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.

Amazon lost 6.3 million orders because of the use of AI coding tools.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/...

Iranian and Venezuelan oil was on the market before the conflicts started by Trump. We still had $5/gallon gas back then due to Trump's shitty economic policies.

I've driven EVs since 2016. I've only plugged my car into the wall with no special charger. I plug in when I get home. My car completely charges overnight. When I leave in the morning, it's completely charged. My office is only about 10 miles away. So, I never use a full charge during the day driving to work.

It's clear you've never owned an EV and simply want to demonize a technology it's obvious you know little about.

I hope you find something good soon.

According to TFA, this is so. As a result, I'm renaming my OnlyOffice fork from "Sucks" to "OnlyOffice Sucks"

Just wait until OpenAI or Anthropic include that source code as training data. Soon, you'll see Copilot ads all over ChatGPT and Claude.

China heavily subsidizes its steel industry, providing roughly ten times more support per unit of revenue than OECD countries.

China is aggressively subsidizing its power grid infrastructure to support electric vehicles (EVs), focusing on building widespread charging networks and advanced, two-way Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) systems.

China is heavily subsidizing electricity costs by up to 50%.

https://www.csis.org/blogs/tru...

No, US cars are not heavily subsidized unlike China. American auto regulations favor manufacture in America, but not American auto manufacturers. That's why foreign automakers such as Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Kia, BMW, Volkswagen, Mercedes, Mazda, Nissan, Subaru, and Volvo make cars in America for the American market.

The fact that so many auto manufacturers make cars in the US shows your "make the world reliant on a small handful of corporations and subject to the whims of the US Government" statement to be nonsense. The rest of your statement is BS. Comparing China to the US is a joke.

Corporations aren't governments. They support their products because they want repeat customers. Yes, they're greedy. They also want repeat business. Due to that, they generally try not to screw over customers too much and ruin repeat business.

Governments are different. Authoritarian governments such as the CCP are the worst of all. They don't give a fuck about anyone outside their country. Hell, it's arguable how much the CCP cares about Chinese citizens. If subsidizing electric cars means screwing over America, Americans, Europe, Europeans, or anyone else in the whole world for the benefit of China or Chinese companies, you bet your ass the CCP will do it without question.

These vehicles have been heavily subsidized by the Chinese government to win market share in markets long dominated by other countries.

Just like everything else from China, it's meant to kill domestic manufacturers and make the world reliant on China and subject to the whims of the CCP.

It's not in the interest of anyone living outside of China to buy these cars. China doesn't care about you. The CCP doesn't care about you. It doesn't care about making a good product. They only want your money. The CCP is perfectly happy to lie, cheat, steal, and fuck over your country to make money, obtain, and hold power.

Yes, the US Congress can give instructions to NASA, but half the ISS is run by the Russian Government.

NB: I am only discussing Russian modules here, NASA and its suppliers have already demonstrated the ability to build, launch and maintain the American modules.

The Russians wanted to quit the ISS in 2024, subsequently extended to 2028 at which point Unity and Zarya will be 30 years old. Zvezda, launched 2000, has had a persistent air leak in the transfer tunnel since 2019. While repairs have been made, the leak continues and has caused increased concern due to, at times, rising, significant air loss. Zarya was designed for a minimal operational lifespan of 15 years, while Zvezda, originally built for the Mir program had a designed minimal operational lifespan of 5 years, Mir itself was still OK after 15 years, but by 2030 Zvezda will have been operating for twice that long. When talking about the proposed extension from 2024, Space Policy Online site reports "Roscosmos initially declined to agree to the extension in part because it was waiting for a review by its engineers of the status of the hardware, which TASS said today was completed in February."

Other than operational life of the segments, the other risks are orbital corrections and deorbiting. Fortunately NASA and its suppliers already have orbital boost and plans for deorbiting.

Traditionally boost and other orbital corrections were performed by Progress Rockets docked to the aft port of Zvezda but SpaceX Dragon and Cygnus Cargo Vehicle craft also have that capability, and dock at the nadir port of Harmony so this can be maintained if Zvezda ceases to be operational.

Finally, deorbiting. Had the Russians committed to the 2032 date, the plan was to use multiple Progress cargo vehicles docked to the station, without the Russians the plan is to use a (single?) SpaceX Cargo Dragon.

The above was mostly assembled from multiple Wikipedia pages