I imagine the ICEBlock author automatically assumed that Micah Lee was some pro-ICE rando without looking into him at all, further proving the blog post title correct.
Mobile phone platforms are reverting back to the pre-iOS/Android reality where you have to jump through tons of hoops to even make an app let alone run a viable business with it.
That is an even lower level API that lets you manipulate the bytecode as a byte array. You still need to parse it to do anything useful, hence libraries like ASM. And if you want to compile more code at runtime (or generate bytecode), you'll need some way to do that.
Free codecs without patent issues were limited to things like Vorbis which never got wide support. There were FOSS codecs for patented algorithms, but those had legal issues in places that enforce software patents.
The EU has been working on regulations related to this over the past couple of years. Various OSS foundations have been tracking this like Apache, Linux, and Eclipse Foundations.
It's certainly normal in the Middle East where coffee is a big part of the culture. In some countries, coffee kind of fills the gap where alcohol might normally where it's banned.
So if judges had private security and had a standoff with the US Marshals or some other executive branch officers, who would be in the right? That sounds like a constitutional crisis in the making.
Preventing meat and dairy contacting is based on a moral argument against mixing products of life with products of death. I don’t think it was ever about health.
This is not too different from the XZ backdoor. Open collaboration is vulnerable to state actors wreaking havoc. With Wikipedia as a common source for LLM training data, this is just another front in international warfare.
EU as usual are still copyright maximalists as long as the rights holders are European. Can’t wait for European diplomats to approve the latest compression format!