I like Krypto. However, this is the second movie in a row where he features as a key part of the plot. Like, find something else to drive the story. Please. Let the dog be an interesting side character.

Supergirl’s plot involves getting a poison antidote hanging around an evil character’s neck. She fights this evil character multiple times and could take the antidote at any point. Of course, she doesn’t because that’d be the end of the movie. The end result is that this plot point gets dragged out for no particular reason.

Other points make no sense. There’s only 2 Kryptonians left. But, evidently they’re so well known across the galaxy that everyone knows their weaknesses.

Your comment completely ignores the previous one. In a communist society, companies and the government are one entity. They are the same. That is fundamentally different from how companies and government works in capitalist societies.

China is a communist country. That's a whole other level of government involvement in the economy and specific companies such as Alibaba than you'll find anywhere in the US.

Any other software company facing a similar order would have immediately sent a lawyer to court to file an injunction to block the order. The fact that Anthropic immediately rolled over tells us that on some level, they wanted this government action. They literally didn't object to it.

Classical tasting scams depended on a now closed weakness in the ICANN charging so if you had a small number of registrars (3 or 4?) you could keep a large number of domains tied up indefinitely by deleting them from one of your registrars & immediately re-registering on another. Stir, cycle & spin. I've not checked, but some registries may still be vulnerable.

When you are registering domains in large numbers the economics change. If the domains names are being used for scams and aren't being squatted, classical tasting may still be economical for ICANN domain names, if not there may be options.

WTF are you talking about? Seattle is doing so much business that our taxes fund the rest of the state, including eastern Washington. You can talk when you start paying for your own infrastructure. Until then, politely STFU about Seattle business.

The DOS8 pressure vehicle intended for a backup for Mir if its launch failed, then repurposed and modified a little for Mir 2 but that was cancelled then repurposed and modified as Zveszda had a 15 year design life at launch in 2000. It is now 26 years later.

Why are people surprised that it's wearing out?

If a US company is actually based in Ireland, then it's not a US company. That's an Irish company.

Some US companies have offices in Ireland. That's to take advantage of Irish tax policy. Their headquarters are still in the US. The decisions of the company are still made in the US. They are based in the US. Those are US companies.

Okay then, that was always allowed.

EU regulators were perfectly capable of blocking any US purchase of EU companies at any time. They were perfectly happy taking US money all this time. It's ridiculous to now complain about all that money the EU earned.

Still as a American, I shrug. Europe should have been allowing, recommending, and actively promoting the creation of their own software their entire time. I think it's great that Europe is finally deciding to truly compete in technology.

The whole thing reminds me of Jerry walking out of the daycare in Rick and Morty. Yes, that was always allowed.

Europe always had the capability and opportunity to create European alternatives to US technology. There was never anything stopping them from going that route at any time. In fact, I welcome this work as an American. As a consumer of technology, I'd love to see some alternatives to the US technologies I currently use. Why Europe is approaching this as some flex on the US seems a bit ridiculous to me. This was always allowed.

I would imagine the FreeBSD Foundation's Executive Director might have reasons for wanting to run a modern DE on FreeBSD.

I remember a possibly apocryphal tale from many years back that Larry Ellison demanded Oracle's internal payroll was run on alpha quality software because he believed in "Eating our own dog food"

Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Dr. Erika McEntarfer following the release of a monthly employment report which he claimed without evidence was "rigged" and manipulated to make Republicans look bad. You can bet those statistics truly are rigged now. That was the last time I trusted the employment statistics.

Which unfortunately I can no longer find.

If anyone can find the URL in the archive or a clone I'd love to re-read it.

Here's what Gemini says about it when I queried "In the early 2000s, slashdot user kiore wrote a satirical comment about the prospect of a microsoft linux. Do you know about this comment?

Yes, absolutely! The user kiore is a well-known, long-time Slashdotter (a senior software developer based in New Zealand) whose satirical take on "MS Linux" became a legendary piece of lore within the community.

Back in the early 2000s, when the tech world was obsessed with the bitter rivalry between Microsoft and the open-source community, the idea of a "Microsoft Linux" was the ultimate paradox. Kiore leaned into this brilliantly by writing a mock release note/review detailing exactly what a Linux distribution engineered by Microsoft would actually look like.

The satire perfectly captured the specific tech anxieties and Microsoft tropes of that era. Some of the most memorable gags from the comment included:

• The Installation Process: It required multiple reboots just to get the command line up, mimicking the clunky Windows installers of the time.
• The Kernel and Licensing: The Linux kernel was technically there, but you had to "product activate" it within 30 days or the system would lock up.
• File Hierarchy Hijacking: Instead of standard Linux directories like /bin, /usr, and /etc, everything was forced into a massive, tangled folder named /My Documents.
• Command Line Changes: The standard root user root was renamed to Administrator. If you tried to use standard tools like grep or awk, you'd be met with a friendly pop-up dialog box asking, "Are you sure you want to search this file?"
• The Infamous Registry: Instead of editing text-based config files in /etc (one of Linux's core advantages), kiore joked that Microsoft had somehow managed to graft a binary Windows Registry right into the Linux kernel.

It was a masterful piece of "News for Nerds" satire that perfectly predicted how Microsoft might try to "embrace, extend, and extinguish" open source. Ironically, decades later, with the release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Microsoft Azure heavily relying on its own internal Linux distributions, kiore's joke ended up feeling strangely prophetic! I don't remember the pop-up box but details of a simple joke I spent 10 minutes has faded after 20 years or maybe someone else suggested it. BTW: I am no longer a software developer. For a few years I was a comedy producer, now I'm on hiatus until at least the southern hemisphere summer)

The same thing is occurring in YouTube too. Someone posts a video with a clickbait title. It's an AI voice reading an AI script showing video that's only tangentially related to the script. Overall, the video isn't outright bad. But, it's not particularly good either. They're just poor quality. They all just seem to ramble on for a pre-determined amount of time and then stop.

The problem is that the shear number of these videos and channels is unreal. Someone's automated the creation of these channels and videos. This someone is pumping out these videos faster than you can block whole channels.

Further, it's impossible to tell which channel has human-generated content and which is all-AI. YouTube doesn't help at all since Google is promoting the usage of AI. So, the service is getting flooded with poor-quality AI content. As a YouTube user, you either deal with this AI enshittification or you stop using YouTube.