They are contributing to Google's hold over web specs. If Google decides to implement a feature off spec, then website developers will optimise for that implementation because it will be the implementation used by all chromium based browsers. And that leads to worse performance for other browsers with a more correct implementation.
No the episode is definitely a commentary on racism. The inhabitants of Finetime are not just gen z, they are explicitly upper class gen z. They have literally blue blood. They are very Tory-coded.
The whole episode is riddled with micro aggressions from Lindy towards the doctor. Here is a possibly incomplete list of them:
declining the Doctors call in the cold open. but taking Ruby's later on
suspecting the Doctor is responsible for the situation
being disgusted by Ruby and the Doctor being in the same room
not noticing the Doctor and the person calling her in the morning where one and the same, saying she just thought they "looked the same"
Introducing the Doctor to her friends with the words "he is not as stupid as he looks" and suggesting he would be punished later on
There is also the mention of a cleanse, which takes on a very different meaning after the twist especially since not just the majority of the Finetime characters but all of them are white.
The whole episode is designed to make you question your own perceptiveness of racism. After the twist you are supposed to go "how could I have been so blind?". I recommend a rewatch. And no, I didn't pick up on it at first. I did notice some of them as weird, but noticed what all of them have in common only at the end.
I like the term "extermination" which the ICC's chief prosecutor used in his charging document against Bibi.
Genocide requires intent. There is at least the possibility that Israel is merely showing careless disregard and willful ignorance towards Palestinian lifes. That doesn't make a practical difference, of course. The fact that Israel is maybe? not as racist as they could be, doesn't help all the dead or starving civilians.
That's why I like the term extermination. It's precise but doesn't require intent. It doesn't imply that Israels interest in defeating Hamas is merely a smokescreen (for the record: I don't think Hamas can be defeated militarily, but I understand the interest).
And it does all that without being a euphemism.
Edit: a previous version of this contained a Freudian slip where I confused the names of Biden and Netanjau.
"Ob Links- oder Rechtsterrorismus - da sehe ich keinen Unterschied."
"Doch, doch", ruft das Känguru, "die einen zünden Ausländer an, die anderen Autos. Und Autos sind schlimmer, denn es hätte meines sein können. Ausländer besitze ich keine."
I've just tried building Thunder for desktop and it works fine so far without any tweaks nessesary. In fact I'm writing this comment using this very build.
If there's interest I might be looking into turning this into a proper flatpak.
You are correct. They are using the file format heavily but didn't develop it initially. The German wikipedia page is a bit confusingly laid out in that regard leading to my mistake (They are classifing the use as a "tecnical development" along with the stuff the EBU actually developed).
The EBU is and was involved in the development of technical specs such as DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) or DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) but FLAC isn't one of them.
Because the Eurovision Song Contest is organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The EBUs primary purpose is to develop and manage technical standards for European TV and Radio. The FLAC audio file format for example was developed in part by the EBU. They are here to make sure a TV or Radio bought in Portugal will also work in Finland and every country in between.
As such they don't really care all that much whether a country is technically located in Europe or not. As long as it makes sense for a country to be part in the European Broadcasting Area it is allowed to join the organisation. That's why North African countries such as Egypt are part of the EBU and that's why Israel is a full member.
Australias case is a bit different. They are here despite not being full members. The participating broadcaster SBS is merely an associate member giving them the same status as American networks CBS or NBC. The inclusion of the singers from down under started as a joke to celebrate the shows anniversary and then they stuck around because SBS payed enough money and general audiences liked the idea.
I haven't tried it myself but the StarLite is a surface style convertible designed to run Linux, even shipping with the distribution of your choice right out of the box. And apparently it supports MPP pens. It's not in the official specs but StarLabs is selling an active pen that's "exclusively designed for the StarLite Mk V"
That's a common misconception. German law actually allows the public display of swastikas in certain, so called socially adequate (that's an actual legal term), situations. Satire is one of those. If anyone can see that you are making fun of Nazis it's allowed. Another of those adequate uses is in art. The use in video games used to be prohibited for reasons that are to complicated to explain in this comment (involving an actual Nazi and a pirated copy of the game Wolfenstein 3D) but now they are counted as art as well so it's fine there as well.
It's not just a YouTube downloader, it also allows you to download videos from, as the official website says, "a few more sites". Those include social media sites such as twitch or twitter but also the online platforms of TV networks. If you live in the US, you can for example download full episodes from the big broadcasting networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) and PBS. If you're British you can download stuff from the BBC. Germans find their public broadcasters supported as well. Likewise for a bunch of other European countries and Australia.
And with a good VPN you have access to all of the above.
The Eurovision Song Contest is organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) an organization set up to regulate TV tech. In short they exist to make sure a TV bought in Spain also works in Sweden. As such the EBU also grants full membership to countries that are not part of Europe but have strong economic ties with the continent and therefore are part of the European Broadcasting Area. That's how we got Israel in the contest. Australia also competes because (a) they are an associate member (b) they have an long history of airing the contest even before they competed (c) they spend a large sum of money every year to make the EBU forget where exactly Australia is located.
The US doesn't participate but a couple of years ago NBC bought the rights and tried to mount an "American Song Contest". It didn't work all that well because it was hamstrung by the rigid structure of American network TV. The ESC works (in part) because it is three nights only and they tried to make an entire season of television.
Don't get your hopes up just yet. This is just my idea of how such an app could look like. Doesn't mean, anybody is actually going to build it.