All tech news reads like marketing.

Which is still good.

My roommate installed Ubuntu on my laptop when I was in college. That was the start. Now it looks like this: https://xkcd.com/456/

Nothing prevents anyone from forking it.

You have no idea how open source works.

Nothing prevents you or anyone else from forking Android. It is not owned by anyone.

Android is open source. Google does not own it.

I didn’t say toppling Android. Why on earth would that be a good thing? It’s breaking Google’s control over Android, which is great.

Huawei’s appstore took off in a lot countries. That happened only thanks to the US government.

it’s useful. I use it.

😡

Because websites are optimized for dummies who can’t copy paste.

Ironically, the US government probably managed to break Google’s monopoly on Android by trying to kill Huawei.

salmon does not get priced independently from all other foodstuffs

Two of the largest agricultural producers in the world are fighting. Food prices will rise.

the one in Ukraine

This is the cost of war.

check at ArcaneOverflow

https://hugelolcdn.com/i/878813.jpg

A lot of americans and some other westerners always assume that anyone who disagrees with them must be infected with Russian/Chinese/(insert bogeyman) propaganda.

Whereas the truth is that the Western civilization is on a murder spree and the rest of us who are not Westerners are disgusted by it.

How can we have a pleasant conversation about the murders the American soldiers are committing in the Middle East? How does one be pleasant about murder?