If China wants these removed then that means there's no backdoor they have access to. I was always a bit suspicious of Telegram because Russia gave up on its attempts to ban it.

I'm surprised Threads and WhatsApp were still allowed given that Facebook was banned in about 2009 in China.

I still run a late 2007 15" MBP with 6GB of memory and OS X 10.11. Itâ(TM)s ok for web browsing, email and Office 2011 (yep, Office 365 donâ(TM)t really offer anything new). I used Lightroom 3 - 5 on it back in the day and VMWare Fusion running Windows 7.

Chrome is definitely a pig though. I havenâ(TM)t touched it with a barge pole for years, but my wife uses it on this Mac.

I suspect is it the same as the evidence you have for calling it a lie - and since you are making the accusation, the burden of proof is on you.

Hamas was only in control of the Gaza Strip in the first place (for the last 20ish years) solely and entirely at the agreement and behest of Israel trying to gain peace. The attacks broke that agreement, what did anyone think was going to happen?

        And the last is rhetorical, of course, because what is happening now is exactly what Hamas and all their supporters expected. They got in their licks, of course the Israelis responded just like any state would to such an attack, a bunch of quasi-innocent cannon fodder it getting wiped out while the masterminds call the shots from Tehran, Qatar, etc, and spin up the rest of the Western liberal apologists to put pressure on Israel to stop - again - so they can try to consolidate their position.

        Lather, rinse, repeat, it's the same story over and over. You can almost excuse a bunch of 20-somethings not realizing they are being played, if *every single step of this tawdry cycle wasn't clearly documented on the very internet they are supposedly experts about*. The cycle is about 20 years for a reason - anyone older than about 20 isn't dumb enough to fall for the same scam again.

Exactly. The sole reason that Hamas exists and controlled the Gaza Strip was because Israel unilaterally agreed to it - land for peace. Hamas violently broke that agreement (as anyone older than about 25 could have easily predicted) with a series of brutal, barbaric murders. Now they are running off the the world community again hoping for someone else to intervene. Classic chickenshit "punch someone in the back of the head and run for home". This is just the latest example, I have seen it over and over in my lifetime.

That's like saying those against US's Iraq invasion were "pro-Saddam".

        Of course, that's merely sophistry. I note the invasion of Iraq enjoyed wide bi-partisan support - until it appeared to be giving Bush 43 too much political currency, whereupon, presto-chango, the hard left flipped and then it became the worst thing ever.

Exactly. While I find in incomprehensible that anyone could actively support Hamas, it doesn't matter. You are getting paid to do a job. You don't like it, quit, but if you disrupt the business for whatever reason, you need to be gone, ASAP.

What evidence do you have for that? The two biggest recent movies were Oppenheimer and Barbie, and both were utterly unique as movies. The biggest bombs were The Marvels (derivative of a comic book (with characters no one ever cared about)), Dial of Destiny (gender-swapped zombie of a 40-year-old franchise), and Shazam 2, all, not at all coincidentally, poorly-written, cynical cash grabs. Which deservedly failed at the box office. Barbie was generally an awful movie, but it was certainly inventive.

        Hollywood has gotten incredibly tone-deaf, they repeat the same mistakes over and over, and don't appear to care one whit about what people want to see.

     

You can still watch by yt-dlp then mpv. At this point I completely refuse to view youtube by any kind of web interface.

Not if your code might ever be used on Solaris where the function is f-ed up at least in en_US.UTF-8. Or, on better systems but with wrongly set locale. Then, should it handle whitespace values outside 7-bit? I'm saying "7" because U+A0 might or might not be handled by isspace().

With all such mess, it's safer to code your own check, even though you risk missing '\v' and '\f'. But hey, by now these characters are not whitespace, they're garbage.

Faster, too -- you avoid loading locale tables from the disk (heeeeelloo glibc, shouldn't Unicode be first-class, not just ANSI_X3.4-1968, ISO-8859-1 and KOI8-R?) and referencing such dynamic data.

Well, the Lithuanian word for turkey is "kalakutas", which in Polish means "shit and dick". Because the word dates to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, I don't believe this is a coincidence. Perhaps it'd make a more accurate brand for the current Turkish dictatorship?

Let's suggest similar names for other country rebrandings, such as Birma, Persia, or Muscovy.

Concept albums and "rock operas" are like cancer to music, they were pretentious nonsense when the idea started and even worse, now, are "hipster cool" loser music now.

Yes. These various lunatics coming out of the woodwork decades later to second-guess everyone are just moronic. If they didn't listen to Boisjoly, they sure aren't going to listen to someone with absolutely no credentials or credibility from *outside* the loop.

I wonder if there are batteries that cater to the specific use case of storing power for no longer than 24 hours. Conventional batteries are able to store power for months but clearly this is not required for this use case. So perhaps a much cheaper or more efficient technology exists that stores power for 24h max but does so more cheap and efficient than EV-style batteries.

That, too. The entire time we ran a variety of VAX systems heavily, I think we had maybe 2 outright crashes on maybe 20 system (in use by hundreds of people) in 25-30 years.