The rise of Kalshi and Polymarket is another very depressing trend. Betting on if or when a nuclear bomb will be dropped in Iran is so fucking dystopian.
Insurance company used the phrase "forced violent entry" in their rejection message to the cyclist and the The Standard spun a totally misleading headline around it. Impressive.
I started out on MX Linux as my intro to linux back in early 2024 and it was partly because of their SystemD stand, and partly because the distro shipped with a lot of nice custom GUI tools for noobs like myself.It's also a quite lightweight distro if you choose SysVinit + Fluxbox. I'm just a bit sad they no longer offer a 32-bit version.The only reason I switched away was because the Debian base felt quite stale, that is, for what I wanted to play around with. Still kept it around for a year.
“So my suggestion for those in the US, and other countries, is to lobby your government representatives, federal, state, or whatever your country has, and not your linux distro.”
Good idea! And here I was just about to send death threats to Dylan Taylor.
AV1 has recently gotten involved in a lawsuit by Dolby saying that they're breaking like
54 of their patent, so there's some issues there as well: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/av1s-open-royalty-free-promise-in-question-as-dolby-sues-snapchat-over-codec/