I mean, optionally they could set up a tiny dev shop with that amount and submit the PRs they want to submit. And at worst, they could maintain their own fork.

It’d be a public service in more ways than one.

5 million a year would go a long way towards making their open source solutions meet their needs.

Sometimes they can, sometimes they can’t. It’s always a race.

People outside the US can vote and are having this problem. Fascism is on the rise worldwide.

You think Biden was a fascist because he didn’t use the justice system to go after his political enemies when it was 100% warranted.

Most likely the kids did this because it’s edgy, not because they’re really hardcore into Nazi ideology.

These kids know what the Holocaust was. Someone should explain to them that it’s coming back. For a few people, it’s already here, but it’s coming for more. They need to be sat down for a real history lesson. And they need to understand that there is very little in the way of the world repeating that history, or worse.

They should understand that they need to be more worried if they don’t get in much trouble, not less. They need to understand how jokes and pranks provide cover and acceptance for these kinds of things. They need to understand that their jokes are not actually harmless, because they pave the way for people to actually believe and do these things while believing they’ll have a group that accepts them for it.

And hopefully, on top of all that, they’ll still see some kind of punishment. Not enough to ruin their lives, because they are dumb kids being dumb, but enough to discourage this from spreading.

Is it, though?

I don’t even think it’s intended to be about that. I don’t think it’s that deep.

I think it’s just, “they always ask this question, no matter what.”

Well, shit.

So much for the Cold War.

The European people really shouldn’t want to use their own military anyway. Much better to just continue being America’s bitch (as America, and everyone else, slides into fascism.)

I don’t see any danger here at all.

I like how we said the same thing, but I got downvoted for it because I didn’t bury the lede.

I don’t think I can get away from Windows, as a professional .NET developer

Because you have to use VS Code instead of VS? You can always deploy to a Windows VM if you need to be sure IIS works. Though everything will just run on dotnet and nginx through a reverse proxy if you want to stay within Linux.

They’re not trying to. They’re mostly trying to replace the need for wages and salaries.

The fact that they’re doing it with effectively “we have wage slaves at home” leads to your point.

AI can be a great tool. As an assistant. As a fancy search engine. And sometimes to do the most menial parts of jobs. But it doesn’t directly replace people. Even in the case of taking fast food orders, first that’s not a whole job, and second, it still needs supervision. It’s a tool.

anti-China and anti-Russia

Uh huh. Yeah okay.

We’ve had enough projection for a lifetime this decade.

Remember r/reddit ?

Reddit removed every comment he had ever made, including wonderful and well cited rebuttals of the right-wing bigotry of the day.

Probably more of the motivation than the listed offense.

I mean, they started with “a few of”.

For those who didn’t know,

(AI)
A “bunny boiler” is a slang term for a dangerously obsessive, vengeful person (usually a woman) spurned by a lover, originating from the iconic 1987 film Fatal Attraction, where Glenn Close’s character boils a pet rabbit to terrorize her ex-lover’s family. The term describes an unstable individual prone to extreme, often violent, emotional outbursts after rejection, becoming a cultural shorthand for such behavior.

He was shot? I don’t remember that.

He was shot near, maybe.

If you treat it as spicy search it works pretty great though.