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Same thing that happened to the Chinese creators on Youtube despite it being banned in China, I presume.

What’s the word for something in the middle? Tepid?

These are all strategies that have already been adopted in China, they will block it like everything else.

Why not use the English word for an entity that resides in the USA: American?

If it’s a small but loud group of unpleasant people on the internet, can’t we just do what we’ve always done and ignore them?

You should try your hand at writing short stories.

The picture says “No Smartphones Allowed.” Doesn’t seem entirely right…

I don’t know how I’m going to recover from this burn…

This article from the NY Times seems to be the source: https://archive.li/09NnN

The title makes it sound like Hamas is shooting Israel’s bombs back at Israel, but Hamas’ arsenal are primarily of Iranian origin. The article reports that they do scavenge explosives from unexploded ordinance, but not the amount. However, they do take large amounts of scrap like plumbing pipes from Israeli settlements, which are used to make bombs.

I’m not an explosives expert but I would hazard a guess that scavenging missiles and such that don’t go off is not going to be a viable source of material to make more missiles, factoring in the risk involved.

Sometimes it feels like most of my job nowadays is deleting code now.

Advertising DRM Software Patents

Is the tweet supposed to be funny? I can’t tell.

This has likely been done intentionally for humour’s sake, but take a look at some of the names in Apple’s AppKit framework, like https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nspreviewrepresentingactivityitem