calgarymicro

No, I actually do consider ISIS and the PDF to be distinct, in both goals and methods. If you cannot figure out why, then I have no desire to explain it to you.

It's worth reading one of the many[0] UN reports that cover the Myanmar Military Junta's varied crimes, from indiscriminate airstrikes on civilians to mass rape to literal genocide. Opposition to this sort of thing does not entail extremism.

The UN security council has unanimously condemned the Junta multiple times over the past few years[1], and let me tell you, those guys doing anything unanimously since February of 2022 doesn't happen very often. Sometimes bad things are bad.

[0]https://iimm.un.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/G2312500-1.pd...

[1]https://press.un.org/en/2022/sc14986.doc.htm

I highly recommend you read Kavanugh's opinion; he rather elegantly lays out how it was in fact the majority that was warping the definitions laid out in the statute and departing from the text. Someone else already posted a small excerpt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37324065

The decision to reverse the 9th circuit was unanimous, but the decision to redefine 'adjacent wetlands' and restrict the EPA's authority was 5-4, with Kavanaugh rather enthusiastically joining the liberals in opposition.

> Among other issues, he was slow-walking the investigation into Zlochevsky and Burisma and, according to Zlochevsky's allies, using the threat of prosecution to try to solicit bribes from Mr. Zlochevsky and his team

Weird choice to fire the guy slow-walking the investigation if you want to cover up illegal activities.

> [Archer] has also said, including under oath, that he was told Burisma’s allies in Washington didn’t want Shokin fired. “No, we were told that it was bad, and we don’t want a new prosecutor, and Shokin was taken care of,” Archer recently told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

Anyway, I guess the EU, IMF, World Bank, Germany, France, and the Ukrainian Parliament were all also colluding to save this guy's son from scrutiny back in 2015.

> A majority of the deaths were of working-class men in their twenties who performed manual labor.

Seems like in this case most of the mortality was due to young men who had no choice but to work in those conditions. This event, among many other work-related disasters of the time, probably helped spur the push for better working conditions during the Progressive Era.

It looks like[0] as of the start of this year, only works made in 1927 or earlier are in the public domain. Copyright terms have regularly been extended by Congress and they are astoundingly long now.

[0]https://copyrightlately.com/public-domain-day-2023/

> The royalty is being paid in the OS licence attached to the viewer's computer, basically.

So who is paying for Linux? Or is Linux using open source alternatives to these fonts?

If the sole purpose of the Fed is to facilitate easy monetary policy for banks then it sure is odd they're continuing to hike interest rates even though most banks are massively underwater on their bond portfolios (some to catastrophic effect) .

As an example[0]:

> HB 637, "Motor Vehicle Dealers, Manufacturers, Importers, and Distributors," bans most direct-to-consumer vehicle sales if the automaker has ever sold any model through a franchise in Florida before (i.e. every major automaker). Manufacturers that didn't already have a dealership agreement in the state before the law are exempt, which includes Tesla and presumably other new EV brands such as Lucid, Rivian and Polestar.

[0]https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/16/e...

Do they design/manufacture these themselves, or are they rebadged from an ODM? And if if it's the latter, which ODM are they using?

> “They told the police that I was a home invader and that it was their home. And so I ended up being arrested and detained,” Arko said.

The arrest itself was because police believed the squatters at first. The homeowner never actually did anything illegal in this case.

This[0] is Wikispooks' page on the Holocaust. Wikispooks is one of this guy's 7 listed sources. However much I may distrust 'mainstream news', I automatically trust the whole lot of them more than I trust Holocaust deniers.

[0]https://wikispooks.com/wiki/The_Holocaust

Per his website

> We did the research for you and compiled a database

Given that I am relying on this person and his editorial decisions, this sort of thing is very relevant to me. It might affect what data he chooses to include or exclude, and what he is willing to treat as reliable or unreliable. Needless to say, his usage of Wikispooks as a source does not inspire confidence.

The UN and the ICC are two different organizations (maybe you're thinking of the ICJ?), and the US isn't party to the Rome Statute either. That said, yes this law is dumb.

Presumably the Foundation sees a future (which is pretty close at hand, if the Foundation is to be believed) where there is no longer a shortage, at which point they would like to continue having industrial customers (which you won't have if you can't guarantee supply). Eben Upton has repeatedly spoken of his desire not to leave companies whose business depends on supply of Pis without stock, thereby endangering their survival.

It's also worth noting that the rapid selling out of hobbyist inventory happens in part because much of the supply is earmarked for industrial customers; we don't actually know if that would still happen if all Pis were sold directly to hobbyists.

The Foundation's charitable activities involve funding educational programs for children.[0] Those educational programs are funded via the profits made from selling Raspberry Pis[1], so their charitable goals are aided by selling as many Pis as possible; that's helped by ensuring that reliable corporate customers that place orders in the thousands are never left high and dry.

[0]https://www.raspberrypi.com/about/

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

> treat a Chromebook as a regular laptop, install any Linux distro you wish to

Apparently this is via a VM, with limitations (no hardware acceleration, for example); presumably the original commenter wants to be able to run Linux binaries natively.

> ChromeOS isn't a general purpose Linux distro

But based on the article, it seems Google is taking steps towards making it one (switching to Wayland, using standard Chrome for Linux, etc.).

I don't think the person you replied to was asking for it to be enabled out of the box. Them talking about using a Chromebook as a dev machine makes me think they'd be okay with having to enable developer mode to run Linux binaries.

> No, a large loss to the people who paid taxes.

It's both, not either/or.

> Meaning that such an outcome would be terrible.

Less terrible than a total write-down.

You can already sideload APKs on Chromebooks with developer mode enabled, so I don't see why they couldn't allow the same thing with Linux binaries.

> A group of Internet service providers that won government grants are asking the Federal Communication Commission for more money or an "amnesty window" in which they could give up grants without penalty.

This would still probably result in a large loss to the government due to administrative and opportunity costs, but honestly I think this would be the best outcome at this point.

Try the sources column in this[0] table. You can expand the notes for each entry to read more. There's also this one[1] that's on the front page right now, though its provenance is questionable.

[0]https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-tempe...

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36964107

> That means a user would have to fill in that form for every single remote instance they visit

It looks like you're correct; I went looking and found that https://universeodon.com had the new feature as well, and I had to type in my home server URL again. I actually thought this was a great solution before I realized you'd have to do it for every server; hopefully they find a better solution for this.

Presumably the end goal would be to have BBC personalities with accounts on the BBC server, so at that point the Mastodon microblogging will make sense. This seems like a bit of a trial balloon that will hopefully lead to more.

They have very recently uploaded this flow a bit. Most servers don't seem to have it yet, but mastodon.social does. Now, the first time you try to follow or do something when your account is somewhere else, it asks you to type in your home server, then takes you there to log in. From then on, it will remember your home server and allow you to see the relevant post/profile on your server with one click. So the process is now click follow -> click 'Take me home' -> click follow again. Still not great, but a lot better than it was.

Example: https://i.imgur.com/MG1d5kV.jpg

Apparently the proposal is working its way through the W3C, so they'll have to take official and public positions on it eventually.

I know about the Safari captcha system (the only one of those that's truly analogous to WEI). Nobody cared about it because Safari's market share is very small. I would care if those companies jumped on the Google proposal because Google has the market share to force this through and make it ubiquitous, which is why I was wondering whether those companies had come out in support of this specific proposal. If they had/will, that would make WEI totally inevitable.

> Safari is not only leading browser in mobile

No it's not? Android has upwards of 70% of the mobile market[0], and Chrome has nearly 65% of the mobile browser market, compared to Safari with under 25%.[1]

> the only choice any iphone users have

Sort of. WebKit is the only choice iOS users have, but there are plenty of browsers available on iOS (including Chrome and Firefox) that use WebKit, not just Safari.

[0]https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide

[1]https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/world...

> Google, Apple, Microsoft, Cloudflare, etc, are all working together on this.

Are they? Is there any evidence those companies support the proposal? I haven't seen any statements to that effect, but I might have missed something.