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I think the most used messaging app in Russia now is Max.

It wouldn't be difficult for Apple to add a page in the device settings that shows whether the device contains any non-genuine components.

Genuine question: how do they know the bot is from Facebook, apart from what's written in the user agent?

> It should eventually get removed by ICANN, since the country code TLDs are managed by ISO 3166-1 alpha 2 (it's however not an exact match), and the transfer will mean the British Indian Ocean Territories will no longer exist. ISO is going to be the entity in charge of removing the io country code, which it probably will do since ISO 3166-1 alpha 2 isn't just used for domain names.

Side note: I suspect the real reason Google wants to discontinue goo.gl links is because they believe Trump will eventually succeed in annexing Greenland to the US.

> it only happened once -- which isn't what you'd expect from aliens hoping to make contact.

Actually it’s exactly what we did with the Arecibo message, our only attempt to make contact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message

A few years ago, I attended a test powering on of #41 'Frank Anderson' at the Polytechnic University of Turin. It was a truly exciting and interesting experience.

This is the right time for the Europeans to wake up!

> making Google Play store a requirement for banking should not be allowed by the authorities

How would banks distribute their apps and make sure they are up to date then? F-Droid only accepts open-source software.

> Maybe something like an EU-based perplexity/anthropic competitor would be great.

Maybe it would be even better to have a EU-based app store that must be pre-installed on every Android/iOS/iPadOS device that is sold in the EU, so as to break the monopoly of Google and Apple in the app distribution.

> geostationary equatorial orbit

I thought GEO stood for Geostationary Earth Orbit, since a geostationary orbit must be equatorial anyway. But actually "Earth" would also be redundant, since "Geo-" already stands for Earth.

Permission granted by whom? Agencies and companies that launch satellites are subject only to the laws of the countries in which they are based. And it is not even imaginable to have a NPT-like system where a few "special" countries have the right to launch satellites while the others don't.

It is the sixth strongest earthquake ever recorded on the planet.

> Websites change. Perma Links don’t.

Until the Cocos Islands are annexed by Australia.

> Why would that be a good thing?

Ask Ukraine.

Meanwhile, NOAA and EUMETSAT are preparing to launch a joint satellite later this year.

https://www.eumetsat.int/sentinel-6

I really like the idea and it would certainly be very useful for communicating in case of censorship or Internet outage.

However, I wonder how would the sender know how to route the message so that it gets to the correct recipient. It would have to send it to all nearby devices, which would then send it to all nearby devices, and so on, but that would be terribly inefficient; moreover, the message would continue to circulate even after the recipient received it, unless the recipient sends a receipt acknowledgement, which would then need to be propagated to all devices as well.

Apple's Find My network is not decentralized: all participating devices send the locations of objects they find to Apple's servers, which then forward the information directly to the correct recipients.

This can only work once. Then, when the rest of the world sees that the US government uses US-made software as a blackmail weapon against a (former) ally and friend, no one will want to buy products from Microsoft or other US companies.

I meant I am thinking of installing Linux.

I have a 2017 laptop with Windows 10 and I am thinking of installing Windows, but I can’t decide between Mint and openSuse. Anyway, I have until October to decide.

> I believe that Drew's primary point is that BA is republishing this and therefore, more or less standing behind it as their position as well.

Not necessarily. I flew on Emirates a couple of months ago and when opening the flight map there was a disclaimer saying that the company used third-party map services and that they did not necessarily reflect the company's position on territorial disputes.

This makes sense in terms of PR: if the company did edit those maps, it would need to take a position on certain issues that might please some passengers but upset others.

Here in Frankfurt, too, the bells began to ring at the announcement.

> IPv6 traffic to a different ISP in the same country goes through the USA

Why could this happen?

Which one specifically?

Supporting your counterpoint too: MH370 co-pilot's mobile phone did connect to a cell tower mid-flight after the hijacking. [0]

[0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6839167/MH370-pilot...

A similar tool from EUMETSAT with images of our planet: https://pics.eumetsat.int/viewer/index.html

That's probably true, however I'd be really curious to know why Chrome's guess for "yes" is the Spanish word for "Y-junctions" instead of the English word yes.

> It's only 3 km?

The current longest suspension bridge in the world has a span of 2 km. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_suspension_b...

The only one that has 100% protection rate: indeed you can't get any malware if you can't turn on your PC.

Perhaps a stupid question, but why they don’t test the firmware updates internally before releasing them?