ViatorOmnium

He can disagree with the pope but not disagree with the catechism and still consider himself catholic, and the pope is only restating the “Safeguarding Peace” chapter.

The villages I clicked at random were added 7 years ago.

Apple Maps’s main data source is OpenStreetMaps which definitely has the villages. So it doesn’t matter when the villages were removed, someone at Apple went out of their way to do it.

But this was already the case. When someone submitted code to Linux they always had to assume responsibility for the legality of the submitted code, that’s one of the points of mandatory Signed-off-by.

IQ test results follow a normal distribution by design (i.e. they are calibrated so 50% of the people are on each side of 100, and most people land on the middle of the range).

If we are talking about intelligence in general, it’s a very fuzzy social construct that encompasses a wide range of innate and learned skills, so we will never be able to boil it down to an objective number.

How does the phone confirm the payment without a network? With NFC the phone has a low bandwidth connection to the payment terminal that’s enough to sign the transaction.

EDIT: I found it. It uses special phone codes that still use the mobile network to do the payment. If I understand correctly it would still not work in places where there’s no reception, like some large buildings or air planes.

Do the QR codes work without internet? The NFC payment schemes do.

I’ve been saying that since forever. There’s exactly one job that can be replaced by LLMs (and maybe a good PR person to show up for physical events).

(2) can mean getting access to production credentials of something important and causing an incident for the ages.

AWS already had a few because they gave agents too much access.

Let me guess, the containment was written by the previous iteration and was the digital version of a wet paperback.

We all saw the state of Claude Code’s codebase.

Not all plant based leather uses plastic. It’s unfortunate that plant+plastic mixes are allowed to call themselves plant based leather.

The conflict of interests regarding the online version of Libreoffice was already bad enough even without a legal case looming over it.

While, pragmatically and unfortunately, big open source projects need to involve commercial partners to scale, depending on a single commercial partner is always a recipe for disaster.

It’s not that linear. Some background services will cache more things in RAM if memory usage is low and release it if total usage goes above a threshold, for example.

I strongly suspect that Vance doesn’t really hate (or love for that matter) anyone. Vance cares about Vance, and will say and do whatever makes life better for Vance in the short term.

And lots of tech-oligarchs that pay to make Vance’s life better are on Bluesky.

Trump is not on Bluesky.

Fun fact: that ad used a pirated font. There are also conflicting reports about it using a pirated song, but that was probably another anti-piracy ad.

Lots (all?) of US states have “not-treaty” international agreements, and messing with that would create an amount of chaos no reasonab… never mind, I realised the problem with my line of thought.

On the other hand you can always rely on them being a bunch of drama queens that always overreacts to news.

Ah, yes, firing everyone that’s not a sycophant. That always ends up well for any organisation. /s