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The problem I've seen with this is that Wero works with banking applications that require either Google Play or App Store. Which means that you may not need an American company for the payment itself, but you now need an American company in the device you have to use for the payment.

No, I mean the party who was in charge when all that happened (PP). They had plenty of time to fix that if, as you claim, the machinists were warning about issues in the railroad.

You mean the People's Party (PP) which was in charge when the Angrois derailment happened didn't do anything to address the warnings from the machinists? Because they had been in government for more than a year and a half already.

> Is this a poor way of attempting to attack my arguments either an ad hominem?

They're only warning that your comments about this accident seem to be politically motivated, so that they should be taken with a grain of salt.

> The government during that time (of the same party than this one) did nothing.

It looks like you're quite interested in pointing out that the culprit of this 2013 accident was the same party which is now in office, but even if we take a look at your sources, it says something different:

"Las víctimas creen que hubo cuatro decisiones críticas. Primero, el cambio de proyecto original realizado por Blanco, que suprimió el sistema de seguridad ERTMS en la vía justo antes de Angrois. Segundo, la decisión del ministerio de Ana Pastor de desconectar el sistema embarcado en el Alvia, desactivando una medida técnica que habría ayudado a mitigar el riesgo de un error humano como el que tuvo el maquinista. La tercera decisión fue ignorar un aviso por escrito de un jefe de maquinistas advirtiendo del riesgo en la curva de Angrois. La cuarta, que Adif y Renfe permitieron poner en servicio la línea sin haber realizado el análisis y evaluación de riesgos que exigía la normativa."

There we can read that not only the former minister Blanco (socialist) was to blame according to the demonstrators, but also Ana Pastor (conservative) whose party was in charge when the accident happened.

What does the "Cercanías" conmuter network in Madrid have to do with the high-speed AVE network where the accident took place? They are two different networks, and even if the first one isn't well maintained as you claim, it doesn't mean the other one has to be in the same situation.

Also, it's been four and a half years since the former Transport Minister who is in jail left the office (july 2021).

Well, Zelensky actually barely speaks Ukrainian. He communicates mostly in Russian. As for his country's interests, we'd better wait to see how Ukraine is after all this finishes, and who are the biggest beneficiaries, in comparison to how it was when his term began.

Yes, there were elections where at most only 18M people voted, compared to the 24M people that voted when the pro-Russian candidate won, in 2010. Because there were almost no ballot station in those regions leaning more towards Russia. Yet the government didn't think that was a problem at all; in fact, it was good for them (imagine if Trump could just make that people in some blue states couldn't vote). All this in a climate with banned parties and where all the media was controlled by the "Maidan" parties.

So it doesn't look the situation in Ukraine was very democratic either.

Yep. They just ousted the elected president without the votes their constitution mandates.

> How would you feel if Roomba devices were controlled by North Korea, for example?

Depends on where you live. If you are living in North Korea and somehow you got to own a Roomba, it would be surely a bad thing.

But living in a western country, I would hands down prefer giving all my secrets to the North Korean government instead of my own one.

It's not the web we want, but it's the web corporations want. And everybody else doesn't give a damn.

There are no allies in this world. There are opponents, and opponents who say that they are your allies.

I wonder what could one do if he wants to use NPM for programming with a very popular framework (like Angular or Vue) and stay safe. Is just picking a not very recent version of the top level framework (Angular, etc.) enough? Is it possible to somehow isolate NPM so the code it runs, like those postinstall hooks, doesn't mess with your system, while at the same time allowing you to use it normally?

100% true, although the opinion is unpopular in this forum. In the end, this is rewarding some very bad people just because they oppose somebody (supposedly) even worse. But that doesn't have anything to do with "peace". This award lost its meaning a long time ago, maybe Netanyahu will be the winner next year.

> why bother with basic auth at all, especially when there is no TLS?

Maybe to have some "basic" auth for an embedded device web interface or something like that? I suppose it's better than nothing. I've devices which prompt for username and password with no TLS either.

What move, you mean about the drones? I first want to be sure about what happened. Remember that few years ago you were still being labeled as "Russian propaganda" if you had doubts about the NS incident.

Thank God they didn't. Java could be another abandoned Google project now. OTOH I don't think anybody can say anything bad about what Oracle did and is doing with Java.

> We got it mitigated, and it wasn't that expensive

What's the process, usually, adding some special ventilation system to the house?

Thanks for the explanation. In case FILE was opaque in glibc, would the same test (including <stdio.h> and declaring a variable of type FILE) also fail with the unknown storage size error? If so, would linking again some library (-l) be necessary?

EDIT: after some more thinking I assume the key is that we wouldn't be able to have a variable of type FILE, but a pointer, whose size is always known.

Forgive my ignorance in this topic, but if "stdio.h" itself includes "bits/types/struct_FILE.h", is anything preventing me from accessing the individual elements of FILE as they are defined in the latter header file?

The definition of struct _IO_FILE seems to be inside `bits/types/struct_FILE.h`, and goes like this:

  struct _IO_FILE
  {
    int _flags;
    ...

so I suppose this means it's indeed expanded somewhere and, thus, not opaque?

Out of curiosity. If we have this inside `bits/types/FILE.h` in Linux/GNU, does it mean the type is opaque?

  ...
  struct _IO_FILE;
  
  /* The opaque type of streams.  This is the definition used elsewhere.  */
  typedef struct _IO_FILE FILE;
  ...

> You can fix it by redownloading the message from the server

But OP said it also deletes the message in the server, so it may be a different bug, right?

Russia is not the Soviet Union, except when we need to talk things like the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia or all the other horror stories about the USSR. Then it was indeed Russia, and Ukraine was just a kidnapped state.

Well, by "right" I meant the same thing the user I was replying to said Israel had when attacking Iran.

I wasn't asking about capabilities. I asked the user if he believed Russia has the right to attack EU countries providing weapons to Ukraine, possibly causing civilian deaths, just as he thinks Israel had the right to do so in regards to Iran.

Would you think the same if, for example, Russia started attacking manufacturers in the EU that supply weapons to Ukraine?

In Ubuntu, it's also possible to ditch Firefox from the snap store and install it using apt-get. Not from Ubuntu's repo, but from the official Firefox Debian repository:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-d...

I know it's not the best but at least it can be done with little effort.

Well, coincidentally, I read this news a couple of days ago about some new laptop offering by Huawei running Linux

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/huawei-matebook-x-pro-20...

Yes, but what's your point? It's not that we can take this new Postgres version and just compile it in a Windows machine supporting IORing, can we? It requires some effort and time -many times by volunteers- and given that most Postgres deployments are running under Linux, it's understandable that the developers focus on that platform first.