[–] 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The article opens up with

Shoppers are switching from traditional product despite little evidence alternative is safer

Yet deep inside the article we read

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) says the key difference is that when nitrates or nitrites are consumed as part of protein-rich foods such as meat, they are converted into chemicals known as nitrosamines, which are thought to be harmful to health

This has been known for 20 years [1], so this is outright irresponsible reporting by the guardian.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4087738/

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago

    If I had to guess, it would be to have an easier time getting intoe the server market.

    Being able to develop on the same platform as the one that a program is deployed to usually allows for much lower friction and faster development cycles.

    It can also be used to ramp up collaboration with the Linux project, which is useful for getting patches upstreames promptly.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    This mean that house prices will fall since fewer buyers will be interested. The question is whether the houses will be gobbled up by private equity or will be allowed to fall down enough for more people to start buying houses to live in

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  • [–] 72 points 1 month ago (32 children)

    Shaming Google will only work for so long. Grapheme is is doomed to fail as long as it has a complete dependence on Google's whims.

    Have they announced the pivot to a non-android platform? Being security-mind it is frankly bizarre they have long ignored the Google dependency as a huge risk for the project.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I thought it was illegal for states in the EU to separate spouses. It's the reason EU citizens with the settled status in UK ended up with the right to bring their spouses into the UK, for example.

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