Are you referring to the ACA here? That was a compromise bill that props up the current system in the US, primarily created by right leaning centrists.
Modern computing does not make me feel good. Really hate this signing business controlled by the OS vendors. I get the added security benefits, but I'm not sure the tradeoff is worth it.
Well corporations decide on that. I abandoned rubygems.org when they added
the 100.000 download limit; past that point I was no longer able to remove
old gem. Then came the new corporate laws for rubygems.org and mass-firing
of about 8 open source developers who were involved with the ruby ecosystem.
We simply need to accept that corporations controlling an ecosystem can lead
to HUGE problems. We need an alternative here. I don't have a good alternative
either to suggest - money is influential. People adjust their behaviour and how
they think with regards to money all the time. We could need some kind of model
that also handles the economy. And, again - I have absolutely no clue how that
could or should look like.
We need to create a special interest org for people that support general computing. I'm open to be part of something like this.[0]. Reach out to me if interested
At this rate, I'd say we have less than a year before world governments simultaneously start rolling out laws making Linux illegal. Of course they won't call it "The Ban Linux Bill" but it will be back-channeled through some bullshit security or user verification requirement.
It's too late to close that Pandora's box. Linux is far too ubiquitous now. Even if it still lags behind Windows in the desktop computing space, it is already a non-trivial market share and growing quickly. And in many other computing spaces, Linux is king.
They can't realistically make Linux illegal. But they can put onerous requirements on popular Linux distributions - such as the age "verification" features they're currently trying to require[0]. Hopefully that proves to be ineffective.
It was very interesting because it came to light the administration in power at the time, trump, leaned heavily on Twitter to promote what they wanted and hide they wanted hid. Meanwhile Biden's campaign requested revenge porn be removed and Matt and friends got extremely upset about that and called it government overreach (Biden wasn't in office at the time, of course).
You're equivocating. Biden camp and DNC was requesting and demanding that politically negative comments be removed. If you're going to tell a story tell the whole story.
The US wasn't doing nothing about Iran though. The JCPOA was a thing, before trump tore it up. This approach is about the dumbest way Iran could be handled, which makes sense given who is giving the orders.
There's something darkly funny about the reality being so demented that just describing it on HN gathers downvotes because it objectively sounds so awful.
The really crazy thing is just how few death cultists it really takes. The smallest minority of them have been busy radicalizing teenagers and biding their time for the past 20 years and this is what it’s come to.
It's so bizarre how OP was downvoted. It's a truth. History repeats itself. It's not the first war. It's not the last war. Maybe his (or her) tirade on capitalism annoyed the HN downvoting shoggoth.
Google freaked out that Apple had a better reputation and went all in on fucking their Android store up. Everything about it is worse now than it was before. So tiring.
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