It’s not even ironic.

I don’t care about what other people think about me because I know how most of them are.

Last game I bought were 10€ and could be run on a potato.

If a person in their home can do a cheap fun game in their spare time so can you.

Yeah, mostly for translation purposes.

I think I currently have gemma 4 set up.

As a European I’m with you.

There isn’t even AC in schools. Children are let there to boil practically.

Hilariously enough we have legislation that says that schools shouldn’t be above 27°C but there isn’t any real solutions to avoid that, unless they would put a tax on the sun for overheating the classrooms or whatever.

They probably get a ton of drug addicts asking for narcotics. And probably had made a lot of involuntary drug addicts over prescribing narcotics.

Some drugs are quite dangerous and it should be understood why doctors are wary of just prescribing it so easily.

I feel it’s a little dangerous, because it would give a false sense of security in [no-ai] projects.

We have all seen tons of projects 100% written without any AI that are very poorly coded and full of insecurities.

They have the ability to say whatever they are trained to say. You just need a training set with the inputs and outputs you want.

Reagan never ruled on my country and it’s the same.

Radio stations play the same songs over and over again.

I feel like they carefully manufactured a low supply situation to keep price and expectations up.

It’s not like a controller uses ddr5 ram or any high demand components. They didn’t make more simply because they didn’t want to.

They didn’t get people into their store by literally giving up free games.

They are not getting people in with q UI redesign.

What?

Post quantum encryption algorithms are the ones that any serious company should use right now.

Because one of the algorithms that it’s stated to be far more efficient on a quantum computer than a binary one are number factorization, which is the bases of many public private enceyption algorithms like RSA.

Right now it’s not possible, but listen now decrypt later means that anything encrypted now might be decrypted in not so many years by a quantum computer.

They are not selling you a quantum computer, they are “selling” the algorithm you should be using if you don’t want your communications to be easily decrypted when a quantum computer with a higher number of stable qbits hits production.

Those algorithms are, anyway, public and well know, like parabolic curve algorithm or lattices. You could implement them yourself, any company can do so.

They are not selling that to end users or business.

That’s a line of product for research purposes.

They sell that to people researching quantum computer.

I don’t see why put quantum computer in that group.

It’s a scientific research topic. It is know what it does and what it doesn’t do. And they are not selling you it’s going to be the future.

It’s just a developing technology which have potential to make some algorithms more efficient than binary computation.

They don’t sell you quantum computation, they don’t tell you to invest in it. It’s just something being researched by computer scientists.

Let’s not be that much anti-any-kind-of-progress, shall we?

EU institutions are for the lobbyist, not for the people. We already knew that.

I wrote all my EU representatives in the parliaments about the chat control topic, and NONE of them answered. They are an elite above normal citizens, they do not care about us. They are aristocrats.

Then is different by country. In spain they used to be sent by the national post agency, taking advantage of the subsidization of third world countries.

But that aid ended years ago. Now packages from china have to pay full commercial price of delivery.

Since them in spain they moved from the national post agency towards cheap delivery companies, usually with bikers.

Idk if in Austria they are still subsidized or they pay full commercial price to the Austrian post agency. But surely there’s no european legislation that makes them not pay full price.

And once they pay full price, commercial companies tend to be more expensive or straight up not working in small towns compared with big cities where delivery is cheaper.

It is more expensive.

As letters to towns are sent by public services which are expensive and work at a loss because they need to guarantee 100% population coverage. And have stricter delivery routes.

Commercial parcel delivery doesn’t work like that. They use cheap delivery companies, that can and will organize deliveries in a more efficient manner, plus they don’t give 100% coverage. If you live in a remote ares these delivery services are not available and it’s up to the customer to go to a pickup post.

Also you don’t even have to receive at home. Pick up post are common, so all deliveries doesn’t need to go to each person home. They are go to the same shop and them people walk there to retrieve products.

Like it or not, it’s cheaper. There’s a thing called economic scaling here, that means that the more products are moved the cheaper it becomes to move it.

It’s also non sensical in the sense that the tax is not made by product. But by category of product. I could order 150€ in the same product and only get 3€ tax. But if I get 150€ in 150 products of different categories I get a 450€ tax. It’s illogical if the objective would be what you think it is.

It’s a logical tax from the explanation I gave. They european union was lobbied by scalpers, local resellers and dropshippers, that would indeed buy tremendous amounts of the same article to resell it more expensive to you.

Making the product also travel more and less efficiency. The product no longe will go in a efficient route from china to my house. Now It will go to chine to some warehouse, sit there some time and them from that warehouse to my house. If anything it would me more polluting.

Instead of just one Chinese company managing everything and taking advantage of scale economics now there would be the chinese companies plus thousands of small european resellers, which will destroy scale economics just so they can become richer at our cost.

They EU have failed us again.

Materially speaking is more expensive to send a letter next town than a packet from something like aliexpress.

From sending a letter next town you’ll have to pay the salary of a postmen for going to take the card from your town to the next town, probably only for that item or a very small number of items.

From china millions of packages move by ship. The cost per package is negligible. Most of the cost again comes from when the package is in your city and the postman has to get it to your house.

Also I think you got some things wrong. There use to be some subsidised loophole, where national postal agencies delivered chinese packets for free as they were considered third world postal service. That loophole closed long ago. Now all the cost is paid. From the logistic warehouse to the ship/plane, to your doorstep, all that cost is covered on what you pay.

What they are doing is not ending subsidies, I would be ok with that. What they are doing is putting up tariffs. Putting up an artificial price increase via tax jsut because an item came from outside the country. It doesn’t cover or offset any loigistic cost. It’s just a tariff. They change it not for anything fair, it was just that european dropshippers couldn’t compete with chinese shops, so they lobbied the EU into killing chinese shops so people wanting those items has to get them through the european dropshipper. That’s all. No a single millilitre of oil will be saved on the process. The parcel will do the exact same travel at the exact same cost, but you will pay more, and that money will end up either in the EU Comission hands or in a dropshipper hands.

The orders will not be more aggregated, that’s nonsense. They already aggregated the orders to send them as cheap as possible, as that’s in best interest from all parties. They don’t send near empty containers, every container is already filled to the brim.

We may just may see just a reduction in the number of orders, just because we won’t be able to afford as much because they effectively made us poorer. With the same money we’ll be able to afford less things. Which is just the them of the EU in the later years, make its citizens poorer and poorer via increasing the cost of everything year after year. “You’ll own nothing and be happy”, except I won’t be happy. I feel far from happy with the EU.

Most country specific/regional programs are far more exhaustive and concrete than european election programa. Just read them.

Lack of accountability by the chambers and the commission lead to lack of democracy in the european institution, it’s just what’s happening.

They don’t get audited like national parliaments are, but they have greater power, that’s just wrong.

I don’t know where you live but 3 euros tariff for a 1€ item is killing a business. Trump did it and the european union, after criticize it, just did the same. Bad when trump did it and bad they europe did it.

European Union way to save the"environment": kill europeans by taxes, expect the environment heals somehow because of that. How me making some european dude richer for buying the same product saves the environment? It doesn’t. It’s like aerolines green offset pay. You pay more and somehow the things are “greener”. It’s just a scam for people to get rich put of people lack of knowledge and social consciousness.

If packet delivery is a problem then automatize it. Delivery drones, automatic pick up boxes. But no, better put a tax on it and be done. No way the european union is falling behind.

I didn’t see that explicit tariff on any program.

Their programa tend to be vague “supporting local industry” “protection from harmful foreign products”. But under those vague umbrellas they do whatever they want and then they job becomes to convince the people that what they decided to do is the good thing.

And in a democracy that’s not what should happen. In a democracy the people tells the politicians what to do. When the politicians tell by their own to the people what’s good from them it’s called enlightened despotism.

Also I do not see how it’s reasonable to ask for a 3€ tariff for each product category on any order. That tariff is obviously aimed to cut people from buying directly from china and just to buy the exact same product to a middleman paying way more. Products are still the same, guarantees are still the same, taxes are quite similar as this products were subject to vat. The only thing that change is you pay the extra tariff or you pay the middleman. Zero benefits for the consumer.

Did your representatives had in their program tariffs for AliExpress or Shein?

Mine didn’t, they voted in favor of it regardless.