NIH-funded work is not the same thing as work done by NIH employees.

This isn't an insult contest.

Llama has license restrictions that make it not-open-source.

Due process is important, no matter how unpopular it is.

Security should not be an excuse for vendor to control things customers should be able to turn off. It's a problem when Apple does it too; you shouldn't assume everyone criticising MS on this is applying a double standard.

There are some people who benefit from a secure bootchain, but deciding for their sake that everyone must have it to run the OS is not an appropriate response.

Stamping ownership over a process and letting a person or other entity charge others for use of that, particularly given that when an idea has all its prerequisites in place independent discovery is almost inevitable - look at how often the sciences see independently dupliicated discoveries - means that patents are more letting any jerk put up a toll gate anywhere they please in the space of ideas.

If you have a site as big as Github, you could have a team of top-notch people looking over usage patterns and still you probably wouldn't spot all the usage patterns.

If Linux usage on Steam is significantly SteamDeck, then the increasing age of the Steam Deck hardware is probably a good part of this. Unlike with traditional portable gaming consoles, people think of it as being more like a PC, and are less enthused to buy/use it when it starts to get creaky.

I would've bought a version 2 of mine ages ago if they would've sold one (a real version 2, not just the variant with the nicer screen).

It'd be good if some adult in the legislature would block this. It's a waste of time and money to recognise a state cryptid, and most recognitions of official this or that are also a waste.

I have UHC as my insurer. I don't like them. But they're not murderers. Words have meanings.

I think you may be confused about what the word murder means, as well as unaware of how medical coverage works.

Nobody from UHC went out and killed people.
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Any insurance system, even single-payer, will make decisions on what kinds of coverage can be provided. They cannot give a blanket yes to every request, even for life-giving care. They publish policies and follow the law and contracts or they can be vulnerable to lawsuits. They never promise to cover everything.

Even if they're often huge jerks and deny claims or make certain kinds of medicine hard to practice sustainably (which they do), none of that amounts to murder. And even in theory the "cover everything" can't work - if some unlucky person has an illness that requires treatment costing $1 million a year, there's no way it's reasonable to cover it; that's far in excess per year of what people generally make over their entire lives. It is necessary to be comfortable with the idea of not everything being coverable, and for companies not to be morally or otherwise liable for denial of coverage if that denial doesn't violate the contracts of service or any applicable laws.

The executive murdered nobody.

This is not a war. Stop with the dumb war metaphors.

Yes. You don't get to murder executives if you don't like what their company is doing.