This Is The Way.

Wots the scoop, Chef?

Hey thanks, I will give that a look :)

Actually, so would I for almost everything - except journalism. Why? because wikipedia was never intended to be used that way. Reading news there is like searching for a palimpsest on a roll of recycled toilet paper. Sure, it could be there, but why would you ever think to look there for it?

Wikipedia has a big part to play, but this kind of thing just brings the information war right up onto the pages of what is arguably the best reference we have.

Curation suggests that we should protect it from becoming involved in an ideological tug of war lest it be damaged in the process.

WAIT I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO EXPRESS AN ACTUAL OPINION

Which is actually how ‘Linux’, in the common useage, is used.

Idk, but all the cool kids that started doing it are old

Really though, if you want to mark a proper line between them, Linux is the kernel+a certain few libraries, and nothing more.

At one time, almost everything else was GNU. A lot of code has been written since then by folks who neither recognize nor see a need for the distinction.

All that’s left at this point is politics.

My suggestion is 1. Stop being so fruitlessly pedantic and 2. Don’t worry about it. The statute of limitations has run out ;)

The solution is real simple, don’t turn to wikipedia on matters that are politically charged. Get your news from a news outlet, instead of expecting that a crowdsourced online encyclopaedia might be up on current events.

I came here to say 'Fuck Russia’s Govt"

and that I feel bad for the Russian people.

It suggests to me, given certain other things I’ve been hearing, that perhaps there is not a unified resolve among the various heads of the armed forces to conduct this…‘exercise’, that perhaps the head of the Russian Air Force is not entirely on board, as it were.

Up next: Russian invasion of Ukraine generates an infinitude of unlikely and improbable side effects.

Ukraine is not the largest supplier of wheat in the world. They don’t call the US Midwest ‘the bread basket of the world’ for nothing.

American gasoline does not come from the Ukraine; nor does it come from Russia. While the conflict would have a predictable impact on world gasoline supply overall, ours doesn’t come from there. A reasonable expectation would have gasoline prices moving up in response; gasoline sellers would have gasoline prices move up dramatically for any reason, and THAT is why gas prices are dramatically higher.

Finally, if the US isn’t operating it’s own fabs (and we demonstrably aren’t) then supplies of palladium and neon should have no immediate impact on the US chip supply. Long term, perhaps; but the invasion is barely days old, no?

We rapidly approach a time where there are no countries among oligarchs. What will they do for fun when counting money becomes boring?