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You’re very misinformed if you think democrats and republicans arent playing the “election influence fiddle” in exactly the same way; legitimising the elections they won, casting doubt on those they lost, all while achieving the main goal of making sure the population doesnt forget who their so called enemies are.

Yes, gang members.

While true, i don’t see how you can have one without the other.

“Fighting disinformation” is the banner under which free flow is necessarily interrupted.

It’s really quite amazing how the US went in without seemingly an iota of planning beyond “kill ayatollah for regime change”, but at this rate we will see US regime change before Iranian.

Thinking of exploring and experimenting with some of the local-first hyped technologies.

They’re probably a long way from actually delivering on their promise, but I’m a fan of those promises.

Have a good bit of experience with offline-first solutions which many SMBs kinda need and they’re typically underserved.

Mid 40s consultant here and just decided not to extend my contract as tech lead with current customer for another year.

Looking into meandering for a bit and regaining passion. Hopefully something small but sellable sprouts from that.

Looking forward to making my own decisions based on gut and not being stuck in the swamp of big company indecision.

Software built with tax money should all be open source tbh.

That case was in sweden, and dropped by the swedish prosecutor.

I quite like the following analogy:

Saying privacy is unnecessary because you have nothing to hide is like saying free speech is unnecessary because you have nothing to say.

> The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, visited Assange and described his treatment as psychological torture.