We're looking into whether an iOS version is feasible.
A typical iOS messaging app would use a push notification to wake the
app when a message is received, but this exposes metadata to Apple's
push notification service and the app developer's push gateway
If we don't use push notifications then the best Apple allows us to do
is wake up every 15 minutes and check for messages. But maybe the sender
won't be online when we check (their 15 minute intervals might not be
aligned with ours - clocks aren't perfect).
I'm a bit confused by the app and Mailbox app for being able to receive messages while offline separation. The normal app only supports live communication between two online participants? /edit: Looks like that is indeed the case.
access to FireChat was completely cut off without explanation.
After establishing that FireChat establishes its own, independent mesh network, I would have at least expected more details on how it was cut off? Did it simply became unavailable on the publishers distribution? The followup text seems to indicate otherwise. Did Google and Apple as app publishers actively revoke access to already installed apps? Did the Open Garden publisher have a disabling functionality in place? Did they publish an update to disable it?
Without any information, it's hard to say why FireChat disappeared. […]
FireChat is gone because FireChat was a threat to the systems it circumvented.
"Nobody knows anything, but let me claim this anyway."
Both Israel and the US had signed but withdrew from the treaty. A treaty followed by 155 states.
Other states not part of it are Burundi, China, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Qatar, Philippines, Russia, Yemen.
Potentially valid criticisms of the organ aside, when you’re in that kind of company… and under investigation…
As of February 2024, 124 states are parties to the Statute of the Court, including all the countries of South America, nearly all of Europe, most of Oceania and roughly half of Africa. […] A further 31 countries have signed but not ratified the Rome Statute.
The seven countries that voted against the treaty were China, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Qatar, the U.S., and Yemen.
Four signatory states—Israel in 2002, the United States on 6 May 2002, Sudan on 26 August 2008, and Russia on 30 November 2016—have informed the UN Secretary General that they no longer intend to become states parties and, as such, have no legal obligations arising from their signature of the Statute.
I am also surprised the US had already put sanctions on individuals who are part of the ICC in 2020.
Which doesn't even seem useful, reasonable, or effective but only retaliatory to me. It's not like those individuals would abduct people on US soil.
On 11 June 2020, Mike Pompeo and U.S. President Donald Trump announced sanctions on officials and employees, as well as their families, involved in investigating alleged crimes against humanity committed by U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan. This move was widely criticized by human rights groups.
Frieren Isn't Trying To Make Its Villains Sympathetic
I strongly disagree with this point.
The whole point of the episode is that the demons act in a way that emits sympathy and empathy in the humans and viewers. Despite Frierens claim of demons having no empathy, her lack of detail and expression, and the contrasting behavior of the demons makes you wonder which is true. Which remains an ambivalent state for a while through the episode.
The conclusion is that the demons themselves do not have empathy. But the main theme of the episode is demons being depicted sympathetically.
I assume this is arguing in a way that is missing the point they were trying to make. But I'm going with what they wrote rather than guessing implicit meaning.
That seems to be a reference to anime's tendency to make its villains sympathetic at any cost.
No way. That's most definitely not why they chose their villains like that.
Frieren’s Demons Are The Perfect Villains, Despite Their Lack Of Depth
I think it would be hard to give them depth but at the same time make them undeniably evil. What would that kind of depth look like? So I think the lack of depth serves them being undeniably evil.
Frieren’s demons are incapable of being sympathetic because of their lack of human emotion, and that makes them the perfect villains for the series. The overarching theme of Frieren is the importance of embracing emotions and bonds with others, with Frieren’s character arc, specifically, being about her journey to be more in touch with the emotions of herself and others. As such, demons being biologically incapable of human emotion puts them in direct contrast to the overarching themes of the story, making them the best villains for Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, […]
The lack of emotion being in contrast to Frierens discovery of emotion is certainly a valid and interesting point. But I don't think it brings anything to the story or Frierens journey or the contrasting. It's unrelated.
While there’s nothing wrong with a story making its villains sympathetic, seeing it be attempted so many times across so many different mediums destroys the novelty of it, especially when the results are so often lacking.
I can agree the implementations are often lacking. But that's unrelated. Many things are often lacking.
Shallow characters and clear good vs evil setups may be more difficult to fuck up, but they are also inherently shallow.
What made Gravatar great beyond that was that you set it up with your email account, and other websites would use your chosen avatar,identified by email address.
Gravatar was a great, minimal, independent service. Until they acquired it and integrated it into their WordPress platform and onboarding (trying to get you to become a customer).
I remember it being Nixon who pardoned it down to house arrest a couple years later, but Wikipedia says something different. IDK. Fuck Nixon.
The Wikipedia article says
[Lieutenant William Calley Jr.] was originally given a life sentence but served three-and-a-half years under house arrest after U.S. president Richard Nixon commuted his sentence.
I'm not sure which of the parties you label a loser. I certainly think there are gains in supporting Ukraine. Maybe moreso for the EU than the US which is far away at least geographically and on an isolated continent.
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