It was to stop people realising that their cars are not adequately RF shielded. Their argument that nobody wants it was just a bucket of crap without the bucket.

Here in NZ our civil defence broadcasts are on AM. The range, coverage, and resilience are superior to FM, and in an emergency fewer services have to be maintained. In summary, ditching AM is a danger to civilians.

Many people say "but I don't have an AM radio these days" forgetting that there is one in their car. Given the issue is largely rural coverage, and most rural folks are going to have a vehicle of some sort, AM remains essential.

I have a small AM radio and it stays in my go bag in a ziploc bag with some spare batteries. Highly recommended.

I hope some of the traffic comes the way of Kdenlive. It has transformed from the shoddy bugfest of old into a very capable multi-track editor with GPU acceleration and excellent cross-platform support.

A tablet that folds in half to be a conventional phone size (ie Samsung Fold) means you get a much larger screen folded inside, and the outer sides can still have screens themselves to act like conventional phones. Making phones thiner has been pointless for a while now, but with foldables doubling the thickness (and slightly more due to the hinge) the folded mode is no thicker than a phone from a few years ago, but with a much larger screen. So do people need bigger screens on their phones? Well for people on their screens for more than a few minutes at a time that increase in screen size is truly useful. The main downside of foldables right now is that they don't have covers as strong as Gorilla Glass. Foldables use plastic and they try to be strong but they scratch up more than flat phones. I wouldn't buy one.

Yup, very American. Wait until they know it's unarmed, that it's leaving, and then shoot it in the back.

FWIW It's most likely a Chinese version of Google's "Project Loon" that got away, and is very similar to a device found floating over Japan a few years back.

JP Aerospace know a thing or to about the technology (and hold the airship altitude record) so well worth seeing what JP reckons https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

But why tell everyone otherwise? Politics I guess.

Their website claims "using 100% renewable energy to decouple our system from fossil fuels." What do you know otherwise?

That's a typical clickbait headline. It's not what the article actually says in the text, it's not what the Russian government says, it's an "if maybe some things" shitpost from Roscosmos that doesn't call it either.

From what I read now, even the model herself doesn't understand what the big deal is

Nah, she doesn't want to be involved in these test images and she's made that quite clear. https://www.losinglena.com/ There's nothing particularly special about that photo so we can find equivalent test images.

However, in 2018 he defended Cody Wilson, who later pled guilty to sex with an underage girl, with Stallman saying that the girl likely had "entirely willing sex with him." Stallman changed his original post but nevertheless still said it is "normal for adults to be physically attracted to adolescents" and that adults using trafficked children shouldn't be legally responsible. In 2019, Stallman posted an email to an MIT listserv about the allegation that MIT professor Marvin Minsky raped a 17-year-old girl, and due to public outcry he resigned from both MIT and the Free Software Foundation.

It's interesting that after the collapse of the Just In Time warehousing under Covid, and the bollox-up of Suez Crisis 2 that is yet to hit, Boston Dynamics decides to launch a robot to help cut Just In Time margins even thinner.

That strategy only works in a stable world, and I don't think we've got one anymore.

or Secure Scuttlebutt https://scuttlebutt.nz/

Regardless of whether it's a slow news day, there are a lot of interesting computer science ways of fixing this, as covered in How Tinder keeps your exact location (a bit) private. It's a hard problem to find a strategy for fuzzing triangulation while still keeping it useful to find things nearby.

New Zealand's covid tracer app is open source, as are many others https://github.com/minhealthnz... They do not report location data back to a server, instead they keep a log of your QR Code scan locations on the device, and the server pushes all outbreak locations to the device, and so the device checks whether you were there. So it has a lot of privacy built in. App Store code doesn't necessarily align with source code, but (1) neither necessarily would a website, and (2) some governments are doing a good job of managing privacy and covid tracing.

Hi, dev of 20 years here...

and optional type-checked parameters, including a "non-empty" test.

This is typically done by writing in a different programming language that compiles to JavaScript. The most popular choice is TypeScript, as you've mentioned. There is talk of adding types to JavaScript but it's likely to be years away. And is runtime type checking needed in the browser? It seems static compile-time deals with most use-cases.

optional named parameters,

Probably won't be added, but there is Destructuring Assignment instead which is similar...

function(obj) {
const { name1 } = obj;
// name1 is in scope
}


This takes the first argument 'obj' and extracts the 'name1' property. This can also be a one-liner.. destructuring the first argument immediately,

function({ name1} ) {
// name1 is in scope
}

an explicit class-like structure

classes already exist.