How will it handle the surge?

By enshittifying to make those venture capital bucks back.

Nostalgia’s a helluva drug. I’ve done my best to try to avoid it, but we all like that hit from time to time.

Do like the BBC and spin up your own mastodon instance, Guardian.

Most election data comes from the Associated Press, but I don’t see a place to purchase API access, may only be available to news orgs.

https://developer.ap.org/ap-elections-api/

A reddit poster had some JSONs from New York Times four years ago for 2020 but I’m not sure if you can make them work for 2024.

https://old.reddit.com/r/rstats/comments/jo1yuw/us_election_results_api/gmnxfz3/

sudo apt-get install intel-media-va-driver-non-free

Video will still be clunky but less clunky.

Go watch South Park’s “Make Love, Not Warcraft.”

It was ugly and goofy looking in 2006 as well.

Your mind just remembers it prettier than it actually was.

EDIT: I’m so happy.

In other news, Nobody ate all the cookies.

What are you talking about? George Lucas invented the Hero’s Journey! It’s his birthright! /s

It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism

-Frederic Jameson

Because they hate their customers and want the mouse to become junk you have to replace when the mouse goes dead. It’s a finesse in planned obsolescence, same as the first time.

'cause why ask permission to back up and preserve your own stuff?

Copy that floppy!

Looking at what you quoted, that’s fair and can see how you misread it as such. I am sorry I said that it was purposeful.

Way to purposefully misread it.

The whole issue is that the Russians work for companies with sanctions against them.

So, treat all companies involved in war the same way, and you’ll never run into this hypocritical issue again.

There’s plenty of companies (like Valve) who don’t directly produce weapons of war or have contracts with their governments for war-services who contribute to Linux that could still do so, and plenty of individuals who don’t work for military and military adjacent companies to contribute.

Acting like removing people who work at companies that contribute to wars will mean no one can contribute is obviously a grossly exaggerated misinterpretation.

That’s literally what I suggested elsewhere here: If you work for ANY company in ANY country that produces weapons for war for ANY government, that they shouldn’t be allowed to contribute.

Because that at the very least would be consistent.

US isn’t helping fund a genocide in Israel or anything! /s

Yeah must suck to live in Israel.

Are we going to remove Israel maintainers from the list since IDF soldiers are using Palestinians as human shields?

Oh, no, because US is okay with that genocide?

It’s really more about how clearly fucking hypocritical it is.

But folks who work for US companies building weapons for Israel are totes okay?

It’s honestly fucking wild that an internationally developed open source project has to play by the US government’s rules when the US government is out here helping commit genocide right the fuck now.

Like, look in the fucking mirror on this why don’t you.

Maybe the better rule is that if you work for a company that produces weaponry for war you shouldn’t be allowed to contribute, period.