And that's how you become a complacent enby.

I kinda like my body but feel that I would've liked it more with different chromosomes but also that I'd like it less if I went for surgery. So what I've got is pretty much as good as it's gonna get. Except for hair removal but I actually tried that and my follicles are built like tanks.

As fun as having a fem voice to switch to sounds, voice training takes a lot of discipline and I certainly don't have the drive to see it through. Mad props to those who do.

E-bikes are allowed to go faster than 25 km/h, it's just that the motor has to stop helping beyond that speed. Important difference.

I don't think that a general 20 km/h speed limit is the best choice. Maybe add tiers based on the type of path. Bike lanes on roads and bike paths without immediately adjacent foot paths could go pretty fast, bike paths separated from foot paths only by a line on the ground a bit slower, and shared foot/bike paths even slower. Maybe something like 30/20/15 km/h.

Before someone comments "but bike lanes on roads are also immediately adjacent to foot paths": Yes, but so are roads without bike paths and cars are allowed 30 or even 50 km/h on those. It's generally understood that roads are dangerous and need special consideration so I'd be willing to allow 30 km/h on bike lanes.

It can absolutely be both rushed and way late. You just have to move very slowly (or inefficiently) for a long time and then try to get what you have release-ready in a hurry.

I think that guy now has a fairly successful career in politics, which is one hell of an upgrade from being homeless. Maybe his turtle duck luck came in a bit late.

The term "irrational exuberance" comes to mind.

From what I remember, the measurements taken by the researchers were under rather controlled conditions with little other storage access to muddy the waters.

As for the 4 GB LLM Chrome now ships with: If those 4 GB create significant storage issues on your system you probably have other issues to worry about already. I'm not a huge fan of LLMs being crammed into everything but it shouldn't make much of a difference in this case.

I read about this a while ago and people then concluded that FROST is harder to exploit in real-world scenarios than in the lab. Still worth addressing and a fix shouldn't be too difficult, e.g. by adding small amounts of random latency to OPFS accesses. Firefox already does this with other APIs to make fingerprinting harder. Chromium doesn't because they love fingerprinting.

Honestly, I'm not thrilled with the OPFS model in general. Each page can randomly occupy part of your storage with you having no control over the process. You don't get asked. You can't even inspect the data. Even if it turns out to be useless for fingerprinting, the ability to use your storage invisibly with zero effort is not a power I want to hand out like candy in an environment that supposedly is assumed to be adversarial by default.

The only upside is that browsers do have a quota which is apparently shared between all instances of IndexedDB and OPFS. So the threat model of "use OPFS to fill up the user's entire storage" isn't plausible per se even if you have multiple tabs to attack with. Filling up the storage to evict other sites' stored data might actually work, though, and while it sounds like more of an annoyance, it might also become a step in some other attack.

Besides, quota size is entirely up to the browser; while Firefox uses 10% of total storage or 10 GB, whichever is lower, Chromium can in principle take up to 60% of total storage. When I tried, both a Firefox-based browser and a Chromium-based one had quotas of exactly 10 GB; I suspect that my distro's packagers configured the latter when the built the browser package.

So in meiner Verwandtschaft gesehen. Oberes Management bei einer Spedition, vom Mechaniker hochgearbeitet. Der Inhaber verkauft die Firma, der Käufer vertickt sofort alle Assets und macht den Laden dicht. Schon sitzt man mit Mitte 50 beim Amt und erfährt, dass man für Managementposten unterqualifiziert und für alles andere überqualifiziert und zu alt ist. Langjährige Berufserfahrung zählt halt einen Dreck, wenn man kein BWL-Studium vorweisen kann.

Nach ein paar Jahren "nicht vermittelbar" wurde dann empfohlen, einfach in den Vorruhestand zu gehen. Keine weiteren Vermittlungsversuche und dann Frührente sobald möglich. Arbeitswille und -fähigkeit wären da gewesen, aber mit dem Profil wollte ihn halt keiner haben. Und schon wird aus einem Einzahler ein Auszahler.

I was going to point out that some of the stones you mentioned are semiprecious stones but it turns out that "gemstone" actually includes precious and semiprecious stones. Also, the distinction between the two is arbitrary and mostly based on how expensive they were in the Copper Age. TIL.

Not really.

We already had the "now everything will get better" moment when Obama replaced Bush Jr. and brought promises of change and the USA becoming a better country. He was a lame duck for many reasons but he did make an effort to short up the country's reputation.

Bush had demonstrated that the USA were perfectly capable of suddenly tearing up agreements that had been stable for decades. Obama's case was that this was a one-time slip-up, that the USA were still a reliable and trustworthy partner. It was a hard case to make on an international stage where treaties are expected to remain stable for decades if not centuries but he made that point by leaning on the States' accumulated goodwill as a trade partner.

Then Trump I shat all over that and made clear that no, American policy could pivot on a dime and having to renegotiate everything every four years was just the cost of doing business with the USA these days. And you better did business with the USA on their terms or they'd get mad.

Biden tried to do an Obama but a) was even more of a lame duck and b) tried to argue a point that had become thoroughly implausible at this point.

Trump II now shows us that four years was actually restrained by American standards and that American policy can now change whenever and however he wants it to, continuity and common sense be damned. L'Etat c'est lui. On a stage where a decade is a short time he changes the country's tenor on a weekly basis.

The EU's reaction? Trade deals with just about everyone else. Mercosur. Canada. Japan. The UK. Singapore. Vietnam. New Zealand. Ukraine. Moldova. Georgia. Kenya. Plus several others in early stages. Which European trade deals are staling out? The ones with the USA and China.

The world is pivoting away from the USA because it lost its trust in America as a trade partner and it's going to take decades of concentrated and stable good-faith effort to regain that trust. The States won't just have to make a case for keeping them as a preferred partner but for making them a preferred partner again. The hurdle is higher now.

Mind you, openly defying the ICC (and thus subverting the idea of a rules-based world order) and breaking the WTO are much older than the Trump administration. Randomly fucking with foreign countries has been going on ever since the USA had the ability to project power.

The USA have been a bad friend for a long time. They had a bit of a redemption in the 40s but just kept coasting on that one moment (and fear of a belligerent neighbor), assuming that their popularity comes from them being inherently awesome and always right. The luster was already rubbing off in the 2000s with Bush's bullshit wars.

But now Trump is openly showing that the States feel entitled to whatever they want, are simultaneously subservient to much smaller foreign powers, and have zero respect for human rights, long-time friends, the values they supposedly stand for, and themselves. The belligerent neighbor they've been using to prop up their image is a broken man now and they kiss his feet.

Uncle Sam is not just a bad friend, he's a washed-up unstable asshole whom nobody in the friend group actually likes but who keeps showing up and threatening people if he's not included.

Wouldn't that tool be called "Save As..."? If the suite supports both formats, converting a document is as simple as opening and saving it.

And they could absolutely just default to OpenDocument and also support OOXML, just like LibreOffice does.