The point of the flags is not to warn people to watch out for the dangerous kids, it's to shame dangerous dicks riding modified bikes illegally to maybe don't be dicks for a minute.
Neither is anyone blaming the tool. They are specifically blaming the unlicensed, unexperienced (sic) user. People are not saying they shouldn't exist, but that they should not be ridden where they're not allowed to be ridden.

Not quite true. Done of the islands are contested between Vietnam, China and the Philippines. But it's China who broke the status quo of not developing them.

But I very much doubt any of that influenced Apple's decision. More to do a little with wages, but particularly free trade agreements so they can avoid import tariffs.

Yep. And the precedent is also set for $0.28 per infringment.

The problem with 'the right call always' is that often (usually even) there is no 'right' call. It's up to the referee's discretion. Far too often the VAR gets embroiled in decisions it shouldn't be worrying about. Unless there's a blatant mistake, or the referee informs them that they didn't get a good view of the incident, they should be keeping out.
As for offside, I'd rather there was a margin of error, similar to cricket. If the decision for/against an offside violation is within that margin of error, then it goes back to whatever was originally called. And arms shouldn't be counted, given they can't be used anyway.

So the big question is why has Youtube has been gaming the algorithm in favour of Pewdiepie outside the US?

That may or may not be the only way of assessing it, but it's certainly a pretty shitty way.

The attacks that have made all this fuss aren't even really ransomware attacks. Optus was breached and heaps of PII was stolen. As far as I'm aware there was never any ransom involved. Medibank was breached and shitloads of very private information was stolen, and a ransom demanded to stop them from releasing said information.
Backups do nothing to prevent this, as neither company ever lost access to their data.

Fastmail's. On the odd occasion I go back into my gmail account, I wonder how in hell I ever managed to put up with that horrendous interface.

So you get all the same problems as DST except for the physical changing of clocks, but in a completely uncoordinated fashion so that it's impossible to work with anyone else. Brilliant!

Well done, you just stated exactly the same thing as the headline...

You gotta put a warning on this stuff mate, my irony detector just blew up the entire suburb!

You forgot the 1,000 channels that were only ads.

Perhaps, but then you're being the opposite by highlighting the only part of their post that wasn't blatantly false.

I've no arguments that Apple support their devices for longer, but that only holds true for security updates. iOS versions you generally get about 3 years for, which is similar to Google (other manufacturers vary wildly, and this sucks). Google tend to do security updates for 4 years.

As for the features, I think that's mostly because smartphones are just not that exciting anymore. Looking back at Android 8 years ago, the only real features I'd really miss are notification channels, USB-C and biometric unlock, 2 of which require hardware (and 2 of which are still unavailable on iOS as far as I'm aware). On iOS it's probably just default web browser/mail app (which Android has had from day 1).

iOS 16 doesn't run on the iPhone 6. The iPhone 6 maxed out at iOS 12. iOS 16 runs on iPhone 8s, though it's limited in functionality. You need an XR or later to fully support iOS 16, and that is... a 3 year old phone.

While I agree with your point, half of the examples in that article are not common sense at all, but old wive's tales. Something that is common sense, you will be able to make a sensible argument as to why it's true, even if that argument is flawed.