Postgres is basically an open source version of Oracle DB. Much more featureful than MySQL. I believe Oracle bought MySQL just to kill it.

Same I've switched from VSCodium back to AstroNVIM recently.

I'm curious how the model of just selling your application that's GPL'd usually works out. I don't see it done often. The only one that comes to mind is OSMAnd. There's also other interesting models for funding public goods like threshold pledge systems, assurance contracts, ransom model, wall street performer protocol, etc.

I pray Tailwind dies. React too. And JavaScript/TypeScript while we're at it.

Mozilla changed their privacy policy and terms of use about a year ago in ways that show they cannot be trusted. I think Librewolf offers more privacy/security features than Firefox can with plugins (disabling some canvas features that are used for fingerprinting for example). I think Firefox has some advertising/tracking crap enabled by default too (PPA API?). IDK, I just don't trust them anymore with their policy changes. Mullvad Browser is even more "hardened," but less convenient than Librewolf.

I don't know much about radios, so I may be wrong, but I think I've heard that having a transmitter close to a receiver can "desensitize" the receiver. Since both are TX/RX, I think this could cause problems. With Lora being digital and intermittent, IDK though.

China is now the world leader in science by most metrics (largest proportion of the top 1% most cited papers, most publications to prestigious journals, etc). It makes sense, with their high population and their government willing to fund research. I'm guessing their culture is much less anti-intellectual than the West too, especially the US.

Nvidia

It's possible to probabilistically determine when an SSH connection is being used like a VPN, then block that traffic. If they go full Great Firewall.

The ultra-wealthy are shooting for stuff like The Network State and corporation-governed city-states.

I think the wealthy will get US/corporate-friendly far-right governments in place in many of these countries before countries are able to isolate the US without collapsing their own economy. Seems to be the way things are going at least (far-right politics gaining support nearly everywhere).

At the moment, it looks less like a regime change, and more like puppetting the same regime. It looks like the Maduro opposition in Venezuela doesn't have support of the generals, so we're just bribing/coercing the rest of the Maduro regime.