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> There could be an index where you list your product/service, so people can find your stuff when they need it.

There is already one, it's called a search engine.

It seems quite simple to me. Are you paying for that? Or providing any benefit equivalent to a payment? Then it's an ad.

Aren't these basically mutual healthcare providers? We have them in Europe.

This does not seem a fitting metaphor: you complain only after the politician has read that speech. But this whole campaign is about a speech that has not been written yet, i.e., a proposal that has not been finalized. You are writing to a MEP about a certain draft that is still being worked on, and that they might have to vote on in the future.

What do you expect them to answer, other than "thanks, I can do nothing for now, but I'll keep that in mind if and when I have to vote on it"? Why not wait and write to them when they actually have to vote on this proposal?

My main problem with Fight Chat Control is that it asks people to send messages to the wrong audience. The site asks me to contact members of the European /parliament/, while the proposal is being discussed by the EU /commission/, a completely different body.

I imagine the error messages must be terrible to read, since this hack is based on reusing syntax that was meant for something entirely different.

Comparable to what? To Windows 11?

I have a Kobo. Yes, you can download books you buy from them to any device. They are Epubs with DRM.

Ah, yes, the classic argument: we must ramp up surveillance because it is the only way to stop pedophiles, terrorists, and pirates.

You define an Interval type, and check the constraint in its constructor.

Palantirs are inherently evil, and they deceive those who use them. Sauron was deceived into thinking Pippin had the ring, and this led to his demise. Denethor saw what he thought was Sauron's army, and was driven to suicide.

Jolla C2. Sailfish OS is still alive (though barely).

Someone must have complained about `China/Hong Kong` to cause this change.

A lot of parents think they are better at educating their kids than a trained professional. But are they right?

Life pro tip: the Wikipedia pages for Libgen and Scihub contain up-to-date current links in the right sidebar. Only for the purpose of information and documentation, of course.

Ah. I was about to ask if it is private and if the AI can run on-device, but I guess this comments answers all my questions in the negative. Too bad.

Part of the problem is the traditional PC security model (Linux / Windows). "All the executable files I run are trusted and have access to all my personal files" doesn't work anymore in 2025. Android fixed this for the most part, but on PC SELinux is all we have and it's painful to use.

It's a lossless format optimized for file size rather than decompression speed; the README seems clear enough. Made by a pixel art game dev, for compressing sprites in pixel art games, so I assume it fits a useful niche.

Random thought: why isn't LLM-based spam filtering ubiquitous yet? Some of the obvious spam that lands into my inbox would be caught easily even by the tiniest, cheapest models.

You can deny it on Graphene OS.

That's the first step toward banning NSFW apps like on Steam, I'm afraid.

Everything has been moving towards USB-C precisely because of this regulation, duh. Manufacturers want to continue selling in Europe.

The Greenwich meridian is not actually 100% arbitrary. It is a convenient location that does not split into two any significant landmasses.

I think it's also because C++ has no generic concept of "zero"; otherwise one could have defined the first element of adjacent_difference(v) as v(1)- zero<typeof(v)>, and it would have been type-stable.

This sounds a lot like anti-encryption rhetoric: "so are you just okay with terrorists / pedophiles / pirates then?".

Nethack is one of the wildest. So many hardcoded edge cases and wild interactions.

From the wiki: "Food rations have a 1/7 chance of being rotten when eaten if they are uncursed and older than 30 turns, or else are blessed and older than 50 turns, while cursed food rations are always rotten. Food rations can be thrown to tame domestic canines and felines and pacify domestic equines. "

Unfortunately I'm one of those privacy-conscious people that would only accept this as a local app on my phone, without a surveillance capitalism giant being able to eavesdrop all my calls as a man-in-the-middle as a side effect.

I wish I could impose callers a "ringback captcha": if you want my phone to ring, you have to solve this challenge to prove that you are human.

I don't claim to have first-hand experience, that was just a suggestion. But there is a recent study on how maintainers respond to bug bounties here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07670 .

Do you think this would work?

- Mr. Z: There's no warranty whatsoever. However, I might fix it for a small consulting fee.

- Company X: You either fix it, or we spread the word that you're irresponsible and everyone will inevitably migrate to libW.

- Mr. Z: Ok, and I'll spread the word that you are a cheapskate.