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You might just have the wrong shape of glasses. I thought for years I had the right shape of glasses on my face, but as it turns out a different shape looked way better.

Yeah Abagnale pretended to be a doctor and conducted 12 “fitness examinations”, supposedly for Pan Am, on young female students. Definitely creepy.

And then there’s the individual women who accused him of all sorts of stuff.

You should probably know the best con that Abagnale pulled is making people believe he actually did all of those things. Journalists have discovered that the vast majority of his claims are completely fabricated.

That’s fair, I don’t know what other things have come before. It just seems really odd that there was such a severe reaction to what happened here.

Feel free to be offended I guess.

They’d already admitted they accidentally pushed to the wrong branch and cleaned it up.

Which by that point they’d already fixed. They mentioned they also accidentally pushed to the wrong branch.

I dunno, this just looks like someone accidentally made a bad commit and instead of being mature about it and letting them fix it we get statements like “all bridges have been burned” and a split in the community. That’s a bit overblown, and if at the first sign of disagreement the decision is to blow up a project you’re making it very hard to work with you.

The program started off as IMP, Image Manipulation Program. They added a G (General) to make it a reference to a character in Pulp Fiction.

The name’s history has nothing to do with ableism. Besides, not many artists care; look up what a “gimping machine” is :).

Words can have multiple meanings and context matters a lot. Besides its usage as a slur is pretty outmoded by now.

Ignoring that the UK isn’t part of the EU, the EUs privacy laws extend to all European citizens, and it has treaties with most of the world (including the US) allowing it to enforce those.

I suggest you look at someone else for reviews because this review is both inaccurate and somehow also blindingly stupid.

It’s literally happened to every single version of Windows, 10 and below.

This has literally happened repeatedly in the past. Just last year an exploit came to light affecting Windows XP that was so bad Microsoft had to release another security patch for it. WannaCry and NotPetya malwares used similarly severe exploits in 2017.

The point was that they haven’t always held themselves up to those standards and have sometimes only used professionals espousing a single viewpoint (where multiple exist).

I should mention this isn’t bias, iirc the channel did release a video apologizing for some of the issues (though not all), so it wasn’t even up to their own standards by their own admission.

There’s a wikipedia entry listing some of the controversies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurzgesagt#%3A~%3Atext=While+some+commentators+have+praised%2Cand+use+of+emotive+language.

Looking things up now, I see that the plagiarism case was slightly different: they had published a video on addiction, which was fairly explosive in its claims. Turns out it was citing basically just one fringe researcher who was also accused of plagiarism. The claims did not seem to hold up to scrutiny.

When another channel doing a series on how pop-sci influencers can sometimes spread misinformed ideas asked some questions to Kurzgesagt, they were immediately a bit apprehensive but agreed to do some interview questions, though with the caveat that they were busy with other things and needed a few weeks before it could take place. Then before the interview took place they suddenly put out their own apology video and took the addiction video down. At no point was it mentioned that another channel prompted this action, it was presented as some kind of inward reflection that they had come to themselves.

Well, unless some exploit is discovered that doesn’t require user interaction. Then merely being connected puts your device at risk.

And given historical precedent, it’s going to be a matter of time until one is discovered.

I mean there’s been some controversy surrounding a number of their videos. Some were under fire for poor research or demonstrating a singular, not widely-held view on certain topics. And I think for one video they were accused of plagiarism iirc. This was when it was still somewhat early days for the channel, haven’t followed them since so not sure what the state is now.

It’d make sense for Google to require this for Play Store apps, which they distribute, but not all apps.

In the Netherlands, to become a judge you must first study Dutch law at a university, then get at least 2 years of work experience in a law-related job. Then you take a second study of 15 months to at most 4 years to become a judge, which also has very strict selection criteria.

After that, you can become a judge. The judiciary branch selects its own members in that way.

If you want to become a higher level judge, you need 10 years of related experience and another study taking at most 2 years.

There’s no supreme court in the Netherlands. The legislative may make laws that supersede the constitution, but only if a very strong argumentation as to why is provided. The Raad van State (Council of State) can judge whether the cabinet has properly applied the law when writing new laws or taking executive decisions. The cabinet can suggest who should join the council, but the council determines if they are a good candidate (ranging from judges to scientists to former lawmakers). They then serve “for life” meaning until they turn 70, after which they retire. There can only be 11 members at a time.

Yes, that is what a fork is.

I personally never used Google Pay, I don’t have a usecase for it. For other apps the worst I had to do was hide root from the app in Magisk.

Personally I’ve had my phone rooted for years and only twice encountered an app that really wouldn’t work anymore.