I think a hard J makes sense, but soft J is acceptable too

I can open the image in Thunder (Android) but it is not embedded

Edit: Also, I propose we pronounce the file format as "jixel"

The prophecy predicts there will be exactly four major cyber incidents this week.

One might even say malice

None. It's not an election year (I'm not an American)

No. It's the children who are wrong.

This happened in Germany, not America

Just wait till Musk learns about banking regulations.
He's already complaining about the EU regulations on social media, but they nothing compared to what banks have to deal with.

Africa, Asia, and South America

So we are not counting North-America, where the ICE raids continue then?

I have a YouTube Premium subscription

Okay.. So he went to Russia in 2003. Considering that the consensus in 2003 was that Russia was still on its way to becoming a democracy I am not that offended by it personally.
"Putin's hometown" being St. Petersburg, which is the 2nd biggest city in Russia.

What is more worrying is all the things that happened since 2003.

The US really pissed away any strategic advantage it may have had with that little stunt sanctioning a few justices and prosecutors.

It made it plainly obvious to anyone paying attention that American software cannot be trusted, and caused a bunch of countries to start preparing their exit strategy for building down their dependence on American software.

And for what?.. So that they could be an annoyance to some people prosecuting the war criminal, and friend of the US government, Benjamin Netanyahu? That sounds like such a small win, if it causes you to lose the leverage completely.

Edit: Not that I mind. It's a good thing that it's this plainly obvious that we cannot trust a reliance on anything American.
It makes it cost a whole lot less political capital in order to get governments to move away from these dependencies.

It really boils down to a few reasons:

• I don't like ads, and I prefer not to see them
• Running a platform like YouTube is not cheap, and I understand that Google needs money to keep things running.
• The revenue of Premium is split between YouTube and the creators, much like ad revenue is. So it also supports the channels that I follow.

From my understanding this age verification app seems to be based on the age verification blueprint they have been working on for a while now, which is supposed to be part of the European "digital wallet"

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-age-verification

From my understanding it works as follows:

• There will be a central "authority", with which you can identify
• This authority will provide you with tokens indicating you are 18+ (or whatever age verfication you may need)
• These tokens are stored locally, and contain no identifying information other than a simple "is this guy 18+?"
• You can use these tokens to verify age with a website that requires age verification

This solution does seemingly address my two greatest concern with online age verficiation:

• You cannot trust the website, so they only get the information they need. They don't get any identifiable information
• You cannot trust the authority, so they don't get to know for which websites and for what reason you request 18+ tokens

Assuming that this blueprint is followed, it seems like a decent approach at online age verification.

Censoring "prick" as "p****" makes it sound a lot worse than it actually is. I can think of other five-letter words starting with P..

After Trump was elected and inaugurated, Signal has finally been gaining some steam here in the Netherlands.

It's still an American company, so it's not ideal. But it's still significantly better better than letting a tech giant like Facebook have control over the most commonly used chat app.

WhatsApp needs to go and Signal is the most likely way in which we can achieve that. We can worry about the American elephant in the room later.

Pride is a protest. Let's not forget that.

You don't cancel a protest because the authorities say they won't protect you.
If they don't want you to hold your pride march, that is all the more reason to march anyway.

From what I understand this change will retroactively apply to games released in the past as well. I think that's a rather scummy move on Unity's part. "I've altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it further."

And it's not like game devs have been using a free product. They already pay for it through expensive licenses per developer.

If the justification on Unity's part is true, that for each install of a Unity game the runtime environment needs to be downloaded from their servers, then maybe they should look into fixing that rather than nickle and diming their customers for each individual install (customers in this case being the game developers)

"Everbody should use AI"

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