They are being made. I have a four node network already in my suburb. There is a software project that is written in Python that essentially turns lorawan nodes into BBSs similar to briar.

That's a great news!

This deserves a /s

Maybe ham repeaters but when we are talking lorawan they will have a hell of a time taking the networks down that are already established. Just in my suburb we have more than 6000 nodes because of the helium network.

A good use of briar is having it on your phone already so that during a natural disaster you can connect with others that already have it at community relief spots. Keep it just in case and it will come in clutch when you need it most!

Briar comes with ways of sharing it offline, so enough for one person to have it.

Most likely how they got it in Iran, as I doubt that critical mass of people had it installed in advance. Most likely doesn't work on iPhones though - no sideloading.

I looked into the iOS issue once, and in the EU at least, it should be possible to add a minimal implementation of the store API to an app, so other iPhones could download the app from an iPhone hosting it.

After discovering the amount of pain involved with that API, I quickly discarded the idea though

You can just airdrop iOS apps to people. I don’t think the recipient needs network connectivity to receive it.

Source? I guess you're thinking of long tap → Airdrop, but that essentially shares a link to the Appstore via Airdrop. You're not transfering the app itself.

BeOS fans still exist!

Finds the center of a rectangle r Positions a width × height region centered on that rectangle.

Clamps the result so it doesn’t go outside the document.

If the region is bigger than the document, it re-centers instead of snapping to (0,0).

The layoffs are due to tax incentives in the tax cut bills that financially incentivize offshoring work.

That makes sense. And its even worse of a reason. At least for people living in the US.

What will happen when company A implements algorithm X based on AI output, company B does the same and company A claims that it is proprietary code and takes company B to court?

What has happened when the same thing happens without AI involved?

Yep, it’s not a brand-new problem. I just wonder if AI is going to turbocharge the odds of these disputes popping up.

Pre orders but not launch date. Reasonable considering the circumstances.

It is exciting! I used to read the Ma-Bell manuals in the science and math library at the University of Oregon.

Edited for emphasis.