there are a number of countries that are neutral and unlikely to sanction anyone else, though one might argue about their democratic credentials, with a minor or major stretch. brazil, mexico, chile, colombia, costa rica, uruguay (just to name a few in latin america), andorra, malta, san marino, india, south africa…

the point that really got me was “I’m Finnish. Did you think I’d be supporting Russian aggression?”.

in the end, it’s nato-stan all day long. tired of this.

my boy/girl.

then don’t go to war with china. people talk like the chinese would go attacking for no reason.

ogg vorbis, already mentioned above.

Freedom to protest*

*Conditions apply.

i’m all for it. let’s build concentration camps in the astral plane and lead these untergeister to their second deaths!

undead undead undead

now go check out who’s got the best rail services around the world. with the possible exception of japan, who’s still got some measure of trouble with some of their private operators, nearly all of the rail operators who are consistently good are state owned.

average global-northern leftist elected politician, unfortunately.

that sounds too adventurous. most of the time it’s just red dwarf.

someone bring the hero of socialist labour insignia to this working class champion.

shout shout let it all out

the first contact i had with linux back in mid-90’s brazil was with my isp’s login terminal, which displayed some arcane text reading “red hat linux version x.x”. after that, during my father’s final years working in bank of brazil he had to deal with cobra’s homemade distro in his workstations (cobra had developed an unix in the 80s that run on m68k’s, so no surprises here). it was an absolutely esoteric system to those who only knew the dos/windows 3.11 duo, since w95 only arrived in our country in numbers only in 96. the thing really caught on during the early to mid-2000’s, with faster and cheaper adsl connections, and with them, abundant knowledge and downloads available to any script kid.

good riddance, black banana asylum. you won’t be missed.

and he will ride eternal, shiny and chrome.

My biggest concern over .NET is exactly how closed Microsoft-land can be. For what I’ve seen so far, with the notable exception of perhaps Unity, pretty much everything else gravitates around MS and there’s no way of leaving it.

Thanks. For the record, the Brazilian government, where I work also loved Java.

tbh i have no problem with curly brackets either. even though my first language was freebasic (!), i have worked more with curly bracket languages and actually find them quite useful, if not powerful.

funny thing is that the project page of hvm actually recommends bend.

Bend is the human-readable language and should be used both by end users and by languages aiming to target the HVM. (https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/HVM?tab=readme-ov-file#language)