Longhanks

Just a few days ago, Iceland disagreed.

> Why introduce legislation that is so complex and hard to understand that people seem to be confused wether or not they’re affected. It’s highly irresponsible and arrogant thing to do.

You must be new to Europe :)

Really? Google to this day refuses to do business in China, and Apple at this very moment excludes the EU from multiple new iOS 27 features that launch in the rest of the world. And with the current direction the EU is taking (e. g. even more regulation, more economic recession, even fewer competitive tech businesses), I wouldn’t bet on US companies getting "more favorable" towards the EU.

> A related issue solved along was Windows string representation of paths. std::filesystem::path stores its text in wchar_t encoded as UTF-16 (Windows native). But p.string() narrows it down to the active code page, rather than UTF-8 which is what the formatting library expects. The result was a non-ASCII path could get transcoded to gibberish. The C++26 std::formatter<std::filesystem::path> converts Windows native UTC-16 to UTF-8 using Unicode transcoding and avoiding code pages, therefore solving the problem.

...only to then convert it back to UTF-16 for WriteConsoleW(), which std::print() usually calls (unless not running in a console) (https://github.com/microsoft/STL/blob/488e7953685722d2d6666f...).

The question is not odd at all. Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 is supported until 2029: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows...

Also, MS does absolutely support EoL versions of their OS - it took MSVC's STL until 2024 to finally drop support for Windows 7 (whose final ESU update was 2023): https://github.com/microsoft/STL/issues/4858 - it isn't unlikely that they (STL maintainers) are not going to get approval for dropping Windows 10 support before 2029.

> Lately Alternative für Deutschland has been getting a lot of votes in Germany; what kinds of rules (on top of the existing ones) do they think should be in place for people in southeast asia trying to immigrate to Germany?

The AfD is in no position to put legislation regarding immigration in place, that is federal law. Nevertheless, southeast asian immigrants are not particularly in the eyes of the public.

> After naturalization and giving up my original citizenship, I am a little envious of people with dual citizenship of US + any EU country. It really doesn’t get better than that.

Depends on whether you actually want to enter the US. If you don't, its citizenship is a burden like no other citizenship: Banks want nothing to do with you and you pay extra taxes that no other nation requires from you. Oh, and should you decide on giving it up - that's cumbersome and costs a bunch of dollars, from what I've heard.

So from someone that at a max would want to visit the US only as a tourist: Having only european citizenship is better than dual european/US citizenship to me.

I mean, really not trying to frame this in any way, but asylum seekers do it all the time.

Whilst I agree, to be fair, a passport is usually only needed when entering a country, not leaving one, right? Under the cited rule, the US needs to allow you to leave, not help you in entering some other country.

They’re turning Notepad into what Wordpad was (or was supposed to be). Now everyone looking for the light weightiest *.txt editor must find a new tool...

Any sources or more information on that?

Could’ve happened some time ago already in the EU, so there must be reasons for Firefox an Google not to ship their own engines (yet?).

E.g. https://taz.de/Hausdurchsuchung-wegen-eines-Tweets/!5799732/

> is enshrined as an Apple image default

What? iPhones and other Apple devices take HEIF photos, where does Apple claim AVIF as its image default?

> "essential public infrastructure"

If people wanted these devices and services to be public infrastructure, they should be developed and maintained using public funds.

Schengen is NOT a EU achievement.

Nations can sign Schengen, but are never forced to join the EU, nations can be EU members but are allowed to refuse the Schengen treaties.

What? GCC is absolutely no way whatsoever heading towards irrelevance. In embedded, deskop Linux, and server Linux, almost everything is built with GCC.

This chat control topic is undemocratic, allegedly illegal in many jurisdictions (such as Germany), yet, keeps coming up ever and ever again, and the politicians face no consequences whatsoever.

Endeavour like these make people vote for extremists, distrust the EU and democracies, or just give up on politics for good. These EU politicians endangering freedom, justice and democracy must be held accountable, with the most powerful punishments available.

Wait what? Isn't a super fast UI one of their main selling points, what led them to write their own rendering in Rust?

...and now they lose to a web app?

Happens all the time, otherwise, there wouldn't be such a thing as "unconstitutional".

I grew up in Germany and was taught handwriting there, and I get the same feeling as in seeing the relationship, but being entirely unable to read it.

This is what is taught in german schools: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schreibschrift#/media/Datei:De...

> When should others "save" you? When it is absolutely obvious some people need saving.

Who gave anyone the right to judge who needs or needs not to be saved? What if people don’t want to be saved?

"macOS" not "mac OS", to align with "iOS", "iPadOS", "watchOS" and "tvOS".

Apple also announced passkey import and export is coming this fall with iOS 26 (and their other OSes): https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/279/

> This is certain to be illegal though.

Then any and all of the supporters of the protocol should as soon as possible be stripped from all political powers and monetary compensation, now and future, and be forbidden from ever getting into politics again; fines should be applied, raised, and if not sufficient, prison time should be considered.

It is simply not acceptible that this matter comes up again and again despite a) being illegal and b) the people voting against this. Politicians need to face serious consequences for their ignorace of the law and the people's will.

This is because Ubuntu ships with extensions to restore AppIndicator (systray) functionality on Gnome.

In what way is Gnome meant to be accessible to a broader audience? They clearly do not give that impression; a broader audience would be interested in tray icons, desktop icons, theming support — ideas they clearly reject.

The Gnome desktop considers systray icons useless and by default does not ship or support any systray. If I understand the article correctly, the Dropbox client can no longer run on defsult Gnome desktops.

The license was explicitly chosen to enable code sharing with LLVM's libc++ (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/open-sourcing-msvcs-s...).

The MSVC STL's quality is good enough for thousands of pieces of Windows software (including Windows itself & Microsoft's software such as Office) to depend and rely on. It delivers excellent performance for a broad range of use cases. It is actively developed in the open, delivering cutting-edge (C++23 & C++26) features, accepting Pull Requests and wonderfully documented on GitHub. It can be consumed using MSVC and LLVM clang-cl (which the MSVC STL maintainers test with CI infrastructure). The maintainers are actively working on "hardening" features to enable more secure C++ (https://github.com/microsoft/STL/wiki/STL-Hardening).

Unless you specify what "best" or "a library's quality" means to you, MSVC STL is excellent and because of that, the default choice on & for Windows.

Google chooses to only support libc++ for Chrome/Chromium (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/t...). libc++ is not a Google-owned project.

The maintainers of Microsoft's C++ standard library use the term interchangeably, both "STL" and "C++ standard library" refer to the same thing. https://github.com/microsoft/STL/blame/main/README.md#L3