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same here, but surely the trends will follow every other profit-seeking web app ever and distill down to a competition over attention.

I got back into it around a year ago, highly recommend. Very refreshing to experience parts of the old world that have survived like soulseek and torrents again.

It sounds like you have some kind of other confirmation for this? Anything I can find online points to this HN post, which is "heard from a friend of the family". You couldn't rely on the guy to be telling you the truth so confirmation of the death using one of his pseudonyms isn't even close to official.

Looks like wikipedia won't allow a death date on his page yet anyway.

It's a reference from Star Wars if you really don't know. People say things they hear, I don't know what else to tell you.

The AI giants got where they are by pushing similar limits and setting aside moral (and legal) issues to be settled later in court, so the idea seems to fit the general zeitgeist we're living in. Not really criticism, just an observation.

Unless they mean Cloudflare is actually a political entity, as it was created, but that doesn't make their claim any better.

it's harnesses all the way down.

> The whole rest of the world has their own agency and is wising up to the fact that the US is limited to financial instruments and 5-13 functional aircraft carriers to project force. Soft power and goodwill is spent and we're just ignorant bullies who elected a rapist twice and can't be trusted

Maybe it's just the American way of passing the torch, this is kind of a gift by reminding the rest of the world about what they can do without us. The "America, defender of democracy" image was an illusion constructed as we emerged from WW2 as the strongest of the Allies, and that of course was due to the unique privilege of deciding when to tip the scales strategically, not when we were forced to.

So much has been built on that American privilege at all levels since then. The most glaringly obvious folly was interpreting this privilege as American Exceptionalism, because as a "leader of the free world" obviously that depends on how the rest of the world feels about it.

> account named throwaway* lobs weak rage bait

I don't think they're actually proposing anything.

Alternate take: you can click that link. We are not on Wikipedia and the OP isn't a link to Wikipedia.

I feel like there is surely something besides a snarky comment about an opportunistic billionaire Nazi's attempt at revisionist history just simply revealing itself as hollow.

Not sure why forking Wikipedia ever sounded like a good idea.

or, roll three dice for an implosion engineered by the companies that needed them in the first place.

why are you bringing your socialist boogeymen into this. what's absurd is that this is somehow louder for you than the real, life-changing actions of the genocidal maniac.