At the moment I'd say it's even odds if it is a US or Chinese lander that touches down first.

There aren't many good open source fonts for Japanese. There weren't even that many good ones for Latin languages, until Google started releasing some under free licences.

By "good" I mean good coverage of all characters, proper keming, good hinting so that they render well and consistently on screen and in print, etc. It's a lot of work, and Japanese has a lot of characters.

We shall see I guess. I wouldn't put money on SpaceX being the first to land crew on the moon though. They are scheduled to do it second anyway, but I think Blue Origin has a better chance of having a lander ready for whenever NASA is good to go.

I know this will be modded troll......but seriously, if everyone would agree to use English, this problem goes away.

Make a serious, world wide push to put English first and a lot of issues go away. Keep other languages as secondaries. Make English the language of business and commercial culture.

Depends how you count it. They did multiple practice attempts before managing to land New Glenn.

Blue Origin is impressive though, they seem to have a much better system than SpaceX. Their rocket can take larger diameter payloads than Falcon Heavy too.

It took every other company that has managed it a few attempts too. It's just hard. They did get their dummy payload to orbit this time, which is significant for this new rocket.

Note that they will be the first to land an orbital rocket. Other Chinese companies have landed sub-orbital boosters before.

They have a few firsts under their belt already. First methalox and first methane rockets to orbit, in the world. Fart powered rockets are pretty cool.

There was that period in the 2000s when faux Celtic symbols were popular. They looked cool for about 5 minutes, then they were too common.

Most people with Chinese characters don't seem to have bothered to figure out what the actual word they want is, they just pick some that sound kinda like the English version, or what some website claimed it was. Often they end up being kinda funny to people who can read Chinese. I met a guy who thought he had is name in Japanese on his arm, but it actually said "Paula".

Same goes for clothes. Super Dry print complete nonsense on their clothes, for some reason. Not even a mistake, it looks like they just randomly selected some text that looks cool from multiple sources, fragments of words here and there, and mashed them all together. At least my Japanese shirt that says "assumption is the mother of screw-up" is attempting to make sense.

It's supplementary information that the buyer should be aware of. If an area is liable to flood, they can look to see what measures the owner has put in place to prevent that, or if the elevation of that particular house is higher than the water is likely to rise.

Of course, even if that particular house doesn't flood, having a flood in that area is still a problem. It might limit the owner's ability to travel, it might cause utilities to be cut off for days on end.

It might also affect insurance. In the UK, if your house is within so many metres of a river or lake, you tend to pay more even if it has never flooded. Same with large trees near the property, which may fall on it in extreme weather, or cause its foundations to shift due to roots undermining them.

The main issue is that he doesn't communicate much. For years people have reported issues on GitHub, he hasn't interacted at all with them, but they get quietly fixed in the next release. That was fine until this happened, and people were scrambling to find malware-free versions, and looking for updates.

He put out a statement saying he would publish a new version with a new signing key, and at that time explain exactly what happened. So far there has been a beta with the new key, and no other updates, which is pretty much how he has always done things.

To make matters worse, people on Reddit and on Github have been pointing to versions they claim are not infected, but with little evidence beyond maybe a VirusTotal scan. Given the lack of information from the developer, it is unwise to trust them.

It's a shame because SmartTube is one of the best apps ever. YouTube, with ad blocking, SponsorBlock (skips over in-video ads), and DeArrow (replaced clickbait thumbnails and video titles with descriptive ones), and many quality of life features like disabling auto-translation and having easy access to playing videos incognito.

Hopefully it recovers quickly. Normally he gets updates out within days or even hours when YouTube breaks something, and it's been several days already.

Has it? They still operate in China, and Chinese law requires them to cooperate with the government, store Chinese user's cloud data in-country, and more.

Meanwhile Google did actually decide not to enter the Chinese market. Maybe you are getting them confused.

I post every now and then, but there isn't much to talk about with the old folks 'round here these days. Eventually every comments section looks like a Thanksgiving dinner! Most of my rambles are now on Reddit now.

Keep sharp!

Only entity that should be allowed to sue is the FDA. Period.

And the FDA should not be allowed to due for damages. It should only be allowed to take products off the market.

A good point, but I still wonder; is this prevalent enough to warrant such legal action? Just how many people are "pirating" music today?

Movies make sense, but this is the Music Association.

I guess I find it odd that people are downloading full albums with enough frequency for this to be a large enough issue for the music association to still be barking in the courts about it.

To say nothing of VPNs.