IIRC you can’t grant the permission if the app doesn’t explicitly declare it in its manifest. I doubt most devs would care unless access to local network is required for app’s functionality on typical user’s setup (e.g. if it’s a companion app for some device).

Programmers are more likely to be Gamers™ than furries. And the myth that they are leftist/liberal/trans is also a lie. A few famous ones are. The vast majority are just regular dudes (with signifact portion of the being chuds/incels/libertarians/right-wingers/etc).

All the regulation they do such as age verification is mandated by governments.

Valve also collected massively more money from BG3 sales than it would ever get from this game.

Devs are lazy. Any productivity gains are negated by them simply choosing to work less and have more free time. Which is not a bad thing.

There is one human character that has accurate “hunches” about the future in the first book. That’s dropped in the next books though.

Yes and no. For polar orbit you can’t get advantage of Earth’s rotation so you will need more energy. However in order to launch into a perfectly equatorial orbit you need to correct the inclination of the orbit to bring it to zero which takes a lot of energy (unless you launch from equator which Europe can do because of French Guiana). For polar orbits the location of the launch site doesn’t matter, you just wait for specific time of day and launch straight at north/south.

The biggest hurdle are messengers, especially including cross-platform support and mobile devices.

Every projection deforms either size ot shape. The projection that this resolution proposes stretches everything vertically (but preserves the sizes). You can see it by looking at intersections between meridians and circles. The spaces between them are supposed to be closer to squares.

Russia didn’t use Mercator in textbooks even in Soviet times. As well many other countries I suspect (IDK about USA), it doesn’t require a great mind to see how flawed is it.

AFAIK compilot just provides integration with visual studio and GitHub, it doesn’t have its own models. You pay through Microsoft to use use other companies’ models (like GPT or Claude). Though agent harness itself has a big impact on the performance of models.

Which ones don’t support it? It’s a very old format at this point. Every Android device in existence can work with it for example.

Anything that requires radio is inherently unreliable. Radio is too easily regulated and controlled.

The only option in a hostile state is to use existing communication channels. Such as encrypted networks (or just vpns/proxies) over regular internet that pretend to be https traffic. This is what works now in China/Russia/etc.

Everything you do on fediverse is public by design and is exchanged with other servers.

The only way to be “anonymous” is to make sure that your account is not connected to your real identity. However everything your account does will still be transparent.

There is zero chance it will be released (even if it’s true)

Firefox tries but this is very hard to fight against. Most of the obvious holes were closed long ago. Now these fuckers use normal browser functionality that can’t be disabled and record how it subtly differs (in various ways like execution time of functions) between different combinations of browsers, OSes, hardware, etc. This information alone is enough to create a more or less unique fingerprint.

The only reliable solution is to completely get rid of client-side code execution like JavaScript and WebAssembly and return to static web pages. Which of course won’t happen.

Most are doing it for they money. Russia has a large supply of dirt poor people who have no future and many will take their chances for the huge (for them) sums of money being promised to them, especially if the recruiter is sufficiently persuasive. Every recruiting ad in Russia focuses on the millions of rubles that are supposedly paid to soldiers (or their families if they die). They also give a chunk of that in advance, as a first taste.

But what about our glorious revolution?

You should always measure first before blindly following dogmas. I doubt that the choice of serialization format is what dominates processor time in this case.

Performance doesn’t matter unless you are dealing with gigabytes of xml. And ease of parsing/writing is irrelevant when it’s done under the hood by the program.