I don’t know where the author got their information, but they name Minis as one company doing this, and it’s absolutely not the case. I just checked to be sure, and the 2026 minis have the same 5-button, one touchscreen setup as the 2025s. My 2020 mini has 15+ physical buttons and toggles.

I actually think it was. The 2026 mini is the same as the 2025 mini in having almost no physical buttons, and a giant touchscreen, yet they call minis out by name. Completely incorrect, but got published.

Crime going down and society becoming more violent are different things. “Crime” is only a measure of illegal violence.

I think right-wing ethno-nationalism has made society more violent. Violence by agents of the state like ICE also isn’t being included in those stats: we’ve had more assaults and abductions this year than in decades thanks to ICE, if we are counting honestly.

No congressional intervention would have been needed to stop drone striking poor brown people in huts, but Obama massively expanded that. Let’s not pretend that the Patriot Act made Obama beholden to continue Bush’s misuse of presidential war powers. Obama did plenty of good, but he also did plenty to advanced the powers of the Executive.

Man, I’ve been a staunch defender of Mozilla for a long time, but they’re making it clearer and clearer that they just want to be Chrome. I think it’s time to start hunting for another, again.

Maybe I’ll give PaleMoon another go! I was surprised to see Maxthon and Midori were still alive, but they seem a little shady now?

That’s true, but EFF needs to speak using terms people are used to seeing in order to reach as many people as possible. They always discuss the de-anonymization aspect of these laws, just not usually in the headline.

Yeah, I refuse to call anything ‘indie’ that is not in fact independent of a publisher. We already have A, AA, and AAA to denote budgets and scale. Rebranding ‘indie’ to mean ‘A’ or ‘AA’ games from third-party studios under a publisher is drinking the publisher kool-aid. Sony especially pushed this angle.

I literally burned some DVDs last week…

“We needed some more Lebensraum” - Israel

I’ve tried. SO many times. It’s just so damn clunky. I ended up using Krita (also FOSS) instead.

That’s why our instance has no downvote mechanism!

No, the Hastert Rule (which Johnson would absolutely invoke again) would mean we’d need a supermajority in order to force it to actually get voted on. A simple majority can’t force a floor vote.

The Speaker usually has de facto control over floor votes on pending legislation (via the United States House Committee on Rules). The Hastert rule says that the speaker will not allow a floor vote on any bill that does not have majority support within their party—even if the majority of the members of the House would vote to pass it.

The rule keeps the minority party from passing bills with the assistance of a minority of majority party members. In the House, 218 votes are needed to pass a bill; if 200 Democrats are the minority and 235 Republicans are the majority, the Hastert rule would not allow 200 Democrats and 100 Republicans together to pass a bill, because 100 Republican votes is short of a majority of the majority party, so the speaker would not allow a vote to take place.

It can be bypassed with a discharge petition but those are incredibly rare, and as we saw with the Epstein files, at the point that a party thinks they’re likely to lose to one they’ll figure out another route to forestall (like SCOTUS or having the FBI redact everything that hurts them).

We never started. Laws did, because the government ceased to be “by the people, for the people”. We have to fix that first.

From the blog post OP linked in a comment:

We made an unrelated change that caused a similar, longer availability incident two weeks ago on November 18, 2025. In both cases, a deployment to help mitigate a security issue for our customers propagated to our entire network and led to errors for nearly all of our customer base.

It seems that the method they have of specifically propagating new security configurations to their servers is not a gradual or group-based rollout, it pushes certain changes to all servers at once, so uncaught bugs end up hitting everything instead of just some initial test group.

In particular, the projects outlined below should help contain the impact of these kinds of changes:

Enhanced Rollouts & Versioning: Similar to how we slowly deploy software with strict health validation, data used for rapid threat response and general configuration needs to have the same safety and blast mitigation features. This includes health validation and quick rollback capabilities among other things.

“Fail-Open” Error Handling: As part of the resilience effort, we are replacing the incorrectly applied hard-fail logic across all critical Cloudflare data-plane components. If a configuration file is corrupt or out-of-range (e.g., exceeding feature caps), the system will log the error and default to a known-good state or pass traffic without scoring, rather than dropping requests. Some services will likely give the customer the option to fail open or closed in certain scenarios. This will include drift-prevention capabilities to ensure this is enforced continuously.

Valve has hundreds if not thousands of highly and expressly pornographic games on its platform, so I don’t think this can be chalked up to the Collective Shout folks’ spectre somehow looming over Valve. As another commenter pointed out, according to the devs’ own timeline, Valve’s rejection happened prior to the recent successful Collective Should payment-processor targeting.

I suspect that EGS and Humble probably halted sale at the last minute due to the added press naming them as distributors prior to launch, often in articles that included Valve’s response asserting that it contained questionable content related to minors, and them going, “hey what? Hold on a sec, we don’t know anything about that.”

If you were about to sell a bunch of cars, and a major dealership announced they wouldn’t sell them because their trunks were all full of cocaine, a couple days before launch, you’d probably delay your launch to double-check as well.

Unfortunately, the developers’ own initial press statements where they sort of feigned innocence ignorance (after they had already changed the scene presumed to be in question, meaning they at least had some idea that was likely the issue) probably didn’t help their credibility in other platforms’ eyes, as far as being business partners goes.

So large skyscrapers, large nuclear plants, datacenters, etc would be state owned. Actually more…. This would be hundreds of the largest companies. This means the state would commandeer a company when what, the market cap hit a billy? The nav? That actually seems kinda crazy to do

Not state-owned, just state-managed. We already generally subsidize power plants, but for other large projects it could provide both funding and oversight of the build.

When it comes to really large companies themselves, if there’s a cap then they would just stop being such large companies, not be taken over.

But if you wanted to make a process for a company to grow beyond the $1B cap, my personal preference would be a system where depending on the level of impact to peoples’ lives, either something like monthly auditing of financials and business plans, or for companies operating in areas with a higher potential for harms, something closer to a Fannie Mae-style conservatorship, that would directly advise the company on minimizing risks (and potentially actually prohibit actions outright if they clearly were harmful). Ownership, stocks, profit, etc, would all still be private. We actually already embed IRS auditors in companies if they’re caught doing tax evasion, and I think of this more as a logical extension of that. We’ve tried voluntary compliance with laws and regulations, and too many of the very large companies are happy to flout them, and use their wealth to help them do so.

You quoted the wrong part, then. The company cap that Phoenixz proposed was $1 billion, not $10-20 million. Companies can easily build larger-scale projects with a billion, and projects that are going to run over that should probably be weighed against public interest and publicly-funded and managed, if they’re beneficial.

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Privately owned power plants aren’t built and owned by individuals with their personal wealth. Ditto for 99% of large buildings. And we can do without the personal skyscrapers, yes.

Corporate wealth needs its own set of guardrails and limits.

Guarantee that their lawyers told them they were a huge, illegal, indefensible liability, and it was better to axe them than potentially pay the per-work copyright violation penalties.

Ten years was the total time for everything under the “larger overhaul”. The frontend website portion is not broken down.