Orban is up for election in a month and his poll numbers are pretty shit. Best course of action right now is just to wait for him to lose power. If they start attacking him in any meaningful way, it might produce a rally-round-the-flag effect and boost his poll numbers.

I’ll take cheaper, cleaner power any day. France has shown the way.

Germany intends to phase out coal-fired power generation by 2038 in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

It never ceases to amaze me environmental parties in Germany pushed for killing their nuclear plants, forcing Germany to keep the fucking coal plants online. Meanwhile France is next door expanding their nuclear power, has a grid with little carbon emissions, and is even able to offer it at cheaper prices than Germany.

Edit: Links!

https://www.iea.org/countries/germany/electricity

https://www.iea.org/countries/france/electricity

The law does not require photo ID uploads or facial recognition, with users instead simply self-reporting their age

That part is good at least. It also makes the California law an exercise in wasting everyone’s time and money.

Anthropic took a stance against their AI in weapons and battlefield management systems. The government wants that ability and therefore chose to ban Anthropic as a supplier for government systems.

Whereas a more ephemeral approach that actually encourages people to ask questions? Yes, it does cause long term issues when someone is trying to debug a project that has been on life support for years.

It isn’t just long-term, it causes issues right off the bat; no fix is searchable. All fixes require a community member to respond.

• For the user this causes significant delays. A problem that could be solved in minutes with a search now requires hours or days for someone to respond to their specific problem. A problem that likely was already solved 10 times before. And god help you if the server is active, your problem might get burred instantly and no response will ever come.

• For the support people, they have to answer the same questions over and over and over because there is no way for users to search for and solve their own problems.

These issues compound on each other as support staff burn out and users get tired of waiting. Leads to people just going elsewhere.

For me, a lack of support forums signals the creators don’t care about the software working right and don’t care the software will be unmaintainable the moment they step away. Ie: a lack of support forum is a strong signal to find greener pastures.

Good news is there is increased investment in nuclear energy for data centers, which will go a long way to combat this.

The U.S. government is shelling out a whopping $2.7 billion to three companies in an effort to strengthen domestic uranium enrichment, amid surging electricity demand from AI data centers.