That's really too bad. This sort of effort should be directed at something specific rather than just being performant :(
Unfortunately that seems to be the Democrat playbook these days. Make a lot of noise, but don't suit up for the actual battles that would win the war.
Problem starts earlier in life. I know someone who is a teacher in lower school. Ask the kids to make a presentation and literally in 90 seconds you will have a PowerPoint with 15 slides full of pictures and embedded video. Ask them to write one slide of text and they'll struggle to put three sentences together.
Reason is pretty simple, a lot of the parents never read to their kids. They grew up on iPads. Video is the medium they are accustomed to. And so they struggle with written information.
Saying that whatever Trump does is political suicide misses the biggest issue with this election-
Nobody cares what either of them say because an awful lot of the electorate simply isn't listening.
The Trump voters would keep voting for Trump even if he joined the Nazi party. The rest of voters have either tuned out or are pushing Kamala simply because she's not Trump so she must be better.
An awful lot of people have just made up their minds and aren't listening for anything new.
So having a headline that Trump says something offensive is news to nobody. What would have been political suicide a decade or two ago is business as usual today. Whatever standards we once have politicians to, we no longer hold them to.
A text editor that doesn't need a tutor because the interface is intuitive enough that someone who has been using text editors (as a concept) for years can more or less instantly pick it up and start working without needing a tutorial to simply edit a config file.
This is absolutely the way. One of the companies I work with, a couple years ago had a great employee who was moving out of the state. They had an office, but they didn't want to lose her, so they let her go remote. That employee became unintentionally a work from home trial. She did just as well remote as she did in the office. So when COVID happened everybody got a laptop and the exact same VPN setup she had. Business continued and the sky did not fall due to lack of 'water cooler chat'.
So when lockdown lifted, it was 'welcome back to the office everybody it's great to have you back here, first order of business pack your shit and get it out of the building cuz we're breaking the lease next month'.
They moved all their servers to the cloud and became a totally virtual company. Now they can recruit from anywhere in the country and pick the best people for the job no matter where they live. And what they pay for cloud costs is a tiny fraction of what they paid for office space.
Oh the plane will be fine. Being a whistleblower is very stressful though. I would not be at all surprised if many if not all of them find it just too hard to go on and end up committing suicide by shooting themselves twice in the back of the head before jumping off a building.
This is obviously a negotiation tactic.
If ByteDance doesn't want to sell their stupid algorithm, they could simply rip it out of TikTok, replace it with a random number generator or any other off-the-shelf recommendation engine, and proceed with the sale.
Find their lowest paid summer intern from the university computer science department, tell him to write some sort of recommendation algorithm and he has two weeks to do it, then whatever he comes up with make it live and that's all the new owner gets.
Gun owner here.
This is a very good thing.
Like many gun owners, I have a love-hate relationship with the NRA. On one hand, they do a lot of political action, on the other hand, I think they do almost as much to set gun rights back as many anti-gun groups do.
Look at the message they send out, it's always panicked rabble-rousing to raise funds. It makes gun owners look crazy. I get the need to raise funds, but if they focused more on educating the general public about firearms and what makes a gun more or less dangerous and why people own and how they use guns, I think that would do an awful lot more good for everybody. I don't think most anti-gun people are evil, I think they are fighting for what they believe will bring about more safety. Same thing with pro-gun people. Thus, good faith education helps everybody.
It's also become fairly obvious that Wayne and a band of his cronies who have basically a stranglehold on NRA leadership are more or less totally corrupt and are using an awful lot of NRA donations to enrich themselves rather than to further the mission. Maybe that's why they keep sending out rabble-rousing fundraisers.
Anyway here's to hoping that a new chapter brings some new leadership that aren't a bunch of corrupt assholes.
Here's the ELI 5 version.
Under the current system, a browser extension like an ad blocker can request that some or all of a web page code get piped through the extension so the extension can filter or change it however it wants. This is extremely helpful for ad blockers, as they will locate and remove advertising code. However, according to Google, it has also led to privacy violations and malicious extensions inserting hostile code into people's web pages.
Under manifest V3, an extension cannot directly filter the web page code. It can submit filters to the browser and the browser itself will conduct the filtering. However the number of filters that may be implemented is significantly lower. In earlier proposals, it would be a few thousand, whereas a default configuration of U-block Origin can have tens or hundreds of thousands of filter entries.
They are now increasing the number of allowed filters and hoping it makes people happy.
However, many (including myself) will still oppose this because it limits filtering to the methods implemented by the browser. Future extensions cannot develop their own filtering engines or more intelligent adaptive filtering algorithms. And I believe it's still allows the browser to stop filtering for performance reasons, something many users including myself won't want. I'd rather the web page load slowly and ad-free.
Being found incompetent generally removes your right to have a gun. Why did he have a gun? Why wasn't it taken away?
If the laws we have aren't enforced, then passing more laws isn't going to help.
The problem is conceptual.
There are two types of tracker devices.
AirTags, and similar devices in the Google ecosystem, are short-range Bluetooth beacons. They don't actually have GPS receivers of their own. They rely on the swarm of other Apple / Android phones in the world that have their Bluetooth radios active. One of those phones picks up the beacon, and sends a report up to Apple / Google with its current location and the beacon signal strength. That is how you can find your stuff, because some random person's phone called in a sighting. Because these things are very simple, just a very low power Bluetooth transmitter and nothing else, they can run for a year on a coin cell battery.
The other is an actual GPS tracker. This device has a GPS receiver to determine its own location, and a cellular radio to transmit that location elsewhere, often just by sending a text message with its ID and location to some server. This however is physically larger because you need a battery, GPS antenna, cellular antenna, and a cell phone style radio chip. That all uses a lot more power. Most of the ones designed to last for months have a power brick holding 4-8 D-cell batteries, or a large lithium pack. Obviously that is not some tiny thing you lose in a pocket. Those are usually magnetically attached to the bottom of cars. Or, in the case of fleet telemetry, it will be hardwired into the vehicle. But this sort of thing necessarily requires a subscription fee because it has a cellular radio. That cellular thing needs an account with a carrier.