In step 2, why encrypt nonce + question? As user, I would like to see what I’m asking gov to sign for me.

And directly between those: “Term”–explanation (no space after “–”)

Why even bother explaining those terms if you only have that much screen space.

Maybe it doesn’t matter to him, but is there a legal basis that could be used to ban any protest in this case?

YouTube’s Deliberate Indifference Exposes Anyone to disgusting Content

FTFY

Did they think he would just stop after they “hired” him?

Same as with any recent election in Europe. Germany in February, Romania earlier this month and now Poland.

What does it do?

The fallout forced CEO Martin Winterkorn to resign, although he denied wrongdoing. U.S. authorities issued an arrest warrant for Winterkorn in 2018, but Germany does not extradite its nationals. His trial in Germany was paused in 2021 due to health issues, but he remains a key figure under investigation.

read it there

A plane that looks a bit like a car.

“Emailing large numbers of employees about any topic not related to work is not appropriate. We have an established forum for employees who have opted in to political issues,” says Microsoft spokesperson Frank Shaw in a statement to The Verge. “Over the past couple of days, a number of politically focused emails have been sent to tens of thousands of employees across the company and we have taken measures to try and reduce those emails to those that have not opted in.”

Work email is a tool provided by the company to be used for work topics. Some employees are apparently using this tool to send unrelated emails to people who didn’t sign up for it, but still have to deal with it somehow because they are probably required to check their email.

The company trying to reduce this seems reasonable to me, I’m surprised that so many people seem to take offense at it.

It doesn’t even need to be for free. Public institutions could still buy software under the condition that it is open sourced immediately, so they don’t become dependent on the vendor.

I think it’s an attempt to keep people on their platform who need easy access to a unix-like shell. Linux has it and so does mac os. Windows didn’t until they introduced wsl.

He doesn’t rename anything, he sets names for his followers to use

Apparently the purpose of the fork was to send copies of the messages somewhere else for archiving.

at least worrying about the economy would be an improvement to just worrying about their personal freedom

I wonder if he would have wanted to be at that meeting

It’s crazy that one manufacturer being below 50% market share is news.

Not necessarily malware, but clicking on any link in the email, including the unsubscribe button, will let them know there is someone reading, and even clicking on links in the mail that goes to this address.