Even if that assumption were correct, the mayor of NYC cannot meaningfully aid or hinder Israel's actions. A politician's position on an issue far outside the scope of the office they're seeking doesn't usually influence my vote.
But Cuomo tried very hard to turn it into a referendum on Mamdani’s views on Israel and Palestine—and the media establishment took the bait.
It's weird this is an issue in a mayoral campaign in the USA. The role has no foreign policy authority whatsoever, and Palestine/Israel is 5700 miles from NYC.
Unsolicited photography tip: your phone camera's sensor is 4:3. Setting the aspect ratio to anything else crops the image and can make fitting subjects that aren't tall and skinny in the frame difficult.
This is true even if the phone calls a different aspect ratio "full".
It had been the norm for phones, then Android came along and a much more PC-like level of capability became the norm for phones. SafetyNet didn't show up until five years later and it didn't get significant negative press.
Some of them still exist; some of them shut down. It's not just a matter of Reddit siphoning off all the users (though that's a factor), but that administering and moderating forums is a lot of work without a lot of reward. In addition to the baseline effort being significant, a changing landscape including reduced organic search traffic, more spam, and increased legal liability in some jurisdictions has reduced the number of people who want to attempt it.
banned for not adhering to Left Wing orthodoxy
Reddit has many problems, but in my experience this is not one of them. Of course you're very likely to be banned if you bring politics into a community that isn't about politics.
I don't think vindictiveness is a major factor. This is about power.
Trump is trying to grab as much power to deport people as he can. He will fight every challenge to it until the legal options are exhausted. He will attack the legitimacy of the courts when he loses. He cares about the precedent and saving face with his base, not Garcia himself.
Huawei was forced to offer non-Google Android due to USA sanctions. I don't know whether that has created difficulties for them in the Chinese market, but a quick search shows a significant decline in market share in Europe.
I do think Amazon launching an Android phone in 2014 without Google's ecosystem is the main reason Google launched SafetyNet. Of course the Fire Phone failed because it wasn't very good and Amazon didn't iterate, but I imagine Google didn't want them or anyone else to try again.
Sometimes people make things that are useful to Google or find bugs for them. It has no meaningful cost to them as long as non-Google Android isn't appealing to mainstream users.
No. WhatsApp came first, but later adopted Signal's key exchange and encryption. WhatsApp was an independent company for years and had rejected several acquisition offers, but $19 billion is a big number.
One of WhatsApp's founders is now chairman of the Signal Foundation and a major financial backer of the project.
Mastodon's federation is not at all consistent even when it could get much closer with a little effort.
Servers don't remote fetch old posts from recent follows for example, nor replies to off-server posts from people on a third server. There's work being done on both, but I'm surprised it wasn't prioritized much earlier. Some other Fediverse software handles these situations better.
I think Samsung put out a couple smartphones about a decade ago with 16:9 sensors, but otherwise phone cameras are almost universally 4:3. Nothing wrong with cropping intentionally of course, but I see a whole lot of images that appear to be cropped accidentally.
Random unsolicited photography tip: your phone camera's aspect ratio is 4:3. Setting it to something else crops the image, even if that something else is misleadingly called "full".
It looks like you had to back up to fit the whole poster in the frame, thereby including a bunch of carpet and ceiling. It would be easier to frame uncropped.
I think the fediverse has a built-in legal risk in that any time someone posts, data is sent to a large number of servers when then make it available via the web or sometimes push it to additional servers (e.g. by user boosts or community subscriptions). This is currently done without any explicit license for the IP contained in that post.
I'm inclined to think that irrevocable permissions are the right thing here, in large part because it's impossible to guarantee that any subsequent signal from the original poster propagates to everyone who has a copy of that post, or that the server software responds how someone else expects it will.
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That would be interesting to find out.