One difference is the 60-120 minutes play length of audio cassette is still as useful today as it was at the time, while the 1.44 Mb capacity of HD floppy discs wouldn't be useful for nearly anything. Also the cassettes were reliable for hundreds of reads of the music, while floppy discs were randomly failing.
Or you'd need to make floppy discs better enclosed and in high densities. We've travelled through that timeline already.
by making it easier for larger players to get preferential rates
Where can you negotiate preferential tolls?
I use aliases a lot (1 per website I register to), and the difference is you can't answer from an alias. So if I ever need to contact customer support, I need to:
* log into the domain management platform
* delete the alias
* recreate it as mailbox
* add one address to my POP/SMTP routines on my primary machine
* do the interactions (can take a couple of weeks)
* delete the mailbox, re-create as alias
Their solution doesn't help me in my case, but it help Ms. Alice Smith who gets married to Mr. Bob Jones, wants to adopt the husband name (under Alice Jones) for new acquaintances while keeping the possibility to use her old address (Alice Smith) for her old contacts, in a convenient unified interface. I don't know if it's a plausible scenario in India, though.
They wont' have an interruption, since they never used an account only to recover the code. They were using an account for issue reporting or pull requests to upstream their adaptations they need for ffmpeg-rockchip https://github.com/nyanmisaka/... Now they lost developer access and ffmpeg devs are likely to ignore any bug reports related to the rockchip platform. It's still a minor inconvenience, but it's what ffmpeg can do. If you don't play ball with the others, you can go play alone in your corner.
"even though I can block it"
I don't see why it would be needed. These ads are so effective that even though I can't block it and I don't see it, there's always an AC to remind me of it.
does that mean that we should also force Nintendo or Sony to allow us to install homebrew games etc?
Wait a minute I think you're onto something here. I might write to my Member of Parliament asking for that.
There is literally nothing AI did that could not be done before.
The AI enabled an African teen to pull out a zero dollar budget movie in mere minutes. The video (however bad quality it is) shows a police car, an armed guard, a crowd, in what would be a rich neighbourhood with a stunning view on Paris sights. It would have a sizeable cost in hiring an actress, the extras in the street, renting the cars, obtaining the necessary authorisations, and planning ahead (streets are currently are full with Christmas shoppers).
but france is so fucked up that something along those lines is actually likely to happen at some point, and everybody knows it.
Something like a riot overthrowing the power is a possibility. But happening through "a colonel" is not credible. The reason the video paints is as a military coup by a colonel is because the guy who made the video is from Burkina Faso, a coup led by a colonel can happen any Tuesday. (On Sept. 30 2022 Cpt Ibrahim Traoré overthrew Colonel Assimi Goïta, who himself on Aug. 19 2020 overthrew elected president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta). Also of note that it was African colleagues who messaged Macron.
"these fake news are a vital threat to our society". what a cunt
Because in times of trouble (not now, but anytime in the future), a more credible video of the kind painted as true can be a starting point of public unrest and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. That's why it's a threat, and why it's vital as the kind of threat it is.
The only place to criticise Macron is that he should have requested the video to be simply labelled as fictional (AI-created) rather than ask to take it down. It's legitimate as fiction, just not when painted as actual news.
The guy there should have made a second episode with an interview of the colonel, or the colonel parading in Paris. Then maybe think of a third episode on the reaction of the locals to the new authorities. AI movies might be very difficult to make consistent, but if a story telling can be based on short independent episodes, it can be much easier to make happen.
It seems to me by reading the summary that 20k is the amount Apple spends per student to sponsor the programme and that attendance is free for the students.
Relevance excepts:
"Lizmary Fernandez took a detour
"The program gives out iPhones and MacBooks and spends an estimated $20,000 per student,"
as well as most FOSS projects
How would that work? I contributed to FOSS projects though nobody knows I'm a dog.
That would be a problem if you can prove coordination with the candidate's campaign.
It's not a prosecutable criminal offence for the candidate if there is no proof of their personal involvement. But that's still a problem for the electoral campaign if the expenses or broadcast time for one candidate go above the limits. I'm not from Romania but I expect similar rules than other EU countries, where there are ceilings, and everything that speaks or pays in favour of a candidate is summed.
Let's make an analogy. A fan of a particular sportsman spreads transparent oil on the field so rivals will slip and fail. The runner isn't in trouble because it was a random fan and there was no coordination. But if during the race after some competitor falls and reports oil, I as the referee will interrupt the race immediately (halfway) and have it repeated another day.
Stop posting about it on Elon Musk's US based site.
Why not? This was a post in English and obviously intended to be read by the American public and authorities. The alternative would be to publish it as opinion column in the NYT or similar.
Maybe make a European site and apply the European rules there.
Can you explain your "irony of posting on X" part? Twitter/X is legitimate business. That it is US-based is irrelevant.
Governments in Europe don't pick the winners. WE DEFEND FREE MARKET. Macron (or whoever else) isn't going to ask anybody to set up a competitor because it's meddling with the market. And they are also not going to tell people to stop using Twitter/X. It's a legit business and at the moment Twitter/X appears to be following all the rules. As it happens, Twitter/X happens to be very popular among the population; therefore, this is among the places where the Government will open accounts to in order to be read by the citizens. The Government of France also uses an official TikTok account https://www.tiktok.com/@gouver... to reach the younger population in particular with pro-vote messages.
Calling something "hate speech" is quite different from actually calling on platforms to punish stuff for "whatever they don't like". So, your statement, while I agree with it as it stands doesn't really apply to this article.
The article is based on the statement of US officials, which is heavily biased. Let's take an example. They sanction the CEO of "Disinformation index". Their activity consists in publishing reports such as:
* Climate Change Disinformation in Canada - August 2025 https://www.disinformationinde...
* Hate Speech and Bigotry in Canada - August 2025 https://www.disinformationinde...
* State of Disinformation in Germany - June 2025 https://www.disinformationinde...
Here is from the abstract of their report on climate denialism in Canada (first sentence of each of the 3 first paragraphs of the summary)
This report examines how climate denial and delayist narratives circulate in Canada’s digital ecosystems, shaping public opinion, fuelling polarisation, and constraining democratic capacity to respond to environmental challenges. [...] Climate denialism frequently overlaps with broader conspiracy theories. Narratives suggest that climate policy is a tool of global elites, often invoking international organisations or Canadian federal authorities as instruments of control. [...] Importantly, disinformation does not circulate uniformly across Canada. Regional vulnerabilities are shaped by economic, cultural, and political factors.
Tell me how this amounts to "organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose". I will tell you: Trump use as an argument that climate change denialism is a core American viewpoint. Which as an euphemism I will say is extremely exaggerated. Therefore anything that challenges climate denialism is "suppression of American viewpoints".
Since the NGO forwards that to the public debate, it's painted as "concerted action". Because some EU has some rules that say that platforms should have moderation (the exact same rules that were ok with Meta creating a multi million dollar fund and independent moderators and annual reports, few years back, a moderation platform which Meta abolished shortly after Trump was elected in his second term), it's now "coerce American platforms".
I could come in agreement if an organisation, or a country, would use the education system to propagate lies about American history, philosophy, Constitution, in order to cause a moral prejudice to the USA. Because even I can see these are core American viewpoints. Now doing this because an NGO calls out climate denialism, and this hurts Trump's mind (and/or business) is just... pathetic.
It's coming from outside Europe for the usual reason: it's cheaper to mine it elsewhere, so European mines have closed. But Europe does have reserves. There's a paywalled paper about it that says in the abstract:
* "significant uranium resources in the Central Europe U metallogenic province and the Alpine orogenic belt U metallogenic province (378 × 10^3 t)."
* "estimates suggest that black shale in Sweden contains 6535 × 10^3 t of uranium resources"
* "significant strategic importance for Europe in the coming years, as they can provide 'local solutions' to the energy crisis."
Uranium resource of Europe: Development status, metallogenic provinces and geodynamic setting Energy Strategy Reviews 54, 101467 (2024) https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
Any given program will expand to fill available memory.
