there is also the case where a story starts being translated to other languages but, due to a multitude of reasons, see the official translations end without giving non-japanese readers a way to read those stories other than via unofficial translations.

one of my favorite series, Full Metal Panic, was never fully translated to english or portuguese (my language), despite the story being concluded in 2013. Lone Wolf and the Cub is another example of a story that took decades to be fully translated to portuguse.

while the article fails to mention it directly, it quotes "Independent regulators now police social media companies, including prominent American platforms like X, and threaten immense fines for non-compliance with their strict speech regulations.”

This directly indicates this ban is (partially) aimed at Brazil's Supreme Court ban on Twitter/X because the platform failed to follow the law in Brazil, and failed to follow a a Supreme Court ruling against a group of misinformation/propaganda users.

do you live in Brazil ? i do, in the southernmost state (near uruguay). I usually wake up with the sun light in the morning. That means that during the summer i wake up at 5h30 and during winter i wake up at 08h!
with DST that difference will be smaller and better for my body, since i feel drained earlier at night for waking up this early

Well, most obviously, because we aren’t talking about the US and the US isn’t involved in the least?

I have no interest in arguing what-ifs or what ought to be the case. You can grapple with those questions if you want, but a company has no choice but to navigate the laws in the jurisdictions in which they operate. A failure to do so has consequences, regardless of what they think the law ought to be. That’s what’s happening here.

Easy: either don’t operate where you are obligated to do so in a manner that is contrary to your conscience, or else do so only to the degree required by law. This is why companies leave places like China and Russia.

You might have a point if Telegram was end-to-end encrypted, but it isn't. The vast majority of messages on Telegram are not E2EE. Only "secret" DMs—which are not enabled by default and which are estimated to be dwarfed by several orders of magnitude by standard messages—are E2EE on Telegram. Everything else is encrypted-at-rest, with Telegram holding the keys. As such, they are perfectly capable of providing that information to the police, yet they refuse to do so as a business practice. They even brag in their FAQ about what basically amounts to creating shell corporations around the world to make things harder for the police to lawfully request data that the company is known to have in its possession and can provide in an unencrypted format (emphasis mine):

And then a bit later:

Again, this is about data they have access to. By keeping the data within their reach, they're making themselves accountable for its content and are obligating themselves to being responsive to lawful requests for it, both of which they've refused to do. Three guesses why they're in trouble.

Hint: it has nothing to do with creating a backdoor. They have yet to remove the front door.

Hold up: the one is not like the other. Telegram has unfettered access to the vast majority of their messages because Telegram is not end-to-end encrypted by default. In other words, Telegram knows what its users are sending and can provide that information to the police, whereas WhatsApp doesn't and can't. That's a huge difference, because it gives WhatsApp plausible deniability. Plus, in many jurisdictions the police can't compel you to add a backdoor, but they can demand that you use the one you already have.

The fact that Telegram has access to the content makes it very difficult for them to claim ignorance, and means that in some jurisdictions they are legally obligated to provide moderation for it, yet they refuse to do so.

And then in many more jurisdictions they are legally obligated to be responsive to lawful requests for that data, but Telegram has deliberately structured their business and data such that no given business entity in any single jurisdiction can satisfy that demand by itself, even though the business as a whole routinely decrypts and serves that same data. And lest you think I'm making this up, they've said so themselves in their own FAQ:

Again, this isn't E2EE data. It's data they have in their possession that they can decrypt on demand that they routinely provide in an unencrypted form to their users. It may well be the case that no individual court has the power to compel them to hand over the data due to their shenanigans, but the very act of engaging in those shenanigans could get them in trouble if they did so in the furtherance of criminal activity, which is what some of the charges seem to suggest.

As someone who has lived on the Atlantic coast in Florida and the Gulf Coast in Texas, I disagree. Prior to Hurricane Andrew, sure, but after Andrew, building codes in Florida were updated to basically require that every home be built like a bunker. There's no wood frame construction: it's all reinforced concrete/cinderblock for the walls. The actual glass in windows (i.e. we aren't even talking about storm shutters) was required when I moved away to take direct impacts at upwards of 75 mph from 2x4s planks. Rooflines don't have gables because it creates flat surface for the winds to hit, or to the degree that they do have a gable, it's further reinforced. The list goes on. Where we were, we'd shrug a Category 3 hurricane off like you might a heavy thunderstorm. We never needed to evacuate in our decade there.

In contrast, we were shocked to see wood frame construction and homes on stilts when we moved to the Gulf Coast of Texas 25 years ago. I moved away shortly thereafter, but my folks stayed near the coast for many more years, and had many evacuations during that time (thankfully, some downed limbs were the worst damage they ever had in the 23 years they lived in that Houston suburb). Even so, saying the state "gets blown to bits" is a massive overstatement, given that the state is big enough that the majority of the land never even sees a single drop of rain from a hurricane that hits the coast. And if we look at where the people are, 4 of the top 12 largest cities in the nation—Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, Fort Worth—are Texas cities that are far enough inland that the most they get is a bit of rain. So while Houston or Galveston may take a hit occasionally (and there are more failures to enumerate there, to be sure), that isn't representative of the state as a whole.

I'm glad we agree that what happened in Texas is a problem that should never be allowed to happen again, though I find your callousness towards the hundreds of real people who died because some bureaucrats allowed corporate interests to take priority over public safety to be rather disconcerting.

Likewise, that's an incredibly callous way to dismiss the tens of thousands of people who have been permanently displaced by California wildfires in just the last few years, the billions of dollars in damage done in many individual years, and the long-term health impacts on tens of millions of people who are routinely exposed to the smoke. Also, what do California's wildfires or Texas' winterization failures have to do with anything, other than engaging in useless tribalism?

Not according to an EIA report from earlier this year. While it's well-established that California is the nation's largest importer, the report makes it clear that California is also a net importer, to the tune of roughly 10% (emphasis mine):

I'd actually suggest that bickering about which state is better is pointless tribalism. California gets some things wrong (e.g. wildfires due to PG&E's failure to properly maintain the lines, its reputation for rolling brownouts because supply can't meet demand, etc.). Let's be honest about that. On the flipside of that, as a Texan, I am more than willing to label what happened a few years ago in Texas as "inexcusable", "deplorable", "predictable", "obvious", a "failure of leadership", and all sorts of other things. Let's be honest about that too.

Pointing out failures is not a zero sum game: the failure of another does not make you a success, nor vice versa.

In that regard, I actually disagree with the OP as well. People seem to forget that even though our states may lean red or blue, the people in our states are still free to make their own decisions. In that regard, California has one of the largest red populations in the US, just as Texas has one of the largest blue populations, and those people will make their own decisions about installing solar panels, batteries, or approving local projects. Moreover, California was years ahead of the curve in renewable adoption, so while their velocity may be dropping as the low hanging fruit gets picked, their position is still ahead of the pack (which, again, is a pointlessly tribalistic comparison, but if we're going to make it, let's be honest about it).

The EU's NCAP is moving that direction with their safety ratings..

Exactly this. I'm not an expert in this space in the least, but I think the paper indicates that their gravitational acceleration measurements are +/- 0.01 m/s^2. I'll leave the math to someone more well-versed in the applicable formulas, but it seems evident that this wouldn't be something you'd want to rely on over the course of thousands of miles. Just as the SR-71 Blackbird and Trident missile used the stars to fix their location as they were traveling, I'd expect any weapon systems built on this to still need a means for recalibrating mid-flight.

It causes liver failure in all cats, apparently. I imagine smaller breeds are more likely to succumb with lower dosages, but as I said, multiple sources indicated a single regular strength dose is all it takes to be lethal for some breeds.

I’d encourage you to switch to something else. Some of those links talk about the appropriate alternatives for cats.

Sure, but that was due to an implementation bug in those distros, rather than a design flaw in the OS itself. Both are bugs, to be sure, but Windows was "working as intended" whereas Linux was not in that instance. After a quick patch, that particular issue won't happen again in Linux, whereas it will keep happening on Windows until this approach is changed.

When your architecture is insecure by design, I'd argue that it is a Windows bug, just the same as there have been bugs in the design for various protocols, rather than in the specific implementations of those protocols.

First it was a whistleblower being accused of the very crimes they exposed: https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

Then it was a professor being accused of terrorist activities because they share a name with someone else: https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

Now this.

What’s next?