How about banking apps? In my part of Europe a growing number of banks require installing an app via Google or Apple story. The Android ones are known to use sdks that at full of "telemetry". Cash is no longer an alternative.
Can you not use a browser to access banking services? If not, you should vehemently complain and/or move to another bank. And while cash is better for privacy, you can always use a credit card instead of your phone.
If nothing else works, my suggestion would then be to buy a cheap Android phone just for that indispensable banking app. Just leave it home in a drawer powered off when not in use, and use your a degoogled phone for your daily business.
Opus is one of those codecs.
Older codecs like g711 have better latency and steady bitrate, but they compress terribly. (Essentially just bandwidth and amplitude remapping).
Opus is great for a lot of things and realtime speech over sip or webrtc is just one.
I think you might be able to compress I and P frames somewhat descent, this way. But you only seem to address spatial domain, except for deltas(?) Or do you have some way to apply bloom filters to motion estimation as well?
For most of history, care for the elders was a family responsibility first and a local community one second.
Only for a short period were western population growing so fast relative to small number of retirees that transferring that responsibility to government was a no brainer.
With diminishing demographics anywhere except maybe Africa, we'll need to be more creative once again. Raising retirement age is just one of many hard but inevitable policies.
Still, US was instrumental in a couple of cases. Supplying evidence against and apprehending suspects in case of ex Yugoslavian culprits and one or two African dictators, but I could be wrong...
The 2002 withdrawal was clearly to sidestep prosecution for the lies that led to Iraq's invasion.
US was okay with ICC until those human right high horse stuff could apply to US...
All I'm saying is that the US is not a signatory to the ICC and does not owe the ICC anything. The ICC sounds like an important supranational body, but is in fact simply a treaty agreed to by a minority of the world's population.
I guess so I was saying, is that US might have been a signatory. In spirit, US has often advocated for applying rules of international humanitarian law where appropriate.
Treaties like NATO, NAFTA, or various "coalitions of the willing" were never backed by a majority of the worlds population. (Maybe an agreement between China and India, might count?).
I think the point isn't that US never believed in multilateralism - it did - but that it feels rules and laws should only apply to others.
I think that's probably a fair criticism of the US! The only thing that rankles me is the idea that there "is" a global criminal court that any country has any moral obligation to comply with. There is not. The US is disrupting the operations of an ICC case? Ok, so what? It's not a real court.
This is a genuine concern, especially now that managers discovered that "llm assistence 10x-es developer productivity". (Where kLoCs are a measure of productivity and a world with more code is an obvious, axiomatic good).
Show me a manager that can realistically gauge productivity first, and I'd be happy to consider having this type of argument.
Otherwise, I'll stick to developing software in a small company where my boss trusts me to get the job done at my own pace with whatever tools I chose.
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