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What the international law cares about is "sovereign states" or "sovereign subjects of international law" not countries which is a much more informal term. Sovereign states technically don't even need a territory - 122 states have official diplomatic relations with the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (not to be confused with the Republic of Malta) which has had no territory since 1799.

Nestlé's business depends on the availability of crops that are at risk because of climate change, including chocolate and coffee. As it's patently clear what their self interest is in this, we can trust they are being honest this time.

If that applied to techbros too, Google's management would suddenly become much more... right sized (to use one of their favourite terms).

And honorable mention to the non-existing Matrix sequel that had an actual SSH vulnerability on screen.

At least that's the same continent and not literally on the other side of the world.

The issue is the opposite, because people use non official communication channels it's hard for regulators to get the information they need, and it can be taken as the bank hiding things, which leads to fines. It's in the article:

This could result in the breach of regulatory rules on recording all business communications, leaving little room for oversight by authorities to take action in case of compliance concerns.

"Banks use a wide range of approved channels to communicate in compliance with regulatory obligations,” a spokesperson for the bank told Bloomberg. “HSBC, like many other banks, reviews and adjusts functionality on its corporate devices as needed.”

Who would have thought that good old dumping at a large scale and inadequate economic regulation would lead to companies basically "starving" themselves in a Mexican standoff?

And it's not just Spotify it's a major chunk of the tech companies, because no one learned anything from the dotcom crash.

Ergomania (excessive devotion to work) is an actual mental health symptom, and it can manifest as part of several mental illnesses.

And even their employers should try to get them appropriate treatment because "workaholics" tend to have very low productivity - they don't work well in teams and are often too tired to be effective.

192kbps opus will allow you to achieve roughly the same quality as 320kbps mp3. If you stream your music from any device or have a larger collection this difference can matter a lot.

Much better quality for the same bitrate and it's supported pretty much everywhere too.

There's always Opus.

Companies that sell "enterprisy" laptops (like Dell and Lenovo) usually sell a few models with Linux. And while not a laptop I wouldn't be surprised if almost half of Desktop Linux users today have a Steam Deck.