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I do agree. But calling the UK Orwellian is kind of funny, given Orwell’s 1984 is largely, if not mostly, based on the UK:

• Like Winston, Orwell worked in the UK as a war propagandist, and lamented that he constantly had to lie and censor facts, but thought it worth it to defeat the Nazis.
• The ‘ministries’ were entirely based on the UK’s, especially e.g. the ‘Ministry of Defense’ actually being a ministry of war.
• Orwell complained that the UK secret police constantly opened all his letters because he was a commie.
• Room 101 and the Ministry of Truth is basically just satire of the BBC.

As well as cultural changes in the 80s-90s, I think people don’t quite realise how much the internet ‘escaped’ the grasp of governments for the past few decades. By constantly banging the drum of “what about the children D:”, governments are finally just catching up to where we used to be.

“you can look it up” provides no specific details.

It is true, the beetle is the Regimbartia attenuata. There’s a paper on the idea of active escape post-predator-contact https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982220308423

Previous thread about it.

I’d also say the commit message isn’t clear whether they’re ending Linux support now, or if that’s “the next step if I get more annoyed”.

He has his own wikipedia page.

Yes. They did the relicensing a year ago, so that’s a decently sized delta.

They didn’t make it themselves, the project has a not-insignificant amount of contributions from other authors, and the repo owner (possibly illegally) relicensed it such that nobody else can legally fork it.

Jesus christ

This behaviour is precisely why I stopped using Gmail. My account got locked one day - phone number and recovery email weren’t “enough” to recover, all appeals rejected, that’s it. Lost all my emails, all the stuff in my gdrive, just gone forever. There is literally no way to escalate other than doing a lawsuit. I make sure now to never have my data with a company that can just arbitrarily lock you out and completely ignore you.

You can setup Windows 11 without a Microsoft account by hacking it so you can open command prompt and sneak past the screen.

I’m a power user and it took me ten minutes of googling, pressing random shortcuts and typing in long-ass scary commands. I’m assuming requiring an account is illegal here in the EU, but oh well.

Always the same story - If the software isn’t free, then your use of it is legally bound to the random whims of some guy. Fingers crossed a fork from pre-hostile licensing takes over.