Longhanks

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by Longhanks 23d ago
> Why introduce legislation that is so complex and hard to understand that people seem to be confused wether or not they’re affected. It’s highly irresponsible and arrogant thing to do. You must be new to Europe :)
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by Longhanks 3mo ago
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 mo
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by Longhanks 3mo ago
> 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 whi
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by Longhanks 4mo ago
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
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by Longhanks 4mo ago
> 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 i
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by Longhanks 4mo ago
> 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. I
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by Longhanks 6mo ago
I mean, really not trying to frame this in any way, but asylum seekers do it all the time.
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by Longhanks 6mo ago
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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by Longhanks 7mo ago
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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by Longhanks 7mo ago
Any sources or more information on that?
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by Longhanks 9mo ago
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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by Longhanks 9mo ago
E.g. https://taz.de/Hausdurchsuchung-wegen-eines-Tweets/!5799732/
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by Longhanks 10mo ago
> 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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by Longhanks 10mo ago
> "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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by Longhanks 11mo ago
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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by Longhanks 11mo ago
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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by Longhanks 1y ago
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 ext
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by Longhanks 1y ago
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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by Longhanks 1y ago
Happens all the time, otherwise, there wouldn't be such a thing as "unconstitutional".
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by Longhanks 1y ago
I grew up in Germany and was taught handwriting there, and I get the same feeling as in seeing the relationship, but being entirely unable to read it. This is what is taught in german schools: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by Longhanks 1y ago
> When should others "save" you? When it is absolutely obvious some people need saving. Who gave anyone the right to judge who needs or needs not to be saved? What if people don’t want to be saved?
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by Longhanks 1y ago
"macOS" not "mac OS", to align with "iOS", "iPadOS", "watchOS" and "tvOS".
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by Longhanks 1y ago
Apple also announced passkey import and export is coming this fall with iOS 26 (and their other OSes): https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/279/
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by Longhanks 1y ago
> This is certain to be illegal though. Then any and all of the supporters of the protocol should as soon as possible be stripped from all political powers and monetary compensation, now and future, and be forbidden from ever getting int
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by Longhanks 1y ago
This is because Ubuntu ships with extensions to restore AppIndicator (systray) functionality on Gnome.
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by Longhanks 1y ago
In what way is Gnome meant to be accessible to a broader audience? They clearly do not give that impression; a broader audience would be interested in tray icons, desktop icons, theming support — ideas they clearly reject.
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by Longhanks 1y ago
The Gnome desktop considers systray icons useless and by default does not ship or support any systray. If I understand the article correctly, the Dropbox client can no longer run on defsult Gnome desktops.
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by Longhanks 1y ago
The license was explicitly chosen to enable code sharing with LLVM's libc++ ( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/open-sourcing-msvcs-s... ). The MSVC STL's quality is good enough for thousands of pieces of
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by Longhanks 1y ago
The maintainers of Microsoft's C++ standard library use the term interchangeably, both "STL" and "C++ standard library" refer to the same thing. https://github.com/microsoft/STL/blame/
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by Longhanks 1y ago
From a dogmatic point of view, this might've been correct at some point in time. But, as the links from above clearly point out, most people use "STL" and "C++ standard library" interchangeably (including the very m

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