Probably for additional exposure to the public and to monetize via paid DLC as a ‘supporter tier’ style offering (with limited or no added features).

Grayjay is donationware - “FOSS”, but with a strong encouragement to donate if you use it regularly and have the means to support.

I put FOSS in quotes because Grayjay is not really OSS. It has a custom license that does not allow commercial reuse of its code.

This has caused significant discussion of concerns and ire from some.

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/grayjay-frontend/14616

https://github.com/futo-org/grayjay-android/issues/18

https://hiphish.github.io/blog/2023/10/18/grayjay-is-not-open-source/

P. S. Grayjay is great software, I use it a lot and have reported several bugs which the dev team have been super responsive to and resolved all. I have supported them with a donation purely on the aforementioned, but their license is a bummer. I’d like to see other projects be able to reuse their code widely as true OSS. I also personally have concerns with the example screenshots they show on site having a bunch of RW content creators / grifters, and their support of the Rumble service as an official plugin, but I understand they are free-speech aligned and trying to be apolitical in their approach. I personally think they could do that without giving RW figures free advertising in their screenshots, and allowing a third-party to create the Rumble plugin rather than dedicating dev work to support it officially, but it’s just a red flag to me more than a dealbreaker.

Didn’t you hear?

Late night variety/talk shows: journalism, they must abide by FCC ‘equal time’ rules

Fox News: purely entertainment, no FCC rules apply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You’ll_own_nothing_and_be_happy

That song is based on a real lady, and she didn’t just sell sea shells - they were fossils that were hundreds of millions of years old.

She and her family made a living off it, and she’s now known worldwide for the incredibly rare fossils she carefully extracted and sold to museums.

Not the worst idea, all told.

Did this all last term to no consequences

Put out racist/inflammatory/severe mental error/obvious lie comments, then his team would go into damage control and claim it was a technical error / intern / junior staff, then someone would ask him about the mistake/lie and and his ego would cause him to pipe up that he did it on purpose and it was a good statement, throwing his own team under the bus as liars again, and again.

His cult member voters don’t care, its the post-truth era.

This would be absolutely cringe if a high school kid was doing it as a petty insult to their rivals… But it’s the president of the USA.

I know its a melting pot of factors that has caused it, but it still blows my mind that “normal” for the USA has fallen so fucking far, so fast since Trump came on the scene. 10 years ago a fucking tan suit was ‘weird’ for a president…

Get ready for mid-life joint pain and RSI if you spend that much time doing just one thing in one posture.

Wish it wasn’t how things go but it do be.

Its likely this is designed with a plan to push advertising or self-promotion.

Eg: step one is done - figure out how to both find threads early & get your content picked up as a good answer regularly and consistently. Step 2 - start inserting ‘first hand’ recommendations or even just mentions of products and services.

I’ve already seen webpages with the most esoteric or niche product/service recommendations (like some random Indian consultancy with 2 people listed in it, and no other significant web footprint) pop up in first page web results. Its another AI deathblow to the utility of search engines.

The Trump companies have been sued and lost dozens of times - and as figurehead and CEO of most of them I presume civil damages cases could wipe out a lot of the Trump family fortune. But, Trump has been working with the mob since the 80s and had Roy Cohn (mob laywer) as his personal laywer back then and for many years, so being career criminals (essentially a mob family), I’d not be surprised if most of the money and assets are carefully squirreled away in offshore accounts and trusts and whatnot.

Also given that the US is doing everything it can to pull apart legislative protections against the billionaires class, it would probably all be a major uphill battle without a sweeping change of government and an expansion of the supreme court.

Me, who didn’t even recognise the icon on the left:

Why is this blue clock guy so mean?

The same Melius Finance that gave Tesla stock its highest rating of “must own” due to Elon lying again that Full Self Drive is being deployed imminently to Teslas via their in-house “AI chips” eta Dec 2025?

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/tesla-stock-must-own-melius-220721932.html

Tesla stock is currently at $416 after a high of $474 in November, around when this call was made.

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It doesn’t just cover service members, they would classify as appointed officials.

“a bill to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States government”

Edit: Jeez, just read it, it’s not even long. They would absolutely fall under it.

The act gives the president power to use “all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court”.

I think they’re referring to the name of the company being very similar to “immutable”, no?

If they sent them to the Hague, then Trump would just send the US military to the Hague to rescue them by “all means necessary” and it would all be entirely legal, frankly because the USA is a country run predominantly by criminals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Protection_Act (aka Hague Invasion Act)

Or maybe this MicroAggressions Killer product is completely harmless to her in this fictional comic.

Oh, they’re not but I guess you’d have to ask him for the answer. Those videos are both still up if you want to watch a long stream of misogyny and logical fallacies dressed up as an ‘owning’.

The “Why ‘Feminism’ is poisoning atheism”, “Feminism Vs FACTS” chud?

I’m surprised he still has an audience tbh. Well, sadly not that surprised.

Does this not fly in the face of the First Amendment - why are conservatives not mad about this as well?

Those shot seem to have been protesting peacefully with no weapons or military protective gear on public lands, and then ICE walked into them and pulled a protester away, intentionally escalating conflict, then firing into a protesters face at about 2ft away.

Insane that there is still no general strike over ICE (and more).

Tbh I don’t think Microsoft’s fault-rate has actually gotten noticeably higher post-AI.

They were already putting out bad patches causing widespread issues with regularity for well over a decade. They slowly transitioned from “customer experience is key” under Ballmer to “move fast and break things” under Nadella.

I do love what Microsoft has been doing for Linux adoption though - more slop, please!

The pre-smartphone years. Where we could just be bored, and let our boredom drive creative thought