“I prefer to listen to the testimonies of the prosecution and nothing from the defense.”

You are deaf to the propaganda you are consuming.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
• https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War#Weapons_of_mass_destruction
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Libyan_rape_allegations
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeonmi_Park

That’s not how it works. The way it works is, What are we, a bunch of Asians?

That’s the price of freedom, sweaty 💅

You can buy them now, because the US hasn’t banned their import yet, but that’s what these laws will lead to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnational_capitalist_class

In February 2026, the partial release of the Epstein files by the United States Department of Justice drew significant attention across Western politics and media. The files demonstrated how “a heinous criminal [could be] given a free ride by the ruling class in which he dwelled, all because he had things to offer them: money, connections, sumptuous dinner parties, a private plane, a secluded island and, in some cases, sex.” A panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council said the files “suggested the existence of a “global criminal enterprise” that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity.”

• https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/article/oligarchic-sovereignty-technology-and-the-future-of-global-order/1E8CA6E567E56FB8CE93FC835A6ED60D
• https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/07/patterns-elites-who-conceal-their-assets-offshore
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9998034/
• https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/multilaterialism-era-global-oligarchy
• https://contra.schar.gmu.edu/the-oligarchs-grip-wealth-power-and-the-future-of-democracy/

They’re going to burn this in all the way from the sub-microprocessor DRM/TPM to the browser, aren’t they?

We’ve had a name for them for the last 200 years: the capitalist class, or to be more precise, the haute bourgeoisie. The 1% of the 1%.

It’s a long, sordid story. And to blame Israel is overly-reductive. It’s trans-national oligarchs. https://americanexception.com/book/

Thank you, Tim Apple, for making 2026 the year of the Linux desktop (but not necessarily the Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mint desktop).

But there is no war in Ba Sing Se.

Freedom flies

I mistakenly thought it was more restrictive, thanks.

It seems you’re right. I may be confusing it with another license.

It is intended for software designed to be run over a network, adding a provision requiring that the corresponding source code of modified versions of the software be prominently offered to all users who interact with the software over a network.

Note that Zed has an Affero GPL, which limits others from competing with Zed Industries in the service space.

The imperial core has been at war with Iran since the Islamic revolutionaries kicked the comprador Pahlavi dynasty out of power 47 years ago. In the US, this has been bipartisan throughout the decades. If the Epstein files are a factor at all, they are subordinate to many other factors.

The satellites are basically constantly yelling at the earth, and your device is just listening to their yelling. The satellites don’t know who may be listing.

That’s good to hear.

Edge is proprietary and Microsoft has deep pockets, which explains how they’re able to do this. I wouldn’t assume they’ll continue to do this, and no one can fork their code should they switch to Manifest v3.

Brave seems to have managed to both remain open source and maintain several revenue streams that add up to quite a lot.

Edit to add: Brave’s Manifest v2 support appears to be limited, and Microsoft has already started their planned retirement of Manifest v2.

I don’t have any general recommendations. IMO most of them disappoint, because most of them don’t understand the languages they support very well. It was Microsoft that invented Language Server Protocol and almost every editor adopted. I’m not very impressed by it, and it seems to be stagnant.

AFAIK the best example of an IDE having a deep understanding of its language is DrRacket, which is specific to Racket. The best one that I’ve actually used is JetBrains’s IDEs, enough so that I pay money for it.

This YT video is specifically about a Clojure IDE by one of its developers, but it explains some general shortcoming of a lot of code editors, and why IDEs that understand their language(s) well can be so powerful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOi8V4qsdVY

Those aren’t the types of control I alluded to, as you can see upthread.

Yeah. Your example: How many forks of Chome/Chromium have rejected Google’s Manifest v3 changes? Zero, because they’re all soft forks and don’t have the resources to hard fork.