How often has that been a problem for desktop OSes?

Constantly. Phishing, tech support scams, supply chain attacks on e.g. NPM, problems have been rampant since we connected desktops to the internet.

I mean specifically things that using using Wayland will improve.

Is metonymy really so unreasonable in this title?

In theory this could be about Roscosmos since they're based in Moscow

You have it exactly right. I read the title the way it was intended and I think the complaint was pedantic.

I doubt there's anyone in the small group of people that actually need to care about the distinction between EU and ESA spacecraft who doesn't already know this is an ESA mission anyway, and if such a person exists they can probably read as far as the first four words...

“North America puts man on the moon”

Yes. Yes it is.

Now let's evaluate "America puts man on moon"

Its a common term for the USA that has no other meaning. The content is North America, the two continents are the Americas. No ambiguity.

Europe properly means the continent so it is far more like saying "North America puts man on moon" than saying "America puts man on moon".

Ambiguity is always bad.

Some people say its clear, but I am sure a lot of others thought an EU agency reconnected with a spacecraft.

Its interesting that people get so upset about asking for correct and unambiguous language.

“America” has no other meaning? So USA means United States of USA?

Exactly, their name is a zip bomb.

Doing recursive acronyms centuries before it was cool.

> Its a common term for the USA that has no other meaning

Except, you know, the only “other” meaning of “America” is just literally the alternative name for Americas, both continents. Here is an obscure link to the description [0]. Even if you want to refer to North America, what about Mexico and Canada?

The less you know, the less ambiguous it is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas

A good title is brief and clear.

"'Miracle': European Space Agency reconnects with lost spacecraft" is long.

"'Miracle': ESA reconnects with lost spacecraft" is opaque.

The first four words of the article are, "The European Space Agency..."

ESA is one of the largest space agencies in the world. There’s nothing opaque about calling it ESA especially in a title. We wouldn’t use initialisms if everything had to be expanded all the time.

Life is more enjoyable if you put your focus on understanding what’s being said rather than policing how it’s said.

It's such an interesting mission too, keeping the spacecraft synchronized enough with incredible precision so that one can cast a shadow in just the right place on the other, all while the orbital mechanics of gravity are constantly insisting otherwise

"Given the diameter of the occulter disk on the OSC and the intended corona observation regions, the CSC must be approximately 150 meters from the OSC and maintain this position with millimetric accuracy, both in range and laterally"

it was a great accomplishment, all of NASA getting there and at the same time!!

Personally not a fan of this sort of pedantry.

Its the economics of an oligopolistic market compounded by an information problem - mist people do jot know how good customer support will be at the time they buy.

Where do you draw the line? Compliance with every law that every country passes?

So every distro out there has a GOAL it exists for a REASON. If achieving that reason requires that compliance. Then comply.

Ageless Linux exists for a simple reason. It does not comply for the benefit of that reason.

Every other Linux distro has different goals. Thats why they exist.

Its in the headline here, its buried in the article.

Its seems a very strange decision to write it in React in the first place.

Windows 11 sounds terrible. Flicker in the file manager? How does that happen?

Do you mean an ODF/.odt editor? Why vibe code them? they already exist. MS Office can open ODF files now. The British government has been using ODF for most files exchanged with the public (e.g. downloads from gov.uk) for many years now with no issues I know of.

The point is that compliance around docx has become a commodity. Now that you have to support 2 formats with your application, that is orders of magnitude more complex.

The same reason you vibe code a Rust version of SQLite.

Maybe what they really want her to do is get rid of 50% of her staff and the AI is just an excuse? In that case she should focus on "who can we do without?" rather than "how can we replace people with AI?"

I'm sure part of this mandatw implied "if you can't show us the numbers we want, you're part of the 50%". And the incentives are set.

The problem is that a likely outcome is that they will arrest two white men who are not the ones on the white list. That is discriminatory, at least if it keeps happening so that you get a higher rate of wrongful arrests of one group.

They are concerned about a higher rate of false positives (therefore a higher rate of incorrect arrests etc.) of white people (and probably Asians etc.) and women. This is also discriminatory.

People forget equality law runs both says. it is illegal to discriminate against men, whites, or heterosexuals just as it is to discriminate against women, non-whites or gays.