You could make the qr code extremely short lived, like 2 seconds or so.

one could video call and scan

If one is going through the hassle of joining a video call on a different device to then scan it with their smartphone, all to just connect with another person, you could reasonably assume that they're friends.

Maybe if there's a "celebrity" that displays it on a live stream, that's a bigger issue, but there could be other mechanisms to dissuade this behaviour. Perhaps you could only add one friend with one QR code.

With a dependency on is-odd (which in turn has a dependency on is-number)

Yes, France had the idea to weaken Germany in exchange by forcing it off the D-Mark. A move that unexpectedly had the opposite effect and further strengthened Germany's economy.

In post war Germany the sentiment of relative status compared to our allies in the most powerful people was mostly gone. You can expect as we move more towards the right, and WW2 gets more and more forgotten, it will come back.

The intended effect of having economically-strong Germany subsidize the poorer European states (e.g. Greece) definitely succeeded. Or at least the Greeks think so. But nobody expected that it would also strengthen the German economy to more than make up for that.

I increasingly find that donations should be the way open source projects should be financed. Showing banner ads in end-user facing software asking for donations towards the development of that same software seems like the perfect way to get attention for it.

Maybe it was added as part of a larger set.

Yeah, I was shocked that a keyboard replacement of my company issued X1 is basically a full teardown. When it was time to replace my private laptop a year later, I opted for the L-series, which is much better in that regard and also much cheaper. Keyboard replacements are a pretty standard thing for me, because I don't like my local layout and if you limit yourself to buying with the layout you want, you can only go to Apple or Framework nowadays.

I went with Framework this time, I use linux so I love that if I have a problem with the wifi card on my laptop, I can just replace it

I don't like betting on newcomers. While they may have some good ideas that improve the industry overall, there is a lot of long-term learning that newcomers can't yet benefit from. That usually leads to silly mistakes and quality problems. The useful aspect of newcomers is the credible threat they pose to the old guard of taking a portion of the pie away if they don't innovate. But I don't feel like spending my own money on that.

I tried so hard to live framework. Now I barely like them. Too many concessions, but the price just sucks.

Of the four I bought for employees. Two have had serious issues.

What kind of issues? That is concerning.

I love that they have way less thermal throttling than the X1 I had before

Interestingly banning a far right party in Germany failed at the constitutional court a few years back with one of the arguments being too many party members were actually paid informants of the authorities and thus it wasn't reliably possible to distinguish what the party did on its own vs what the authorities caused. I think many people concluded that the party finances were mostly kept stable by these informants, so the easiest way to get rid of them would be to drastically reduce that.

In a weird sense Open Source won

Yep - its an interesting angle to look at it.

Or rather OpenSource might have just saved the world!

Ah, that makes sense. After all, Anthropic is selling tokens, so they would like you to consume more of them.

I find it likely that we are still missing a few major efficiency tricks with LLMs. But I would also not underestimate the amount of implicit knowledge and skill an LLM is expected to carry on a meta level.