The indictments we know about so far are to satisfy the extradition process - crimes demonstrating US jurisdiction. I bet the US has a bunch more racked up for all the shit he got up to while he was hiding in the embassy. He'll get those when he is in US custody.

Or just basic sanitation, housing, education etc. but MBS would prefer to waste billions on vanity projects and boondoggles.

This project was stupid in every conceivable way and should have been laughed out of the room. Environmentally, logistically, technologically, economically. It was a joke. Except it was the brain child of a psychopathic despot and who is going tell that guy? Wonder how many people died to get it this far even.

Will Apple allow Bittorrent clients that only download legal content?

Sticking up the walls of a house are a fraction of the effort. I doubt if someone compared 3d printing to other forms of construction (e.g. blockwork, icf, prefab) that the 3d printed version would justify itself in time or cost. It's snakeoil being pushed by an industry in search of a problem that doesn't exist. Oh we can solve the housing crisis with 3D printing! Nope. If someone wants to build a house, then just build a fucking house.

All browsers have memory caches and memory pressure monitors that will flush data. If you want a citation just look at the source code of Firefox, Chromium et al or the articles that describe their strategies. RAM sitting around doing nothing is wasted and browsers will opportunistically use it until something else needs it.

... for all the people seeing their RAM fully utliized but would prefer if 70% was just sitting there idle. Because all browsers will use what is there by default and relinquish it if there is memory pressure, but apparently that's not good somehow.

... for anyone looking forward to a series that died on its ass with the first sequel and got progressively worse and more pretentious.

No, it sounds exactly what an apologist would say by way of excuse for someone who egged on and assisted a troubled serviceman into stealing classified secrets. Assange is going to be put on trial for espionage and he can try his "I'm a journalist" defence against the evidence presented and see where it gets him.

That demonstrably isn't true. I could commit a crime in one country from the comfort of another country and the first country might seek my extradition that I stand trial for it.

That isn't what he is charged with. He is charged with counts of espionage, of being an accomplice in stealing classified data, not some passive recipient of it.

Read the indictment and you might find out.

They've paused the extradition pending assurances the US will not try him under a death penalty. Since it was unlikely the US had any intention to, they'll submit assurances to the court and Assange can be on his merry way to the USA. Then he and his idiot followers can test his "I'm a journalist defence" when he stands trial for espionage and whatever other indictments they unseal when he sets foot on US soil. Pack your toothbrush Julian as you might be there for some time.

... for manufacturers will find new ways to be complete dicks while in compliance with the regulations. e.g. combining electronics into large boards that are more expensive to replace, or putting functionality into ASICs, or pouring epoxy all over everything, or using specialist tools or locking nuts, or super complex communication protocols. Basically anything that massively hinders a non authorised person from affecting a repair in a cost efficient and timely manner.

.NET is not a universal binary in the sense I meant, it's a high level language runtime. What I meant was something that was like LLVM bitcode - a close to machine code representation that can be turned into actual machine code the first time the operating system runs it. So I might have a 7z.exe, or an openoffice.exe, or a firefox.exe each with a bunch of DLLs but they're not 32-bit, or 64-bit or x86 or Arm, they're bitcode. The OS sees this, and produces a native exe & dlls which are run thereafter. It means the people making software don't care what the architecture is for the most part. Now that isn't strictly true since there might be some asm conditionally compiled into these bits of software but there is no reason that couldn't be expressed as a bitcode too.