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I guess more accurately, Chagos as a culture is founded by slaves who worked the island and were freed. It was originally part of the Seychelles and then transferred to be considered part of Mauritius, and then sold to the British, and then leased to the Americans, but the Chagossian people have never really considered themselves part of Mauritius. Certainly more part of Mauritius than Britain, but still distinct as a culture, people, and language.

For the record, even the Guardians coverage of this is terrible.

1. They are handing control of Chagos over to Mauritius, not back to being an independent Chagossian ~~state~~ culture as it operated before. (Though arguing that it was technically part of Mauritius and illegally separated is the legal justification for returning it, so this was unavoidable given the path taken).

2. They did not consult widely with Chagossians, just the Mauritian government.

3. Part of 'handing over', includes a mandatory 99 year lease for the main island of Diego Garcia to the US for their military base.

It's better than the UK controlling all of the Chagossian islands but it's a far cry from justice.

What the honest fuck are you talking about?

No actually, in this case Meta just built a phone into a glasses form factor. The entire problem lies with that much data about individuals being allowed to be amassed (apparently even in publicly accessible databases).

You can literally do exactly this with your iPhone and a lanyard right now.

Yeah, cause trivial systems are a lot easier to parse and review. At a base level that's nonsense logic.

No he didn't. He literally pauses the show to see if everything's ok. He's an artist on stage with a million stage lights in his face and none of his crew or managers, or back stage people, or security, telling him that anything is happening.

Reddit just decided that it was the scary black rapper's fault rather than LIVE NATION, the literal largest concert organizers in the world who were contractually and legally responsible for organizing the venue, security, crowd management, the emergency response plan, etc.

And guess what the court cases have shown? That Live Nation had exactly zero crowd management plan and didn't stop the show when they should have.

You are literally just falling for the exact same pro business, blame someone other than the organizers, attitude that OP is posting about.

They're dying from the heat and pressure of everyone around them, and from not being able to leave to cool down or get water or more space.

Xbox does not have full screen ads.

There was a previous article on this with more explanation that I'm struggling to find.

The gist was that they do hash all passwords stored, the problem was that there was a mistake made with the internal tool they use to do that hashing which led to the passwords inadvertently going into some log system.

Chrome and all the various Chromium spinoffs got popular partially through anti-competitive tying, but not entirely. Safari, IE, and Edge were also anti-competitively tied and yet they did not see meteoric rises in the same way.

The reality is that a large part of the reason that Chrome got popular is because they wrote the best JavaScript engine, by orders of magnitude, right at the time that web apps were taking off. Google wrote a better JavaScript engine because they were a web app company, but it benefited every single page that used any Javascript.

While Firefox devs were still debating whether or not a web page should just be a static document, the web browser became the most successful ever cross platform development framework in history, vastly out stripping the likes of Java and Q++, and yet, it's 10 years later and Firefox still does not have proper PWA support.

Why just tech companies? Why not every industry that relies on open source software?

Quite frankly I do not see the point of crafting legislation this tailored, just fund it from general government resources and then generally tax the rich more.

How many FOSS projects actually benefit "millions and billions of people"? That kind of impact feels like it's few and far between.

Linux or any of the different projects and components that support it and it's development, including all the dev tooling like git, languages, etc. etc. Basically any work on Firefox and web browsers, any work on Wikipedia or it's supporting infrastructure, work on stuff like Lemmy and the fediverse likely will in the long run, torrents and the like, open source game engines, IDEs, Blender, Home Assistant etc. etc. etc.

There are a lot of open source projects that have a lot of rippling ramifications, and there is inherent benefit in having more open source software developed independently. If Firefox was a better funded and more competent alternative to Chrome we wouldn't even have this whole Manifest v3 mess since Chrome would just lose all their users.