Is it just me or is this paragraph confusing as fuck with regards to the time form?

Ferrari plans to roll out the electric vehicle (EV) after previously ruling out such a move, opting instead to make hybrid cars that are powered by both petrol and electricity.

My ESL ass would have written it more like this

Ferrari plans to roll out the electric vehicle (EV) after having previously ruled out such a move. At the time they opted instead to make hybrid cars that are powered by both petrol and electricity.

Not sure my version is grammatical, but at least you know what’s now and what was then.

New York, London, Hong Kong, and Chicago were closed.
Euronext, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Toronto were open.

The latest little pump and dump? Yesterday they hype up the state of negotiations, buy oil futures, today they attack southern Iran, sell oil futures?

I’m afraid you missed the topic. Read the first three paragraphs of the article.

I don’t hear much about Malta, the last thing that sticks out in my mind was the Journalist investigating the Panama Papers and local ties that got car bombed.

I’m getting the impression that rich criminal neo-liberals have a lot of sway there.

I’m not that certain to be honest. But the following is my best understanding:

• Most drivers are included directly in the kernel source.

• They can be compiled built-in directly to the kernel binary, or they can be compiled as loadable kernel modules. I don’t know how the proportions between the two options look, but at least the essential drivers (chipsets, filesystems, etc) should be compiled in to allow the boot to progress enough that module loading works.

• There are some, like the Nvidia proprietary GPU driver, that are provided only in binary form as loadable kernel modules.

• I also understand that a lot of smartphone drivers are developed out-of-tree against older branches of the Linux kernel. Even those that are made public / open sourced, end up living outside the mainline kernel, and the devs of third party android builds have to cherry pick them into their kernel source.

I think at least the last group should count as an example of a reason of the type for what OP was looking for.

Primarily if you want some functionality that isn’t mainlined, or isn’t released as stable yet.

Like hibernate in lockdown mode, or out of tree drivers, or maybe something new coming up in the emulation support world like NTSync, though I think that last example was mainlined by now.

And it might cost the spammers money, so that’s nice too

There is actually no reason for those two percentages to be the same, they derive from different concepts.

The price balances at the point where demand and supply are equal. If the market was balanced before, and supply shrinks by 20%, that means the price rises until 20% of demand is priced out of the market.

You can think of it as a bidding war among the 100% of previous demand for the remaining 80% of supply. The 20% poorest, or more precisely the 20% most price-sensitive, on the demand side, loose this bidding war and don’t get any of the remaining supply.

If 95% of the demand can afford a 20% increase in price, then the bidding war just continues.

If 90% of the demand can afford a 35% increase in price, then the bidding war just continues.

If 85% of the demand can afford a 50% increase in price, then the bidding war just continues.

If 80% of the demand can afford a 60% increase in price, then that’s the new balance of the market.

Link to where that sentence appears: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/force-all-app-traffic-into-the-tunnel

Not at all, if you actually read the article, in which the connection to Signal is laid out clearly.

What’s reason we are talking about Signal here.

That’s very easy to answer. Signal comes up here because that’s what actually happened in the case that brought the bug to light.

The FBI recovered message content from the Apple notification service that happened to come from Signal, and used it to secure a conviction against people who used Signal in planning their anti-ICE activities

Unlucky for Signal from a PR perspective but that’s just what actually happened, so people write about that rather than hypotheticals where other encrypted messaging apps would have suffered the same issue.

There should be a negative consequence for proposing obviously unconstitutional bullshit with no chance of passing just for publicity

I don’t think this community is meant for rhetorical questions.

I only heard about this one so far

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-shipping-route-strait-of-hormuz-b2942596.html

It’s right there at the top:

Wow it’s almost back at feature parity already! Only 4.5 years after release!

At night.

This was neither a good attack, nor a good false flag attack. It’s just a nothing burger.

It is really debt when it stays on the books and the debtor has to pay interest, and servicing all that debt consumes 15% of the budget.

Yes, it’s common. Sometimes I’m too tired to even rage against it in the comments, but this one somehow got me 😄