I thought that was real, but will be eliminated?

and also: data centers do not consume “as much water as possible”, they consume exactly as much as they need

No, they are both not really suitable for that. But I don’t see where the link in the OP implies they plan to store binary image data in XML, they’re probably going to store that in a binary format and use XML to describe relationships and other metadata.

IMHO: XML is superior as a document storage format. JSON is superior as a data transfer format.

I have to try this IRL some time. :D

I don’t inherently hate advertising and have on occasion learned about products or brands through advertising that I then actually ended up buying. Without advertising, you too might not know a lot of the products you’ve bought in your life.

I do block most ads online, but still see plenty of advertising in public spaces, or on television or radio when I watch/listen to those.

I would not do that without first looking into applicable laws regarding legal liability for content and requirements to remove things. Depending on where in the world you are, this can be a minefield.

I don’t often use BitTorrent at all, but Transmission is certainly the first client that comes to my mind, probably mainly because it came preinstalled with the distros I used when I was new to Linux (Debian and Ubuntu in the late 2000s). Not sure what advantages there are either way.

I remember in the 2000s thinking it was completely unrealistic that the dominance of Windows might ever come to an end. Too much old software written only for it that no one is going to rewrite for anything else.

Then smartphones became a thing and we found out it was in fact possible to rewrite a lot of important software for them.

There are operating systems that started to be developed not very long ago, e.g. Redox and SerenityOS. Those may have the answer to your question.

You can check things like this at isup.me - it doesn’t show an error for me and I can access that instance too, so maybe it has been fixed.

Plenty of things in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_November_in_German_history

I continue to believe that in the US, the First Amendment prohibits any level of government from requiring operating systems in general to implement any features whatsoever. Distribution of software, including operating systems, in source or compiled form, is covered under “the freedom of speech”.

If the government thinks this is just product regulation, then fine, but then the law should be limited to operating systems preinstalled on devices.

I cannot find it anymore, but remember recently reading a blog post about a language where their concept of directions was “toward the river”, “away from the river (or: into the jungle)”, “down the river”, “up the river”, and they expressed only those directions. So when a western researcher asked them how they called “left” and “right”, they gave different answers every time, or something like that…

If the Harry Potter universe taught me one thing, it is that a world of magic is a terrible place. Anyone could be anyone else transformed, people can read minds, etc etc etc., no wonder Alastor Moody became so paranoid.

It’s also a much more obscure game, my parents have a copy of it (so I played it many times in my childhood) but I’ve never encountered anyone else with one, nor do I remember seeing it sold.

Also we usually didn’t call it by its German name “Was soll ich mich sorgen? Mach du dir Sorgen!” (more or less a direct translation of the above English), but just called it the “Selbstverteidigungskarte” (self-defense card).

There actually is a game very similar to UNO that has a card that works like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mad_Magazine_Card_Game

I only played it in German, where the names are different, but according to that article, the card is called “What Me Worry? You Worry!” in English: if you are getting something bad done to you, you can play that and instead do the same thing to the person who did that to you.

Already a thing: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/skyfall-ai-can-ai-run-business-without-human-ceo-1809856

There are plenty of carnivore species that are also prey. House cats and some other small cat species are one example. Polar bears mainly eat seals, which are also carnivores.

Most popular programming languages have English-language keywords and that can’t be changed, so we certainly have to learn those.

How we learn to name symbols (variable/function names), that obviously depends on the programming course. But most real-world code has most symbols written in English with the possible exception of business-specific terminology that the business doesn’t use in English. The same is true of comments.