Because it is an authoritarian regime now, and not a state of law and order anymore.

Slightly off topic, but is there still no viable Minecraft fork?

Maybe I missed something in the original article, but where are you getting the info that these extra requirements would expire if the PSF held the money for two years?

I am glad that PSF is not bowing to these requirements in order to get the grant.

Could you give a bit more context?

Arguably sometimes drivers for older devices are more likely to have been ported to Linux at some point then conpletely new devices.

Not to speak for Windows or against Xubuntu, but didn’t Xubuntu just recently have some secrity exploit that was pushed as an update to devices?

If this is starting post 2012, then social media is probably also to blame.

Well… is this a bad aspect in something generally good, or a good aspect in something generally bad. (The good being using public infra, the bad the overworking.)

Isn’t this the whole reason why proof of work captchas are being developed?

AI for the win in figuring out how to use code libraries with minimal to non-existent documentation scattered accross the entire web.

Isn’t AV1 patent free?

How old is Invincible in the TV show? He might qualify as a 20s superhero.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think VLC still does not have full support for the WebVTT subtitle format.

Wouldn’t the argument being made be that those office buildings already exist, whereas the data centers for AI are being built new? So less of a it’s not a problem in offices and more of a we know this is bad so lets try to not build more of it?

Didn’t this happen with first aid videos on YouTube?

And yet sometimes even with modern file sharing hosters I can only get 100KByte/s connections.

You had me from the very end.

And I bet Meta didn’t even properly seed it while they downloaded…

Correct me if I am wrong, but did this not happen to the music of a bunch of Soviet era composers, that was temporarily free of copyright in the USA and then later had to be put into copyright again after the Cold War ended?