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fabrika··on Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time
> 8 tons per person per year, the UK is in the top 5 most carbon-emitting countries.

Can you share your sources please? Here, for example, they claim that the UK produces 5.5 tons per person, not 8. Much less than, say, the US with 15 tons:

https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe...

fabrika··on AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes
No, Google never stood up to Russia. A year ago they blocked a perfectly legal list of candidates published by Navalny team.
fabrika··on The Twitter Advertiser Exodus
Brands don't care at all what's next to their advertising. It is much more important for them to be on the right side of the conflict.
fabrika··on The world map that reboots your brain
What if you want to see Australia and Greenland at the same time? Globes have their limitations.
fabrika··on YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters
They will simply have their company taken away from them.

Nevertheless, they had many years before the war to start marking their news as 'Official'. Or sell the news service. They certainly could have done so. This would have solved their image problems.

fabrika··on YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database
Very often they say things like this: “War is certainly bad and unfair, but we have to go all the way once we have started it”. Or, “the war is unfair, but I can't be against my own country”.

There are no war supporters among people I know though, everyone has their own bubble.

fabrika··on Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company
My bet is X.com as a twitter replacement.
fabrika··on Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest
Putin might nuke Warsaw an hour after the no-fly zone is imposed. He's that crazy.
fabrika··on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
Maybe you should double or triple the prices for Russian clients and send extra to Ukrainian charities or the army. As a Russian customer, I would be sympathetic to this and would be happy to support Ukraine in this way.
fabrika··on Space debris forces astronauts on space station to take shelter in return ships
Exactly. Putin on nuclear options:

“Certainly, it would be a global disaster for humanity; a disaster for the entire world,” Putin said, in an interview for a Russian documentary “The World Order 2018,” adding that “as a citizen of Russia and the head of the Russian state I must ask myself: Why would we want a world without Russia?”

https://www.rt.com/news/420715-putin-world-russia-nuclear/

fabrika··on Back to EU
I presume EU customers mostly use non-EU operating systems, browsers, other software. I find it hard to believe there's a real barrier.
fabrika··on Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
There is no law in Russia that prevents Apple from hosting an app called Navalny published by Roman Rubanov. The content of the app is also legal even by Russian standards: it is basically a list of officially registered candidates supported by Navalny.
fabrika··on Starbucks pauses Advertising on all Social Media
Nice, this will hurt both Starbucks and social media. The rest of us win.
fabrika··on Notion for everyone
On iPadOS it ignores pointer and external keyboard. Wish their apps were more native to the platforms.
fabrika··on Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app
Our game uses emoji to represent players and their structures on the map. Just like HKMap app which displays live events using iOS emoji font.

We’ve been rejected until we came up with our own graphics for emoji. Who knows, maybe this was why they were rejected. Also, the UI is quite buggy. Could be another reason.

fabrika··on Snowden calls on France’s Macron to grant him asylum
Putin is free not to tell anything to his voters, as always. See Smolenkov, a high profile spy who safely left Russia. Voters don’t care much.
fabrika··on How is it like to be a dev in Iran
"Even in US we can find certain domains which are blocked and cannot be accessed like those which contain CP or wild anti-humanism contents."

Is it true? I always assumed US never blocks access to websites. They would rather ask the hosting provider to take down the website or try to arrest the author.

fabrika··on Could 'Oumuamua be an icy fractal aggregate ejected from a protoplanetary disk?
As soon as you have internet you will check lottery results first. It's more exciting.
fabrika··on We value your privacy now, but maybe not later
The problem for the majority of the visitors are pop-ups. Everyone just clicks the green button. No time to read two clear options or bother with dropdowns. That's how people behave.

These pop-ups are required by GDPR. If your site doesn't have a pop-up you risk losing 20M Euro.

fabrika··on Show HN: Cheapshot, a multiplayer GPS game
Thank you! Emoji is a free and a well-known franchise that we actually love. Our first submission to the App Store was without any graphics, just emoji symbols. However, we found ourselves in the Emoji Crackdown (Apple rejecting everything with Apple emoji) so we had to create our own set.
fabrika··on John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories
I'm pretty sure this pattern was also common in Ancient Greece. Diogenes was exceptional.
fabrika··on Call for help: fund GIMP development and Libre animation
It's been 20 years now without any success. Maybe it's time to move on?
fabrika··on Derinkuyu: Turkey’s Underground City
Why would they dig a fake 18-level underground city?
fabrika··on Safari no longer supported by Spotify
~2% Safari for Mac usage is global. Spotify is doing business in 60 countries. Most of the markets are developed (no China, India or Russia) and tend to have more Mac/Safari users.
fabrika··on Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election
In fact we don't have any elections. Opposition leaders are banned or get killed (Navalny, Nemtsov). The opposition is only allowed to have marginal media (Echo of Moscow, TV Rain). An opposing media that becomes popular gets seized by loyal oligarchs supported by corrupt courts (NTV, Lenta.ru, RBC).
fabrika··on Desktop Operating System Market Share
Something must be very wrong with their methodology. I don't believe the total installed base is so volatile that the Mac share jumps from 7% to 9.57% then down to 6% within a single year.

https://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpaf=&qpc...

fabrika··on Let’s replace Twitter with something much better
Even if you build a superior p2p platform you won’t make Elon Musk and Katy Perry sign-up.

My guess is you have to copy iMessage approach. Partner with awesome Twitter clients like Tweetbot which are also not happy with the way Twitter going. Authorize with Twitter account, integrate original Twitter feed, replies and conversations, add the killer feature and make authentic tweets feel like “green bubbles”.

fabrika··on Apple says no fun allowed on the Touch Bar
How are they going to control this for non-App Store apps?
fabrika··on The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline
No reason to use an old camera metaphor. Apple uses it for iOS Camera app though.
fabrika··on Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in its first week ever
An author of another real-world game, Cheapshot here.

It's not an issue, LTE is fast enough. For multiplayer we take into account every bullet and sync dozens of players in real time.

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