Many countries subsidiese their car brands. In Germany exact numbers are not known, because the government works for the companies I guess, but most experts assume that brands like Volkswagen receive about 1 billion euros (or 1.15 billion US dollars) a year. Source A Source B. I’m no expert for other countries, but a quick research lead to the claim that until 2015 Tesla and the adjacent businesses (SpaceX etc.) had received 4.9 billion US dollars in subsidies Source. I don’t think its fair to say that they are cheap just because they receive subsidies, they are just getting what everyone else is.

I started reading and thought that it isn’t that bad, just what I expected from closed source software but then came this:

Team Memory Sync, an unreleased internal project. There’s a bidirectional sync service (src/services/teamMemorySync/index.ts) that connects local memory files to api.anthropic.com/api/claude_code/team_memory. It provides a way to share memories with other team members within an organization. The service includes a secret scanner (secretSanner.ts) that uses regex patterns for around 40 known token and API key patterns (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc). But sensitive data that doesn’t match these regexes might be exposed to other team members through memory sync.

This seems like a great idea!

Personally I am using /e/os, but I think GrapheneOS is technically superior. I would first research whether the apps you need (EG banking) work on either one and then decide

For webview Apple Maps is quite good. Its still Apple, but at least not Google

Honestly best thing I heard about Telegram in a while

LLMs definitely kills the trust in open source software, because now everything can be a vibe-coded mess and it’s sometimes hard to check.

Can I ask the moderators of this instance to delete my posts without a trace so that they are not in the federation database?

A instance admin can only delete your posts from that specific instances database, so you should assume that there will always be some sort of copy of your post (with things like search engine caching and the Internet archive this basically the case on any social media).

Is there a way to chat safely on Lemmy? Alas, I like to communicate with different people from different countries, because I can’t help myself, by the way, how then can I pass the keys to my matrix room to others or how can others give their keys?

Not a active matrix user, but the default Lemmy chat is definetly not secure. Lemmy allows you to add your matrix handle in your profile settings so it will appear when someone looks at your profile

I use https://f-droid.org/packages/me.zhanghai.android.files/. Looks good and does all I need it to