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What connection do Chromebooks have to Android? I thought ChromiumOS was based on Gentoo Linux.

[Jansson] is part of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland, and her books were originally written in Swedish.

Ah, that explains why I can never remember which one.

Great post, thanks. Some niece or nephew will be getting this next birthday, I think!

I don't know much about them, I just use vanilla and pay attention to any new features I might want to disable. I think my threat model trusts Mozilla more than these unknown third party folk.

I don't think it's even enshittification (probably costs more to run than Assistant), it's just Google desperate to find a use for its new AI.

News was reporting yesterday that there was an arrest warrant out for Volodymyr Z in Poland but that he just popped over the border back to Ukraine.

This is very cool.

It's always a good day when you realise a DSL is justified.

[Truss complained that the British press wasn't] “particularly deferential to politicians”

Why should they be? Their job should be to inform the public, not suck up to those in power.

I'd second Mozilla sync, especially as you can self-host the server.

I use that one on Android, since I have a OLED screen and it seems to do wonders for my battery life.

"Disney understandably may want to benefit from the privacy and confidentiality that arbitration brings, rather than having a wrongful death suit heard in public with the associated publicity," says Jamie Cartwright, partner at law firm Charles Russell Speechlys.

-- from the BBC article

If that's what they want, they clearly never heard of the Streisand Effect. This is disgraceful behaviour from Disney, and I hope they come to severely regret it.

Huh, how sensible and well considered.

This series was shot before and after Flintoff was involved in a car accident on the set of Top Gear, which left him with serious injuries.

I wonder if viewers will be able to tell the difference between the before and after footage.

Oh I see - yes, if the seats around the women are automatically reserved then that exploit doesn't work.

I was thinking first would be the fake booking to find where the women were sitting, then switch browsers/clear cookies/whatever and book with the real details.

The airline's booking process is fairly standard except for the seat map which highlights seats occupied by women with the color pink. This information is not visible to male passengers, according to the airline, CNBC reported.

What's to stop a man from claiming to be female to see the map of where women are sitting, and then booking an adjacent seat themselves?

I felt the same when reading that book, and I never finished it because following the rules he suggested produced horrible code.

If memory serves, he also suggested that the ideal if statement only had one line inside, and you should move multiple lines into a function to achieve this.

I once had to work on a codebase that seemed like it had followed his style, and it was an awful experience. There were hundreds of tiny functions (most only used once) and even with an IDE it was a chore to follow the logic. Best case the compiler removed most of this "clean" code and the runtime wasn't spending most of its time managing the stack like a developer had to do.

I can see that on midwest.social, but on programming.dev it's in English. I assume those previews are being fetched by each server, and yours is picking them up in German for some reason - not sure why, surely your US instance isn't hosted in Germany‽

Oh, that's LAN - I thought you'd put ian and I was trying to get the joke. Stupid sans-serif fonts.

It's naïve to think that marketers have any interest in doing things ethically, unless there's a legal or business reason to do so.

That's where I'd heard of them, that channel is a goldmine.