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SCART: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCART

EPG: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_program_guide

Not according to their own financials: orders were up 1M the first quarter for Door Dash compared to Q1 the previous year (+45M ‘23, +46M ‘24).

Door Dash don’t even mention the new laws in their most recent financials:

> In Q1 2024, Total Orders increased 21% Y/Y to 620 million and Marketplace GOV increased 21% Y/Y to $19.2 billion. We remain pleased with our execution against volume goals in all major areas of our business”

Ryan Walters recently lost when the highest court in the State ruled that it’s unconstitutional to create a state funded religious charter school.

Not one to obey the law this one - it seems to be the thing with these Christian Nationalists, to embrace the courts when they rule in their favor, then complain, bitch and invariably then ignore when the courts rule against them.

Apparently he saw what Louisiana did, then looked around for someone to hold his beer…

It’ll just take word of mouth at first. Never underestimate the ability for the message to spread fast.

NK prides itself on keeping its citizens as isolated as possible from the outside world.

If stationed in the Ukraine then they’re going to pick up an awful amount of information that will shake their worldview and I’d have thought making their reintegration back to the motherland exceptionally problematical at best.

Even the Russians will happily have fun with their NK “chums” shattering everything they’ve been taught - because, why not?

Whatever happened to just, I dunno, asking what to do?

> But I've voted with my wallet and have moved to Linux and macOS for day-to-day desktop computing

As did I about 7 years ago. Still have to use Windows servers at work, but I’m even supplanting many of those with Linux servers as and when I can

That said, they are still files and weird stuff can happen. It shouldn’t, but it can.

It is entirely possible a third party app is responsible for this, just as much as it’s possible it’s a bug in the OS.

If you read any of the links you supplied, you’ll see how easy it is to delete the file. This being the case, it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that something else damaged the file.

Sophos had no reason to quarantine the critical file it did that Tableau used. I’ll happily bitch about Tableau till the cows come home, but this was absolutely not one of them.

Again - we were prepared to 100% blame Tableau. We had no idea that the issue was a missing file and we’d have never ever discovered it unless the Security Manager had pinged me.

So, it’s very easy to blame the broken thing from being broken. But sometimes it’s not the broken things fault.

No one should be expected to cover every last single potential issue that can affect something - it’s a fools errand. You do the best you can and move on.

If the issue here is, from what it sounds like, a corruption plist then the solution is to apparently delete it and let the OS heal itself after.

The question there is, what damaged it? An update or a third party app?

Case in point:

Sophos recently decided to mark a file used by Tableau as malicious that totally took our Tableau instance down. The file was a few years old and hadn’t changed in eons.

We had no idea why our Tableau server died at the time (or rather when we had to restart it to update the license) - it was only when our security manager informed me he’d seen the event in his Sophos console that it made sense.

Right up until then it had been assumed it was a Tableau issue.

Turned out it was a Sophos problem instead.

Not saying that this issue with the clock is a related issue, rather than it’s easy to blame the affected system when there may be other, external issues, to be looked at.

We’re an on prem shop and I’m not running stuff in the cloud for a reason.

General purpose Operating Systems are incredibly complex systems that have to cater for an almost limitless number of edge cases and you’ll never be able to know what those edge cases are.

Windows and Linux are also awash with issues and bugs that affect some people but not others.

I myself spent a year dealing with an agonizing bug on my work MacBook that required it to be rebooted almost daily because it would suddenly freeze on me.

That issue turned out to be related to the Duet app that I’d forgotten to uninstall after I’d stopped using it. All my issues went away once I’d uninstalled it.

If you’re a serious developer then you’re going to have a machine that has more horsepower than one suited for everyday tasks.

Heck, when I brought my M1 Air years ago I made it a 16GB simply because I knew I was going to do some light development on it and needed to ensure it could run the IDEs and apps I was fritzing with simultaneously - including the need to run Docker (now Podman).

Personally I’d much rather Apple have a 16GB baseline as a matter of course, but this article is simple ragebait.

What’s the purpose of the server? Who’s the audience? What will it be doing? What sort of volume will it expect?

One does not simply create an API server!

And there a lot more to it - I’m no expert but my recent foray into this involved a front end API server in the DMZ, and a backend handler (both running under Kubernetes), RabbitMq , Redis, Sql Server and Postgres.

Does this API server even need a database? If so, why?

Questions, questions, questions…

Also users: Why do I need to buy third party apps to do [X]? It should be native.

I get it - I’ve been a happy user of things like PCalc for years, but for every Apple Mail, there’s a Spark. For every calendar there’s a Fantastical. And so on.

But Apple are damned if they do, and damned if they don’t.

We had a very simple wedding 25+ years ago. A few close family and friends as guest, registry office and a local hotel for the reception - and had the entire thing paid for the next month when the CC came through.

It was no less meaningful or memorable- we still talk about our favorite parts today and need no major Instagramable set of videos and pictures to remind us of it.

I fear that some of these hyper stylized weddings later become metaphorical albatross’s because they constantly remind people of a time gone by that can never be returned to.

My personal view is to simply remember the past with fondness but always look to the future.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10/25/texas-judge-gay-wedd...

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/new-...

Blatantly false.

Given the huge number of recent anti LGBTQ+ laws that have been created in the last few years, it is quite apparent that the exact opposite is true.

There are some parts which have been hard won, but one just has to look at how many people feel they have the right to not deal with LGBTQ+ people, even when it’s their public duty to do so (e.g. the Kim Davis debacle).

So even when protection is finally achieved there will still be large numbers of people who’ll ignore it - which is why we still have widespread racism here in the USA.

Given that USB-C is Bi-directional, flipping it over would show the screen…

The point has been made it makes incorrect choices - not all can be easily corrected.

In addition such plans, when they are available, invariably lock you in for a set period committing you to regular payments. Either that or the “free phone” is paid back out of the term of the contract thus still requiring you to pay full price at the get go.

This is how it goes, at least here in the USA.

Bummer…

In this case the question is “is it ok for a hare brained moron drunk on his own power and perceived importance, to ban a particular phone manufacturer because he’s got a hatred for OpenAi”.

I think we already know the answer to the real question.

That being the case they could have turned on Sim protection. That should stop the Sim swap dead in its tracks.