What on earth does the GNU Compiler Collection have to do with Uncle Sam’s newest aggression war?

Wexit.

😆 yea. For instance, a former friend of mine, a hardcore psychologist and academic, always carried a green rune-like stone for ‘positive energy and good luck’.

In my (very personal) experience, people who boast about how rational and science-oriented they are tend to do some pretty irrational things, such as believing in amulets and marrying.

He’ll very much do something about it: express ‘deep concern’ and call ‘on all parties to respect (inter)national law’.

/s

For the sake of completeness, YSK there are only two countries in the world that are named after the families that rule them. They have a common border and are both kingdoms: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

The book ‘Freakomomics’ deals, among many others, with the similarities between a corporate giant and a regular criminal organisation. In short, petty criminals risk death or prison for only two reasons: a) they feel they have no other choice and b) they are hoping, one day, to become part of the top members. That’s about it. Think about it for a while and the argument is easily transposed to the ‘’‘legal’‘’ corporate world, which also explains why middle managers tend to be obedient assholes who, instead of being mad at those exploiting them, exploit their underlings themselves.

Prosody (XMPP server). Setup takes an hour at most even if you have never worked with Lua. Easy to interact with (it has a built-in shell), easy on system resources, and easy-to-understand config. Support for groups, E2EE, attachments including videos and voice recordings, among others.

First of all, it didn’t leave, it was driven out. Second and more important: there are IOF positions in Lebanon as of this writing, so the statement is wrong on both ends.

Hezbollah was founded because Israhell invaded Lebanon back in 1982 ;) . No Israhell == No Hezbollah.

That depends entirely on your definition of ‘success’.

Israel is a failed experiment in statehood. It’s about motherfucking time for every decision maker in virtually every government in the world to acknowledge that - and correct course.

Text book example of “I know what I am doing is stupid, but everyone else is doing it and I’m smarter, so when consequences arrive, they’ll affect everyone except me”.

During each American war of aggression, I think about this quote from ‘Lord of War’. I know it’s fiction, but it also describes reality and it hits very hard each time.

Yuri: But in the Iran-Iraq War, you sold guns to both sides.

Simeon Weisz: Did you ever consider that I wanted both sides to lose?

I understand that BSD see closed source as something cool

‘You understand’? Where did you get that idea?

The argument is not, and was never, that closed source is cool. The argument is that strong copyleft, while based on a noble goal, ends up hindering development: Here’s OpenBSD’s take on it. (CTRL+F for GPL).

Pretty much sums up my life rn…

Am I the only one around here that notices the irony and inconsistency of publishing this kind of stuff on Substack?

‘Bureaucracy is a construct designed to maximise the distance between a decision maker and the consequences of his actions’

N.N. Taleb

Interesting !

Reminds me of the Islamic concept of the Aura, which basically denotes body parts that should be covered in public. There’s the so-called greater and the so-called lesser Aura. The greater Aura (= the body parts for which you commit a greater sin should you uncover yours in public or look at someone else’s), goes from the navel to the knees. Thus, for a Muslim woman, it is less of a sin to go topless (as long as her pants cover all the way up to the navel) as it is to run around in a miniskirt or shorts.

‘Fall into this trap’? I’d love to be wrong about this, but I’m pretty sure they know what they’re doing and why.