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UK announces sanctions on West Bank settlements prompting furious Israeli response This has taken far too long to happen, but frankly has not gone far enough... it should be a full trade embargo.

"Why should software paid for by taxpayers stay locked behind proprietary licences?"

Frank Herbert couldn't have been any more prescient...

The first version of Linux I ran at home (23+ yrs ago) was Gentoo with KDE (where a typical upgrade involved a nail-biting setup and overnight build where you kicked off the compile and hoped like hell you hadn't messed up something when you restarted the…

stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360984340/i-could-die-here-kiwi-activist-alleges-violent-abuse-israeli-forces "A spokesperson for the Israeli prison service said the allegations were 'false and entirely without factual basis'."

https://keepandroidopen.org/ I've already installed f-droid, and interestingly there's a Notes app there which is closer to what I wanted than the free ones in the Play store...

So if AI can regurgitate works in their almost unmodified form, I wonder how long till a new business model emerges... where a company dual-licensing their code under (for example) GPL and a commercial license, can then charge an exorbitant amount of money

"This would be the first time a barrister has ever faced contempt of court for the contents of their closing speech.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-sri-lanka-submarine-warship-b2933385.html?