Curious if this will fix my one issue I have with Finamp.

I have some quite large playlists I’d like to listen on shuffle. Finamp doesn’t do that well at all. (It seems it only shuffles what it has cached or something, as it seems to shuffle “only” the first 100 or so songs. of 3000+)

Yes, most people are not interesting. True for Emi/Imi-gration as well as dating. And in both cases it’s tough to hear.

You largely can choose the provider of this service, but they will also choose you (or not).
And you can not refrain from the service while being in the community of those that don’t refrain. In practice there are (nearly) no places where the community as a whole chooses to refrain.

If you’re in a country with compulsory military service, make yourself interesting for other countries and leave.

Doesn’t seem to be a flattering angle. front view doesn’t seem as bad (but still wide).
Compared to the F35 from a bad angle.

But the twin-engine design on both sides of the pilot (unlike a J20) will probably just make for a wider body as well.

Well, the US has shown that they couldn’t fight an insurgency with their level of protections for civilians.
Makes sense that Israel assesses that they have less resources than the US, and thus can’t fight the same way and have a hope of success.

Of course they could have used that as a pretty good reason not to start this war in the first placez but alas, they didn’t.

Well, I assume some people understood me as asking “It’s just a tree, why the bother?”. I tried to get around this with wording, but whatever.

I kinda guess this is largely a “local” thing (not sure how large “local” is though). And of course it’s a pity that an angry teen destroyed a hundreds of years old tree.

Can someone explain why it’s so terrible, that this tree has been felled?
I don’t think I’ve seen it before, so to me it’s more significant that it fell on Hadrian’s wall. But I do seem to be ignorant here, so can someone educate me?

Well, from the EUs perspective, while the US is certainly generally an Ally, it is sometimes a rather tense relationship.

I’d argue, you could describe China pretty similarly, although that would be somewhat disingenuous, as I think EU and US values are more similar than EU and Chinese values.

Anyway, if you don’t want the data of your people to go to some questionable other country, you’d have to forbid US social networks as well.

Probably too difficult logistically to forbid Microsoft

because if the government spends 100€ on whatever, it gets 19€ back.
So it only actually spent 81€.

I’ve been wondering if it really is the right decision to put things on display which have both, a significant material value, and historical value.

The gold of these gold coins seems to have had roughly 250,000€ in value.
That seems like a lot of incentive to steal and melt it down.

And what is the benefit of displaying the actual items? It’s not rare that the public is only shown a fake, one that just looks good enough to get the impression of the item.

I was thinking (and haven’t decided yet if the idea is good) that stuff of this nature (material value + historical value) may be better off being in a more secured place somewhere, where it still can be studied by people when required, but the public can’t get at it as easily. With fakes being shown in Museums. Those fakes could them allow more interaction (like touching a dinosaur teeth/bones), and the original doesn’t suffer damage from people touching it, light and/or people stealing it and melting it down.

No seriously, I’d hate to be in the risk assessment side here. Do you try to provoke an attack by going anyway? So that you have an excuse to respond in full force?

Nobody in power in the world actually wants to respond in full force.

it would have been way worse, because it would have been less discoverable in a closed source software by someone somewhere

I mean, what’s a “proper audit”?
most audits my company does are a complete smoke and mirrors sham. But they do get certifications. Is that “proper”?

I’m pretty confident that the code-quality of linux is, on average, higher than that of the windows kernel. And that is because not only do other people read and review, the programmer also knows his shit is for everyone to see. So by and large they are more ashamed to submit some stringy mess that barely works