Painfully expensive, like all computer hardware these days.

I think it’s just a quirk of their content management system. If you replace “entertainment” in the URL with “news” or “sports” the page still loads. Sometimes the middle bit of the URL is basically disregarded, or only used by the CMS for styling and menus.

Wilful ignorance was a key element in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theory of stupidity. It was the aggressive resistance to learning that he thought made the stupid person especially dangerous. And we see this characteristic in Trump, his sycophants like Hegseth, and his followers.

AKA “Microsoft’s QA”.

From that 2019 article:

Fox News host Pete Hegseth has said on air that he has not washed his hands for 10 years because “germs are not a real thing”.

Speaking on Fox and Friends, Hegseth said the infectious micro-organisms did not exist because they could not be seen with the naked eye.

This is a man who attended more than one very expensive university and didn’t learn a thing, then said this idiocy, immediately after which the world was hit by a pandemic, and again Hegseth didn’t learn a thing. The guy must be terminally stupid.

Anyway, if you ever have the misfortune to meet Pete Hegseth, don’t shake his shit-covered hand. Although he probably doesn’t believe in wiping his ass or showering either. After all, a dirty butthole isn’t real because you can’t see it without using one of these new-fangled “mirror” gadgets.

I would accidentally ride home on a bush.

Don’t start negotiating until you have a deal ready to go: that’s how you get the USA to bomb you.

The rich profited, ordinary people lost. Another successful day for the US Government.

The headline is a bit misleading when they’ve said they plan to relaunch it within a few weeks. For now, the site is still all Alex Jones.

What a coincidence that all the people getting fired are women.

It’s probably lobbying by corporations who feel threatened by people being able to make and repair their own stuff. Also possibly gun manufacturers, and perhaps the government’s desire to spy on everything people are doing with tech. These things are always dressed up as safety measures.

It’s just a bunch of other companies trying to lock you into their systems before they crank up the subscription price and enshittify. It buys a little time and saves some money in the short term, but only FOSS could address the deeper problems.

It’s almost enough to make Chuck Schumer mumble “Careful now!”

Is it that technology is evil though, or is it the people who own the technology, or the economic system in which this all takes place?

When has Trump ever realized he’s being played?

Rigging an election you also cancel seems like a bit of a waste of effort.

Just once I’d like to see the world’s companies react to dumb local laws by refusing to sell their products where the laws apply. Problem is, other states and countries always introduce matching stupid laws soon enough. California, for example, is introducing a similar restriction on 3D printers.

I don’t really understand why people with repositories that are vulnerable to DMCA takedowns persist in hosting them with Microsoft. But then I don’t really understand why so many open-source projects opt for Microsoft’s Git hosting anyway, when there are alternatives without the Microsoft.

“Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards” - the guy who then immediately closed the strait and is keeping it closed.

Inadvertent MAGA steampunk.