from Italian city states. For example, the Madeira island was named so by Italians, settled by some of Henry's minions.

Re:Why I'm not worried about AI job loss on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:33PM (#47008751)
Well, Google just raised prices by 30% on the GSuite "due to AI value delivered", but you can't even opt out, so even revenue is a bullshit metric.
The Chinese company has outstanding loans, it's not an "acquisition" per-se. It's the Chinese supplier getting made whole.
Re:Stop Breaking TLS on Monday December 15, 2025 @12:19PM (#46277360)
Yes, but Cloudflare is not under your control, that's the point.
Re:Stop Breaking TLS on Thursday December 11, 2025 @02:48AM (#46228740)
How is that not a MITM? Just because it's the modern day CryptoAG?
Re:Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros on Saturday December 06, 2025 @07:31AM (#46172814)
Yeah, "blocked" is a misleading word, if they merged anyway.
Re:Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros on Saturday December 06, 2025 @07:11AM (#46172709)
It was real for the actors, som ehad really fled the Nazis (including the ones playing the Nazis).
Re:Removing XSLT for a more secure browser on Sunday November 09, 2025 @05:11AM (#45864447)
In that case, they should not call Chrome a web browser, it's AOL all over again.
Re:Removing XSLT for a more secure browser on Thursday November 06, 2025 @04:58AM (#45833406)
What are you talking about, "free labor"? They are using the damn library, Google would benefit directly.

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