Changing your upstream repo away from a commercial service like Github to something else like your own upstream takes 20 seconds if you have to look up the command. That M1cr0s0ft would eventually crappify github was just a matter of time.

If you need some web interface thingie for your central Git repo-base, I recommend checking out Gitea.

Exactly the same as the approach to the movie version of The Martian.

Damn, Windows has really improved in the last 25 years. Wouldn't know since my last Windows was Win2k and my computers only run macOS or Linux and have crashed less that 10 times combined in the last 20 years or so. A well, whatever. Good for people still using Windows, I guess.

... Fantasy worlds out there that would look epic as a AAA fantasy blockbuster triology. Raymond E. Feist comes to mind. Bernard Hennen, Guy Gavrial Kay, Brandon Sanderson and countless other top-shelf fantasy authors and epic worlds. Can't we just leave LOTR be? It's gotten an excellent film adaption, one that will stand the test of time if it doesn't get diluted with trash like it already partially has. Please stop right now.

I think we may be truly witnessing the dawn of western culture and it effing hurts.

... to all their competitors, grab the deckchairs and some popcorn and watch everybody else tear each other to shreds. Brilliant move if you ask me. 8-)

... in at least one key aspect: The cash going around is almost exclusively from the deep and wide warchests of large megacorps. Which means if a bubble pops it likely will just be a little fart for regular people and we can get rehired for our bullshit desk jobs.

Shouldn't the super-fast rotation of massive black holes counteract at least some of their gravity vertical to it's axis? Could that - at least hypothetically - eventually cause a black hole to break apart into bits of regular non-black-hole matter, if it spins fast enough?

Sorry if I'm sounding silly here, I'm a 5th-grader when it comes to astrophysics but perhaps someone with knowledge could offer some insight?

How many billions did that game make them? Seriously, this just be one of the highest grossing videogames ever, no? How long has it been going? 9 years? That's pretty epic if you ask me. This game was nothing other than an epic success (no pun intended).

Modern devices and machines appear to me like some hilarious Brazil-style cyberpunk joke-reality. Imagine an effing cyberattack bricking a lock on your car or engine-starter. LOL! Well, I guess it's not called "Internet of Trash" for no reason.

... is likely going to be the mid- to further out future of coding. Presumably de-compiling into some human-only language not intended for re-compiling is going to become more and more of a thing. No need to go through all the hoops of countless programming languages and frameworks just because some naked apes like to each turn their own little software world into a stack-religion.

Some form of containers is going to remain though. Especially to isolate problems and find bugs isolating logical components into different chunks is likely to remain a thing if source code isn't available.

What APIs and functions exactly are being banned? And even if, migrating a PWA to something a little more old-school is trivial. Back in the day we even did async FEBE before XHTTPRequest even existed. Given, (re)loading zero-width frames to transfer data back and forth is quite steam-age Ghetto-style by todays standards, but the upside is it also works in browsers from 1998. 8-)

Yup, because those people intentionally looking to mislead or defraud others through the use of AI fakes are certainly going to follow this law to the letter...

Im sorry, but a whole load of those justifications are bullshit.

Yes, but 6.9m of those 27.6m don't have a car in the first place, and pretty obviously,

And how many of those 27.6m will have multiple vehicles?

and pretty obviously, those are more likely to be the households without the ability to park a car off-street.

No, thats very far from "obvious" at all. Very very far. So far, that its a reach.

Did you even look at the Google Maps link I sent? I'd say that under the current approach, a good proportion of the city of Norwich would not be able to charge their vehicle at home because they have no chance of off road parking.

- that still leaves at least 70% of cars / households able to charge at home offstreet compared to 0% able to refuel at home offstreet, which is a massive win for tens of millions of people, and obviously reduces pressure on the public charging network

The reason this doesnt matter for ICE is because refuelling ICE vehicles is a 5 minute matter and the infrastructure has been around to do that for what, a hundred years now?

Meanwhile, the infrastructure for charging EV vehicles anywhere other than very very specific locations right now is non-existent, and will consist of a MASSIVE build out which hasnt even started yet.

- tons of solutions for on-street charging are rolling out, from lamp-post to bollards to gullies

The problem is not that solutions theoretically exist, its that they are yet to be implemented on the scale required in order to achieve the switch over from ICE to EV that governments want to see.

Where is the funding for the roll out of those solutions? Wheres the wide scale planning for implementing those solutions?

- there's tons of other places to charge, including workplace charging

Laughable if you consider that most people don't have a parking spot at work and have to park either on-street near their work place or in a commercial car park. So the same issues apply here as well.

In addition to that, if EV charging spots arent excessively available in numbers then you are going to have an issue where someone parks up, hooks up and sits there for 8 hours while they work.

Once again its an issue of available infrastructure - 10 EV charge points for a road of 50 houses simply isnt going to cut it. You are going to have to have 50 charge points otherwise the shit is going to hit the fan at some point. And we both know that no government, local or national, is going to provide enough charging points for those that dont have off-road parking of their own.

- cars only need to be charged once every 10 to 14 days in the UK, given how much the average car is driven per day

Sorry but I want the ability to drive whatever distance I like at the drop of a hat, which means that my car would be plugged in whenever Im not using it to achieve that. My wife is a doctor who is regularly on call, so she *has* to be able to drive whatever distance she wants at the drop of a hat.

My problem is not EVs, my problem is the lack of infrastructure to support EVs and the timeline that governments want to have the general populace to switch over to EVs wholesale - there are deadlines in place, but theres absolutely fuck all funding at the scale required in order to build the corresponding infrastructure out.

People are used to the availability of "drive to the other end of the country and back again" at the drop of a hat in terms of infrastructure which supports that - for EV that does not exist right now, and its not going to exist a decade from now which is 5 years after the ICE ban in the UK - theres no mass roll out even planned yet, its all handwaving about "solutions exist for that". Great, put the solutions in place then!

Right now, successive governments have basically said "after 2030 you cant buy ICE vehicles - good luck!".

We saw more movement and planning around cable TV back in the 1980s and 1990s - this is so much more fundamentally important, and yet we arent seeing roads being dug up, or even being planned to be dug up.

One of the big reasons I went with Android and not Apple when the mobile software craze started was that Apple was "We own you and the entire pipeline you use to bring software to end-users" and Google was "We don't care as long as you use our toolkits and services - which are totally FOSS btw."

This new totally-not-the-old-Google registration requirement is a hard turn-off for peer-group opinion leaders like myself. There are still FOSS Android alternatives, yes, so anybody doing Android development isn't suddenly entirely out in the cold, but this is a serious damper for my Google enthusiasm and I'm pretty sure others are thinking the same.

This is why I stuck with Web btw., even though Android Studio, Kotlin and Co. were very enticing. You never know when some corp. is going to pull out the rug from under you. That's why FOSS _and_ cross-platform (i.e. Web) is the only way I roll. Google can go all M1cros0ft and I'd barely miss a beat with any of my software projects.

Maybe this is the beginning of the end for Google? Couldn't say but it would be a shame. Of all Megacorps they were my favorite.