And you think they’d lift a finger to make that new technology accessible to the rest of us? As always, we’d be lucky to get the crumbs they leave us.

We might benefit, but only if they could not keep it entirely to themselves…

Given the events of the last 4 years I’m done with offering any benefit of the doubt to billionaires. Default judgement is ‘they are evil, selfish pricks who will throw everyone else to the fire unless there is something in it for them’.

Nah, 100 years of extra life (even more if they are randomly selected more than once) would give them plenty of time to exploit us all to colonize Mars and beyond in order to flee there and become emperors of a new planet, so they’d still destroy the Earth. You underestimate their shittitude as ‘human’ beings.

If I recall correctly, Trump had his hand on no book at all during his vows this inauguration. (Too lazy tp find the pic). Isn’t that legally significant? Not that anything at all seems to matter in that respect anymore…

“He who saves his country does not violate any law.” -Donald Trump (reading a post-it note handed to him by Felon Musk, quoting Napoleon, or something)

Wait, so you’re blaming NATO for the current situation? Oh boy. I’m done here.

I know how dangerous it sounds. But every time Russia moves the line,the rest of the world is supposed to fall back? Moving arms into NATO countries sends a message, but it isn’t starting a war. Putin’s the one who actually invaded another country. Merely reinforcing defences is NOT starting the war. He started it and doesn’t want to die in a nuclear war any more than we do. So he’d complain bitterly but wouldn’t DARE make a move against it. Why hasn’t he already just nuked Ukraine (even ‘just a few’ tactical nukes?) if he believed he could ever survive doing so?

OK, but regardless of who supplies them, if Ukraine had a few under their own control, for better or worse it would give them a deterrent they never should have been swindled into letting go of. Sucks, but it seems any nation that doesn’t have nukes is at an extreme disadvantage in defending its sovereignty.

In fact, I think it would be worth it to put a few nukes in every NATO nation bordering Russia or its smaller, unprotected ex-satellites. Putin will grandstand about it but is he really going to start WWIII on it? If he was willing to do so, he already would have when other nations began sending conventional military aid to Ukraine. His bluff needs to be called and he needs to be forced to back down.

Agreed. Every NATO nation in Europe (and Canada, which aint so far across the Bering Strait) should be commandeering auto and steel production etc. to build defense gear pronto. We cannot assume the US will assist at all when Russia makes its next move.

…and for those on Linux there is ‘DeGouru’, a tool for de-DRMing internet archive books that are lending-restricted.

A bit annoying in that it is somewhat sensitive to the Python version one has installed but there are ways to manage that which I am not qualified to advise on.

Give Ukraine back some nukes under their own control.

Neat, will try it out.

Has anyone written an android desktop search widget for it? A quick search only foumd one veeery old experimental project.

So kick US out of NATO. They can re-apply once they’re done with fascism.

Absolutely – I hate how we’ve been raised to think of time in monetary terms; I have to remind myself on days off that “No, I do not need to do anything it’s my day off! I can sleep in… no need to be productive …”

Just like the world assured Ukraine it could give up its nukes and nothing bad would happen, right?

No one should ever trust the US for anything, for a long long time.

Imagine the reduction in e-waste if everyone in high school took a short course in how to use a soldering iron, solder-sucker/braid and heat-gun to replace common bits in consumer electronics. So many things could be saved that get thrown out only due to a bad microswitch or cracked solder joint to a USB or headphone connector …

True. It isn’t always about a cost/labour analysis. Sometimes I want to repair something to learn how to do it. Sometimes I want to repair something because even though ‘my time is valuable’, I hate the idea of throwing out something I know will rot in the landfill for a thousand years. Sometimes I’m just attached to the thing and afraid I won’t find a replacement that is as good (which is often the case).

I hate our throwaway culture, it’s good to know how to fix things even if it isn’t technically ‘cost effective’ to do so.

If you can, add a 1-star review in Play Store for Google Maps while you’re at it. And a comment why.

Gulf of Mexico.

Oh, they know exactly what they’re doing. They are attempting (and apparently succeeding) to bulldoze their way through an administrative coup.

Your comment prompted me to search and I found this util: https://github.com/fumiyas/qrc

Obviously results in a larger ASCII blob than a shortened URL, but would allow use on any terminal.