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the guy in the middle is a pro at photobombing

Python does have a year option that they are not using.

No, it doesn’t:

Help on class timedelta in module datetime:

class timedelta(builtins.object)
 |  Difference between two datetime values.
 |
 |  timedelta(days=0, seconds=0, microseconds=0, milliseconds=0, minutes=0, hours=0, weeks=0)
 |
 |  All arguments are optional and default to 0.
 |  Arguments may be integers or floats, and may be positive or negative.

We Need To Talk About “Authoritarianism”

in the computing context, “lock-in” is shorthand for vendor lock-in.

How exactly do they hope to lock devs in github??? That’s absurd, there’s no way they can achieve that. I can always take my projects elsewhere and there’s nothing they can do to stop me.

I can’t tell if you’re joking? If not, what do you think “lock-in” actually means?

It doesn’t mean that it is impossible to leave, it means that there is substantial switching cost. And, that is certainly the case for github-hosted projects: all active contributors need to make a new account somewhere else, issues and discussions need to be migrated, CI workflows typically need to be rewritten, and good luck finding something that gives as much free compute for CI as github does. Yes, it’s easy to mirror a git repo onto another service, but github is much much more than just git repo hosting and each of their features have their own switching cost.

Also, OP actually said “lock devs in” rather than “lock projects in” - I actually am forced to have a github account if i want to contribute to projects which refuse to move their issues off of it 😢 … and the difficulty in creating new accounts anonymously these days prevents me from contributing to several things (lemmy, for instance) which i otherwise would.

I bought some cheap Chinese 2-way radios. The packaging has a big American flag and a “Designed in U.S.A.” claim, which I suspect is bullshit given the company involved. Also, there are two Bible verses referenced. This smacks of pandering to a particular slice of conservative Americans. All I want is cheap radios for skiing with my kids next winter, not a reminder of my country’s socio-political bullshit.

This bullshit is not from the well-known Chinese radio maker Baofeng (baofengradio.com) but rather from a US company called “BTech” which has the deceptive URL BaoFengTech.com.

something from the “stable ports” list at https://www.rockbox.org/

No evidence of this happened. Blocked.

lol what? it is a pretty well-sourced article, with the main source being remarks in a video which it helpfully links to.

it is 10h long but on youtube one can search the transcript and easily find the parts that form the basis of this article: here are Secretary Burgum’s comments and here is Porat referencing them later.

OC? 🥂 to whoever made this in any case :)

(for those who don’t know, it’s based on xkcd#2347)

Only Germany has a stronger stance on Israel, probably due to the large presence of Jews in the country.

You are misinformed. There hasn’t been a large Jewish population in Germany since the Holocaust, and attributing Germany’s support for Israel to an imagined one sounds, frankly, a bit antisemitic.

There are many EU countries with more Jews per capita than Germany. Less than 0.2% of Germany’s population is Jewish, and less than 1% of Jews in the world live in Germany. 60% of Jews in Germany live in a single city (Berlin). Over 80% speak Russian, having immigrated there from former soviet states.

German politicians often say that, due to the Holocaust, support for Israel’s security is part of Germany’s “reason of state”; they tend to avoid discussing the Zionist view that Jews choosing to live in Germany today should also really move to Israel.

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you do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to them”

It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Distrowatch is dying.

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Distrowatch community […]

pretty sure it was legal according to their own laws…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_law

“spoke out against” is an understatement:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_v._Napster,_Inc
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dre#Copyright_lawsuits

…besides contributing to the eventual shut down of napster, Metallica first compelled it to ban hundreds of thousands of their fans - who’s usernames they delivered to them. Lars Ulrich responded to the backlash by saying “If you’d stop being a Metallica fan because I won’t give you my music for free, then fuck you. I don’t want you to be a Metallica fan.”