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Maybe a bunch of AI agents ganged up on starring it to help a fellow AI out?

Great move to counter the hostile takeover of the RubyGems GitHub repo (not the rubygems.org repo) and organization by Ruby Central.

I hope they find financing to cover hosting costs.

I get the occasional request to NordVPN image assets beginning with `/nordvpn/media/` on my server. Apparently this is or was a way to find out if an IP address is acting as an exit node.

In the comments here I read a lot about if this is whistleblowing or not, or if disciplinary measures are warranted for an employee "badmouthing" an employer's client while not having an official mandate to speak in public, while mostly ignoring the threats made by a government official.

This is exactly the problem why the world sucks so hard.

The engineer, certainly knowledgeable in this field, made a measured public remark, which could have saved lives. He has done nothing wrong, because he didn't claim to speak on behalf of his employer, and has the right to speak his mind as a person. In public, and with a lot of reach.

The government official, however, applied unconstitutional pressure to get the engineer fired and threatened his employer to lose business. Humanly very low and damaging to future public rail infrastructure, if a capable company is not allowed to provide services anymore and therefore most likely to increase prices through diminished competition.

If anyone should lose their job over this matter, it clearly should be the UK rail minister.

You are right about Gnome vs. macOS. It has many features which are not obvious and may be hidden behind an alt modifier key. But this makes it very usable for beginners and experts at the same time without alienating the other.

In the end Gnome seems to strive for a UI which scales from smartphones to big desktop screens with varying success. It's cool to know, that your desktop feed reader could work on your smartphone without changes in the future. But this Gnome future is always distant.

Did anybody expect Reddit to become a better place after all what happened a couple of weeks ago?

I was never a big Reddit user, but I'm sure as hell not going to be one in the future.

It's a boring stereotype of good and evil, which threw almost half the world's population from the wrong side of the iron curtain under the bus.

It chastises the behavior of those people while praising their own behavior, even though it's essentially the same.

It sees heroes in spies, even though they are villains.

Each side thinks, that they are on the right side.

Edit: Even though the novel tries to point this out a little, it still uses all of the above to great effect.

Many extensions need full access to the DOM, because their functionality depends on it. Their sole purpose is to manipulate the DOM for various purposes.

That's why it is always a risk to use browser extensions and you really have to trust the people behind the extension.

Obviously, if the browser supports it, the access should be limited to the sites where it actually matters. Like a YouTube ad blocker to youtube.com. Unless you make a living from YouTube. Then you don't want to block ads for ethical reasons as well as security reasons, because it can kill your livelihood.