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  • “I don’t understand the added value here,” one official wrote on an internal staff message board, seen by POLITICO.

    Well, maybe they should try to understand?

    A third official said that, judging matters on how well Element Pro works compared to Teams, the U.S. would “instantly win the war” if it ever decided to switch off its technology. All the officials were granted anonymity to speak freely.

    Why do I feel like these quotes are entirely meaningless without knowing the political affiliation and declared interests of the people saying them?

    Like I would put a lot of money on a pro-capitalist right-winger having posted something like this verbatim before even reading the article.

    Microsoft alone has spent millions lobbying various EU politicians, I think it’s fair to assume those politicians aren’t going to bite the hand that feeds














  • Hmm assuming the disk isn’t super scratched up, I’m thinking you need to configure the region correctly.

    I think if it was a decryption error, you’d have something different to a read error on what looks like one of the first blocks.

    I remember there’s a cli utility for setting the region that you should be able to get from your package manager, I can’t remember the name off the top of my head

    Edit: reread your post, regionset rings a bell actually. If it’s not available in your package manager, perhaps try building it from source






  • GitHub has been around for nearly 2 decades and was largely considered a mostly good thing until maybe the past couple of years. Also important to add that Microsoft seems to mostly have left it alone for the first couple of years (possibly with the exception of Atom, which it left very alone)

    In addition to people just generally being slow to change, changing can take quite a bit of effort for some projects for varying reasons. Many of those same projects struggle to keep up with the maintenance workload, so they’re not going to jump at the chance to add more work to their plates.

    Finally, some people just don’t care. For instance, the MIT license being popular is pretty hard evidence that FOSS doesn’t necessarily mean anti-corporate, and for many users GitHub still more or less does what it says on the tin.

    Though I will say if the service disruptions and ad-injection bullshit continue you’ll only see GitHub competitors grow. GitLab seems to be going after their enterprise customers with some success.