Longhanks · HackerTrans

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. And with the current direction the EU is taking (e. g. even more regulation, more economic recession, even fewer competitive tech businesses), I wouldn’t bet on US companies getting "more favorable" towards the EU.

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18일 전discuss

> 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() narrows it down to the active code page, rather than UTF-8 which is what the formatting library expects. The result was a non-ASCII path could get transcoded to gibberish. The C++26 std::formatter<std::filesystem::path> converts Windows native UTC-16 to UTF-8 using Unicode transcoding and avoiding code pages, therefore solving the problem.

...only to then convert it back to UTF-16 for WriteConsoleW(), which std::print() usually calls (unless not running in a console) (https://github.com/microsoft/STL/blob/488e7953685722d2d6666f...).

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지난달discuss

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 support EoL versions of their OS - it took MSVC's STL until 2024 to finally drop support for Windows 7 (whose final ESU update was 2023): https://github.com/microsoft/STL/issues/4858 - it isn't unlikely that they (STL maintainers) are not going to get approval for dropping Windows 10 support before 2029.

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2개월 전discuss

> 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 southeast asia trying to immigrate to Germany?

The AfD is in no position to put legislation regarding immigration in place, that is federal law. Nevertheless, southeast asian immigrants are not particularly in the eyes of the public.

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2개월 전discuss

> 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.

Depends on whether you actually want to enter the US. If you don't, its citizenship is a burden like no other citizenship: Banks want nothing to do with you and you pay extra taxes that no other nation requires from you. Oh, and should you decide on giving it up - that's cumbersome and costs a bunch of dollars, from what I've heard.

So from someone that at a max would want to visit the US only as a tourist: Having only european citizenship is better than dual european/US citizenship to me.

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3개월 전discuss

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

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3개월 전discuss

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 you in entering some other country.

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5개월 전discuss

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...

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5개월 전discuss

Any sources or more information on that?

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6개월 전discuss

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?).

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7개월 전discuss

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

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7개월 전discuss

> 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?

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8개월 전discuss

> "essential public infrastructure"

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

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8개월 전discuss

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.

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9개월 전discuss

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

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10개월 전discuss

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 consequences whatsoever.

Endeavour like these make people vote for extremists, distrust the EU and democracies, or just give up on politics for good. These EU politicians endangering freedom, justice and democracy must be held accountable, with the most powerful punishments available.

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10개월 전discuss

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?

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10개월 전discuss

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

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3년 전discuss

Apple does not "get away" with offering an inferior product. Any other messenger can be installed on Apple's devices and the OS does not penalize the user in any way for choosing e.g. WhatsApp over iMessage.

> Apple should be bullied into it because any other option is an utter failure of capitalism.

This is an extreme hyperbole, capitalism isn't going to fail because some people think less of "green bubble folks". Also, that scheme failed in any other market than the US. US folks engaging in bullying because of some messenger preferences does not mean you get to dictate the market, and if it does, please provide me some information about that law from which you derive that justification.

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3년 전discuss

Apple has every right in the world to use open source software if they comply with the code's license. The Beeper client has no right to interact with Apple's servers in a way that involves faking an Apple authorization.

Apple has chosen not to provide an iMessage client. The mere possibility for one existing does not mean Apple can be forced into providing or tolerating one, given that it involves cost on Apple's server side, no matter how small that might be to them (how can you even tell?).

The fact that US teenages stigmatize each other has nothing to do with Apple's business. Apple has always advertized iMessage as an Apple-only messaging platform. If teenagers are to be protected here, it is up to US legislation to create a law that prevents the undesired behavior. Until such a law is present, what Apple is doing is legal, and what Beeper is doing is probably not, they're certainly creating server upkeep costs that they do not pay Apple for, despite Apple telling them clearly not to do so.

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