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Huh? If I wear headphones outside, they will literally be drenched in sweat when I take them off. And you can't exactly put headphones in a washing machine to remove sweat from the foam padding either. They'll start to stink in no time.

wearing earphones while walking outside is a niche usage

Speak for yourself, I do it three or so hours a day.

Indoors or in a car... that's where I never wear earphones. I prefer speakers for that.

Sure but "almost always" is not "always". Maybe don't judge these until you've heard them?

Most native apps are trash too.

It's more than that - for example in Safari after seven days with a bookmark, all data the website stores on device is deleted.

With a PWA saved to your home screen, your data is kept until you delete the icon from your home screen.

Also, PWAs don't have a browser toolbar.

is that one word or 7?

It's a word, with a formal dictionary definition: "the technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counter-accusation or raising a different issue".

It has it's origins in politics.

Is this a sleazy thing to do? Yup

That makes it illegal. The DMA explicitly requires gatekeepers be "proactive" (that's their words) towards opening up their platform. Removing features just in the EU is the opposite of that.

The EU could force Apple to sell their iPhone business. That's listed as the maximum penalty for a DMA violation for companies that "systematically" fail to open up their platform.

The term you're looking for is "vindication".

Stage 5 can give you a huge boost in writing complex queries!

You say that like it's a good thing. I like my queries simple.

Also - the stuff you have under "stage 6" should all be learned before "stage 2" in my opinion. Knowing how to write efficient queries is far more important than group by / join / etc.

I'm an actual human. I don't work for any AI company.

As a test I pasted OP's broken code into an LLM and it took two seconds to find the problem, explain what the code actually does, explain what OP thinks the code should do, and write updated code that actually does that.

US: “Human rights? What are those? Are they in the constitution?”

There actually are strong privacy rights written into the constitution. Unfortunately they don't fit well with modern data collection creating loopholes big enough to drive a truck through.

And nothing is being done to close those loopholes. In fact the opposite... end to end encryption, for example, would close most of the loopholes. Legislators are using "think of the children!" arguments to try to stop companies from upgrading services to use E2EE.

That's because Europe has actual experience with having their privacy invaded and it wasn't just to show you relevant ads. During the war my grandparents burned letters and books after reading them. And they had nothing to hide either - and all of the ones they burned were perfectly innocent and legal... but even those can be taken out of context and used against you during a police investigation.

The UN formally declared privacy as a human right a few years after the war ended. Specifically in response to what happened during the war.

A lot of the data used by police to commit horrific crimes was collected before the war, for example they'd go into a cemetery home and find a list of people who attended a funeral six years ago, then arrest everyone who was there. You can't wait for a government to start doing things like that - you have to stop the data from being collected in the first place.

Imagine how much worse it could be today, with so much more data collected and automated tools to analyse the data. Imagine if you lived in Russian occupied Ukraine right now - what data can Russia find about you? Do you have a brother serving in Ukraine's army? Maybe your brother would defect if you were taken hostage...

The source article has this "visualisation":

From that I'd assume it's not suitable for windows, but it is suitable for taking advantage of natural lighting (not to mention it just looks pretty cool... though I'm not sure about the rest of the architecture in that image).

but the cost is like 10-30 times that of other options

Are you just talking construction costs? How about if you consider the lifetime energy consumption of a building over, I dunno, 50 years? And using zero emission heating, since in 50 years we hopefully are not using fossil fuels for that.

Obviously that's going to vary dramatically depending on the indoor/outdoor temperature delta and future renewable energy costs, so there are too many variables to come up with a number easily, but I could see these bricks being very cheap if you factor int he total cost over the life of the building.

The better option than glass block would be filling the cavity of a double glazed window with aerogel granules

Glass works ok for small windows - but large glass panels are fragile and expensive.

Huh? No. This is a really simple tool - you type text into a file, and save that file on your disk. Other things read the file. Thee's no "control" anywhere to be seen.

Apparently Apple has been using Pkl internally for years, and they've decided to do the world a favour by making it publicly available... probably because they want to use it for public projects too, instead of just their internal ones.

They tried a new product that they have never used before, they decided they didn't like it enough to pay thousands of dollars, so they returned it. Sounds like a perfectly reasonable thing to do if you ask me. How are they morons?

Personally I'm typing this comment on an ordinary LCD display that far higher "pixels per degree" than Apple Vision Pro. It's not even close, like more than double as many pixels per degree... Which means using the headset would be a significant step down in display quality for me.

Sure - for 3D content Vision Pro would be vastly superior, but I almost never work with 3D content. I just want to read (and write) text. Vision Pro clearly isn't a product for me until it has higher resolution displays and a wider field of view and that's perfectly fine, I can wait for that day. For other people it's less clear wether or not it's a good product for them and I think those people should absolutely try it out to see if it works instead of trying to guess having never used one. And if they don't like it, return it. That's what return policies are for.

I’ve been trying unsuccessfully for several days to fix to what must be a simple error.

That really sucks. Others have already helped out so I won't go there, but seriously do yourself a favour and start using large language models. I personally pay for ChatGPT Plus, but there are free ones (from other companies, not the free Open AI models) that could have helped you with this problem in minutes instead of days.

people refusing to create an account acting all doom and gloom are getting to be insufferable

I'm not doom and gloom, I think this is a good step in the right direction.

Users should be able to control what websites have access to their data and a sign in process achieves that. Only sign into a site if you are happy with the website's privacy policy. I have an account on this website because it has in the privacy policy:

We do not sell or disclose user data under any condition, unless required by relevant data protection authorities, any other law enforcement authorities, or if the account owner requests the data themselves.

The thing that offends me the most about tracking across the internet is you are tracked wether you agree to a website's privacy policy or not. Usually you can't even read the privacy policy without being tracked.

Users who don't care about any of that can simply tap this button in Chrome (and Google could easily make it even more seamless if they want to, with a simple "share my stuff with every website I visit" setting):

There are also less invasive versions of that, such as the Passkeys standard, where you just share a unique id web the website - no name or email address. Passkeys are supported in every modern browser and the prompt is pretty similar to the screenshot above, minus the 'share your name/email/picture' bit.

Personally, I'm only going to sign into websites that I trust. 99.999% of the internet is run by companies i have never even heard of, so obviously I don't trust them. And some of the sites I have heard of (e.g. Twitter, Reddit), I definitely don't trust. But there are a few sites like lemmy.world which I trust and there are also plenty of websites websites that do even less tracking than Lemmy. Including a bunch that are ad supported... because you can show an ad to a visitor without knowing the personal details of that visitor.

As things stand right now, I run a browser extension that stops websites from tracking me and they do that by blocking all ads. I don't see that as a sustainable option - it means those websites are losing money whenever I visit the website. Far better, far more honest, if I just don't visit those websites at all. But I need to know what the website's tracking policy is before i can make that choice, so they need to start asking for permission.

Google regularly thinks I'm a robot and the ads are not even remotely relevant. There's no way they know who I am.