It shouldn’t be a race to be honest, but I get your point, the article is quite vague on why it thinks it’s “one of the most destructive military campaigns in history”.

it’s on those applications to support wayland, not the other way around.

Again, I’m not too knowledgeable about this, but isn’t XWayland a reasonable stopgap for this issue?

Apparently Hungary as well.

Hungary is the only independent country in Europe

This is the most laughable shit ever. Hungary is currently the one country in the EU where the government was cowed into not celebrating one of the biggest national remembrance days because it would have offended the Russians. There is a large Soviet monument in downtown Budapest that no one dares to touch.

Russian intelligence services have full access to Hungarian classified data. Russian agents operate with impunity and above the Hungarian law in Hungary. Hungary is trying but unable to get out of Chinese and Russian contracts since they are impossible to fulfil in the current political climate.

It’s not sliding in there, it is there.

The guy has a cult of personality, and the response to rule of law requirements from the EU has been the establishment of an authority without legal boundaries or oversight tht is totally not a secret police.

What else do you need to qualify?

Red Hat kills X11

I mean Red Hat does bad things, but is switching to Wayland a bad thing?

And Dschingis Khan killed so many more people. How does one genocide exonerate another?

The ones who invent these are in the war business, sorry.

Sign the collective agreement!

I’d like my millions in cash, please.

Japan is expected this week to formalize a change in policy that will enable it to export several dozen Patriot missiles to the United States, a move that would backfill Washington’s stockpiles.

So it’s somehow more expedient for the US to buy Patriot missile systems than to make them now. How is that country still functional?

The abbreviation is Close-in Weapon System, CIWS not CWIS

Taiwan is not even mentioned in the article?

TSMC is just the end of a long supply chain of one-of-a-kind suppliers, all conveniently aligned with the West. TSMC does not make the lithography machines, the Dutch ASML is the only company that does (though they have some plants in the US now I think). Even so, ASML would be dead in the water without Swiss Zeiss optics.

The US’ strength was never autarky, but global trade. The reason the US economy is so resilient is because most US dollars are not in the US, but in reserves across the world. That means even the US currency is intertwined with global trade. If the US attempted autarky, it would collapse both the US and the world economy. That’s why Trump’s policies were beyond stupid by the way.

I don’t think there will be any effective age verification systems, the law itself says that there is an exception to protect fundamental rights to privacy. Someone tries to do this every month and it invariably fails.

I think a lot of it is that we all have topics which we are knowledgeable about. Common discourse then takes different topics, and some people will contribute to the discussion who don’t understand the underlying stuff so much, they have different interests.

The problem is when you read a tech article as a tech worker, you laugh at how stupid the journalist and the commenters are. Then you read an article on some geopolitical event, or some natural phenomenon, and you take what is written as gospel, and even comment on it on forums, despite not having the same level of understanding as in your favourite topic. And you don’t feel you’re part of the stupid 90% then and there.

In my experience it is a very very loose collection of ideologies that share the common idea that there is no innate hierarchy between people and that helping others does not necessarily erode your own place in society.

Edit: Oh, it was an ELI5, then a leftist is someone who thinks other people in their sandbox does not make the sandbox worse.

Would be mad though if the Big Gay Polish Union started fighting Big German Automotive. I’d buy tickets for that.

No, it’s Musk who decides what gets boosted or banned, that’s oh so much better.

He also did some fucked up violent shit to get his point across. Look up necklacing.

My job here is done.