Maintenance cost, security hardening, visibility, that’s a few reasons coming from the top of my head.

I believe the war industry will take it over for the next turn.

The article says images over Iran are still available without delay. It’s the regions around around that are affected. I assume it is to hide the effectiveness of Iran retaliation to Iran or to public opinion.

Nope

More specifically he underestimated the preparation of Ukrainian soldiers, notably the fact that NATO instructors came to share their training and tactics and help to prepare for the next war. He was well aware of it though, he used that as an argument that Ukraine was about to join NATO.

This is what-if thinking. Right now the Russian are clearly showing disinterest in negotiating the end of the war, they are fully prepared to sacrifice more lives in order to gain territories, there is no reason to think they weren’t already at the start.

AI is the new consulting firm.

Many websites now just block a large range of cloud and VPS services in order to reduce DDOS from AI crawlers. For youtube and reddit you can still access if you are logged in though.

GNU only stipulates that the code must be released. Whether it is as an inconvenient dump of a well structured code history is not specified.

Google has stopped releasing parts of android as open source and it releases some as a code dump without the modification history to make harder to use. Android forks are going to struggle to keep up.

Hydrogen is hard to contains long term, it leaks through most materials. I’m no expert on the matter but I suspect the gains in lift would be partly negated by the changes to the envelope of the container.

Look what Paris is currently up to — now that’s an un-peaceful protest.

It’s been overwhelmingly peaceful, especially when put in perspective to the size, typical media bait…

None of the researchers in my lab go to conferences in the US anymore (there is remote participation since covid).

They already suffered from his shitty actions, he did not become a terrible person overnight.

They are bad at writing software and firmware support is sketchy. That second point is technically the motherboard vendors fault but it could be due to confusing design and documentation on the AMD side. Hardware-wise they are great AFAIK.