Do they?

When Republicans are in power they never actually cut spending.

Some people say there’s no malware for macOS and that’s obviously not true.

But others say macOS has malware so it’s no better than Windows in that regard, but I don’t think that’s true either.

Look at this example. It only works if it tricks users into downloading and running an unsigned executable, bypassing sometimes multiple warnings.

Wait...the article says they're still worth $50k each.

Really?

Some of the many things that surprised me:

• They want to try all 19 at once
• They want the trial within 6 months

This may be the most significant indictment, because the president can't pardon a state crime.

It's also just an open file format. Anyone could implement it, and in fact I found dozens of completely independent implementations of webp decoders on GitHub in various languages.

There really is no secret ulterior motive in this case.

Man, when things get tough, you need someone you can really count on to do the right thing.

Someone who won't let you down.

A Rock.

Wow, not my experience at all.

Today's younger generation is way more accepting of differences than any previous generation I've seen, and I'm Gen X.

Today's teenagers have friends who are gay, straight, trans, questioning, masculine, feminine, asexual, etc. and they're totally cool with it. They're like, you be you.

Gives me hope for the future.

Rotten Tomatoes has both a critic score and an audience score.

If your pick has a low critic score but high audience score, that means it was formulaic or unoriginal but probably lots of fun.

Movies with a high critic score and low audience score are usually more artsy, film-festival stuff.

My prediction: verified video will start to become a thing.

Phones will be able to encode a digital signature with a video that certifies the date, time, and location where the video was captured. Modifying the video in any way will invalidate it.

Same for photos.

People will stop believing photos and video that don't have a verifiable signature. Social networks and news organizations will automatically verify the signatures of all photos and videos they display.

Technically this is already possible today, it just needs to become mainstream and the default.

Lemmy is more like Reddit, Mastodon is more like Twitter.

In other words: Lemmy has communities (subreddits) and hierarchical comments for each post. Mastodon doesn't have either of those things, but it has following users and following hashtags.

Despite being different, they have some interoperability because they use the same federation protocol.

First of all, since the very early days Android has always allowed apps to make use of native code using the "NDK", and in fact most games and most apps that do any sort of AI, image processing, or anything else complex like that make heavy use of native code already, for performance reasons.

Keep in mind that the decision to base Android apps around Java was made back in 2003 when Android was founded. Some of the reasons they picked Java were:

• It's one of the most widely known languages by developers
• It's hard to write code in languages like C and C++ without introducing memory bugs and security bugs. Using a higher-level language makes those bugs far less common.
• It's portable - you note that Android only supports arm64 now, but at the time it was arm32, and Android has actually always had some level of support for x86 - you can run the emulator for x86, and some x86 Android devices exist. Using a bytecode language means Android is future-proof
• It's not limited to just Java - the JVM has a rich ecosystem of languages that developers can use

Now 20 years later I think it's worked out pretty well. It's hard to imagine picking a different language would have worked out better. Java is still just as popular as ever, and Android developers can take advantage of all of the Java tools from any other platform or application.

Apple's original option for iOS apps was just Objective-C, which is higher-performance, but overall it's a more obscure, difficult to use language. Developers adopted it despite Obj-C, not because of it. Apple had to invent Swift to provide a more modern alternative, because Obj-C is basically not used anywhere else and it felt very ancient. While Swift is a pretty great language, it's still somewhat obscure, only used for iOS and Mac apps - while Java and JVM languages are used everywhere.

Anyway, let's say that Android really did want to switch, for some reason. I'm not sure why you think switching to compiled code would be less complex. How would all of the millions of existing Android apps migrate? What native languages would be supported? It'd be a huge transition for dubious benefits.

As it is, Android is extremely flexible. While the official APIs require a JVM language, because of the NDK you can basically write Android apps in whatever language you want. People have built frameworks enabling you to build Android apps in nearly every language under the sun.

I wonder how long before we start seeing some plausible but fake AMAs