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My guess it hat they have a sizeable income through business renting, so companies rent or pay the invoice. And they probably don't care about extra fees on the bill.

The article talks about signal jammers, but as far as I know most drones there are remote controlled using fiber for exactly that reason?

I don't I've interacted with X11 on that level ever, at most basic it was XCB which wasn't really that difficult for applications. And SDL2 or GTK made it even easier.

I really don't understand the X11 hate that keeps showing, it's old but it works. It shows my applications perfectly, I can do my video-editing and play games with Wine and Steam without issues.

No surprise there, online stardom is toxic.

We saw that years ago when Totalbiscuit (famous gaming vlogger) spoke out about the constant abuse and harassment you experience from being a public figure with a comment field.

It's not a matter of technical limitations, it's EU regulation and laws that make it so expensive to run that the margins are not enough.

Large actors can do it because they have other revenue sources, and they have resources to deal with the legal matters.

I am not saying regulations are bad, they are not, but every paragraph takes a small piece of the cake. And the cake is not infinite, so at a certain point people will go away because "I earn more on doing something else".

To me fireworks are enjoyable because of the light, sound and smell experience, plus the slightly chaotic/unpredictable behaviour.

Drone shows are pretty but.. well, quickly becomes kind of predictable and dull. Like any CGI in movies these days, just never amazes me or gives any "wow"-feeling like it did when Terminator 2 came out.

I don't think he meant going to such absolute extremes...

Regulation is good, it keeps actors in line and prevent cheating, but then overregulation comes into the picture and shoots them in the foot while expecting them to compete on the world stage.

Think balance.

IMHO it's not porn that is the problem, it's parents.

What minors are exposed to, and educated about, is the parents primary responsibility to deal with.

Minors will somehow get access to porn and nudies, age verification will not stop them.

I don't really get the point of JWT these days with SameSite and CSP-headers available.

And from the backend perspective, most frameworks have session tracking built-in with cookies so it's super easy to dismiss one or all clients.

With JWT however, that rarely exist and you need to re-implement the whole session-shebang in order to keep track of the clients.

Was discussing this with a friend, and we came to the conclusion that this pretty much ends trust.

Any clip or photo can be AI generated, nothing can be trusted. Surveillance videos, cop body cams, "leaked", war video clips and so on.

I think it's great that the technology exist, it has huge possibilities, but it is a double edged sword that will without question be used by people with some agenda/greed/belief/ideology/conviction/whatever.

I love IC cards. They had them on all transport where I live, but a few years ago they changed to QR codes..

Now it's a fiddle with an app, then try to get the right angle on a smudgy reader. Getting onboard takes much longer and it feels like technology sent us 2 steps back instead of forward.

IC cards are better, and if they could be integrated in the phone then it would be even better and faster for everyone.

This is way too far down among the replies, and I think it hits the nail on the head.

Offer something people want to watch, and they'll come.

Maybe a combination of being expensive and knowledge/skills can be replaced with LLMs?

LLM is just another tool, use it wrong and you'll suffer from it.

I use it as a tutor, to teach how to do certain tasks or and explain things I do not yet understand.

When I create things like articles, I ask it to review and point out grammar/spelling mistakes.

And sometimes I use it as a search engine to find sources where I can validate information.

Anyone publishing on Play store knows about the ridiculous amount of rules, restrictions, policy demands and what not.

SyncThing recently gave up on Android pretty much due to the same reason as NextCloud.

> Otherwise they shouldn't have bought the assets.

They probably wouldn't if they had known, so I guess the seller may left some information out.

My problem with rust is not the learning curve, but the absolute ugliness of the syntax. It's like Perl and C++ template metaprogramming had a child. I just can't stand it.

Python is my favourite, C is elegance in simplicity and Go is tolerable.

Wikipedia definesit as; "Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks."

Certainly TikTok and Twitter are the primary targets here, but this could also hit smaller communities like Mastodon and Diaspora.

And even if the laws would apply only to larger communities, wouldn't this inhibit growth of smaller communities? If they grow too big, they'd be forced to abandon volunteering for more organized and salaried moderation.

I like the article.

At the same time, as AI takes over the actual coding practice more and more, I find the situation with multiple programming languages a waste of resources.

If AI could generate binaries, web assembly directly, or even some "AI specific bytecode" then we could skip the steps in the middle and save a ton of energy.

Isn't that a great way to lose money on AWS, by linking directly to buckets?

Well, I believe it is fair for the host owner to decide what they serve or not.

If they think bot accounts, with the sole purpose to repeatedly display information that is available in any modern mobile phone, takes up unnecessary resources then.. Well, they have right to restrict them IMHO.

There is also NextCloud, Thunderbird for desktop and Davx5-app on Android.

That would make a majority of the solar farms built and operated by chinese companies? And wouldn't that essentially make CCP in charge of a considerable part of Pakistans energy sector?

Well, to me this looks like a security issue and since it is tech-related too, it's kind of obvious why it is posted here?

I think it's excellent and descriptive, but I started with computers at the CP/M era.

Can only agree. The common toolbar plus extensive menus were the best and most accessible.

Office 2003 were amazing in this regard, you could customize the toolbars as you needed to optimize your workflow.

Still amazes me what one could do with 1mb RAM at the time.

The amount of money DOGE and Trump is saving americans by firing government employees, shutting down departments, withdrawing from military operations...

I'd expect everyone in US to only have a few percent of income tax next year.

(Hint of sarcasm, yes, but an honest question; where is the money going?)

I find it interesting that Mozilla actually believes that everyone of their users are idiots.

Going from "We never sell your data" to whatever those weaseling paragraphs attempt to say, is quite obvious that the users are going to be the product. And it would be better if they'd be straight about it.

I wish they'd rather say "pay us $100 a year, and you'll get a modern browser on all platform that will stop ads and make tracking difficult".

Collect everything. Talks, notes, contacts, emails, copies of contracts, whatever data is possible.

Once a proper government is in place, prosecute them all.