The nearly identical theme in the Intellij IDEs is in fact named "Darcula" and I seem to recall using it long before VS Code became popular. This was a clever typosquat that exploited the inconsistency in naming between IDEs.

The company that makes the game's entire business model is to monetize volunteer crowdsourced map data, especially after their AR features bombed. They also have a platform called Wayfarer that crowdsources collection and moderation of points of interest (eg random signs and graffiti) to build a database of GPS coordinates and AR scans that they can license to game devs trying to replicate the unique success of the Pokemon IP. They're infamous for ignoring feedback from their customers, the same ones who are building and maintaining their location databases for free and paying to play the game for more than 5 minutes. For such a massive userbase, the users mostly hate them and the hostile choices they make (like denying access to completing your collection depending on where you live or your social preferences, or nerfing and price gouging a universally appreciated feature that lets you fight bosses online with remote friends). The game design incentivizes people to trespass and drive with multiple phones in their lap, of course it inspires people to vandalize OSM. Niantic just sees it as a free resource to exploit.

The servers detect and ban people that do that because it doesn't set the altitude correctly.

It still means that. AWS IAM is a disaster that fails open in incredibly stupid ways. See the "confused deputy" problem which is what AWS calls their refusal to implement sane default validation or sessions for api requests.

Maybe there's actually some logic to the lengthy review and validation process. Even if there are NSA backdoors in the approved stuff there's incentive to make them more difficult to exploit considering the immense impact of having to change them.

Research consistently has shown that Covid causes long-term damage to the immune system, including reduced T cells and immune system genetic expression. We should be expecting known viral illnesses to be statistically more severe in those who have previously had Covid. Remember those clusters of unexplained pediatric hepatitis?

Global routability is a really really bad thing for security. Nothing should route into a private network without going through a proxy and firewall of some sort.

Mitochondria do a lot more than produce ATP, they also have a key role in producing and consuming various hormones, neurotransmitters, and biochemical signaling molecules. The past couple of decades of research have show they're basically controllers for cellular function and metabolism, and they move around the cell and combine and split in response to stressors and the needs of the cell, as well as ultimately give the signals for the cell to be terminated via apoptosis. A lot of poorly understood medical conditions like chronic fatigue (and some scientists argue a lot of conditions we thought we understood) are likely caused by mitochondrial dysfunction.

Right, it's something that's small enough that a small dev team can understand, maintain, and tune every piece of it, and preferably it's also something that can be horizontally scaled (lots of copies behind a load balancer) to deal with increases in load for that one particular function. Microservices don't really make things more complicated, they just surface the existing complexity by moving it to the network layer where it can be monitored, rerouted, and debugged more easily. Essential reading for this includes https://12factor.net/ .

That makes my shoulders hurt. Stupid gravity ruins everything. My favorite imaginary tech solution for this is the Rotom Phone from Pokemon where your smartphone gets possessed by a ghost that makes it float in mid air at eye level. I would probably prefer something larger like an iMac though while Iâ(TM)m dreaming, with something ergonomic like the Switch controllers to interface with it.

I agree. Google is the one trying to lump everything together as "algorithm" here and I think that's disingenuous. Algorithms are just procedures, what you do in those procedures and how you use them is what can be legislated. Maybe building relationship graphs is ok but using them to show unfiltered unsolicited harmful content is not.

There's a huge difference between showing people content they explicitly asked for and showing them unsolicited "related" content they didn't ask for that you can hide ads in. This is all about protecting their ability to mix content and ads, which should be illegal anyway.

When was the last time you were involved with the operations of a major email server? With all the spam and phishing around these days, "censorship" is considered an essential part of basic cybersecurity. Add in SPF and DMARC and you have intrinsic structures to the protocols that disfavor small operators in favor of the large providers that have already established public trust and mature policing of their platforms.

The average quality of third party iPhone batteries has definitely gone downhill in the past few years but itâ(TM)s still way cheaper to buy two or three of them for a repair and return/refund the ones that are faulty/surplus once you find one that works than it is to get an âoeofficialâ repair or OEM replacement part. Itâ(TM)s not counterfeit if Iâ(TM)m intentionally trying to buy a battery that isnâ(TM)t made by Apple.

Thatâ(TM)s the problem, a full band 5G router is by definition an SDR and you canâ(TM)t easily tell the difference between normal and abnormal operating behavior. Taps will only show you what you know to look for, and these systems handle billions of packets with destinations across the internet, any one of which could be command and control for the router itself.