I think the author is trying to be clever to parody what was written in tfa.

I like your explanation without condescension. Respect.

Ubuntu hasn't had 40 years of it to make 40 years of tradition.

Hang on, companies dont get to have the rights of a person and not be conscripted.

That’s my point. It would be odd to say that a corporation has a broader right not to be compelled to aid war efforts than a person does.

Doubt.

Pretty sure this guy works in that project.

Mitsubishi Group has a lot of companies, including a bank, so no the logo doesn't say anything about who donated it.

Doesn’t that just mean that they’ve been manufactured by Mitsubishi Materials Corporation?

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

And I imagine they could trivially track them, like most modern gold bars sold/collected in this volume.

There is no mystery, the donor just donated the money anonymously.

All that means is that the city won't publish the name of the donor. It doesn't mean "no one knows who has paid for this".

Ah, thanks for the correction.

I believe google issues legitimate dmca takedowns for copyright strikes, even when there is no infringement. They put the work to defend the strike on the apparent commiter, often with little to no detail.

While the false takedown may be rare. Using dmca as a mechanism to inflict pain where no copyright infringement has taken place is indeed common enough that it happens to small time youtubers like myself and others I have talked to.

You know its funny...

I had the same point a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005509#47012203

I feel like i'm talking crazy pills, computer still, and always will use blocks of memory, which can be parsed how i see fit. I will die on this hill.

> Not only that they go out of their way to obstruct running software.

Apple delivered EFI 32 bit(ppc, 32) firmware updates to their 64 bit mac pro range, make booting/installing alternative operating systems much more difficult only shortly after the new intel range came out.

I had a few of these running Linux at the time and made the mistake of booting one into OSX to see if an update would fix an networking corner case, not an easy roll back.

You may wish to prefix your statement with "apple software".

As I recall, the PPC machines (like the Power Mac G5) never had EFI of any kind, and the early Intel Macs (including the Mac Pro) all had 32-but EFI even after the processors went 64-bit. I don't recall any of those Macs ever being switched from 32-bit EFI to 64-bit (U)EFI with a firmware update, or vice versa. It was a bit of a pain point because Linux was not initially ready to run a 64-bit kernel on top of 32-bit EFI, but that got resolved on the Linux side and I don't recall anything about Apple's firmware updates making that harder.

I must be mixing up my details, but I did think it was one of the first gen cheese graters.

I did have it booting Linux before upstream officially supported it. I remember using patches from infradead

You may very well be correct, Maybe it wasn't EFI, however they absolutely did ship an update that broke my existing installs, until upstream linux shipped an update, so your memory aligns more than mine does.