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Absolutely those things are different. But the point of a search engine is to, crudely and algorithmically, sort out both.

Every (for profit)company is a monetization company. That's the definition of a company.

Block it then. Don't waste your attention on posts that don't bring you joy.

I agree in this case.

But there's a narrative that software needs regular updates or it's worthless, but some things are just done and stable.

If it's feature complete, a keyboard doesn't need regular updates. According to the other thread it's not feature complete, so it could be abandoned. Since it's FOSS any enthusiastic person could stop it from being abandoned.

This is good news. These loyalty programs should be illegal, it's customer discrimination.

Which makes the argument that heat pumps don't work in the cold completely wrong from a user perspective.

I disagree, a lot of white collar work is simply writing bullshit.

You can argue it the other way though. This person is not making sound financial decisions, these loans are predatory and designed to take advantage of vulnerable people that don't understand what their signing up for. This is a failure of the government both to educate people in financial literacy, and to regulate this industry and it's predatory marketing.

I don't think US politicians can get much older without being dead. This is a systemic problem, not a demographic problem, since other countries with similar demographics don't have the age problem.

That's not what happened.

Runions told police that she had taken a 9 mm handgun out of its case, removed the magazine and called Evangaline over to “show her firearm safety.”

Runions pressed the barrel of the gun against the child’s chest and pulled the trigger, police said she told them.

The irony of calling this "firearm safety" is absurd. It's being charged as first degree murder because nobody points a gun at someone's chest and pulls the trigger unless they intend to kill.

A program is written in source code. However in order for that source code to run on your device, it has to be "complied" into a "binary". Open source apps mean that the source code is avalible, however someone still has to do the compiling. Fdroid does the compiling themselves, which means they can guarantee that the binary in their repository came from the source code, aka it is reproducible from the source code. Izzy gets the developer to compile the code themselves, which means that a malicious developer could submit a binary that's different to the source code.

They're protesting in Wellington, so many of the "poor normal people trying to get to work" do work in the government. Protests are inconvenient, that's the point.

Probably some people, back when smartphones were novel in 2007.

At this point though, it's tacky and implies that you don't care enough about the conversation to turn it off.

If they don't care about privacy and security, they aren't wrong

Sure. Australia has had mandatory helmets since 1990, and there's been endless studies and debates since then, it's still ongoing. I could find no clear evidence that helmet mandates decreased overall harm over any timeframe.

To quote a review I read from 2007

The following general principles should have widespread support: (1) Any legislation (including helmet laws) should not be enacted unless the benefits can be shown to exceed the costs. Ideally, the benefits should be greater than from equivalent ways of spending similar amounts of money on other road safety initiatives.

And their conclusion did not find a consensus other than

A majority of brain injuries >AIS2 are caused by bike/motor vehicle collisions. Traffic calming, enforcement of drink-driving laws, cyclist and driver education, or other measures to reduce the frequency and severity of bike/motor vehicle collisions, may therefore represent more cost-effective ways of reducing serious head injuries to cyclists than helmet laws. Indeed, countries with the lowest fatality rates per cycle-km also have the lowest helmet wearing rates

Given that, helmet mandates are a bad law that takes away our liberties for no proven benefit.

Why is a electric motor overheating dangerous? Surely any electric car is going to have a system to throttle itself if overheating is an issue, and it will need that with or without gears.

The fastest accelerating electric cars are single speed, presumably because it's not worth changing gear when you only have 2 seconds.

I can see why it might be useful in specific product categories, but when it's not helpful for price or performance or reliability, that's going to continue to be niche. The real problem electric cars need to solve right now is cost and a gearbox isn't helping with that.

I totally agree. The whole point of a protest is to protest the government, letting yourself be repressed by their rules defeats that point. That's why disobedient protests like RPR are necessary.

Discouraging people from driving is a good thing, although with the amount that's wasted on pointless expressways some governments haven't noticed yet.

Anyway, there's clear evidence from countries with mandatory helmet laws that it discourages people from cycling.

Danger, clearly. We shouldn't have encouraged them off the ebikes.