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Really? Google to this day refuses to do business in China, and Apple at this very moment excludes the EU from multiple new iOS 27 features that launch in the rest of the world. An…

> A related issue solved along was Windows string representation of paths. std::filesystem::path stores its text in wchar_t encoded as UTF-16 (Windows native). But p.string() narro…

The question is not odd at all. Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 is supported until 2029: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows... Also, MS does absolutely su…

> Lately Alternative für Deutschland has been getting a lot of votes in Germany; what kinds of rules (on top of the existing ones) do they think should be in place for people in so…

> After naturalization and giving up my original citizenship, I am a little envious of people with dual citizenship of US + any EU country. It really doesn’t get better than that. …

I mean, really not trying to frame this in any way, but asylum seekers do it all the time.

Whilst I agree, to be fair, a passport is usually only needed when entering a country, not leaving one, right? Under the cited rule, the US needs to allow you to leave , not help y…

They’re turning Notepad into what Wordpad was (or was supposed to be). Now everyone looking for the light weightiest *.txt editor must find a new tool...

Any sources or more information on that?

Could’ve happened some time ago already in the EU, so there must be reasons for Firefox an Google not to ship their own engines (yet?).

E.g. https://taz.de/Hausdurchsuchung-wegen-eines-Tweets/!5799732/

> is enshrined as an Apple image default What? iPhones and other Apple devices take HEIF photos, where does Apple claim AVIF as its image default?

> "essential public infrastructure" If people wanted these devices and services to be public infrastructure, they should be developed and maintained using public funds.

Schengen is NOT a EU achievement. Nations can sign Schengen, but are never forced to join the EU, nations can be EU members but are allowed to refuse the Schengen treaties.

What? GCC is absolutely no way whatsoever heading towards irrelevance. In embedded, deskop Linux, and server Linux, almost everything is built with GCC.

This chat control topic is undemocratic, allegedly illegal in many jurisdictions (such as Germany), yet, keeps coming up ever and ever again, and the politicians face no consequenc…

Wait what? Isn't a super fast UI one of their main selling points, what led them to write their own rendering in Rust? ...and now they lose to a web app ?

Happens all the time, otherwise, there wouldn't be such a thing as "unconstitutional".

I grew up in Germany and was taught handwriting there, and I get the same feeling as in seeing the relationship, but being entirely unable to read it. This is what is taught in ger…

> When should others "save" you? When it is absolutely obvious some people need saving. Who gave anyone the right to judge who needs or needs not to be saved? What if people don’t …

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"macOS" not "mac OS", to align with "iOS", "iPadOS", "watchOS" and "tvOS".

Apple also announced passkey import and export is coming this fall with iOS 26 (and their other OSes): https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/279/

> This is certain to be illegal though. Then any and all of the supporters of the protocol should as soon as possible be stripped from all political powers and monetary compensatio…

This is because Ubuntu ships with extensions to restore AppIndicator (systray) functionality on Gnome.