I suspect that this is an attempt to hide attacks on civilians and/or other protected classes under the Geneva conventions. If you get a attack/bomb/missile destruction photo from a location that's GPS tagged in the photo, a media person verifying the site on Google Maps will get the latest description. If that's a fake farm photo, what would they believe? The photo or GMaps? Unless you have your own boots on the ground, I'd guess GMaps.
Just pointing this out since the violent war criminal running Ukraine is giving out guns to men women and children now (and even prisoners), you don't qualify as a civilian if you shoot back. The only reason Ukraine hasn't already been flattened by Russian bombers and artillery is because of the incredible restraint they are practicing. This isn't some line I heard from Russia today or sputnik or whatever: you can look at their actual war zone and those cities are still standing. Compare that with the Donbas which was turned into a scrap yard within days by Ukrainian shelling 8 years ago.
I would like some feedback on a possible solution to one of the problems: Spam.
And my proposed solution is blockchain. Hear me out :-)
What if sending a mail required a proof of work (the digital equivalent of a stamp)? Then sending mail in bulk would be costly enough to lessen the spate of spam. Unstamped mail would be spam unless the recipient agreed to accept it without the stamp. Legal bulk mail senders could obtain stamps in bulk providing they agree to abide by the rules (no tracking, easy unsubscribe etc.) and provide proof of doing so.
By allowing unstamped mail to be delivered, yet be contingent on the receipients choice, I think we can deal with older clients that can't be updated, noble causes etc.
This is already proposed in the article. You probably haven't read it or may be I misunderstood what author meant by requiring proof of work to avoid spam.
My guess is that they were club heads, tied to wooden sticks; we are talking about a stone age culture who didn't have too much spare time/resources. They may have started out as utilitarian weaponry, but gradually morphed into status indicators. Knobs make it easier to lash them onto a stick with rope/leather thongs. Weapons/badges of office were often buried along with the owners. Leather/Wood rots so may not have been found along with them, though there may have been traces left behind.
Isn't the problem arising because GitLabs files are in the global namespace? If the user is the namespace for all their files, and GitLab files were under a Gitlab user, this wouldn't be a problem. Under the current implementation, every time you add a file, you have to make sure its name doesn't conflict with an existing profile. And a username has to avoid conflict with all present and future filenames. Mutual pain doesn't seem like a good way forward.
Relying on one source for information is wrong, the hearsay article which reported what the doc in Oklahoma said without verifying the claims about ivermectin overdoses was wrong.
What is not wrong is this:
According to the National Poison Data System (NPDS), which collects information from the nation's 55 poison control centers, there was a 245% jump in reported exposure cases from July to August — from 133 to 459.
On the one hand, it's nice to know this number is low, on the other hand the numbers are likely under-reporting. Low toxicity doses and symptoms are likely unrecorded. Self medication with prescription drugs is a bad idea.
Windows exists because people run it on laptops and desktops. Not tablets and phones. Every time MS tried to make it otherwise, they failed. Windows RT, Windows 8, Windows 10S, Windows 10X - each was less attractive than its predecessors, and each damaged the desktop attractiveness of Windows.
Now we have an OS that tries to pretend it is a mobile OS, not a laptop and desktop OS. Control Panel that takes away more control from the user with each update, Search that won't find the most simple things, Explorer hanging randomly, OneDrive's broken sync and the rest of the UI are painful to use even on a beefy desktop.
Even worse, it doesn't work well on mobile/touch devices. The new Control Painal changes from update to update, the Explorer UI gets less and less responsive and obvious, the and the file selection dialog is about as broken as someone could make it on purpose.
People do run in on tablets. OK, maybe not tablets like the iPad, but many people, including me, has 2-in-1 devices, where you laptop has a touch screen and where you use the device like it was a tablet.
When you use a windows laptop with a touch screen, you get really comfortable with reaching out and tapping it for small things. I wouldn’t have though I wanted one, but I unintentionally started accidentally touching my MacBook when I switched away. So touch support is obviously useful at some level!
