It's strange to me that the differences are so vast between different continents.

I know litteraly no one who actually uses iMessage. Never once (in recent years) seen some communicate through a channel that isn't WhatsApp, Signal or something similar. The whole "ew, green bubbles" drama just isn't a thing here. (Though the existence of iPhone users still harms society in different ways)

Though I do agree with many commenters that the EU caving to the lobbyists is a bad thing. Having the law only apply to "problems that are big enough to care about" is still a loss for the consumer in the end. I'm all for standardisation and free choice, which means any commercial messaging service should comply. Exceptions only for open source projects funded by non-profit organisations.

A mouse. Just any mouse. There are so many trackpad warriors out there (primarily Apple users) that complain they're being handicapped but they don't just go for the easy solution.

I've even seen some idiots stubbornly trying to do CAD work with a trackpad, and struggling in the process.

Get a fucking mouse.

with only a few exceptions for safety, like cars.

No. There are three main bullshit arguments being used by lobbyists actively making the world a worse place by fighting against this type of legislation.

• safety and security
• intellectual propery rights
• hindering innovation

All three are demonstrably used in hearings to convince legislators to not sign right to repair bills into law. And all three are absolute bullshit.

Replacing the brakes on your own car is not generally seen as introducing safety risks, so why would software be any different? The only things that actually make cars safe are competent drivers (wether flesh and bone, or digital) and proper manufacturing (so no malfunctioning during use).

There is a reason full self driving is not legal in most places worldwide, and likely won't be for a very long time. We've seen too many examples of software fuck ups and the legal responsibility in case of an accident is still a difficult part of the equation.

If we're able to integrate full infotainment systems into cars, and all kinds of AI gadgets for driving assistance. We should be able to make cars safer even if the software is user servicable.

No more gatekeeping bullshit.

Yeah that's the thing. Users stick to reddit because they have ties with the individual communities, not so much the platform itself.

People used to use Facebook for similar reasons. "Because all my friends are there". Not because Facebook was so great.

It can be difficult to leave communities behind that you feel a part of, even if you just lurk most of the time. The fact that reddit was turned into a corporate dystopic shitshow does bother users, but it hasn't outweighed their needs to still be part of their respective communities.

But seeing as official reddit sources claim that "they're still in the early stages of user monetization", it might not be long before we see what's left of the platform turn into the biggest dumpster fire the internet has ever seen.

It's both at the same time. This conflict has caused populations of the yellow countries to be divided more than ever before.

This has caused many politicians to slip up in their first reactions, in which they declared unconditional support for Israel after the attacks by Hamas.

Even at that point more people than they anticipated took the stance that "self defence" should not automatically include fighting beyond your own borders and there was outrage. People felt their heads of state needed to represent ALL citizens, which means full support for the Israeli cause was unacceptable.

This has put several world leaders in an awkward position where they have to carefully balance protecting human rights within Gaza and simultaneously condemning Hamas as a terrorist organization. Abstaining from voting for a ceasefire is a direct result of that. Voting either way might open up new discussion with supporters of either side.

This is very obviously the cowardly way out and we as a people need to push for a resolution to this conflict that is morally just and protects human rights on both sides.

Certified European here, can confirm individual member states and EU as a whole as not being a utopia.

Especially us Dutch folks who have been fucked over and held hostage by a waaay to large upper middle class for years. To the point where we've managed to abolish the ministry of housing, open up the housing market to foreign investors, replace a functioning healthcare system with a healthcare market where insurance firms rule with an iron fist and demand more bureacracy than actual care being provided.

... and the list goes on.

It's a worldwide symptom of economic unequality and the decrease in social skills stemming from the fact that we live our lives increasingly isolated in our own online social bubbles. We're turning increasingly hostile towards each other because we're no longer confronted with all people and perspectives in our surroundings, but just the ones we like.

The United States, being a large country filled with very diverse people, despite all being taught to "love America", still deals with Nebraskan farmers having wildly different wants and needs, and way different social standards than the Californian yuppies.

You're a large country, with 334 million people spread out over a vast amount of land. Meanwhile, we're 18 million living on a patch of marshy land roughly 3/4th the size of West Virgina, and we're further from being united than ever before. The fact that you're even holding together as a country is nothing short of amazing considering the fact that your political systems probably cause way more chaos than ours do.

A lot of Europeans probably mean it when they say "How are you even a country?". And it's not so much an attack on the American people as a whole (though some of y'all deserve to be made fun of), but geniuine amazement at the fact that it has more or less held together since 1776.

As others are sure to point out: welding bad for health.

UV radiation that will give you a near-instant sunburn. Combined with IR radiation that will literally burn your retinas if you don't protect them properly.

Then theres the fact that you're dealing with upwards of 1200°C/2200°F molten steel. And depending on your process you also have argon/CO2 gas leaks to worry about. That or the flux fumes or vaporized oxides and various metals will get you.

But welding is also fun as shit, and surprisingly accessible as long as you're not doing structural stuff without proper training.

You'd have to be nuts to invest in Reddit, given the current state of the platform.

• The the CEO admitting reddit is not profitable in its current state.
• The amount of media attention the API change protests have gotten. * The ever increasing amount of search engine links to removed content.
• Memelords already talking about shorting the stock into the ground if it goes public.
• Various scandals involving the CEO, with likely more to come.
• Little to no third-party developers willing to write new software that integrates with Reddit anymore because they are now seen as an unpredictable party.

There is no way any of this leads to significant growth. The user base that has stuck around is generally not interested in the things that make reddit reddit, being a community-driven and -moderated platform. And significant changes to how the platform works (thereby taking away the unique selling points) will put it into a position where there is no real advantage over using competing platforms. This will make binding new users to the platform a difficult task.

The only ones stupid enough to buy lots of reddit stock will have an incentive to change it and make it profitable. We've seen musk attempt this with Twitter and just look how that has worked out so far.

The worst part is that Spez will likely still get to cash out and fuck off while the platform dies and burns in his wake.

NATO was originally founded so that we'd stop invading each other, which should still hold true today.

I like to think of most developed nations as young adults. All of us are supposed to be mature, which means no more war. We can just talk about things like responsible adults.

Sadly, some of these younger fucks still haven't grasped the concept of "don't be an idiot", and we now need NATO for a strong message of "no, you're not going to touch us, there will be consequences". It's a sad thing that we still need to do so, but I'd rather have a large group of friends that I'm sure will have my back if someone would start shit.

So yes, Sweden joining NATO is a good thing. If anything it will lead to better cooperation and coordination between our countries. Not just in the event of war, but just sharing defense resources and intelligence as well. But the best argument is that we just like you Swedes, and we want to keep hanging out together.

Slugs to be you then, I guess. :P

In all seriousness, the graph shows different species as fraction of total uses recorded. Since the paper is mostly about mice, and behavioural differences under different circumstances, it being unfair to the slugs is probably not such a big deal here.

Unfortunately we still see too many people push the "but my IP rating" narrative without realising that engineers are perfectly able to design gaskets for all kinds of applications.

Some phones with removable batteries even had them and were (to a certain degree) waterproof.

The ONLY reason phones are no longer servicable is profits. Why extend a product's lifespan if you can just frustrate the consumer to the point where they will just buy another one?

Honestly, yes.

More information available at once, more fine user control, less chance of fucking up. If you're going to be spending big, at least make sure what you're doing is the thing you wanted. Desktop sites are still superior in that regard. Until the mobile-first trend turns everything into an enshittified mess, that's the way I'll keep doing things.

Simple counter: Don't be French.

Of course they do, people also prefer being told lies that put a positive spin on things over being told the truth. That's human nature.

So your system knows the exact situation and still is slowing down my bike, just at the moment I need to accelerate to avoid being overrun by that large truck heading into me.

After reading the article, it seems like the system is supposed to temporarily jam pedal assist, turning your ebike into a regular bike. And the system would need to be installed in all street legal ebikes for that to happen. Since you're still free to accelerate by pedaling like a normal bike user, that significantly reduces the amount of situations where the pedal assist would actually save you. If you can't avoid collision by pedaling harder, you probably had no chance in the first place.

Considering most of the inner city's roads now have a 30 km/h speed limit for cars, collision safety is probably even less of a concern now.

I do share the concern of others in the comments that such a system would probably be broken on day one, and you have a bunch of script kiddies with flipper zeros running around bricking ebikes.

The only way for that not to happen is to use proper encryption for any wireless signals being used to control this system. Considering the Dutch governmental reputation for IT failures, this is probably not going to go well.

If anything, torrents have a region boost. Provided no one has servers or seedboxes set up, you're going to benefit hugely from seeders near your location.

It's not quite a trend, it's a hidden lifestyle aspect of men in general.

Men have never quite felt the need to explain because it has never been brought up in this capacity before. But there's a whole stick-centric world out there you can get lost in, if you just keep an open mind.

That's exactly why you tell Defender to keep their greedy fingers out of specific folders and install specific things to dedicated paths.

Let Defender do its thing protecting critical system paths and don't run any executables you don't trust. Defender never touches anything I don't want it to touch and runs rampant on any anomalities. This unfortunately also results in things like Tor browser being flagged and removed randomly happening sometimes. Heuristic analysis is not perfect.

Then again, unless you've gone through hash checks, certificate verification for signed software and in the worst case decompiling your software to make sure it doesn't do anything fishy, you're always taking a risk.

The Linux ecosystem arguably has way better systems in place foe software distribution than "just run this .exe, trust me bro". But common sense goes a long way within Windows.

Ik zie het nog niet zo somber in. De PVV mag nu gaan bewijzen dat ze ook echt met oplossingen gaan komen die reëel zijn. Dat is iets wat in hun rethoriek de afgelopen jaren nog niet gelukt is.

Nu ze het moeten gaan bewijzen betekent dat ook een test of de partij bij elkaar kan blijven als ze serieus aan de bak moeten. Het kan best wel eens zijn dat ze het intern oneens worden over hoe de agenda moet worden uitgevoerd.

We moeten het vertrouwen hebben dat de rechtstaat nog altijd beschermt tegen de extreme standpunten en dat de overige partijen Wilders niet in staat zullen stellen om zijn extreme standpunten in een regeerakkoord te krijgen.

Voorlopig zal hij toch echt eerst een formatieproces moeten doorlopen met verdacht weinig èchte bondgenoten. De enige coalitie die voor de hand ligt is afhankelijk van VVD en NSC, en beiden zullen hun huid duur verkopen.

Ja, Wilders voert een ideologie die buitenproportioneel veel schuld zoekt in de verkeerde dingen. Nu zal hij milder moeten worden om ook echt dingen gedaan te krijgen. Doet hij dat niet dan gaan we veel eerder weer naar de stembus en zal hij ook zijn mandaat verliezen.

It was a big mistake by Google to base the Android Framework entirely on Java. Pivoting to Kotlin because you've discovered that working in Java produces nothing but garbage does nothing to fix the situation either.

Can't wait for generic Linux phones to be a (more popular) thing so we won't have to deal with this clown world nonsense anymore.