killing the fox with your hounds is illegal in the UK from around 2005, as well it should be. I expect this law is broken as much as any other. I also assume that getting protected status is their starting point in attempting to get that law removed from the books.

The war in Ukraine changed very little, the same engineers who were already working out of Belarus on British, and likely other national software projects just moved to places like Poland and continued as if nothing ever happened.

1998 - was working for a company using RedHat as a dev environment for AIX mini computer based software.

Started to dual boot my own pc of the time with Win95/8 and RedHat, then Mandrake Linux. Since then I’ve dual booted every PC I’ve owned with various distros.

Same thing everyone else thinks. What a bunch of dipshits. Same reason your elected politicians are doing it. Either they think it’s for the greater good or they’re corrupt.

Mowing the lawn

Yeah, I have significant lurker tendencies. It will take me a while to break out of the habit I think