Google also authored libwebp which contained the high severity buffer-overflow vulnerability used for the zero-click hack that made the Pegasus weaponized spyware famous worldwide for targeting journalists, human rights activists, etc.
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Before MacOS 27, I was always able to remove the Time Machine destination, replace the corrupted sparse bundle with a fresh empty one, and reconfigure that as the new TM destination. I even made a script for this, so I didn’t have to figure out the terminal commands every time.
Unfortunately the script doesn’t work anymore; it throws ‘error 25’ on my MacOS 27.
What’s weirdest is that, before the corruption, TM backup and restore used to work fine on my MacOS 27. Seemingly the backup functionality works as normal, but setting the TM destination was broken.
I thought I broke the clock with a DIY repair because it too couldn’t be manually set (aside from enabling a +30 min offset). Luckily it fixed itself after driving out of the garage when it found a GPS signal.
Consider that the majority of Americans do in-fact vote. In doing so, they literally delegate the power of the purse to the representative was most supported in their local community.
Look at the work put into ‘communication’ about those budgets also. In addition to having comptrollers to monitor the auditors or whatever.
The UK Expenses Scandal was funny, but Thatcherism is still doing too much residual harm to laugh about.
Promising x and doing y is a winner-takes-all democracy problem. Coalition governments solve this by sexing-up y as the natural outcome of the public vote. This also makes technocracy easier / more normalized.
You’ve got to read the room!
Big-tech is throwing shade atm.
The first passive device device of it’s kind (эндовибраторы), it operated only when powered by an external RF source, meaning OpenAI wouldn’t have found the bug. Just like US intelligence didn’t with ‘the thing’
He should’ve watched to Gamer Nexus video on LG tv’s, and how many TV’s are remote exploitable often without user intervention.
Chromium on iOS can also be compiled with blink, using the ‘use_blink’ flag.
Look at the developer blogs: https://blogs.igalia.com/gyuyoung/2024/08/08/chrome-ios-brow...
You can also compile your own, with ‘use_blink = true’ ‘in your .setup-gn file’: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/i...
Check out Blink Chrome on iOS on Agelia developer Gyuyoung’s Weblog: https://blogs.igalia.com/gyuyoung/2024/08/08/chrome-ios-brow...
The Google has documented how to compile your own build. Note the ‘building blink for iOS’ section.
It’s as easy as adding ‘use_blink = true’ to ‘ [gn_args]’ in your ‘.setup-gn’: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/i...
EU users can also add alternative app stores to their iOS device, e.g. Epic Games Store, AltStore, or some corn app.
As per september 2026: https://developer.apple.com/news/upcoming-requirements/
This is the TiVo situation. Does open-source require allowing third parties to install their own software / OS and have unlimited control over the device? (GPL v3)
Or does it regard to access to the source code but not access to the device? (GPL v2)
TV’s, routers, IoT, etc vendors aren’t even allowed to ship devices with user-alterable software!
- 45 kWh per household per year
- 11.7 TWh of electricity in 2020 EU-wide
Literally just from better designed consumer vacuum cleaners.
https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/...
Especially when you’re maddened about incoherencies that are merely the manifestation of the inherent entropy of our world!
Let’s look at total of deaths the US military caused though, from a scholarly source (https://www.ibon.org/tl/global-victims-of-us-military-aggres...):
“The most severe of the US’ acts of aggression have resulted in some 13-23 million deaths in at least 28 nations. Direct US military actions in at least 16 countries have caused around 7-13 million deaths. US-supported or -instigated armed conflicts in 19 countries have led to some 6-10 million deaths. There are countries where the US has engaged both directly in combat and indirectly through active military support.
These figures still do not include casualties from all the governments the US has supported militarily in their domestic conflicts against supposed insurgents and other political opposition. Many tens of thousands more have been killed by client states with US support and using US-funded and -supplied war materiel, such as in the Philippines.”
[1] sorry that was Gemini, because I lost count at twenty ‘wars’ somewhere on the other Wikipedia for ‘military conflicts’
It’s the mining that people don’t want in their backyard because of the inherent environmental devastation. Especially considering the low density at which they occur. And the radioactive pollution!
Also, the same old chemical seperation process used with other minerals also works with the rare earth ones. If you’re talking about that being a challenge, it’s not even rare earth specific. So why market it as such!
Furthermore, in what world is mining a start-up friendly industry? Wouldn’t this naturally be done by the giant mining conglomerates that, in fact, are doing so right now?
Actual evidence in the real world points to pesticides causing the rise in Parkinson’s:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/opinion/parkinsons-pestic...
Especially in a context where most scientists blame pesticides?
E.g. OpenWrt's massive toolchain at least compiles down to tiny binaries to make up for itself.
Regarding e.g. the 'double tap' strike on Minab's girls school, it's impossible for there to have been any 'management' considering it:
1. has been on Google Maps for over 15 years
2. ranked top on Google Search
3. was all-pink, even on satellite imagery
N.v.m. how the certainty / fuzziness knobs are already being deployed more to generate media buzz for short-term political gains than tactical or strategic results.
(https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blam...)