In Switzerland, individuals are still free to download whatever files they like for their own private use (except for software and video games).
Note that uploading or seeding a copyrighted work, which was a misdemeanor under the previous law, remains illegal.
source: With P2P law, Switzerland reaffirms its commitment to privacy
It was obviously designed to play on the whole "Big Mac" brand but to say it's deceptively similar and would lead consumers to mistaking it for the "Big Mac" was just insane. Everyone knows you get a Big Mac at Maccas only, and if it's not Maccas it's not a Big Mac.
China's claims don't stand up to any scrutiny. The whole world has seen over and over how China has been attempting to setup a conflict with any country operating in this general area. We see them bumping into ships, coming within feet of aircraft, setting up chain nets, etc. For them to say "oh look the Phillipines hit us!" is outrageous. China is nothing more than a school yard bully who repeats "stop hitting yourself", and like a bully their behaviour comes from a place of deep inadequacy and insecurity.
It's the fact that the intelligence agencies have proven themselves to be unable to responsibility use their powers, and instead find every sneaky way possible to infiltrate and spy on their own citizens while preventing nothing. That's what has pushed the world to say enough is enough and we are going to encrypt everything we can. Now the global powers are crying poor about how they need access to stop terrorism, while being completely unable to point to a single instance where they stopped a terror attack and contrarily there's plenty of terror attacks that were never stopped.
Everything you said is valid... but to me, it doesn't really apply to this specific context. As far as I could see (admittedly I did only skim the article) but the general statement he made did not mention any specifics. I think it's unfair to take a broad statement such as condemning war crimes, and to rebut it by saying well a lot of other people are calling this one specific instance a war crime when it hasn't yet been proven.
What else has happened in the 7 years that they haven't bothered to mention? Absolutely NOT handled well as timely disclosure is a key part of that.
I don't know who I care less about, "Meta" or "Celebrities".
The logic is that it's much faster which is important for code that runs on a large portion of the world's devices. Pretty much anything to do with video is using ffmpeg. From a set top box, to your phone, computer, YouTube & Netflix, even on Mars.
Video processing is hard, and when you're processing that much data a x10 speedup is huge. That's why it's written in assembly. And there's really no downsides to it because the original implementation is in C (cross-platform), then there are handmade assembly versions for each specific platform (performance). Win-win.
Honestly land should belong to the people who live there, not a religious faction. How can Muslims and Jews, who both have claims to the area, ever live in peace when one religion wants to rule over the other? This is why most civilized countries seperate church and state.
IMO call a bug a bug. Even if they were to say "yes this is a known issue, we're aware of it but don't know when we will be able to work on it" would be 100x better. The client is open source and I wouldn't mind taking a look at it myself and potentially submitting a pull request.
However, saying "yes this is the expected behaviour" coupled with one closed pull request where someone implemented a "mark all as read" button (clearly a non-trivial amount of work) but closed the request months later with this comment doesn't make me too eager:
There's another where someone literally took the vector image that they use for their icon and created a PR to support Android 13 themed icons. After half a year someone rejected it due to only the design team being allowed to make design changes.
Personally, it's hard to agree with either side when there are very clearly religious motivators. Both sides have done things that are clearly wrong. It's not about people vs state, or people vs foreign state, it's always framed as Jewish vs Muslim. It's hard to imagine a future where each side does not stop until the other is wiped out. It's hard for people of different religions to live in harmony when the state is so intertwined with religion. Israel gets a lot of international support because at least they have a relatively stable government.
All the code is GPLv3 so it will remain FOSS. There's no need to immediately switch to other apps. You can optionally fork then build the apps for yourself.