2025 is off to a good start.

You then just have to figure out how to stop, preferably without killing any life that may have already evolved there.

just 40 light-years from Earth

The word “just” is doing a lot of work here.

If you’re looking for an actual self interest element, they may be planning to start a new company selling a related product, and doing this creates some amount of goodwill.

They aren’t state owned, they’re the largest private company in China (by number of employees), and have had plenty of issues with the authorities there.

This could also spark the creation of an alternative hub to wordpress.org, one that would be truly operated in the interest of the [open source] community.

I really hope so.

The current one bans most plugin forks, it’s a bit of farce to prop up freemium plugins.

IIRC they were designed for kids with autism.

Is there a better alternative though?

I was pretty disappointed at the options for a FOSS CMS when I last looked a year or so ago. Ghost looked good but is held back by the lack of a genuine plugin system.

It isn’t

Is federation still whitelist based?

You can get the seller to declare it as a gift and put a low value on it.

There’s also reshipping services that let you do that, or at least there used to be, it’s been a few years since I used one.

The whole thing has implanted into the mind of any wordpress user paying attention they should start thinking about alternatives.

A complicating factor here is that the Sandy Hook families (who as far as I know are the large majority of the creditors) also supported the sale.

I assume there are other creditors who didn’t?

Should’ve gone ethanol, then he could power it with holy spirit.

> search engine gives generative AI answer

> It cites it source, so can’t be that bad right?

> click link to source

> It’s an AI generated article

Oh no.

the US will just buy through a trading proxy at a higher cost.

That’s basically how the ban on imports of Russian oil is working…

How “decentralized” is it really if they can “crack down” like this?

I did it over 15 years ago, but for health information before the FDA nuked that. (Although you can still run the raw data through a third party program)

I’m pretty sure I already uploaded myself to at least one open source database, so I don’t see any reason to worry that much.