“Big Bazooka” in headline

journalism has fallen

Kevin has been angry about this for a while, here’s March 2023: https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/ryanair-launches-eu-passenger-petition/

Let’s contain the coming 3.5mm jack jihadists under this reply please

New food chain just dropped

Maybe linkhut then? https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/27/2025-03-27-Using-linkhut.html

HMD feature phones are such a let down.

The Polish language translation within the system is clearly automated translation - the words used sometimes don’t make sense. CloudFone apps are also not available in Europe.

The HMD 110 4G (2024, not 2023) has the Unisoc T127 chipset which supports hotspot, but HMD deliberately chose not to include it. I know because the Itel Neo R60+ has hotspot with the same chipset.

At least they made Nokia XR21 in Europe for a while.

I always wondered why do people use Pocket. I just use bookmarks - for example: on the bookmarks toolbar in my browser, I have a folder named “movies to watch”. I just drag the tabs into that folder. Isn’t that similar to Pocket?

My brain being fried from the brainrot and not being able to comprehend “save to read later” probably also plays a part.

obligatory These workers in Switzerland commute to work by floating down a river

Hopefully this gives more leverage in keeping the river clean. “Well Mr. Company you can’t dump shit into the river, there are people swimming there”. As the article mentions in Denmark they hoisted red flags during incidents, but it puts at least some more public eyes on the issue.

The primary article is more terse: https://techlog.jenslink.net/posts/dns4eu/#but-lets-look-at-their-product

True. Edited the title to bold the “busted” part

First Gigaset sold to South Korea and now this

Did anyone notice their local small companies start making cola alternatives too? In Eastern Poland I can see a cola from the local brewery Waszczukowe and was surprised. Is this an overall trend?

Reading the grant link from the OP - https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/results-2024-call-european-digital-reporting there’s also a second project with ~2M eur which sounds like “Wero for journalism”:

AskEurope The project aims to create a new type of information platform dealing with European affairs, by using innovative formats and forms of distribution. The creation of a database with EU media outlets’ archives, complemented by the integration of an AI-based chatbot, is innovate and will increase the engagement with readers. Available in 7 EU languages, the content has diverse formats, from breaking news, live streams and daily news to in-depth reporting and long investigation.

It entails a consortium is coordinated by Agence France Presse (FR), accompanied by Mediaconnect (FR), Deutsche Welle (DE), France Medias Monde (FR), Radio France Internationale Romania (RO), Druid (RO), Xwiki SAS (FR), Xwiki Software (FR), Deutsche Presse Agentur (DE), News Aktuell (GE), Agenzia Ansa Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata – Società Cooperative (IT), Grupa Radiowa Agory (PL), Ediciones El Pais (ES), Centro Per La Cooperazione Internazional (IT), Fundacion Maldita (ES).

To mods: I know this reads like an ad (because it “is”, but I’m just a reader, I’m not releated to them in any way, I just like what they do). It’s a non-profit granted by the European Commission so I hope it’s ok. Put me in secret CIA jail if not

Also here’s a tag from a random Vinted listing:

The “organic” part though doesn’t seem to be mentioned in the product listings on the website? hm

EDIT: Just received a package with one ecru (natural colored) bag and one black-and white one. The ecru one says organic cotton while the colored one uses regular cotton. So if you want organic get the ecru version

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I wanted something that’s more difficult to consume media on. Something that is less conductive to feeding some guy’s advertising empire. The cloud apps are interesting to me not because of YouTube, but because of maps and public transport schedules. That way, it’d be closer to my main-main phone, rather than falling back to the smartphone for some apps.

E-ink smartphones like Mudita Kompakt seem pretty interesting, as the e-ink probably makes certain media unusable.

Whatsapp is somewhat optional for me as my friends don’t use it, but I know it’s important to other people. It would be important to me if I went outside the EU, though.

There’s also something about escaping Android.

Unfortunately there’s this post too: https://blog.bananahackers.net/farooqkz/on-the-state-of-kaios-and-bananahackers-community-as-of-summer-of-2023

Many “council” members have lost interest in developing for KaiOS. Many have not and believe this OS will live on and cover a minority of the market

But now, in 2023, this mobile Operating System seems to be on the verge of death. Not only KaiOS 3.0 is out but also KaiOS 3.1 is also out. But there is no device which is available worldwide. Only few carrier-locked devices for North America.

Here’s a demo of the cloud youtube playing https://youtu.be/2VPQ_3SAKi0?t=85 It looks tolerably legible to me. Definitely OK for playing music or dunno, watching soccer recaps or tech videos