The fact that the white house keeps an actual enemies list (apparently it's posted on their website), is deeply disturbing. However it's far more disturbing that a significant number of Americans are totally fine with that kind of thing. Granted Trump is a bit more subtle than Putin in how he attacks his enemies. Putin just pushes them off balconies. Trump is content (so far anyway) to ruin them financially while enriching himself and his family and friends. In the end the result is the same. Which is to say completely harmful to the stability and prosperity of the nation.

I'll grant you that many things the Trump administration is doing are pretty much straight up communism, including this one. The king picking the winners and losers is definitely not something that the Republicans have ever been comfortable with in the past. Interesting how things change.

As for the "leftists" you seem to be confused as to who they are and what they want. I know you can't understand or believe it, but there is no such thing as a coherent, organized group on the left. There may be lots of groups, but they all want and believe different things, and liberal-minded people are more accepting of people with different wants and beliefs than them. It's one reason why the Democratic party has such a hard time in recent years trying to galvanize support on the so-called left because there is no coherent left-wing philosophy or base.

Until recent years the same could be said of the right wing. But more and more they are coming together on a few issues such as restricting voting (remember, a vote for a Democrat is voter fraud), and more and more, straight up white, nationalist Christian power, and uncompromising praise and worship of one man. We will never see this kind of thing on the so-called left (which really has come to mean anyone other than MAGA).

This is incorrect. Anthropic's deal with the DoD absolutely did involve the use of their models with combat. But the deal signed said that humans would always have the final say (and thus responsibility) for lethal combat action. That was what was agreed by both parties. But the DoD decided to change the terms of the deal and remove the bit about human responsibility. That was something Anthropic rightly disagreed with and besides it wasn't the agreement the DoD signed.

Funny how this bit gets quickly forgotten.

Nope. None of them will support Manifest v2 when it is removed from Chromium which is really what this slashdot post is all about. I kind of thought most of them dropped v2 already since Chromium made it really hard to enable.

Firefox is all that is left, for all its warts and user-hostile developers.

Troll? really? I guess none of the knee-jerk mods bothered to even read this post. He's not wrong.

Vivaldi is definitely losing Manifestv2 when upstream does. All chromium-derived browser are. Vivaldi actually doesn't even support uBlock Origin now. They provide their own, inferior ad blocker. Firefox is now the only choice.

And bye every other browser except Firefox. No Vivaldi, no Brave, any Chromium browser.

I'm a little surprised no one has tried to bring Manifest v2 back in a Chromium fork. It's supposedly open source after all. If it's too complicated to do practically, then really what's the point in Chromium being open source at all.

I support this sort of ban in principle. But the fact remains that parents' influence and guidance is much for effective than laws and teaching children how to navigate the online world, how to use it appropriately, and how not to be harmed by it. That includes parents leading by example too. Putting phones away when they are interacting with their children, at meal times, etc. And being a part of their children's online life.

But the big societal problem is that our modern economy's pursuit of money at all costs robs parents of the time and energy to do this, as both parents have to work multiple jobs just to put food on the table. So everyone suffers.

This ban won't address the root economic problem. Perhaps it will end up providing tools for parents to help partner with their kids and learn how network and fellowship appropriately.

Not sure what you're speaking about. VIM classic differs from normal VIM in that they do not use LLMs to help develop the editor itself, nor do they accept contributions from those that do. Where as the original VIM editor maintainers now use AI and LLM for bug fixing, feature developing, etc.

When I was a young college student I watched a professor working on some code in his office one day and saw how fast he was able to manipulate the text, cutting pasting, duplicating, all without hardly moving his hands. Ad hoc macros with the "." command were so powerful. I was very impressed and learned vi and never regretted it. vi definitely doesn't require touch typing! In fact I think it was designed for non-touch typers.

Now I have used vim for 30 years and am handicapped without it. I don't care if it's vim class, regular vim, neovim, or some IDE binding mode. I'm no vim expert and I really only use a small set of commands and keystrokes, but I appreciate the efficiency. The editor doesn't cause me to succeed or fail as a software engineer, but it does make my life more pleasant.

Over the last several releases macOS has been getting more and more like iOS, for better or worse. The UI is less dense now also, so UI anti-patterns like putting controls in the title area to ostensibly better utilize screen real state because necessary.

Are you really unaware of all the fairly permanent, anti-democratic moves being made by Trump and MAGA? The return to Jim Crow in the south, nation-wide voting restrictions, redistricting which is only acceptable in GOP states apparently, the near daily (it seems) violations of the constitution by the executive, the unwillingness of Congress to do their job and keep the president from being a dictator? The trade dispute is but a symptom of this problem. As a long time watcher and admirer of the US and Americans, I'm astounded at how fast things have been dismantled, and even more astounded at how many of my American friends are unconcerned or even cheering about this destruction. The courts are the only institutions standing up to the president, but now that the supreme court has fully given itself to the president, it's only a matter of time before the courts are brought to heel. At Trump's first state of the union, I was deeply chilled to see Trump pat Justice Roberts on the back and say, "I won't forget what you've done for me." Media companies are now owned by Trump's friends. Pardons are bought. $1.8 billion was attempted to be embezzled from the US treasury to pay off his friends. Trump's son in law is making money off his relationship with Trump while playing diplomat to the countries he's doing business with, making Hunter Biden look like a saint. The list goes on. Corruption has always been involved in politics, but now they aren't even trying to hide it, but are saying it's okay because it's our team doing it. Trump---but I think really the GOP has long wanted to do this---has completely broken the old way the world worked, which did amazing things for the US as well as the rest of the world and brought freedom to millions. No future president or congress of any party will be able to try to restore it, unfortunately, or even willing. It was a good run for 250 years. Of course like Rome, the fall won't be quick, but will be interesting to see how history views this point in time as a watershed.

The CCP is definitely evil, but the US is trending in that direction, which is not something to be celebrated or rationalized. And the poison is spreading to many other democratic nations unfortunately.

Isn't it though? Most countries, if they could, would enact similar policies for military procurement.

US technology (military and civilian) companies have been and remain in a very dominant position compared to most other countries. So while the US has the luxury of banning foreign companies with ties to foreign militaries, few other countries have that luxury. Up until now, even with US military ties and probable spying that went with it, such deals were still fairly mutually beneficial. Now, though, the US government, and an increasing number of Americans, wants the world to bow down to their benefactor and turn everything over to them. I have no problem acknowledging the US's powerful and dominant position. But when humility (even if it's never been quite genuine) turns to pure, unadulterated pride and using their power to bully the world and demand more and more tribute , that's when I start to be very concerned and start to wonder just which large power is more likely to rob me of freedom and the pursuit of happiness: China or the US. Should be an easy choice, and was even a few years ago. Now it's very much not.

Full uBlock Origin on Firefox seems to take care of it. Firefox is now the only browser capable of running uBlock Origin.