Kagi seems to heavily rely on Yandex for results. I don't use it, so can't compare, but are results much better than using Yandex directly?

Kagi was using Yandex, it comes up on every Kagi post here. Seems that they've removed that info from their site now though...

I'm not sure if it's really a "trump agenda". The ideas didn't start with him, the people who voted for said ideas aren't going to suddenly disappear, and this is his second term.

It looks more like part of the new normal from the outside, and that's why things are changing. A country can't go from reliable to unreliable partner every 4 years without any consequences.

Even the people that voted for Trump didn't sign up for this, which is why his approval ratings are terrible even by historic standards. He didn't run on a platform of "attack Canada and suck up to Putin". Most Americans are very pro-European. Most of the voting population has living memory of the cold war.

As to what happens post-Trump, it's anyone's guess. I expect a hard reset. Markets have short memories, as they say.

Not to the same extent, but during his first term, his administration had issues with Canada, Mexico, Europe/UK, NATO, China, etc. Tariffs were a thing back then already. And he was elected again. Clearly it wasn't a huge issue for those who are bothered to go out and vote.

In any case, for everyone else, it's the second time in 10 years that they have to play the waiting game until it's over. It's good to be optimistic, but when you're in charge of a country, you can't just plan for the best and rely on hope alone. Same if you run a company or and even with services you as individual use.

Regarding memories, I don't know about the markets, but in Europe I think it will take a few years for everyone to forget that in 2026 Denmark had to transfer blood reserves to Greenland and that different European countries deployed tripwire forces because of... the US of A. Do you know who triggers similar responses? Russia, when they start saying that their borders are fluid.

Hedging your country’s future on American presidential approval numbers is political suicide in Europe, as it rightly should be.

Something changed because Apple Weather has never been as accurate as Dark Sky for me, especially for rain forecast.

I used to be able to go on walks without an umbrella because of how reliable it was at predicting when rain was going to restart. If I do that with Apple Weather, I get home wet.

Early this year I was thinking "will I still have access to this service if they invade Greenland?"

Never had to do it before. That's how much it has changed.

The answer is yes.

You don't think Ukrainians can't buy stuff from Russia (and vice-versa)?

Can I still get Google Adsense payments when Google has my European bank account and address if there are sanctions or something like that? Can I still login to my Cloudflare account and manage a domain registered with them? Will I lose access to Outlook or Gmail? Should I rely on Claude at all?

But the problem isn't if I can bypass sanctions, use VPNs, etc, or even if a company wants or can legally do that... it's the fact I'm asking these questions at all. It's not something I'd ask 15 years ago about US companies.

There's a lot of important data that runs through Cloudflare, so I think it's a bit naive to think that there's nothing interesting for the NSA there.

Of course, but the comment I was replying to stated:

"the NSA learns everything there is to know about you and your customers"

Which implies that they are looking at it all and records it.

The vast, vast majority of Cloudflare's traffic is worthless to an intelligence agency.

They are actively scanning all of it, looking for interesting stuff.

How do you do DPI on hundreds of PBs a day? Explain the process that would allow you to "look for interesting stuff".

I'm more concerned about crimeflare's own incentive to analyze our traffic that people already willingly let them MITM, and somehow sell it to the highest bidder.

Tesco, a large supermarket chain (also in the UK), is also moving away from VMware: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/06/tesco...

I'm assuming they're paying much more than a football club.

There's also a legal side in this case because they're actually suing Broadcom: "Tesco claimed Broadcom hiked its VMware prices by about 175 percent in UK court filings."

Kroger has moved to SUSE and Azure Local

"# Kroger, they put plastic, in your steaks" Ordinary Sausage

Curious what Tesco was going to go to, considering most of the old Retalix/NCR WinPOS/ISS45 stack was heavily Windows-reliant underneath it.

I assume Azure or Hyper-V of some sort?

That's just what the countries that defeated Germany did.

The Americans had Paperclip, the soviets had Operation Osoaviakhim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Osoaviakhim

Not to mention the initial dash to get to technology and scientists before the others.

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The service XCancel is stopped until further notice.

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I don't think Anthropic was punished for technical reasons.