Consumer side perhaps there is little desired innovation from MS, but most of their sales are enterprise and cloud, the last of which is a rapidly evolving market where talent can be put to good use.

In what way has Microsoft enshittified GitHub? Since the acquisition they’ve mostly made more services free for open source users, and prices and features haven’t gotten more restrictive.

VSCode runs on the web and has IDE-grade search functionality

Not running people over, running poors over

Or even non-democratic countries. Brutal dictatorships usually get a larger international response, even from other dictatorships.

Trademarks are probably easier to filter out matches than copyrighted works, due to the relatively few number of them and restrictiveness of trademark protections.

Israel is trying its best to make sure the new Syrian government continues war with them even after they’ve expressed no interest in doing so.

Shitty that they would withhold passengers belongings unless it was damaged or would otherwise be necessary for the investigation

Depends on if you want your data format to be strict ascii. If you don’t care, then sure, why not?

IDF took first and second place

Does anyone actually believe Israel has any intent to give up land once they’ve occupied it?

Why was Web 2.0 a mistake and what does that have to do with centralization?

Maybe they are trying to discourage people digging too far into her life and family? Not that it wasn’t already going to happen once the name was released

Especially if his talk is peace and diplomacy. Cooperating with the occupation angers the occupation as it deprives them of a hostile “other” they can use to justify bombing and killing civilians over.

Iirc he had a meeting with some investor in TikTok and after that meeting his tune completely flipped.

Maybe that’s what you believe, but allowing commercial use has been a core tenant of free and open source software

This is one of the funnier things I see frequently on here. People both champion free and open source code and data that can be used for anything… until it is used for anything they even mildly dislike.

Ok yeah fair enough

Yeah, threatening violence is useless currently. Either act on it or have a plan B.

Truly anyone who frames this as a hard problem to solve must be self-limiting.