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.

Or more like "cloud infrastructure running within physical and legal jurisdiction of the EU is running locally to the EU" if you prefer .. if it's software they've written, running on hardware within the EU's physical and legal reach, voila, "sovereignty".

"The only way to ensure sovereignty and control is with software running locally with NO cloud dependency."

They're not talking about personal sovereignty. Cloud infrastructure an organization owns is "running locally" to that organization.

that particular amendment was voted down, bozo - the system works, no hand wringing required

doesn't mean hate speech doesn't exist

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.

I'm pretty sure corporations are worse for the environment than people.

You're confident in suggesting that corporations don't cater to the demand of the market, the customers of whom seems to be waiting for the heads of those corporations to take the bus before they can be bothered to stop pissing in their own pools?

Tragedy of the commons to a tee.

I don't disagree with your first point.

I don't admire billionaires at all. I don't think they should exist. Wealth disparity is unchecked.

But that doesn't prevent me from operating within my own set of principles rather than in a sort of "you first" manner, which strikes me as quite child-like.

If every wealthy person on earth did the right thing, our environment would still be fucked, because they're vastly outnumbered by non-wealthy people.

So you're stuck on a sinking boat with a rich person, and you refuse to plug a hole until he or she plugs a hole.

The funny thing, by the time you smugly drown, they've already left the boat on a helicopter. The wealthy *be definition* will not feel the effects of worsening climate. You (and your kids) will.

I think it'd be far more intellectually honest to admit you just don't care. Nothing wrong with that, per se. It's a hell of a lot more logically defendable than your stated position.

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

No Mahindra is in a different market entirely, like Zetor. This is the first class 7 tractor introduced in North America that's not from the major players. And it's not exactly "made in Canada" (unlike Versatile which actually mostly is), it's assembled in Canada. It's manufactured in China. That said, I'm impressed he can assemble so many tractors in his tiny shop.