They didn’t open-source it. They released an API spec. The author seems not to understand what “open source” means. What they did was a step in the right direction though.

The headline is still misleading.

And they didn’t do it. The headline is misleading.

For software too, if a company has sold software and then goes out of business, it should have to give all licensed users permanent access to use it. Ideally also the source code. (Ideally we’d have open source options for everything but that’s not always practical or possible right now.)

The two videos available show clearly that ICE needlessly murdered a woman who was not putting them in any danger. Trump is either lying or lost in his demented fantasies.

We have to presume that the police’s version, and especially ICE’s version, is lies. They’re just enjoying murdering people because it makes them feel big.

Ubuntu doesn’t respect the spirit of free open-source software. They keep jamming stuff into their distro to increase their control. There are plenty of alternatives. (E.g. Debian, OpenSUSE, Fedora or Mint for general-purpose distros.)

It also means the USA militarily surrounds Canada on every side, which is significant given Trump’s frequently expressed desire to annex Canada.

It gives a direct route from the USA through the Arctic to the entire coastline of Northern Europe and Russia, and it places the USA on every side of Canada, surrounding it. So it makes it easier for the USA’s military to reach Europe, Russia and Asia, and easier to seize Canada by force, should Trump decide to follow through on his threats.

You need organized mass resistance, not individual actions.

He’s dumb, but this is deliberate. The whole point is to take public funds and give them to the wealthy while making it impossible for the poor to live.

The USA’s recently published National Security Strategy explicitly states that the USA will work to undermine European democracies to protect Europe from “civilizational erasure” (which means the same as “white genocide” or “the existence of non-whites and non-fascists”). Europe has the USA, Russia and China all working actively to undermine it, and the USA and Russia are both doing so by covertly funding and supporting fascists against everyone else, while both gearing up for military attacks on European nations. Meanwhile European leaders are queuing up to praise and appease Trump in the hopes that he’ll be nice to them. I don’t see how you can be so confident.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Edge Pro Express Home Edition with Teams for Friends and Family 2027.

People will still use it once to download another browser.

Personally I admire someone who is prepared to publicly take some personal risk in order to fight white supremacists.

No need to use YouTube. Their own website has the whole talk dubbed into English, among other language options.

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-heartbreak-machine-nazis-in-the-echo-chamber

Also: British voters are on track to elect Nigel Farage as PM of a fascist government. It makes no sense.

Don’t forget Canada. We urgently need to take steps to defend ourselves, including deepening our alliances with other countries.

I’ve never heard Satya Nadella say a single thing that wasn’t just buzzword garbage. He’s like a human slop-generating machine. Maybe that’s why he can’t recognize AI slop when he sees it.

Look how the USA treats the ICC judges:

‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life

The USA is actively and knowingly hostile to international law and order.

We need more payment systems and IT systems that are not run by US companies, among other things.