And they’re likely to do so given how much of it depends on how much capital and energy you dump into it.

Do Black Mesa before that.

Should have played Black Mesa instead of HL. It’s everything HL is but better. It was incredible even having played HL back in 1998. I recommend people who’ve never played HL to just do BM.

As a lifelong Half-Life fan, I really liked some of Frictional Games’ titles. I liked Penumbra a lot and I think Soma was an absolute masterpiece. It’s at a level similar to Half-Life for me. If you don’t know anything about it, don’t read, don’t watch. Install and play.

Good point.

Sounds a bit copyright infringey, but I imagine their lawyers have cleared it. Not that I’m a fan of copyright.

The US has plenty of political prisoners

Yes.

Again, it’s not clear to me what basis there to suggest that USSR or China ratio being higher.

I don’t know if it’s higher I just think it’s not zero.

Originally I replied to this:

Imagine having a Government that uses political prisoners as forced laborers.

It was about political prisoners not general incarcerated population. The aforementioned regimes did hold political prisoners for obvious reasons.

Yes crime skyrocketed after the fall of those regimes.

I’m talking about other one-party communist regimes like the ones in the USSR, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, East Germany, etc. Yes I’m aware they’re they’re not identical, including in rates of political prisoners. The one I’m from had relatively few.

Sure but I think it probably isn’t as easy to gather evidence for this in China than it is in the US. That’s why I think it’s fair to assume the lack of evidence doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. There’s evidence this occurred in collapsed regimes of similar stripes. It’s plausible that China isn’t an exception. I’m not at all suggesting whether this is widespread or not. I have no clue. It could be extremely rare.

No question about the incarceration rates.

That’s a funny way to put it, but kinda sorta true. Anti-cannabis laws for majority black users…

System providers should avoid recommendation algorithms that create “echo chambers” and induce addiction, allow manipulation of trending items, or exploit gig workers’ rights, the notice said.

They should also crack down on unfair pricing and discounts targeting different demographics, ensure “healthy content” for elderly and children, and impose a robust “algorithm review mechanism and data security management system”.

Why not both?

OK, so people can use the definition instead. In fact it might be more useful.

Yes. I’m using the standard typing system on an ANSI keyboard which requires pinkies.

Proton

Running useful CLI programs. A non exhaustive list:

• ssh
  • Operating remote machines over ssh
  • Port forwarding to remote machines
• iperf
• ping
• nmap
• pandoc

And its sibling Shelter. Don’t know which one is more up-to-date lately.

Indispensable.

I cannot wait. This will cover a use case the current DND system doesn’t do which would make it perfect.

Did they think that about Telegram? I thought it was quite popular despite that.

Every time I hear SimpleX I think of herpes. Perhaps shows that whoever came up with that name had never had or looked up cold sores.😂

How’s that ruining its reputation?

That pesky phone number requirement saves it again.

“Create an Haitian cooking a tabby cat in a spit fire, the background should look like a typical Ohio town”

Great news for EU auto workers!

Anything but paying for the labor of a person to draw such a picture.

In addition, apps schedule background work through WorkManager or JobScheduler or AlarmManager. Those can wake the app up at specific times designated to do this work. E.g. every X minutes when the screen is off.

Android has never had the same application execution model as traditional OSes. Both for foreground and background work. This allows it to scale multitasking with the available resources, mostly RAM, without losing app/user data. In other words Android can work on a 512MB RAM device or 8GB device and the only obvious difference would be how many apps are kept in memory. No data will be lost in either case due to apps getting evicted out of RAM. I typically give a 3-hour lecture to my interns on this because they need to know the details but that’s what it boils down to. 😂

I have no objections to your view for how things should be. It’s definitely not how they are and I think it’s important for people to realize what the reality is for any change to happen.

I think upon closer inspection you might find that CS’es primary duty is upholding the interests of its shareholders, not the customers.

So the whole Twitter acquisition hullabaloo was all about electing more tax breaks after all wasn’t it. And here I was thinking it was perhaps about the ability to do some more sophisticated propaganda or just because of Elon’s pure stupidity.

Perfect. This is consistent with what I was thinking and that Cloudflare’s changes won’t fix any recent bundles that might include malicious code.

I read the story and specifically the bit about the Github account. Isn’t this the Polyfill lib’s Github account? Because if that’s the case, how would a bundler solve the issue? The new owners could modify the original source, then the CICD jobs would happily publish that to registries and from there down into the bundles. Is it a different Github account they’re talking about?

Nice. Unfortunately this won’t tackle the mountains of sites that use bundlers.

Well this is nice. One downside is that folks who play games without VSync can’t turn it off in Wayland as far as I’m aware.

They can certainly slow down the proliferation this way, a lot. They can’t gatekeep it forever from a determined third party though.

Agreed. I’d factory reset and see whether it improves things.

Under certain circumstances it’s possible that the service is getting killed due to lack of memory, but the FP3 has 4GB of RAM so that shouldn’t be happening. One could probably diagnose it with a detailed logcat. Unfortunately I don’t have the bandwidth to help.

Well, assuming they want it to be useful.

I tested with my new Chipolo trackers. I left a tracker at home and went a block away. Marked the tracker as lost. Came home and waited and waited to get a notification that it was found. An hour later I opened the app and then I got it. So far not so good. 🥹 That said I believe it will improve over time. It has to, in order to be useful.

Sounds like Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox.

What modem? Surely Google hasn’t built one and the modem is one of the most crucial components that puts Qualcomm’s SoCs a level above everyone else’s in efficiency. It’ll be interesting to see if they’ve licensed QC or still use Samsung’s. Or someone else’s.