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ndlan··on It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027
Or maybe people don't really care about replaceable batteries?
ndlan··on Tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data about taxpayers with Meta
Because it would be impossible for Google to do any kind of serious server side analysis of the data, which is why these companies use analytics, if Google don't have the data unencrypted.
ndlan··on Python consumes 38x more energy than Java
clickbaity and correct
ndlan··on You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You: On Meta and Mastodon
October, 2018: "In Europe, Speech Is an Alienable Right: [the European Court of Human Rights] upheld an Austrian woman’s conviction for disparaging the Prophet Muhammad."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/its-not-fr...

ndlan··on You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You: On Meta and Mastodon
Precisely part of the problem is that most instances are in Europe, which means that much of the speech you can find online is illegal, and if you aren't Facebook you don't have the muscle to fight a politician or a judge who wants to make an example out of you.
ndlan··on Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts
Using in public.
ndlan··on Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts
Arrest him and put him through forced rehab.
ndlan··on After days of destruction, Macron blames a familiar bogeyman: video games
It's going to be very dirty, but it can be solved. I still hold some faith.
ndlan··on Please don't say just hello in chat
The website is incredible. I spent a few minutes and I could not get to the end of it. I wonder how many copies of the software did that website sell - I'm thinking of buying one and I don't even own a Mac.
ndlan··on June’s record-smashing temperatures – in data
(since 1980!!)