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With ICE cars, typically manufacturer warranties only are valid for the original purchaser.

They traded user experience for developer egos. Ego is the equivalent of wealth in the OSS world, just as it is in academia. KDE 4 developers had some grand ideas to push on the wo…

That was a bad time for KDE. They pushed 4 out with a lot of fanfare and it turned out that GUI wise it was a bad windows vista clone that broke every great established KDE 3.5 app…

It's not strange. Mozilla Foundation is a non profit and Google is not.

Taiwan is composed of the refugee losers of the Chinese civil war. That gives them zero legitimacy to continue as anything but a breakaway state occupying a formerly Chinese provin…

Supporting peace?! That's a right wing cause now?

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Ukraine is not a formal ally of the United States.

When did Zelensky's presidential term expired again?

How is the Jones Act responsible for the failure of domestic ship building? Seems like the Jones Act didn't go far enough if we really cared about a strong domestic ship building i…

It's still basically another mac address or unique identifier for the system, regardless of which local network it happens to be on. Great for being tracked by FAANG, I guess, but …

I don't want all my devices to have their own unique address. The internet dream that created ipv6 is dead. It's malware, spyware, surveillance capitalism now, and the more obscuri…

The problem with trebuchets though is that the trebuchet makers are less well connected politically, so there's less opportunities for graft along the way.

It depends if the plane is pressurized or not. There's no xray or other security theater for turbo prop flights.

Same in Germany. Graffiti everywhere; walls, buildings, fences, signs, historic monuments. It's awful and I don't know why they can't manage to do anything about it, but it also se…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the...

For someone who has only used offline, local password vaults, what is the advantage of a cloud-based solution (for personal use, not enterprise)? I'm interested in their self hoste…

Or later, seeing how long it took to load /usr/bin in a filemanager.

Wayland as a just protocol... Isn't that the same argument they used when it shipped without copy/paste or a screensaver?

Removing support for Radeon VII is a bonehead move that smacks of stupidity or greed. The cards were targeted for enthusiast gamers but have enterprise level hardware, like HBM2 me…

Twitter was never slim or lightweight. At the time, I remember checking its page weight only to find the website loaded over 100k of scripts and other cargo. With a 140 character l…

The IDF has been entirely dependent on US and European armaments and funds for all of its battles, with the only exception being the '47 independence war. Since then, Israel has be…

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True, but Israel could be seen as just the latest Crusade.

Western Europe went through ~200 years of brutal religious wars from the advent of Protestantism. The same is going on in the Mideast, it just started only 100 years ago with the f…