In Europe this would have been a completely different story. It's highly unlikely (compared to the US) that a SWAT team equivalent would kill anyone. The guy could have got away with 5-7 years max.
I know it's a museum, but I prefer to live here.
I have been following swatting incidents of content creators for years and I have learned that police jurisdictions where this happens frequently in are becoming wiser and spreading information around, so the threat of getting killed from a swatting incident has gone down. Places with pockets of content creators like Austin Texas have become very aware of these types of things.
If you are a content creator, or someone who might be at risk for swatting you can call your local PD and explain the situation. You can let them know that you understand they must respond to those types of calls, but just wanted to call in and let them know it could happen. Most are happy to hear from you and take note.
Before swattings became popular, people used to send pizzas (popularized by old 4chan) and you would have to call all the pizza places in your area and get your address blacklisted. That was a pain.
I'd recommend that if you receive threats of a swatting, whether you're a content creator or not, it's a good idea to talk to your local police department about it the moment it happens.
Unfortunately, I speak from experience. I received a credible threat, called my local PD, and they began to investigate immediately. They also put notes in their dispatch system (which is shared by the local SWAT team) indicating that this had happened before, and to proceed with extreme caution.
The "swatter" never did follow through on the first attempt, but did follow through about 6 months later. I didn't get any threats from the swatter that time, but did get a call from my local PD while I was at work, and they let me know they'd driven by my place and called it off after being confident it was a false alarm.
Anticipating questions: no, there's no sort of protocol I setup with the PD. They have to investigate every threat, and even if we setup some sort of "shared secret" ahead of time, if a swatter says I'm cutting up my family in the basement, the PD can't know with certainty that I'm not. About the best I can do is make sure to answer the door when/if the PD shows up so they can more quickly establish things are safe.
Also: the attackers were after some OG Twitter accounts I used to use, and they thought they could intimidate me into giving the accounts to them.
Ye olde 4chan's reputation for being an evil website is funny in retrospect. The mortality rate on phony pizza deliveries is pretty close to zero and harmless compared to what goes down on the internet these days.
A European swatting may be highly unlikely to succeed in killing somebody, but the murderous intent is still there. It should be punished as attempted murder both in America and Europe.
Nevertheless European, especially German police, is obviously also prone to go all in without establishing any kind of context. One email is sufficient.
remarkably similar story to JStark1809, creator of the FGC9 [1] and thus a great boon to the people in Myanmar fighting against a tyrannical government. JStark died of a heart attack during a european swat raid.
It seems statistically rare (highly unlikely) that a SWAT team would injure or kill someone in the US too. I can only find references to 3 - of which only 1 is a result of a direct shooting by law enforcement. The other two are a shooting of law enforcement and a heart attack.
I'm still on Pixel 2XL. The battery is not that good anymore but has no issues with the phone. I'd definitely not spend 1k on a phone. A Pixel 7 Pro is now a much better deal.
The problem is that idiomatic JS and blazing fast JS are diametrically opposed to each other, in practice the latter is more like a bad C dialect. You're not allowed to allocate GC objects in fast JS but the language doesn't have good non-allocating alternatives. Nobody is actually going to make a complex JS app where all memory allocations are pointers into a giant ArrayBuffer, it's easier to just switch to WebAssembly at that point.
If JS had typed structs (like they have type arrays) it would definitely be more convenient.
However, that's not where the problem starts. A lot of web sites are slow because they simply run too much code that doesn't need running in the first place and allocates objects that don't need to be allocated.
We don't need lower level constructs if we can simply start by removing cruft and be more wary of adding it. Go back to KISS/YAGNI.
"Too bad we cant just rely on JS only and have to involve a bunch of DOM operations, which is usually the slow part of the UIs we create"
No? With WebGL and soon WebGPU, or in this case here with writing to a imagebuffer and just passing that to canvas, you don't have to use the DOM anymore since quite a while.
(but then you don't get all the nice things html offers, like displaying and styling text etc)
I've never seen anything like this before. They've got 8 showrooms in the Netherlands, so it's not even a small company. This is the translated message on their website:
"Dear visitor,
Thank you for your interest in our organization. From our belief we keep Sunday as a day of rest in honor of our Creator. For this reason, all our business activities are shut down on Sundays. We hope for your understanding and are happy to welcome you on our site or in our showrooms on the other days of the week."
Awesome! I've added this to CJS Chrome extension and randomly (2%) it will throw me to the site. So during the day I'll do some breathwork to manage stress and get into focus.
I recently bought at a physical store of a large chain an "open box", unused HP LaserJet printer. I asked why it was returned, they said the buyers could not activate it. I was like "okay, lol, I'm a sw engineer, it would take 30 seconds to do that". I bought it and spend like 2-3 hours installing-uninstalling HP's crap software just to make it work. The quality of the prints are great and it works fine now but I'll never buy a HP ever again. I just want to plug it in and print. If I need additional settings, I'll install the related HP software but forcing it is very bad. Also still has not figured it out how to connect it to the WiFi so I use USB...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox