When has Trump ever realized he’s being played?

Rigging an election you also cancel seems like a bit of a waste of effort.

Just once I’d like to see the world’s companies react to dumb local laws by refusing to sell their products where the laws apply. Problem is, other states and countries always introduce matching stupid laws soon enough. California, for example, is introducing a similar restriction on 3D printers.

I don’t really understand why people with repositories that are vulnerable to DMCA takedowns persist in hosting them with Microsoft. But then I don’t really understand why so many open-source projects opt for Microsoft’s Git hosting anyway, when there are alternatives without the Microsoft.

“Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards” - the guy who then immediately closed the strait and is keeping it closed.

Inadvertent MAGA steampunk.

If he ever knew it he has probably forgotten it.

Someone please give the record player a tap - the record’s stuck and I don’t even like this tune.

Sounds good but $60 per month is a lot of money.

I agree in general about self-hosting, but backup seems like a special case. Where do you back up your self-hosted data? An offsite copy of the backup is needed, and it should be automatic. For most people (who only have one site, their home) that’s not easy to arrange except through a cloud backup service.

The USA is doing far more than Iran to erode the USA’s credibility across the whole world.

Every single member of this administration comes over as a conspicuous loser.

I bet they still have some good devs who are continually thwarted by management.

Lutnick, the guy who lied that he had resolved never to see Epstein again, until the files showed he had remained chummy with him. He seems to be both a scumbag and an idiot.

They’re just making themselves look trashy and desperate.

What might work is making their software better than everyone else’s. But that requires effort and skill and managerial competence.

Or goals or strategies.

I also am the kind of antisemite who has no problem with Jews but doesn’t like fascists who commit genocide or people who hate Jews. We’re going to need another word for that last group because Netanyahu and co. have redefined “antisemite” to mean “person with a functioning sense of right and wrong”.

I’d like to see people rebuild something like that inside i2p or something similar. But with modern browser fingerprinting it’s very hard not to be identifiable even there, unless you take precautions most people absolutely won’t do.

So today Iran said it was open, then Trump said it was open, then Trump said the USA was still blockading it so it was closed, then Iran said it was open but would close again because of the US blockade? And somewhere in the middle Trump might have said another time that it was open. Does anyone know what’s going on?

They were about to agree to a deal the day the USA and Israel started bombing. The negotiators had been telling people a deal was imminent. But instead Trump opted for killing people and causing economic chaos, then back to square 1.