Pretty soon all ELINT and ECM systems are going to be tuned to detect remote controlled drones, with the balance swinging back to the defence systems again.

Whoever comes up with a mass produced passive detector that first into a soldiers helmet, is going to make a lot of money.

Pretty soon we are going to be back to wire guided and self guided munitions. They will just be a lot cheaper than they used to be.

"Don’t worry. I am sure they will stop after we give them the sudetenland. "

Here is the secret, Russia has already started WW3, the west is just not acting that way.

What Biden really needs to do is remove restrictions on the use of their weapons to their European allies, so they can support Ukraine in his absence.

Yes, absolutely. Israel and Palestine are places where people live and community structures exist. They belong to the people who live there.

I actually believe a 1 state solution will be more stable in the long term. The defacto 2 state solution, with one under occupation will never work. The Palestinian vote should be enough to swing the Israeli government away from the right.

Restitution needs to be part of the process, but not at the cost of established long communities and stable communities. There is no magic wand to “make it back the way it was”. Communities are groups of people, not places. Focus on restoring the networks of people. It won’t be fair, but it might be the best option available.

To hell with divine rights and ancestor speak. Secular freedoms for all, before religious freedoms.

It’s the only way to peace in the region.

As to how to get to that point, I am terribly underqualified, but a Marshall style international intervention like what happened in Germany and Japan after WWII probably holds some value.

Because ethnostate is just the excuse people use. Look at the demographics, it’s very multicultural in population.

But it’s leadership sucks donkey balls and there is way too much religion in their society.

Now say it in public and act accordingly.

Defend Israel, but not Netanyahu’s government.

Where does the Geneva convention come down on sabotaging military issued equipment?

I don’t have much of a problem with the small open source projects that are generally very good at filling gaps or addressing niches.

I think most of the waste is coming for the development done by the large open source houses. The canonical and red hats of the world. They should stick to what they are doing well, which is the foundational stuff.

I would have thrown it into a tree. Still not great, but better than what this guy did.

I think it should be: “Software that is yours”

Overall, I think more focus should be put on consolidating similar projects.

Do we really need 6 different window managers that follow the same design logic?

Do we really need each major distro to have its own package manager?

How many image and PDF viewers do we need? How many music players?

Can we convince Ubuntu that no one wants snaps and they are wasting developer resources.

The freed up capacity should be focused on better windows app compatibility. Something akin to Valve’s push in gaming.

For me the main difference is Linux only does something when I ask it to.

Windows does whatever Microsoft wants it to do.

Both have major usability issues. But Linux gets a higher tolerance level, because of higher trust levels.

I use it in the context that you would use american. It can refer to a group or nationality, but it can also be used as a cultural descriptor, referring to the export of cultural beliefs and customs. This includes things like religion, but also includes language, customs, ethics, tradition.

True, but the Taliban religion is Arab.

Arab Republicans

Maybe the IRS should investigate their non profit status.

Can we now agree to call forced marriages a form of human trafficking?

Good bot.

Agree, but how do you address the current problem, now that these people exist. Clearly the current strategy and these camps are just making it worse and if you release them, you are planting seeds of terrorism for a generation to come.

We should do all we can in society to prevent people from going to prison, but you can’t just release prisoners without rehabilitation.

How do you deprogram members of a cult at this scale?

Maybe an island penal colony in the Pacific is preferable to perpetual internment camps?

I think this strategy makes sense, if you do an overall push to have all software sources verified. Knowing users, a simple warning that an app is unverified rarely affects their behaviour. You need to hide the app, to encourage app developers to get verified for it to work. Users ideally should be able to trust by default, because we can’t trust them to know any better.