“You’re going to get harassed for writing this,” Donaldson warned me. “No one understands my side of the story.” He told me that he can’t disclose the additional facts that he claims would guarantee his “100 percent win.” “My lawyers are very mad that I’m talking to you,” Donaldson said. “I have to hold my cards close to my chest.”

Donaldson has a point, for me it's hard to have much sympathy for someone who tells ‘I was just doing business, morale be damned’, even if I now understand his part of the story (as told by him himself, which is not necessarily same as truly)

I happened to hear about that instrument from a video from FOSDEM'26: https://youtu.be/9qEtm2zx314

It gives more context, but it really should've been a text article, imo. It talks about history of copyright, and why its application now is kinda broken, at least that was my takeaway.

Not exactly on topic, but depending on the phone hardware, GameNative may allow to run PC games. I think, it's worth mentioning because hardware becomes more performant, and emulation support improves over time, and I didn't expect to be able to play something from Steam on my phone, and yet recently I started doing just that (in my case it's Slay the Princess, the game is great, but doesn't fit the bill of what you're looking for)

Having integers with amount of bits indivisible by 2, let alone 8, is a nice feature to have in a language, I deed

Afaik, it eventually got there before the USSR ended, so hemp fields were restricted areas, and its use was in decline starting at some point. Not sure if I can find sources for that

The llama resembles some very specific cartoon character (originally human), but I can't remember who that could be. It's pretty, nevertheless

Not in the same way, but Slipknot — Vermilion, pt 2

It used to be my goto recommendation when asked for some new music, in expectation that the one asking will be surprised when checking out the rest of their music.

But as for me, I liked the rest of the songs, too, but didn't listen to the new albums for about 10 years now

Yeah, I mean, I hated commuting when it was 1 hour one way, I can't imagine how I would have hated 3 or more hours

There are sometimes Russian news of courts confiscating everything from yet another awful corrupt person, that somehow infiltrated crystal clear ranks of government.

To me it always feels like Putin scrambling for spare change in the pocket: when budget is thinning just pop another corrupt official from the ones you left on the top shelf in case of a black day

Besides, as much as I wish for the numbers to be big, most likely there were less than 1M leaving the country for good.

6 bucks for a bathroom is rip off! The bear must've been hunting for a week just for one visit

Stolen from the comments on ytmnd linked here, the original poster appears to be John Silveira: https://www.backwoodshome.com/the-time-travel-ad/