Don’t start negotiating until you have a deal ready to go: that’s how you get the USA to bomb you.

The rich profited, ordinary people lost. Another successful day for the US Government.

What a coincidence that all the people getting fired are women.

It’s probably lobbying by corporations who feel threatened by people being able to make and repair their own stuff. Also possibly gun manufacturers, and perhaps the government’s desire to spy on everything people are doing with tech. These things are always dressed up as safety measures.

It’s almost enough to make Chuck Schumer mumble “Careful now!”

Is it that technology is evil though, or is it the people who own the technology, or the economic system in which this all takes place?

When has Trump ever realized he’s being played?

Rigging an election you also cancel seems like a bit of a waste of effort.

Just once I’d like to see the world’s companies react to dumb local laws by refusing to sell their products where the laws apply. Problem is, other states and countries always introduce matching stupid laws soon enough. California, for example, is introducing a similar restriction on 3D printers.

I don’t really understand why people with repositories that are vulnerable to DMCA takedowns persist in hosting them with Microsoft. But then I don’t really understand why so many open-source projects opt for Microsoft’s Git hosting anyway, when there are alternatives without the Microsoft.

Inadvertent MAGA steampunk.

Sounds good but $60 per month is a lot of money.

I agree in general about self-hosting, but backup seems like a special case. Where do you back up your self-hosted data? An offsite copy of the backup is needed, and it should be automatic. For most people (who only have one site, their home) that’s not easy to arrange except through a cloud backup service.

I bet they still have some good devs who are continually thwarted by management.

They’re just making themselves look trashy and desperate.

What might work is making their software better than everyone else’s. But that requires effort and skill and managerial competence.

Or goals or strategies.

I also am the kind of antisemite who has no problem with Jews but doesn’t like fascists who commit genocide or people who hate Jews. We’re going to need another word for that last group because Netanyahu and co. have redefined “antisemite” to mean “person with a functioning sense of right and wrong”.

I’d like to see people rebuild something like that inside i2p or something similar. But with modern browser fingerprinting it’s very hard not to be identifiable even there, unless you take precautions most people absolutely won’t do.

So today Iran said it was open, then Trump said it was open, then Trump said the USA was still blockading it so it was closed, then Iran said it was open but would close again because of the US blockade? And somewhere in the middle Trump might have said another time that it was open. Does anyone know what’s going on?

They think he staged his own fake assassination, while also blaming Jews and remaining staunch Trump supporters. So just the usual incoherent cultish mumblings, not any actual insight or any movement away from him.