It was already a challenge back in those days. I ran the Nokia N9 for a while, and within a year it went from being amazing at messaging due to its messaging app mixing different XMPP providers in one interface (Google Talk, Facebook Messenger, SMS, etc in a single interface) to everyone in the industry suddenly giving up on that and only supporting in-app messaging.

There were valiant attempts to create open source versions of popular apps, but those efforts were always intentionally sabotaged by those providers.

Florida hasn’t been a swing state in years, and it’s not like Cuban Americans are ever going to vote Democrat regardless.

I’m sure Israel is terrified now.

Yeah, I just didn’t really know about it before, I agree that that was always the project.

Yeah, I used to think a two state solution was eventually workable, but now I see this whole project needs to be stopped.

That’s why they evacuated it, they know Israel would bomb it. They’ve targeted hospitals and abundances in Lebanon before (and Gaza as well, of course).

It’s actually still baffling to see companies like AWS and Zoom, who arguably are all about enabling remote work, go with mandates like that. But yeah, it’s probably a stealth layoff, except they’re going to lose their best employees.

The witnesses said the car appeared to reverse after hitting the cyclist for a second time before moving forward again, over the man’s body. The driver’s teenage daughter was also in the car at the time, witnesses said.

That’s straight up murder, should be prison time. People shouldn’t be getting away with murder because they happened to be sitting in a metal box at the time.

I paid A$1,189.00 for the 1TB OLED one, Valve will be selling it for A$ 1,049.00. To me, that wasn’t a huge difference, especially considering there was no indication Valve was ever going to sell it here.

Yeah, I’d rather the distro be as boring as possible while the exciting stuff happens upstream.

Creating a whole new chain seems unnecessary since chains are just public ledgers anyway. It’s always been trivial to trace trades with most currencies.

Luckily we’ve had grey imports for a while that were pretty much only a few $100 more.

It went up a little, but nothing compared to the equivalent in rent you’d pay for the same place.

At least you can’t get kicked out or have your rent raised for arbitrary reasons. Some renters are basically moving every year.

I think there’s a bit of a sea change in business generally where arbitration ended up being worse for corporations if too many customers/employees used that option because it meant paying a bunch of money for each case instead of dealing with one class action suit.

While the arbitration courts themselves are generally biased to corporate interests, it’s not enough of a thumb on the scale to make up for the huge downside.

Yeah, it’s not like he was hiding the fact that he was a cop before the election.

Fuck…

I mean, it’s the smart thing to do (even from a purely selfish perspective where you want to make sure the project continues to go into the development direction that keeps making you money), but it’s not something that’s actionable in court or anything like that.

There’s no expectation to contribute back when you use FOSS software, that makes no sense. I’m running Linux on like 10 devices and I’ve never merged anything in the kernel.

https://novaramedia.com/2024/04/17/germanys-anti-palestine-crackdown-has-reached-a-new-low/