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Most do not use it "directly", but instead use features implemented by it.

E.g. I've used Intel Platform Trust Technology (PTT) to implement system security features, and AFAIK that runs on ME.

> Contrast this with Linux, where glibc is known to break from time to time.

glibc has a very stable ABI, i.e. older binaries compiled against older versions of it should work fine on current versions (since the breaking libc6 transition which was several decades ago), they employ symbol versioning to ensure old binaries still find the symbols with the behavior they expect.

Of course, there are other "system libraries" that change ABI/SONAMEs more often, so what you are saying still generally applies, but I'd say glibc is not one of them.

Indeed.

But for the record, the author has since found the issue, and in this case it indeed was a bug in the first patch that was inadvertently fixed by a later patch in the series:

https://probablydance.com/2022/09/17/finding-the-second-bug-...

For Mastercard:

> The magnetic stripe will start to disappear in 2024 from Mastercard payment cards in regions, such as Europe, where chip cards are already widely used. Banks in the U.S. will no longer be required to issue chip cards with a magnetic stripe, starting in 2027.

https://www.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2021/magnetic-s...

I think it has been over a decade since my last magstripe transaction (in a convenience store I frequented that switched to chip readers in 2010).

I'm pretty sure most of what you talk about involves completely different departments or authorities (and thus "different people") as they are not anti-trust issues.

Also, AFAIK EU wasn't really involved in energy security until the crisis this year, so I'd hardly say they "walked the continent" into it.

The market in question is licensable smartphone operating systems, which is not a market Apple operates in (edit: well, other markets are involved too, see sibling thread).

They (Commission and Court) never claimed that there aren't any markets they both operate in (which there obviously are).

See the decision for more details, AFAICS it talks about Google's claim that Apple provides enough competitive constraint starting from section 145: https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&do...

> until the price was revealed to be way out of reach for yachtsmen who aren't in the super-rich bracket

To save others the googling: $5000/mo for Starlink Maritime, equipment cost $10000.

Yep, even from here in Finland regular UPS/DHL express services are normally 1 or 2 days to US (e.g. UPS Express Saver is 1 day to ~NY and 2 days elsewhere).

Though even postal items can arrive in a week as well, with luck.

> There is a theoretical possibility that two of the same thing from different sellers could end up in the same bin. At that point the picker wouldn’t know which is which.

Amazon's seller-side stickerless inventory documentation specifically says that identical items from different sellers are never put into same physical bin so that the original source can be traced.

Actually, "software application stores" are explicitly mentioned in the relevant Article 6(4) (https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/PE-17-2022-INI... page 129).

> edit: article says 'default' a lot, are we talking flash new firmware to get something working or changing a setting like secure boot = off, as they're not really comparable.

The latter, you need to change a setting.

My X13 Gen 2 AMD goes to BIOS setup when hitting F1, just like other Thinkpads I've had.

That's not a thing here, everyone has controllable thermostats (Finland).

Yes, monthly SEPA payments (with a static amount and static reference/message) are a commonly used service at least in Finland, for e.g. paying rent between private individuals, and it works as-is with Mullvad wire transfers.

> I assume writing a check and mailing it is a fairly typical thing everywhere

It absolutely is not. The only time I've seen a check was a gift from my grandfather in the 00s, and I don't think paying bills by mailing checks was ever a thing here.

Checks also often become very difficult and expensive to cash when going cross-border. E.g. most banks here (Finland) refuse to cash foreign checks altogether.

AFAICS the device in your link does not support IP functionality at all (remote console access), which is what TinyPilot is for.

This varies by country, but e.g. in Finland IBANs completely replaced legacy numbers in 2010.

Mine is 5 characters longer than the legacy number was (added "FI", 2 check digits, 2 padding zeroes, removed dash), for a total of 18 characters.

This (iLOQ S5) was released in 2019.

It and its predecessor (S10 released in 2007, which is a similar battery-free digital lock) are fairly popular locking systems in Finland, e.g. in apartment buildings.

Their main competitor Abloy also has similar products (Abloy Pulse), along with traditional locks (e.g. Protec2). Practically all door locks in Finland are either Abloy or iLOQ.

They probably simply estimate that hiring a team to manually maintain (or moderate) their catalog of hundreds of millions of products would cost more than it would improve sales.

The parent meant that antitrust laws usually apply even if there is no monopoly in the strictest possible sense (i.e. literally no competitors). A dominant market position is enough.

No, they were in English.

In this Q1, they lost 700k subscribers in Russia. Without that they would have had positive growth.

From shareholder letter PDF: https://s22.q4cdn.com/959853165/files/doc_financials/2022/q1...

> The suspension of our service in Russia and winding-down of all Russian paid memberships resulted in a -0.7m impact on paid net adds; excluding this impact, paid net additions totaled +0.5m.

(Finland) Within the last year I've gotten two "ms support" scam calls, before that nothing.

Hopefully the authorities and carriers can figure it out before it grows to US levels. At least they are working on it (English article from Dec 2021: https://www.traficom.fi/en/news/traficom-looks-ways-block-in..., latest Finnish technical recommendation PDF on call blocking from Feb 2022: https://www.traficom.fi/sites/default/files/media/regulation...).

The patch just got rebased, here's the one that was actually applied in master for v2.6.30: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.g...

And yes, the code you highlighted is exactly this special-case in its current form. The mount option "noauto_da_alloc" can be used to disable these software-not-calling-fsync safety features.

Without the fsync() before rename(), on system crash, you can end up with the rename having been executed but the data of the new file not yet written to stable storage, losing the data.

ext4 on Linux (since 2009) special-cases rename() when overwriting an existing file so that it works safely even without fsync() (https://lwn.net/Articles/322823/), but that is not guaranteed by all other implementations and filesystems.

The sync() at the end is indeed not needed for the atomicity, it just allows you to know that after its completion the rename will not "roll back" anymore on a crash. IIRC you can also use fsync() on the parent directory to achieve this, avoiding sync() / syncfs().

This is not increasing the percentage-based cut (referral fee), this is increasing the fulfillment fee which is size/weight based.

FBA fulfillment of e.g. 1-2 lbs "large standard" item now costs $5.40 instead of the previous $5.14. Does not seem that huge to me.

Note that the general referral fees are not affected, only the FBA fulfillment fees.

Yes, and that is commonly used.

But Linux must continue to work even on VMs without that, and that is the hard part.

Delivery standards are being loosened in many countries due to significant reduction of non-package mail during the last decade, this is not US-specific.

E.g. here in Finland the standard stamped mail service has been reduced from mostly 1 day to 4 days, and in many areas they are only being delivered on every other business day (so one carrier alternates between two routes, I think).

There are also significant yearly increases in stamp prices, which US has not yet seen I believe.

These non-US measures were also briefly explored in USPS Office of Inspector General report RISC-WP-20-004 in 2020 (https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library...).

I clicked "Nearby" and it just took me to an entirely gray map screen (no map, no pianos).

Seems to be reproducible by just searching for my city: https://pianos.pub/search?q=Tampere%2C+Finland&lat=&lon=

Console says:

  leaflet.js:5 Uncaught Error: Bounds are not valid.
      at i.fitBounds (leaflet.js:5:28718)
      at search?q=Tampere%2C+Finland&lat=&lon=:355:23