As a non-Dane living in Denmark since 5 years, and having lived in Sweden before that for 9, I can tell you the idea that I am forming due to the data at hand and anecdotal but first-hand experience:

what from abroad, including within the EU, is seen as the splendid example of Scandinavian society is mostly constructed on small, ethnically and culturally uniform, isolated populations, in which social control is actually seen as natural (like in a small town).

Passing a law in Denmark or Sweden is nothing like having the same iter happen in France or Italy, due to these factors, and justice systems are kept dangerously simple, with no special court for minors in at least civil cases in Sweden and no possibility of one-sided appraisals.

This realities, in the last years, have met with a surge in migration from immigration basins such as Germany, France and Italy, in addition to the influx of people who took the chance of the limited “good gestures” towards the populations of Syria and Afghanistan.

Once you touch those stability factors, the whole thing crumbles, reason why you have Malmö becoming a hellhole and Sweden a narcostate.

From Denmark, a much smaller market than Sweden, gangs such as the Black Cobra were exported across the bridge, only to come biting back in recent years.

The parties that call themselves socialist here in Denmark completely adopted the agenda and the talking points of what elsewhere is called Far Right, which is something I see not as a corruption but as a logic consequence of the above.

You have to think that 10 years ago in Sweden and again when I moved to Copenhagen, I was met with the exchange: “Oh you should move to this area of the city!” “Why, is it a place you recommend?” “Don’t know, but those from your country all move there”

, which is something that horrifies me.

In the same way the big titles in the newspapers about the latest local elections in Copenhagen were on the motif of “Danes always less likely to vote at local elections, which means foreigners will represent a huge portion of the electorate!”

Lately, in Denmark, Hummelgaard, Ministry of Justice, got probably bought up by Palantir, which is why the police uses Gotham and he pushes for a backdoor in encrypted communication .

But apart from that, 5 years ago Fredriksen was attempting her own Madagascar Plan and now she applauds the (actually failed) one deployed in Albania by Meloni, so no need for big tech money to let them talk that shit.

And they are the good ones (I mean, not really, but still better than the actual Right.

Should I call this racism? Maybe, but it would not help to see things clearer.

tl;dr Scandinavia is a simple place. Reality hit with complexity and they panicked.

No explanation as to why.

The rise after 2020 could have been a by-product of the pandemic, but the later rise in 2024 is not explained in the article.

Any French who could shed some light?

Calibre is a program for Windows/Linux. To be able to export books (and deDRM them) there are different plugins, but I never heard about one for Google Play Books.

Cannot say. I had a very old Kindle and all my books on device.

I don’t really get what would have changed from last year.

I deleted my Amazon account last month. No more Goodreads and IMDb is just another plus.

Extracted my ebooks from my Kindle with Calibre, so I am fine.

Feeling good and less targeted and bombarded.

The main sponsor of the show, Moroccanoil, is an Israeli company. This was obvious.

Business Intelligence

I do the same as @jaschen306.

Probably not the same life story, but I started as a Neuroscience PhD escapee (I was pressed by my supervisor to p-hack our results) and at the time, around 2012, this was an easy career to shift to from a scientific background.

I work more specifically in tracking implementation, and you should all become aware that for one year the ToS for the Google Marketing Platform have now allowed the use of browser/device fingerprinting for user identification aimed at remarketing, etc.

I am trying hard to go in-house at a company to work in BI, which is something I would be able to do, but not at the level of other people, since the marketing industry has accepted rejects like me setting the bar very low in order to have an army of people feeding Google and the others people’s data.

But the alternative for me is to be jobless AND careerless.

I suggest companies to evaluate Plausible and Piwik Pro as a solution, but the people they are as marketers have stopped being marketers more than a decade ago, they are just inside jobs planted by Google et al., and they regularly disregard the alternatives.

I am a wanna-be coding data analyst who has decided to start directly in Codeberg, more because of anti-US than anti-AI sentiment.

I have 2 questions for everyone more experienced than me and in general more knowledgeable of the market dynamics:

1. How far is Forgejo/Codeberg from feature parity with Github?
2. I don’t see any public SaaS/tools connecting to Codeberg as they are with Github. Is this by design or is it due to lack of reception? And, in your opinion, what would be a kind of service/connector that would really change things if made available for Codeberg?

Measuring any random enough system at any moment would yield usable results. You could be stirring tea leaves and it would be perfectly usable.

Comments like this is why I love Lemmy.

Read my reply to the other comment.

They consume a lot of energy for an extremely narrow use case. Output is still random. Companies such as Cloudflare will try hard to find a use for them when a better and extremely cheaper alternative exists, such as weather sensors.

LLMs are the lava lamp of computing.

Or, like, humanitarian aid headed to Gaza right now.

That’s just accepting cold shit as if it better than hot fuming shit.

Just watch some good non-American production and thank me later.

Always 2 too many.

– a Roman

As an Italian, I can tell you that I call theocratic regimes whose power is based on individual control and punishment at scale, fascist regimes.

I know that totalitarian or, in some other cases, authoritarian would be more appropriate, but at least in my culture fascism has been the first and the archetype of all totalitarianisms.

Not letting Iran enjoy the deserved hate it derives from an even longer history of antifascism would be too big a discount.

By now, I feel they are just straight trying to appeal to scammers.