You are wrong: "In the days following the announcement of that deal, Paramount launched its hostile bid, taking directly to shareholders an offer of $30 per share, all cash for the entirety of Warner Bros. Discovery, including its TV networks. " emphasis mine
source? https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/0...

More to my point. more overlap in the case of paramount less overlap in the case of netflix.

While Trump personally would prefer the Ellisons, and maybe USoA regulators will aquice, in the rest of the (relevant) Jurisdictions WBD + Netflix has more chances chances to pass than WBD + Paramount Skydance

I seriously doubt that Netflix or Paramount want to stop operating the combined company in the UK, Europe, Japan, Korea, China, or even Brazil. Which is what would happen if those foreign regulators said no, and a merger proceeded anyway with the blessing of uncle sam.

Think about it, the biggest overlap between WBD+Netflix is in streaming, with a smallish overlap in games (WBDs gamin g division is small, netflix's is ultra tiny), TV and movie production (WBD is big, netflix is mid), and catalogue (WBD is hugeand spans decades, netflixis small, and spans 3 lustres tops). Meanwhile, Netflix has no OtA or cable channels.

Meanwhile, paramunt has every-single-one of the things WBD has, and in comparable sizes... so, more overlap, bigger consolidation, less competition. The EU, UK, JP, BR and CR and CN, and more regulators around the planet will not like that one bit.

Apple is not obliged to release Darwin, as it is BSD licences, yet they do. That in itself is commendable.

As other commenters said, they maintain WebKit (GPLv2). And many smaller browsers live of Apple's webkit.

Other lesser projects abound.

PS1: Ditto with Sonny, they not release the source of the PS5, but contribute A LOT to Upstream xBSD
PS2: Many people at apple and Sone will be watching very closely the Ladybird project. Not because of it being a browser with a new and very strong security foundation, but because is one of the few browsers with a BSD license, which is what these two companies preffer.

When there were only 3 button mice, middle click paste was absolutely fantastic, used it estensively in the late '90s and early '00s in many unix workstations at Uni and early work.

But nowadays, the world is dominated by trackpads with gestures that do not have 3rd buttons, and mouses where the middle button is also a scrollwheel, leading to the aforemntioned acttidents.

As a matter of fact, I map the third wheel to "open link in new tab"

So yes, get rid of third button paste by default. Put whatever default you think is more sensible, not necesarily my preference, but put something else in the third button

Phone RAM directly competes with Laptop RAM, Compact Desktop RAM and server RAM

The same RAM chips (LP-DDR5) that go into a phone can go into a desktop or laptop, either directly soldered to the MoBo, or in CAMM2 or SO-CAMM 2 modules. And in servers, using, again SO-CAMM2 (while SO-CAMM2 can be used in laptops and compact desktops, it was designed primarely for server and datacenter applications).

No need to reconfigure the production lines, change the lithography masks, change procecess or anything. Literaly the same chips in the same organic encapsulations with the same pin distribution.

In fairness, the winner was Edmundo Gonzalez-Urrutia. Yes, that guy onl won because MariaCorina could not run, so she raised his hand. But still HE is the president, and SHE has already confirmed she will "just" be the VP

PS: In Venezuela the Executive VP has more power and attributions than a VP in the USoA

'nuff said.

The venezuelan contitution demands that detailed results of the elections be presented 90 days after the fact. This has not happened, so, Maduro's govt violated the constitution. the "Moral power" (in venezuela we are a 5 powers state, while the USoA only has 3) is obliged to inhabilitate any civil servant that does not comply with their duties (like electoral functionaries not showing results in 90 days, or electoral supreme court not ruling on elecoral matters in 120 days), that also has not happened.

Meanwhile, the opposition showed reasonable proof that they won in 2024 3:1...

The constitution says that if the president's absence is permanent (which it is), elections have to be had in 90 days. And the law here does not has provisions like in ucraine, that elections can not be held during invasion. Also, there is no invasion.

In the next days, watch closely if they call for elections or not. that will be the clue/cue for more actions. Either more "surgical extractions" if there are no elections, or wait and see if there are elections.

Keep on doing extractions on people with tribunal issued capture orders and bounties on their heads, and keep issuing tribunal capture orders and bounties until moral improves, and chavistas that want to play ball rise through the ranks by sheer attrition.

Slow and costly in the short term, but effective and cheaper than boots on the ground in the long term
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That was the rumour in the early morning. The rumour now in mid-day is that she is in caracas, in hididng from other factions of the chavista apparatus that want her head.

May I remind you that unlike Padrino and Cabello, she (and her brother Jorge, president of the Assamblea) do not have tribunal issued capture orders, or bounties on their head, like Maduro, and other high raking figures of chavismo do. Those are first in line for future extractions.

Putin and Kim have Nukes, and targets that the USoA values. Maduro has no nukes.

His administration already rejected/condemned the attack and extraction.

Petro is not worried, there is plenty people in line in from of him with USoAn court aprehension orders and bounties on their head before the USoA even thinks about snatching him.

While the trump admin shows a blantant disregard for intl and national law, the modicum of pretense they still have is towards internal law, and Petro is not a wanted man in the USoA, yet

while you are 100% right, in this particular case, you are not 107% right. There are a few nuances, mostly that these guys never showed detailed election results, as the constitution mandates, meanwhile, the opposition showed decent proof they won 3:1. i.e. this guy stole the 2024 elections.

There is a snag in your narrative. The Trump administration consulted BigOil in the USoA, and most/all of the companies said that they did not want to come back here (for the companies that were expropiated in 2008), or said that they had no interest to enter (USoA players that had never been in Venezuela). And I doubt Trump risked american lives to hep BRITISH Petroleum or Royal DUTCH Shell... or repsol (Spain) or Eni (italy), or worse yet, China and India... so.... the oil american companies do not want to extract? Really?

PS: I am a Venezuelan, living in Venezuela, Visiting Family in the most Militarized State (Aragua), in the most militarized city (save for Caracas), Maracay... So, eyes on site.