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Exactly that. The tech seems fine, but I live in a country with a government that has strong censorship laws, and I do not trust Apple to not bend to countries like China in extending this to political content.

Whether or not someone will click on the title of an article

It worked pretty well for Thailand, a country with 3k of land borders that people can and do walk across. Delta seems to have changed the calculus though

it very likely escaped

Do you have a source for “very likely”? I’m at “plausibly escaped from” so far and would be interested in evidence that changes that in either direction.

Also, the article title is clickbaity weird, why should people wonder if a common slur against a nationality from 3 centuries ago was true today?

The publication is a (very nicely written) right-wing rag for Little Englanders who want to believe they're a cut above Daily Mail readers.

I had been very, very excited to start semaglutide, but about eight weeks ago I picked up a CBT-based eating book called The Beck Diet Solution and I’ve so far found it very very effective

It’s all bullshit marketing until someone is accepting payments for goods priced in crypto.

Perhaps, but OnlyFans will always be a porn site in consumer imaginations moving forward. Nobody’s going to put their wholesome knitting content on there moving forward

Becoming a magician

https://autotranslucence.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/becoming-a...

Often Codex will write code that looks right at first glance, but actually has subtle errors.

what are they doing to secure online payments?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure

Finding Argentina on the list of trading partners of this considerably closer place is tricky... https://oec.world/en/profile/country/flk

Easy trade with Argentina

Doubt it, given that they claim it

Yes but it doesn't explain why we've allowed people to willingly not get flu vaccines

Would you believe that that's _exactly_ the kind of things that Public Health professionals and academics _do_ debate and try and explain?

Never going to happen, but yes, I’d love to see the NHS sue the people who didn’t get the vaccine and didn’t have an exemption for costs.

So why can't we vaccinated let them reap the consequences of their irresponsible actions?

Would you believe there’s literally an entire field of study about this called “Public Health”? You can do a Masters in it and everything

It just turned every outing into a chore

I’ve been in countries with outdoor mask mandates almost since the start of this thing, and I don’t really understand this. How has it become a chore? Don’t you just pick up a mask from a pack or a reusable one as you leave your home? I haven’t noticed any difference in sense of smell, albeit my sense of smell is very keen.

But again, what’s the chore here? It just feels like habit

I mean he properly leans into it in later comments too, so I don’t think it’s meant to be underhanded, just plainly aggressive

Tesseract.js wraps an emscripten port of the Tesseract OCR Engine

Calling this “pure JavaScript” seems misleading

No, the Crown does. Liz Windsor’s personal wealth is (probably) closer to £300m

I am executing a residency change to Bulgaria at the moment, in no small part for the taxes

Many countries do, and losing your tax residency in a country of which you’re a citizen and have been recently resident is a pain — check out the UK statutory residency tests for example.

That said, it _is_ possible to lose your tax residency in these countries, where American citizens are simply fucked.

"the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 96% effective against hospitalisation after 2 doses; the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is 92% effective against hospitalisation after 2 doses"

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vaccines-highly-effective...

Also the description "facial ID authentication systems". An accurate headline would be "we were able to confuse some open-source face recognition systems"

The older I get the more every authority figure everywhere leaves me alone

The less the world in general messes with me, and it's by far the best thing about getting older.

That Can Bypass Over 40% Of Facial ID Authentication Systems

Turns out to actually mean "three CNN-based face descriptors: SphereFace, FaceNet and Dlib", which best I can tell are two academic projects and an open-source library.

By far the largest deployed facial authentication system is of course Face ID, which this has zero/zilch/no chance at all of working against.

What a terrible, terrible headline.

I think you’re right, but I think this will change

Would he actually know or have a way to find out why Macron secrets are being traded to Pegasus clients, or even reign in the spyware industry at all?

I don’t think this would pass muster as an excuse if Israeli industry had been selling missiles to Morocco for use against France.

Curious to see if it ends up being treated the same.

Having a common name they’ve heard before helps to some degree here, but also there’s a Thai way of saying it and woe-betide you if you don’t say it the Thai way…

My favourite Thai pronunciation is the common Thai nickname “Apple” which is a loanword. However they pronounce it “ah-poon” because the character they use for the l sound (ล) is pronounced as an n in the terminal position. Also, Thais like to shorten words, so sometimes this nickname becomes simply Ple, pronounced “Poon” O_o

Chris, we’re good. As others have pointed out, sometimes an edgy joke gets an edgy response.