The big digital music stores are DRM-free these days (iTunes and Amazon both are). There's also Qobuz if you want to avoid the tech giants (though most of your money ends up going to record labels, so does it really matter?).

Four characters counting the pound sign.

It takes fewer keypresses to refer to it simply as #, which is worth doing as its name is locale dependent.

The Verge has been publishing non-tech related stories for ages. Technology still seems to be their main focus, but this isn't new.

the verge has always identified themselves as reporting on the intersection of tech and culture. sometimes that swings more towards culture than tech, but this feels completely outside technology.

They did not have "every right to remove him." As the article you linked says, Abrego Garcia was specifically granted a withholding of removal order.

To only one specific country. Not in general.

A beanbag is a chair? Perhaps a chair should be something on which one can comfortably sit without breaking that has a back and four legs. I suppose then a horse would be a chair.

In my case, no small fraction of the traffic was from OpenAI and Anthropic. There were also other user agents that literally said "AI".

> He straight-up ate someone else's salad?

... no, it's clearly a joke.

Soulver has indeed been doing this without large language models (so far as I know) for many years: https://soulver.app/

It is not directly accessible from user-space. Making it so requires kernel support. Apple published a set of patches for doing this on Linux: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/acc...

Without that kernel support, all processes in the VM (not just Rosetta-translated ones) are opted-in to TSO:

> Without selective enablement, the system opts all processes into this memory mode [TSO], which degrades performance for native ARM processes that don’t need it.

Before Sequoia, a Linux VM using Rosetta would have TSO enabled all the time.

With Sequoia, TSO is not enabled for Linux VMs, and that kernel patch (posted in the last few weeks) is required for Rosetta to be able to enable TSO for itself. If the kernel patch isn't present, Rosetta has a non-TSO fallback mode.

There is a separate, ongoing antitrust lawsuit over Google’s adtech business. Closing arguments in that case are scheduled for Nov. 25, next week: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/technology/google-antitru...