Swift and Rust have a far more elegant solution. Swift has a pseudo throw / try-catch, while Rust has a Result<> and if you want to throw it up the chain you can use a ? notation instead of cluttering the code with error checking.
I use Firefox on Android and it's great. Ad blocking is the big one but it's just a good browser. I deleted the Twitter and Reddit apps recently and Firefox lets me bookmark the sites on the launcher so it's like a separate "app" but not taking up 100s MB of space and I can block ads on these sites. I'm hoping that I'll be to use the Twitter desktop extension that prunes even more junk out of the experience - recommendations, what's trending and other clickbait garbage
TakeTwo / Rockstar seems to outsource this work onto a 3rd party porting house which does the minimal effort to port the thing on time and on budget. Look at the debacle that was their GTA "definitive" edition which but was so buggy, broken and gimped that it was universally panned. I wonder if Grove Street Games will get the porting gig for RDR or if Rockstar will foist it out on someone else. And charging $50 for a port is taking the piss in any event. If it were a remake, or reimagining with a new engine then maybe, but just porting all the code and assets and tossing in a few extra textures? No way.
There are quality porting houses (e.g. Bluepoint), and really RDR is a game that should be given to someone who cares about the port and is given the time and money to make it work.
JavaScript is a victim of its own popularity. It was originally meant to be scripting glue to do little actions in the browser while the real work was done in Java (LiveConnect) apps. But Java got jettisoned, JavaScript became more important and became the thing we love and hate today.
Brave is a marching band of red flags. It claims privacy while injecting ads, affiliate codes and crypto into the browser. It's kind of sad to see someone like Brendan Eich who should know better turn to the dark side and pretend this is all fine. It isn't.
Best advice I could give for anyone who wants privacy is use Firefox or a branch of it. Firefox is out of the box the most privacy conscious mainstream browser and add-ons make it more so. If you want absolute privacy you could even use a derivative like Tor Browser.
For his first dumb tweet he'll get the protective order. If he does it again I could see a judge definitely thinking of putting him behind bars. Whether it happens or not depends on whether he wants to double down. I'm hoping he does.
I don't think the official app is awful - yet. But It was clear when they jacked up API prices it was about making better software than theirs disappear so they could fill their own with ads, more ads, popups, notifications, privacy infringement and all the rest.
I just deleted it. If I need to access Reddit from a phone, I use an webapp link on the launcher which shows their site through Firefox. Strips out all the ads out too while its at it. I also do the same for Twitter.
Anyone paying attention to Musk would have known for some time that he is a vain narcissist who says a lot of unfiltered and frankly stupid shit and hates criticism.
I think the first prominent example of this was when those kids were trapped in a cave and everyone laughed at his dumb ideas to get them out and he lashed out calling a rescuer a pedo. A smarter billionaire would have just offered to pay for any logistical support they required and in the aftermath maybe given a stipend for the dead rescuers and built the kids a football pitch. But not old Elon.
As for Neuralink I think it's safe to say it'll go in the failure pile along with the Boring Company.
What do you mean precisely by using novel statutes? I’m assuming you are referring to the use of these specific charges requiring some level of novel legal interpretation. I’m not sure I agree, but I am interested in your perspective as to why you think that is the case if you have the time/are so inclined. Either way, appreciate your response!
One thing he is being charged with is conspiracy against the right to vote. That is a reconstruction era law to stop the KKK intimidating voters and suchlike. Not saying it's not a relevant thing to charge him with (it seems to be), but it's a rarely used law and I'm certain defense will be arguing hard to strike it out. The other conspiracies also will require a prosecution to present an actual conspiracy through dozens of witnesses and hundreds of pieces of evidence and I'm sure defense lawyers will be working hard to pretend Trump was mislead by a cabal of greedy lawyers exploiting his better nature.
By comparison unlawful retention and possession of classified documents is pretty yes/no thing with obstruction on top for good measure.
I have read the indictment and it's clear that this is going to be a LONG trial and there is going to be a lot of cross examination with lots of witnesses and complexity of threading the needle. It's also using more novel statutes which in themselves might bring issues.
So my point is the other indictment is just more straightforward. It's the old Al Capone analogy of trying to prove an entire criminal enterprise or just hit him for his tax returns. The same is true for Trump except in this case it's statutes regarding classified documents which he demonstrably violated. Either way he'll die in prison so I don't mind as long as he's convicted of something.
I think the document's indictment will secure a conviction more easily than this, even if this is the one that should see him sent to prison forever.
The reason is simple - the documents crime is self evident - removal of classified documents, attempts to hide their return and an obvious attempt to obstruct an investigation into their whereabouts.
Where as the Jan 6 stuff has enough of a complex timeline that prosecution could screw it up, or the defendant's lawyers could throw all the co-conspirators under a bus to exclaim Trump was simply given bad advice by his lawyers.
It's a smart thing for news sources and ngos to do - run an instance and use it to issue posts and provide a platform for journalists. Twitter and other platforms can still receive posts but the "source of truth" is the Mastodon server
I didn't know about the adware but I know they bundle a lot of duplicate shit in the deluded belief that people want to use Samsung's payment system, or appstore or any of the other parallel universe junk that just stinks up the phone.
I think OnePlus, Motorola or Pixel but really you'd have to check reviews since any phone of including this shit if they wanted. Networks do it too so it is important to buy a SIM free phone if possible as the first precaution.
I know personally that I would never buy a Samsung phone again. The budget models are filled with ad/crapware. The premium models are expensive, gimmick laden and bad value.
I joined it early on not thinking much of it, accepting invites left, right and centre. And then all the recruitment agents began spamming the shit out of me because I was a link so it cost them nothing. If a job said Java and my resume said Java they'd spam me even if I'm on another continent.
So I unlinked the lot of them and my life is relatively peaceful. If agents want to talk to me they need to send me an InMail which costs a point in their subscription but I still ignore them just to waste their points. I hate the service and I hate agents. If I was ever interested in a job spec that some agent sent me then I'd figure out the company from the clues in the spec and approach them directly. Because fuck agents and fuck LinkedIn.
He won't strike a deal and I wonder if any would be offered. And if he dies in prison then it's not like he did everything in his power to commit various illegalities and earn that fate many times over.
I deleted the Twitter app recently and replaced it on my phone with a launcher bookmark to the website. Loss of functionality was minimal. I lose notifications but on the flipside my browser strips out all the ads and I have 250MB less bloat on my phone. So I'd say I'm on the winning side. Probably true to for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit and any other app which is just a thin wrapper over some HTML.
Swift and Rust have a far more elegant solution. Swift has a pseudo throw / try-catch, while Rust has a Result<> and if you want to throw it up the chain you can use a ? notation instead of cluttering the code with error checking.