It’s sad.

Adoption rate does matter. HEIC currently has a 13.99% adoption, and WebP has a 95.92% adoption rate in web browsers.

So when considering support in softwate, it’s more reasonable to pick WebP as default, rather than HEIC.

There are of course other considerations, like compression efficiency, format features, patents, …

Seached and found that the European Union published an explanation for its vote on a similar draft submitted by 2022 by Russia.

EU Explanation of Vote – UN General Assembly: Draft Resolution on Combating glorification of Nazism

This both explain the EU’s rationale for not voting Russia’s draft, and explicitly condemn Niazism

The European Union is unequivocal in its commitment to the global fight against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, anti-semitism and related intolerance. Our joint fight against contemporary forms of all extremist and totalitarian ideologies, including neo-Nazism, must be a joint priority for the whole international community.

Thanks for the context.

Given Russia submitted the text, and given how european countries voted, I suspect this is mostly about Russia looking for justifications for attacking a neighbour and grabbing land.

Defending Nazism or showing Nazi symbols is illegal in Germany. Holocaust denial is illegal in several european countries. Yet they abstained.

They’d probably vote for such a text if it came from another country that doesn’t “undermine genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism”

Likely bad coding or bad database design.

Best practice is to avoid using email as primary key in the user database, instead use an internal ID, so that an email change can happen without touching the primary key.

Your reply made me think of an alternative to deleting accounts : replace personal information to use a pseudonym and a throwaway email, remove everything that can be removed.

That would help once the badly coded website get hacked or its database get leaked.

Yes, assuming the site allows deleting accounts.

Many don’t have an easy way of deleting accounts. Some won’t delete an account even when making a formal request.

Atomic distro sounds like an interesting way to avoid breakage due to admin/user mistakes, so it’s a good suggestion. But it doesn’t help much with bugs in new software releases.

So the best choice depends on what exactly caused instability in OP’s case.

Somewhat obvious tips to get a more stable experience:

• Use a distribution that favour stability over being on the bleeding edge. Like Debian stable, or another distribution that maintain LTS releases,
• Install software from the distribution’s official package repositories. Avoid third party packages and repos as much as possible. If you really need a third party repo, verify it’s compatible with your specific distro and has reputation for being well maintained,
• When you do see a problem, take time to troubleshoot and if necessary make a bug report with necessary information for developers to identify the problem, so there’s a better chance to see it fixed.
• If you use Linux in a professional settings, there is paid support available out there, in some cases this get you priority for bug fixes.

Why the climate promises of AI sound a lot like carbon offsets

Blackrock is part of the big three (BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street). They own a portion of almost everything, including each other.

So it’s often the case that Blackrock is involved, even indirectly.

https://theconversation.com/these-three-firms-own-corporate-america-77072