LOL. Happy to live somewhere between China and the US.

Non-U.S. citizen here. Just curious: what vaccine is this about? It's not clear at all from the article. E.g. my country has a mandatory vaccine, but it's not a COVID-19 vaccine.

... and they still work nicely on iOS. Maybe just not the way Google wants them to work. History: In the very beginning of iOS Apple didn't permit native 3rd party apps, they enabled websites to be pinned on the home screen, this was how web apps where born.

sheesh, correct link here: https://www.nature.com/article...

Some of these phenomena are also unheard of because they simply exist as part of a pro-oil agenda, not serious science. But this article seems rather serious.

Link to the actual open access article:
https://royalsocietypublishing...

But CO2 itself is not a toxic fume (for humans, that is).

I know Chrome has the biggest user base and that is a big deal in web browsers. But Chrome started out by reusing a big chunk of Safari (Webkit) and it was only years later that it forked that into Blink. However both Safari and Chrome kept the proprietary upper layer glue. They also kept making their own business related decisions. While I often get the impression that Google is more open, fundamentally they seem to be organised in the same way as an open source community.

So why is Chrome not a walled garden?

That's what Brave is for.
It enables you to anonymously pay the content creators if you want to.
Also it blocks ads better than most by default or optionally pays you to see them (while not being tracked).

Norway (and all of Europe and South-America) has a civil law legal system as opposed to common law (as seen in USA and other countries who trace their history to England). This important difference also leads to very common misconceptions in reporting on lawsuits.

IANAL but I think that in Norway Apple won't be able to set a precedent using a lawsuit like this. So any other shop in the world doing the same thing would have nothing to fear from this lawsuit.

I agree with the analogy but giving more money to the French government is like overdosing an underage heroin addict.

What's environmental impact of more people repairing their stuff on their own? Everybody can now buy parts directly from sources that have unknown environmental policies and unknown reliability. What are we going to do about more people throwing away used parts with the trash instead of recycling them?

It’s typewritten and all formulas are handwritten. Check it out on one of the mirrors below.

Yes, the upside to all this is that we now can disconnect from the current network, until now this had to be done by disabling wifi entirely. Now it will auto reconnect when you go somewhere else.

For me this actually reflects the way I always used that button: to disconnect from a wifi network and get a faster connection through cellular, only to forget to switch it back on when better wifi is available.

In the future we there might be no need to disconnect from bad wifi any more thanks to multipath TCP. Since Apple has enabled the mpTCP API for developers it may become an iOS 12 feature.

You are right: MP4, also called ISO Base Media File Format, is an ISO/IEC standard. Its patents can thus be licensed under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms (FRAND) from its inventors ... Apple (and Panasonic to a minor extent). In practice, everybody seems to be using it for free, so I don't think Apple and Panasonic are big beneficiaries here.

The reason why they won't adopt competing technologies (matroska) is because of the effort they put in developing the QuickTime File Format (.mov) and then getting it standardised as MP4.

This. I'm sure you could cram more stuff than ever in some kind of 2016 MBP addon without making it bigger than a 2011 one: http://imgur.com/a/M5tjb And with USB-C, suddenly a week-long surfing, or a day long of Final Cut editing on battery becomes a possibility.