Declaring Afghanistan a safe country* must be the most cynical thing the “international community” has done in a long time. Well, apart from supporting Israel’s genocide and … quite a lot of other things when you think about it. What a timeline.

* edit: apparently Germany doesn’t even do that but that arsehole Dobrindt deports them anyhow. Looking at this article (sorry AP, I can’t take your captchas anymore) Both international and german courts have decided that Afghanistan is a torture state, that the Taliban are a terror regime.

he was right very often and “only” his tone was…unfiltered

Yeah, there’s a big difference between just insulting someone, or insulting someone based on clear arguments. AFAIK Torvalds always did the latter. Again, not saying that makes it OK though.

So sad. I remember a friend talking about it 20 years ago. It really sounded as peaceful as the article describes it, but:

Bali politician Agung Bagus Pratiksa Linggih said he had seen an increase in long-term visitors with low budgets in the years since the Covid-19 pandemic

“Shootings in Bali are unheard of. In Melbourne, they happen all the time, but not here,” he said. “People are asking how they even got the guns. Is there an underworld market forming?”

According to Indonesia’s Central Statistics Agency, in 2023, only three firearm-related crimes were recorded in Bali.

“We’ve seen meth labs, villa robberies, crypto scams, property fraud, and ATM theft – often involving Russian or eastern European groups,” he said.

He blamed Bali’s open-door tourism model and post-pandemic economic desperation.

edit: the article can’t decide if it focuses on Autralians or all tourists, but that doesn’t make it less true.

Looks at date… meh. We’ve been through this, OP. Many years ago. In great detail. Meaning, among other things, plenty of lazy outrage posting like this.

And Torvalds has my full respect for facing the music and coming out a better person. Not many people are able to admit they’ve been wrong about something, and even fewer are able to actually do something about it.

Still, without the old Torvalds we wouldn’t have memes like this one either.

he’s one of the few people I’ve read about who not only acknowledged that but also put effort into changing it - and succeeded.

💯

Not sure I’d have characterised him as an “absolute dipshit” even back then, though.

That is how I read it as well.

Also, Torvalds went through some serious soul-searching between then and now and really came out on top of it. My full respect.

lately Linus learned how to do it correctly without going on rants

Yep. This is from 2012 and we went through whatever OP is trying to do here sometime between then and maybe 5 years ago - in great detail. And Torvalds really came out on top of it.

I love this. Walk around the bully and ignore him.

My Nokia 701 also has Stereo:

And the sound isn’t too shabby either.

Maemo => Meego => Sailfish OS 👍

Nothing ever replaced the N900. And there’s a difference between a large corp developing a true Linux OS, as opposed to a tiny company. But still: it’s not dead.

Before Nokia was assimilated and digested by Microsoft, it open sourced the OS

Huh. Did not know.

Symbian’s swansong was the remarkable Nokia 808 PureView. The 808 and other late-model Symbian devices run Nokia Belle which was really quite nice.

I still have a device here that runs that version. A Nokia 701. With AngryBirds games on it. It had an extensive app store. And that wonderful tiny charger connector (but also takes a charge from USB micro).

there was that brief attempt at a revival by Planet Computers but it really didn’t stick

Oh, again I did not know that. I was interested in one of their later devices for a while, a keyboard phone running true Linux iirc.

To the extent this question seeks to elicit an answer that could be taken as opining on the broader political or policy debate regarding term limits, or on statements by any political figure, my response, consistent with the positions of prior judicial nominees, is that it would be improper to offer any such comment as a judicial nominee.

Bove also faces scrutiny over how he has managed staff at the DOJ. A whistleblower report submitted last month by a former Justice Department employee alleges that Bove told colleagues that the administration should ignore court orders that are stymying some of Trump’s executive orders, particularly those that rely on declarations of “emergencies” to push his anti-immigrant agenda.

American voters in both major parties consistently vote against their own collective interests in order to maximize individual gain.

Well said, but it’s not just American voters. Also it depends very much on how you explain things to voters - individual gain and collective interest are not opposites, but that’s what a corporate lobbyism/propaganda machine has been promoting for many decades.

For example, consider that the historical self-narrative and cultural lexicon for young American students is essentially:

Yeah just yesterday I watched snippets of old Reagan & Bush II speeches. They are so dumb and smarmy and naive.

In other words: the breaking points were already built in before Trump came to power. Frankly it’s a miracle it took so long for someone to just take full advantage of all of them at once.

Looking on from the outside, every piece of news sounds like “the avalanche has gathered more debris and more speed and causes even more devastation”. It’s horrible. Never in my lifetime have I watched the implosion of a democracy in real time. Looking at Germany in the 1930s must have felt similar.

Same reason Trump isn’t in prison - because he’s in power. I don’t like it either.

And every time, he will say “esprit de corps spirit”.

I’m impressed how fast this fell apart.

In my book it took almost a decade. It’s like you could watch it running towards the precipice in slo-mo, and all warnings were countered with “libs triggered, lol”. Not to speak of all the groundwork laid by most previous admins, esp. Reagan’s.

Alternatively nothing or everything that the Trump administration does surprises me. I’m sure there are more holes in this “plan”, esp. for Europe. But apparently once again our dear leaders cling to the old paradigm of “the USA, our trusty big brother”.