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Done by Israel. Seemed obvious from the start.

Fibre is just strands of extruded glass; one of the most common substances on earth.

Sure beats the blood minerals needed for memory, and to scale up, you just extrude longer strands.

Totally different. This is a multi-way religious war with Sunnis and Shias taking sides, and then Jews and Christians piling in. And on top of that is oil and nuclear weapons.

Iran has been kept destabilized by the rest of the world for the past 50 years because it brings stability to the rest of the region. KSA, UAE, Oman and Qatar are all quite happy to have Iran playing defense, as is Pakistan (traditional Persian lands and culture overlap most of the current national boundaries).

The main players in the Middle East have been fighting for the last 3,000 or so years, and it hasn’t been a cold fight. The US is traditionally willing to pour just enough weaponry into the area to keep things off balance.

That’s the way; study political science in university and set up a PAC towards your election for some far off date. Have anyone interested donate to the PAC, and then spend years trying to get elected after you graduate, using those funds for your campaign — many different types of activities can count as campaigning.

Android phones don’t have a BIOS for the same reason that Macs don’t have a BIOS and Raspberry Pis don’t have a BIOS — they run on the ARM architecture, not the Intel-compatible PC architecture.

As such, the bootloader system is compliant with a totally different reference system; ARM (Acorn Reference Machine) has been around almost as long as the IBM PC compatible architecture.

As for the “why are phones more locked down” bit, it’s because they’re supposed to be appliances, not general computing platforms. You want your phone to always work, so if you receive a phone call, text or email, it’s likely going to work.

Although the real answer is that if you buy a computer, you own the computer and get to decide what goes on it (well, unless it’s locked down to Windows or macOS). Phones contain bits that are owned by your carrier, bits that are owned by the manufacturer, bits that are owned by the software developer. And each of those groups doesn’t want anyone else messing with their private software.

Remember that old phones with no SIM are still able to call 911. You can use them as emergency call boxes.

This is the “let’s get the budget computer crowd using iCloud services” solution.

They can afford to sell at a loss if needed, because the onboard storage is just low enough to make NOT subscribing to cloud services painful after 6-8 months.

This leaves us with the obvious question: red pill or blue pill?

Wait… I was thinking it was two cops on patrol who got pelted as their beat took them through the fight.

There were at least seven, and they inserted themselves directly into the fray. This was premeditated.

I hope there’s an inquiry into why the department decided to do something reckless that supposedly endangered their officers.

I have to admit I’m pretty ignorant in low-end laptops.

Business class laptops tend to be able to charge at 100W over USB-C, but often have a dedicated charging port as well (Magsafe for Apple, rectangular charge port for Lenovo, for example).

For any laptop that draws 100W or less, I believe they’re required to charge over USB-C in the EU. Barrel jack is cheaper though, so they can shave a couple of dollars off the price by using it, which could lead to significant profits in increased sales, since most of the competition is using the same basic parts.

It’s only censorship when the government does it.

“Worst mass casualty event” — are they saying that the war is over?

Great; that means the bloodiest hardliners will rise to power now.

Why doesn’t it mention the Fediverse at all???

Seems like they’re advocating using a Fairphone running e/OS, Ecosia as the search engine, LibreWolf as the browser, LibreOffice as the office package, and W for social media?

Have you been in a coma since 2018?

American scum have always been American scum, and strong supporters of Putin and Orban.

“What would usually take, for an analysis piece, maybe half a day to a day, was really being crunched down to a few hours, and (it) was scarily accurate,” says Kolga, who tested out Cipher in its early stages and still uses the AI agent to expedite his work.

Yes; the problem IPFS has is the same problem IPv6 has.

The hash-in-a-URL solution can function cleanly in the background on top of what people already use.

The idea is to verify the archival copy’s URL, not to verify the original content. So yes, a server could push different content to the archiver than to people, or vary by region, or an AitM could modify the content as it goes out to the archiver. But adding the sha256 in the URL query parameter means that if someone publishes a link to an archive copy online, anyone else using the link can know they’re looking at the same content the other person was referencing.

If the archive content changes, that URL will be invalid; if someone uses a fake hash, the URL will be invalid (which is why MD5 wouldn’t be appropriate).

The beauty of this technique is that query parameters are generally ignored if unsupported by the web server, so any archival service could start using this technique today, and all it would require is a browser extension to validate the parameter.

Link it to something like Web of Trust, and you’ve solved the separate issue you described.

In fact, this is a feature WoT could add to their extension today, and it would “Just Work”. For that matter, Archive.org could add it to their extension today, too.

Remind me to ping Jason about that.

Only works for archived pages though, because for any regular page, a large portion of the page will be dynamically generated; hashing the HTML will only say the framework hasn’t changed.

Of course it’s a broad generalization; my point was that the tent cities aren’t predominantly made up of people who hit the kill line, that the situation isn’t that simple.

Fixing the kill line won’t affect tent cities that much; there are further societal issues that are also at play.

In China, substance abuse is handled differently as is mental health issues… so you don’t end up with those people in tent cities either.

This doesn’t mean those people don’t exist in a state of suffering; it just means they’re not publicly visible.