They're advertising alt-cigarette products, right? Probably from their parent companies alt subsidiary.
I vaguely remember in the '90s they used to have slips like that in the UK. Can't remember if it was advertising or things like "Collect 100 of these tokens, get a 20 pack for free!"
creating an app that essentially copped their proprietary OS
The OS hasn't been 'copped'. They emulated the protocol, and your lack of understanding and confusing the two has led us to having this conversation.
Because you're confusing the difference between an OS, an application and a protocol.
That's surprising, as I think the first Windows TCP/IP stack was ported over from BSD by Spider Systems (pretty sure that's why it still has things like "/etc/hosts" - albeit under System32). Wonder if the bug was in BSD and never backported (cross ported?).
This is nothing to do with the OS.
He has a point though, you haven't refuted that.
Why? As the article states this actually lessens security for everyone (including iPhone users).
Newcastle still covered from yesterday morning.
What's worse I find is self-checkout's (at least in the UK) require a member of staff to clear your failed payment. Like, there's no reason it couldn't just go back to "Try again", instead the light goes red, the single person who has already approved your over 18 purchases, your brought your own bag alert, etc. has to come back on their route of 40 self checkouts to check that you have in-fact not got enough money on your card, and then to stand next to you (or worse, bugger off to someone else) for you to try again or use a different card. Argh.
I mean, I did quote the partial sentence from the link. You can look that up.
with focus shifted towards completing the port to GTK3
Is that a typo? I would have thought most software was shifting to GTK4 now?
They hired the man behind systemd (controversial, I know, but he does have a vision). I hope they listen to him and/or he starts directing how they should do things from the ground-up.
The anglosphere is showing its colours, I see.