Ryanair have two motivations here.

1. Steal your private data, spam you with notifications, the usual app stuff.
2. Make more people pay the check-in fee.

They are always up to stuff like this. The other very common one is rejecting bags that are within their size limits. They have special devices that the bag must fit in, but the dimensions are not the same as the ones in their Terms & Conditions. The device has rounded corners that reduce the volume a little, for example.

Capitalists are always looking for ways to make sure you don't have a choice, or at least not a real choice.

That's why companies often find that the kind of consumer lock-in they do in the US doesn't fly in the EU. Just because a consumer has a choice not to buy an Apple phone, doesn't mean that Apple can't remove choices from them about where to buy apps from, or to switch to Android and lose all their purchased apps and accessories.

Why the hell would someone go open a terminal window and paste random shit in from a web page?

Because it leads them to what they want?

You can advertise "free pr0n!" and have people copy and paste random text into a terminal window if they believe it'll get them to what they want. Your random script can even pop open a website to make it look legit.

It's the whole Dancing Pigs means of security. If you offer a user a video of dancing pigs, they'll do anything to see it.

Indeed, lack of production has been a limiting factor in their exports so far.

Also the practice of pre-registering cars is commonplace in Europe. The dealer buys the car from themselves, registers it to themselves, and sells it "second hand" to the customer with only delivery miles on the clock. My current car was supposed to be like that, but they just registered it to me so it was brand new, but for the pre-registered price.

I'm always surprised that VS is the best IDE. You would think that there would be a really great open source one, given that every open source developer needs something to edit code and manage projects... But nope, the only half way decent open source IDE is Visual Studio Code, another Microsoft product.

I have to use Eclipse based IDEs for various things, and they are all painful and buggy. The UI is a complete mess. It's a little bit mind boggling how bad it is.

The Dice era did so much damage, but to be fair the new owner fixed a lot of things and the place got a lot better. Of course many people didn't come back.

This ad is annoying though because it covers the content. I'd rather it was part of the page layout, than floating over it.

The damages might be insignificant, but if OpenAI doesn't stop doing it they could be much larger. That's likely the point here, to stop them doing it or to force them to buy a licence.

All those things are true of places like Saudi Arabia, only worse. They don't seem to have issues getting talent though.

They pay big bucks, they have enclaves for foreigners to live in, and they use English as the working language where needed.

You know those stories about the Saudi police having supercars? Those cars were bought on credit by foreigners. It's illegal to default on a loan over there, so when they get fired and suddenly can't afford the repayments, they ditch the car and flee the country. The police eventually come and collect it as abandoned, and if they can't find the paperwork for it (accidentally fell in the shredder) they put police livery on it and use it for patrol.

This seems to be a misunderstanding of the current rules. Chinese nationals can take up about $50k out of the country annually, but there is no limit for foreign nationals. As long as you paid all your taxes, you can take as much money as you like out.

The fact that places like Saudi Arabia are able to attract people, despite the fact that drinking is illegal and women's rights are heavily curtailed, suggests that somewhere comparatively liberal like China won't have any issues.

A lot of people get an ffmpeg binary from some repo, and they often compile those with all the optional extras.

Either way, it needed to be fixed.

Right, and just leave the vulnerabilities unpatched so that someone else with AI can start exploiting them.

A 1995 video game format may sound unimportant, but if you say run a website where users can upload video, which gets transcoded with ffmpeg...

It used to be 30 days. Apple and Microsoft complained because it didn't give enough time to analyze the problem, fix it, test it, and then do a proper rollout to ensure there weren't unexpected side effects in 30 days.

I think what happened was a kernel flaw, meaning a fix could severely impact other subsystems in the OS and thus a fix would need to be carefully done and a properly staged rollout.

The problem isn't the AI tools - Project Zero has real researchers doing real analysis and making sure those AI issues are real. It's likely they're filing issues FFMPEG feels aren't really issues at all.

You might think a bug in a codec used in a 1996 console isn't relevant for security, but if someone can code up an exploit using it, it's suddenly a big deal. I don't have to play back 1996 console video game to hit the bug, I just need to trick someone into getting FFMPEG to see the file as that format and exploit the security hole. (Think sites like YouTube and such that ingest video, for example)

The problem is, there is no right solution. Is it a real security issue? I don't care if it's only for a platform that only only one game released and no one's ever going to practically use it. If it's a way to break into the software and escape my software stack, it's a security issue because all you need is to have someone pretend to be that file. If not, then let the issue be published - even if you don't want to fix it, people who use it might simply be able to disable ingesting that format at all and eliminate the security hole by not having the feature available.

Why don't you move your application to a normal 64 bit server?

Linux may be getting rid of 32-bit support, but that's only a 32-bit kernel on 32-bit CPU support which outside of the Vortex86 SoC no one makes hardware for.

Linux is NOT getting rid of 32-bit on amd64 userspace support, so your program will run just fine in 32-bit mode. Several distributions have tried to get rid of 32-bit usermode support but that was generally met with resistance.

You don't have to port the code to 64 bit - but it also doesn't need to be stuck on a 32-bit machine either. Linux can run 32-bit usermode binaries just fine.

Indeed, you want fun you try WSL1 - the Windows kernel does NOT support 32-bit Linux binaries and that results in it being basically useless. It works for maybe 70-90% of the things but you'll run into odd errors when you hit a 32-bit program. It's why WSL2 exists and it's running Linux in a VM so you can run 32 bit Linux binaries.

Still tons of 32-bit user space code out there. Even Windows 11 dropped support for 32-bit CPUs, but not for running 32-bit applications because I don't think it'll be possible to drop that ever. Even the OSes that did - iOS and Android - it wasn't completely painless and lots of apps just stopped working. On the desktop where there are far more legacy applications, probably not at all likely.

If you want a more flexible tablet, Apple doesn't make them, but they exist.

Android has tablets, and if you wanted a tablet laptop, they exist as well.

The problem is, they just don't work as well, which is why Android tablets are limited to either Samsung or Temu specials nowadays. And convertibles exist but always seemed awkward to use - probably Windows' fault but goes to show perhaps the demand isn't there.

The iPad is 15 years old now, if some tablet concept was the hot thing, the last 10 years of the iPad wouldn't havve been so stagnant. There isn't much new about the iPad now over a few generations past.

It's just a big screen device that does stuff your phone does in a less portable format. People seem to like that - they're at home and want to play games, watch content and social media except on a bigger screen. The fact you can do "creative" things with it is really just to satisfy the fact those people may want to create now and again, and whole social media networks (like TikTok) exist just for mobile and tablet created content.