In search query, just replace one word with a synonym. And today's google most of the time can't find anymore. Worked most of the time in the past.

What also worked much much better: longer search queries. In the past more words meant better results. Today you basically get mish mash of some junk, and rarely anything relevant.

Nowadays, I feel that unless I know very much precisely the keywords/sentence I'm searching for, google fails more often than not.

P.S. At first I thought that they've replaced google devs with youtube devs (crap search on youtube is ancient problem**). But then I've took TikTok for a spin... What you want to see is less important to them than what's popular (since more ad-worthy). And I know where the crap is coming from. Some say it's "enshitification". But to me it's TV-ization of internet. I.e. turning internet back into a kind of TV, where you have many channels that created illusion of choice - but rarely any real choice of content that you actually wanted.

**And this is a problem. In the past one could bypass crappy youtube search by gooling videos. Not anymore. (I would have said "same shit", but youtube now rolling out another weird crappy redesign, that makes google video search being still slightly better. 'Invidious' gradually becomes indispensable.)

I don't know. Yet.

Would Huawei nag me to give them my CC number?

If not, then it's already a step in right direction*.

*However short lived: Silicon Valley/Wall Street (with StateDep support) won't allow something like this to exist. Obviously.

I hope people would at least try to kick-start something like Matrix (federated channels/chats, a la Mastodon), as alternative for the proprietary stuff.

Dependence that some developed on Discord, Telegram, etc is really worrisome. Modern people don't even understand that their work (they publish on such platforms) could disappear with a flip of a switch. To many those are only "apps". Most laymen don't even understand "information" or "information storage" words.

I remember that old dialog here on Slashdot:

- OMG, you don't know what ACM is?!

- Isn't it a scam? When I click on any link, it asks me for money. Just like ExpertSexChange.com.

...

Honestly, I still have no idea what ACM is.

But they can't be anything important, since pay-walling has effectively removed them from history of about two generations of IT experts. My generation (started career in mid-90s) included.

It will be. Just recently I read on Slashdot that AI is coming to everything.

P.S. Though I personally would prefer "Lawnmower Man" (1992) version of the reality. It certainly is less scary.

Eurocrats is what even they themselves are calling themselves. It's the word to differentiate the EU member states govt people from Brussels's admin (COM) people.

If Apples believes that this kind of shenanigans would impress EU bureaucrats, they are mistaken.

You don't force bureaucrats make decisions*. They are not good at that, and bureaucratic/legalistic thresholds are too high. But once the decisions are made, they are very good (stubborn even) at sticking with them.

*That's what for politicians are!

The "Pydantic" looks neat.

The Apple's thingy, in a nut-shell, is a preprocessor for configuration. I did a lot of similar (handcoded) stuff using Ruby & Python too. (First & last time I touched the Ruby.)

Some geniuses also used PHP for the similar effect. In the end, it's all about how deep you want to go to validate the data, and how custom is your custom data model and types.

... But every time I touched the stuff in the past, the thought always crossed my mind: why the heck XML/XSD/XSLT had to be so dastardly complicated. The example of using PHP as validating preprocessor for configuration (bonus: can fetch data from DBs) back then blew my mind by its sheer simplicity.

Won't find it. The "su1" is very old and died looooong ago. Don't even remember what was the config. You just did it once, it just worked without whining. (Typical for the simpler olden times was a flat list of allowed users or even, trivially, 'wheel' membership.) Ah, the good old times.

"su1" for me. The "sudo" with its idiotic condescending messages (and moronic, error prone config) should have been dropped looooong ago.

You basically can't know what glibc version application requires without looking into the binary of the application. You might compile with glibc 2.34 but for as long as application doesn't use any new glibc function/interface, the actual dependency might be on e.g. glibc 2.11. And then one time you use a new glibc function/interface, and suddenly binary doesn't run on other (older) systems. Lots of people only realize how this glibc dependency actually works after they hit this kind of problem for the first time.

In 2013. In 2014 the figure is different and it is counted differently, and the budget/spendings underwent change.

As written here:

They base their number on the EU budget from 2013 (budget as a document), while this here is apparently the actual post-factum number from the 2014.

Will not pretend to be a finance specialist, but AFAIK the budget is only a plan, a commitment, and is not always followed strictly, and thus differs from the actual numbers. Though I do not expect the numbers to differ it that much. But one has to compare the comparable years, and there is no by-country split of 2014/later budgets.

That's what Germany did. In addition to relaxing the stance on immigration, they did reform the education system, introduced subsidies for reeducation of employed, and free education for unemployed.

Whether there were many or few, it depends on your perspective. Changing the union is a big deal, IMO.

Otherwise, I have read in the past about three such cases. One of the articles closed on the notion that many changes to the union are simply not brought up anymore, despite popular support, because position of the UK remains the same.