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There is no hell. Just buy a couple of good cables and life is nice

My laptop has all my contacts, calendar, access to all my photos and is regularly used for online banking. It does not have cellular but I could buy one that does. So your list applies to a laptop just the same.

If I read this correctly it is (total household income) / population.

This means that if countries get older, they get less working people so this number drops. This makes it difficult to draw conclusions.

Right. And also you can never take that threat seriously when Russia is using it while on the offensive, because following that logic you should let them do whatever they want because nukes.

Its not weird its just disgusting. The back button should go back

Hah I played twice and did not meaningfully inprove my score. Even after seeing the color I could not match it up close enough, and the first time I got pretty close to most colors.

Its not just vulnerabilities. In theory you should also get more stability.

For example I like to play Civ with a friend, but stopped because about once every 30 minutes one of us would have their game crash. If it was written in Rust, I assume it might be more stable.

It is explicitly mentioned that ubsafe is in their dependencies not their own code.

Sure, but that sounds like an awful business strategy. I would imagine people who have been burned by google dropping support being less likely to use new google products in the future

At least north america has some wild places and animals left. In most of europe there is almost nothing left. We destroyed everything.

No that would not be good. I agree that you should choose the correct way to represent something.

But here a 50% increase creates a realistic expectation to me.

Radical transparancy only works in a world of radical acceptance. I deliberately hide some stuff I do from some people not because it is shady but because it will impact their view of me in a negative way.

> Since the EU has suggested that Facebook cannot charge for an Ad-free tier.

That is not my understanding. They have suggested that you can not offer an Ad-free tier as the way to not have your personal data used for advertising. Fb can offer an ad free tier, but in the tier with ads you need to be able to run off personalization of the ads.

Why not? Common characters are easier to type and presumbly if you are using regex on a unicode string they might include these special characters anyway so what have you gained?

I don't know the details about VATMOSS but will look into it. I agree that chat control and the initial thing about software security not having a FOSS exemption were problematic. As far as I know, an exemption for FOSS authors was added.

I think it is important to acknowledge that many regulations are not perfect and I would push for more revisions on the details (although changes in the law also have a real cost associated) that don't hit their target.

I agree that EU laws are far from perfect, but I 100% would rather have the GDPR than not have it.

With AI what I saw in the news mostly made sense and did not hinder development too much. But again I would rather they regulate the use because it will have real negative consequences for many people if they don't

It is an issue, there is not enough choice. I don't want apple so I buy an android but android is also flawed in major ways. There is just no winning as a consumer.

It is not open source. But because you are just editing markdown, you should not get locked in (however it does have some features and plugins that will not work anywhere else...)

With a VPS you get free egress

The fees of cash are considerable for many businesses. At least where I live returning money to the bank is not free.

If you read just in time, you will miss many ideas because you do not know you need them.

I agree that in a way it makes sense for a lot of software. But as a consumer who just wants something to use once in a while it does not make any sense. It just feels like you are being milked.

I think there are 2 issues. The first is that if you dont use a piece of software very often it does not make sense to have the subscription because it is super expensive compared to the value you get. The second issue is that you make your workflow depended on something and that gives them so much pricing power and you can't stop paying because it would be a lot of work to move to something else.

Music streaming is a good model for me because I like to listen to lots of different music and if I bought all of it it would be much more expensive. I also don't feel locked in because I backup my playlists and listening history so if spotify dissappeared tomorrow I still have everything and just move to somrthing else. But I don't like netflix because I am not big on tv shows and I just want to watch one show every couple months.

The nice thing about this is also that truckers would be able to go home everynight which would make the job more attractive

Mozilla might not be doing great for their users, at least they are not actively hostile. It is a low bar though

And they are absolutely right to complain about unfair behaviour

Actually yes you should give the essentials away.

If you develop a platform that runs software, you should freely distribute necessary the tools to develop software for the platform.

The end user should own their device and that means they should be able to develop software for it free of charge once they have the device.

That does not mean that you can not make libraries that you sell. So I think apple could sell a specialized ML library for their chips, as long as they document the hardware such that someone else willing to do the work could also create such a library

Yes which is even more absurd. You get billed for saving apple money!

The borrow checker gives the compiler significantly more information about memory. The rust compiler exposed some bugs in LLVM because LLVM tried to use this extra information, but because it could never do so for cpp the code was buggy.

Tbh my mom doesn't even understand how to install an app from the app store. And she comes running for everything that she is not used to. I am not concerned that she would download anything from outside. But I do get your point that many people are incapable of evaluating what aoftware is trustworthy (and hell you cant always know there is a risk even with open source software that seems trustworthy unless you actually read all the source code, which I very rarely do and only for small programs or small parts of programs). However I do not think it is Apple's responsibility or right to be the guardian here.

Except they are not mandated to do something dumb or bad. They are choosing to do something dumb and bad instead of doing something great

Yeah clearly they need to be slapped around consistently. Not just once.