ViatorOmnium

The imbecile in chief didn’t know Puerto Rico is an American Colony. Do you expect him and his lackeys to know about the Virgin Islands?

That’s the thing, Software Engineers have choices.

Yes, all big companies will do some dubious things.

But then you have big tech that does all those dubious things and is also breaking democratic institutions everywhere with a sledgehammer.

And then you have Palentir, which are literally Hollywood movie villains.

At this point they are light years of their livelihood depending on it. There’s no way they don’t notice where the bombs are falling, they had plenty of time to look around and have decided they don’t care.

They have two types of people:

• Software Engineers and Computer Scientists that don’t care who gets hurt as long as they get to work on their interesting problem. I call them the Wernher von Braun club.
• The ones that are also prospective customers

The Venn Diagram might be close to a circle.

Android Location manager can get the location without Google Services and there are alternative notification services like ntfy.

EDIT: The location manager is part of the official API and ntfy is available on the play store, so apps using them will also be allowed. Besides, it’s android, you can install alternative app stores or install apps directly. Maybe it’s a good time to teach vulnerable communities how to do it safely, because using Big Tech services is not safe for them.

In a glass half full perspective, it won’t send all your data to Google’s servers. The part they are not saying is that the data even remotely related to your query is going to be sent to Google anyway. They are claiming they will delete the data after 72 hours, which I believe they will for now, but knowing them, there’s probably going to be a sneaky policy update in a couple of years.

I wish more CEOs would pick up more buzzwords like “Blameless Post Mortems” and SRE, and less buzzwords like “AI” or “web 3.0”.

NATO requirements are also fully met if the US deems that doing nothing is the necessary action and informs the Security Council.

Article 5 has:

such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force

which might also be thoughts and prayers while Trump is in the White House and

Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security

which is basically what was offered to Ukraine.

By the same logic neither does NATO’s article 5.

You are thinking about dignity and imagining a British aristocrat drinking tea from a fine porcelain cup with the pinky held up while plotting world domination. That’s the vernacular meaning of dignity.

In the context of human rights, dignity is the natural right of every single person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically.

You don’t infringe it by saying that your government is being managed by incompetent or immoral people. You infringe it when you say women belong in the kitchen and not in the office, or that black people are naturally inferior to white people, or that gay people don’t have right to love who they love, etc.

WARNING: Even the URL of the link contains things you probably don’t want to know about ducks

At your own risk: The horrible thing you never knew about ducks

(assuming it’s really a male duck)

As a potential independent candidate Cuomo didn’t poll that bad if you don’t consider that:

• the 39% he got are the same as Mamdani, so it would be 50/50 at best
• as a known quantity, this 39% are probably his ceiling
• it still didn’t factor Schumer effectively endorsing Mamdani on social media

Political players are in still in flux, but, for the right wing of the Democratic Party, moving against Mamdani is getting riskier and riskier by the day. Not only would they lose the “unity” argument to mobilize the left close to the midterms, but the risk of suffering an humiliating defeat is too great.

The same way your right to wave your hands ends before they reach other people’s faces, free speech can’t include speech infringing on other people’s dignity (in the legal/philosophical sense).

Regulating speech within this frame is as bad as stopping a bar fight by dragging the instigator away.

FPTP will always lead to dysfunctional parties.

There are at least 3 “natural” parties inside of the Democratic, and at least 2 in the Republicans. At local level primaries can mitigate the issue somewhat, but a national level it will always lead to conflict.

Yes it was, that’s why they kept the patents when they sold Motorola.

Such brave heroes of the nation, who feel the need to intimidate a six‑year‑old leukaemia patient with a gun. /s

Absolutely evil and pathetically coward.

That would be vandalism… but there’s probably a section where it would be perfectly legitimate, like “Controversies”

Congratulations, your noob user is now using JPEG-XL. It’s not working on old devices, or any mainstream browser besides Safari. The less mature library also has a bug that allows for RCE and now everyone is running a cryptominer.

Now you say, but webp is supported everywhere, so let’s go with that. Now the noob is using wepb for a bunch of rasterised vector graphics with 4 or 5 flat colors, and he’s wasting more disk space than before.

So I repeat, if you need one size fits all, PNG is better, it works everywhere, and it’s even more efficient in cases where lossless graphics matter the most.

The title is hyperbole. PNG is lagging behind modern lossless formats in terms of new features.
This doesn’t mean it’s a bad format or that it shouldn’t be used. In fact, it should still be the default unless you need something it doesn’t support or really need to reduce file size.