Wife and I bought a Prusa core one late last year (on sale) as an upgrade to our entry-level cobra neo, which we had rapidly outgrown.

We disqualified Bambu for largely the same reasons you did. We had a look at many different brands, but settled on Prusa because it's the brand that we can reasonably expect to be supported the longest. Both on the software, but also availability of spare parts.

Many of the shipped parts are 3d printed, and there's no shortage of spare parts on their own website. I'm fairly certain I will still be able to figure out replacement parts 10 years from now if something breaks, either through Prusa directly or by ordering a printed part from a domestic print-shop.

From my understanding, you have the option of starting with the MK4S (or earlier) and upgrading to the core one later. Not sure I'd recommend it given how long assembly takes, but having this level of repairability and reduction in waste appealed to me: I don't want to throw out perfectly good hardware.

Prusa wasn't an easy choice (pricing, open source pull-back), but we felt it was the most reasonable choice since we could afford the premium.

In theory: Yes, future works are not yet part of the training data.

In practice: It takes months or years for an open source project (or any new technology) to take off and be considered valuable.

The other argument relies on said tech organization doing the right thing, and spending resources on training their own model (years and 100+ million) instead of including the cost of the lawsuit and pending fine in their cost/benefit analysis. I'm not aware that any such tech organization (with the means) exists.

No, absolutely not. It is safe to assume that most/all open source (and otherwise) has been part of the training data. You need not look further than the fact that some models can recite Harry Potter from memory. There is no such thing as "clean room" for AI.

Bike-shedding has a different meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

The court is actually a clown town for pursuing DNS blocking instead of the CDN (Cloudflare). Is this just tech illiteracy at play?

Slop (but "privacy first")

I (partially) blame tvdb for this mess. SpongeBob has every story listed as a separate episode, but good luck finding any source that doesn't bundle these up.

Meanwhile, the list for Kaguya just bundles all stories aired together in a single episode (thankfully).

We do and it's part of our constitution (same situation as Germany about not being updated). Not that any of the recent governments have cared about this minor detail.

We only recently got rid of another law, which required logging of calls and texts by telecommunications.

This only ended because the EU courts ruled it was against the right to privacy, and it still took them 8 years to drag their feet following the ruling to abolish the law.

Various government from both sides of the political spectrum have slowly introduced, or paved the way for, more mass surveillance, but the current government has been extremely vocal about surveillance.

Edit: penal code says "sealed" messages are off limits. Not that they care 🙄

I was really surprised that they had added a switch capsule machine out front. It's a nice way to pick up some weird switches.

They usually have some cute and decorative keycaps as well.

The technology of VPN works great for circumventing censorship. VPN can be blocked, but it's a game of whack a mole between the state and private actors. The main vulnerability in hosted VPN is that the provider has the ability to sell you out if law enforcement comes knocking. Picking a trusted provider is key. Alternatively, there's TOR but that isn't perfect either, as anyone may participate in the network.

Jeg skiftede arbejde i år og faldt ca 20%. Til gengæld har jeg aldrig været gladere for at gå på arbejde.

Nul statusmøder, ingen uengagerede kollegaer og ingen corporate "sådan er det bare" regler.

Sidste år fik jeg en stigning på 5%.

The thing with XHTML is that even a minor problem will make the page refuse to render and display a full page error message instead of any content. Having the browser guess how to handle the malformed HTML isn't ideal, but it's a lot better than showing nothing at all.