typo, means "including".

correct. even a broken clock is right once a day!

the list of instances of us violations of international law and sovereignty, civil and human rights, coups, wars and straight out war crimes not including genocide on foreign countries is simply way too large for me to compile here, by comparision that of china would be anecdotal, and that would likely apply to most if not all arbitrary periods of time for the entire existence of the us, including the present moment.

and if you still feel somehow special i have news for you: after they're done with every "alien" those thugs with bandanas will be looking for you.

this already exists and it's called sop (same origin policy) which is enabled by default but can be explicitly bypassed by enabling cors (cross origin resource sharing) and very often is because, you know, strict sop is simply too strict for many needs. you're not proposing a change in javascript, you are asking for the entire www to be redesigned.

there are already ways to do what the author seems to want, but they're specific. i've not dwelved into the details (actually didn't rtfa (yet)) but i'll be skeptical and suspicious of any initiative that demands full universal control in the name of integrity (and the kids!), that screams secureboot and tpm all over. careful what you wish for.

wrong tree.

we still have plenty of opportunity for the web to be a document platform. nothing stops you from just publishing plain html documents, and even better than before because html has evolved a bit to allow for extra semantics and accessibility. there's people actually doing this, but they're the exception. why? because the vast (vast!) majority wants interaction on the web, and doesn't care. so your real issue is with people and the world, not with flash or javascript.

flash never was a monopoly, not even close, just one of several tools to do interaction beyond what html forms and hyperlinks allowed, competing for a good while with java applets, activex, flex, and the very quirky and chaotic early dom+javascript, plus other initiatives that never really took off, like e.g. microsoft silverlight. it was a long struggle but javascript just evolved and outcompeted them all, and for solid reasons. and yes, dom+js+css is a frankenstein contraption, it has problems, but it's the best alternative there is, by far, for people to do what they wanted to do. in a way, it is true that javascript was a liberation and a huge improvement, but you don't get to choose what people does with that freedom.

chrome isn't a monopoly either. google contributed decisively (before becoming evil), but even more so did mozilla (before becoming a grotesque caricature of itself), the ecmascript standards commitee and the developer community at large. others, like apple or microsoft, actively worked against trying to impose their own monopolies, but failed. chrome is not a monopoly either, it's just the most sucessful implementation, again for solid reasons, but that will only hold as long as they keep up, don't screw it up, and nothing better comes along.

neither have i, most popular people is irrelevant to me too, but the point was popularity. those popularity numbers illustrate that linux is indeed becoming pretty mainstream, getting attention even among people who would follow a top influencer, as opposed to a nerd thing as gp claimed.

yes and no. it's a slashvertisment like most of what editordavid posts. the author is a lawyer by training who has made her whole career working in high managerial positions at microsoft, now in something called the "customer trust counsel". meaning, she has actually no real clue about cybersecurity except having looked at tons of powerpoints in her life, just repeats what she's told in pr format, and her main purpose is to signal to microsoft customers how much microsoft cares, how hard they're working and how good they're at it whithout providing a single reference or fact. ofc she would cite the usual boogeymen, north korea, china, russia and iran, as usual without a shred of evidence, and no other, like nobody else hacks in this world. that's the scaremonging part, the old trope that deeply resonates with the western imaginarium of the "good guys surrounded by bad state actor forces of evil" narrative, repeated ad-nauseam, but it's just there reinforce actual the message which is: "orcs outside, microsoft good, trust us, keep paying".

i just checked and pewdiepie has 110m followers. his arch linux video has 6.9m views and 28k comments and is his most viewed video of all 2025 (couldn't be bothered to check further) by some margin (only matched by the one where he announces that he's done with youtube (but somehow kept uploading videos)).

either the klingon neckbeard population has exploded or you're not keeping up, anycase it's an obvious sign that linux has become usable by complete idiots of any sort.

no question that it is an improvement. but that's not all, i'm totally baffled by cnn's "animated photo"! this is surreal! video is dead!

your statement prompted me to look at graphene more closely, in particular at your claims of misinformation spread and attacking other open source projects. i've found that those claims are not really substantiated. they're based on other online claims that have all been debunked, a judicial process against the lead author that was turned down in court and then withdrawn and some aspects of his personality and communication style that seem to me greatly exaggerated besides irrelevant. so unless you could provide new facts i would conclude that it's you who are spreading misinformation, and very ironically this could actually be interpreted as an attack on an open source project. this might be unintentional in which case i would suggest a bit of research and fact checking before making such bold claims.

to recap, i'm considering a replacement for my pixel, an otherwise excellent piece of hardware, not because i want to become a drug dealer (my dealings with that are pretty modest and i don't need a phone for them), but mainly because i'm getting sick both with google's increasing shenanigans and the eu's concerning totalitarian drift. since this is a medium term project i was looking at the potential of linux phones, but i find now that graphene is a quite promising alternative, at least as a transition, so thanks for the hint.

i appreciate that you put me in this distinguished company, but i've largely desisted from trying to argue about this here. practically the only insight i got from it is how close-minded, gullible and hateful the loudest part of the audience here is. that's good to know but really needs no further assessment at this point, and the process is quite time-consuming, futile and depressing. i'd rather sit back and watch it foam at the mouth with every new clickbait-du-jour, which is also futile and depressing, but much less time-consuming and has at least some dark comedy value. enjoy your "victory" and receive sincere greetings from you very underpaid russian propagandist. good luck to everyone and thanks for your attention to this matter.

likely not. incresing awareness and valuing one's mental health is, as is the spectrum of circunstances now considered mental health conditions. people have become more sensible to that and during good times have had more ability to choose and demand. if your problems don't "have a name" and your survival depends on your job and you are unsure you can get another one soon enough, you will just soldier on and put up with whatever comes.

this has been a long term tendency but there are hiccups, and we are in one: unemployment is on the rise, so employers can be more demanding. return to office surely has had some effect. layoffs due to restructuring, ai, etc. then again the datapoint for people saying "their employer isn't focused on supporting employee mental health" going from 73% to 93% in a single year seems way too much, to me it suggests a measurement error, these being polls to begin with. but the medium term trend of decreasing insatisfaction with work and the current spike seem plausible.

indeed, realized that after posting. still, that's all the data there is, and the source doesn't seem credible in the first place.

i was curious too as to how this was even calculated or, better said, projected. fiscal reports would be the obvious approach, but fiscal residence can be a pretty fluid thing for them, plus they don't necessary reside where their money is. is there a millionaries' census? do they notify when they leave, and say where to? do millionaries get polled? what is a representative sample of millionaries and why wouldn't they blatantly lie i as i do on every poll?

it was really just 4 clicks and seconds of reading. i even did it twice because i couldn't believe it was that daft. welcome to the slopocene! X'D

wish granted, source from tfa: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.henleyglobal.com%2Fp...

note that there's not even a mention of method or real data source, and the reference is circular: "henley&partners" cites "new world whealth" and "new world whealth" cites "henley&partners". it's just comical, and likely all just made up.

indeed, but not all countries are on equal footing and there's where the difference comes in:

let's take the us. the us has enjoyed a long period of dominant position (for several reasons), and on trade agreements with less developed countries have used that as leverage for profit. part of the eu, specially the uk and north europe, much of the same but lately to lesser extent. this is mostly the case when what the partners have to offer is basically natural resources. if you only maximize your current profits, you make sure that your investment in those countries imposes strict conditions, ensures a steady resource flow for years to come, and doesn't benefit the other part too much, so that you keep the leverage, ideally forever. this is in essence a modern version of the colonial model. it is not really based on mutual benefit, and is not really fair trade.

china otoh is just entering a period of dominant position, and has been expanding its influence all over the planet for a while, very much so in developing countries, eg. africa. they ofc seek profit too, and are also primarily after natural resources, but they offer better deals and and give them agency, allowing their investment to actually improve those countries' development. it's a longer term strategy that forfeits a little of the immediate profit in favor of being fairer, fostering good relations and general exchange, and the expectation of the country becoming a more solid partner in the future that has much more to offer than mere resources, for one becoming a profitable market of chinese products, but not only. this is based on mutual benefit, and the whole brics initiative operates on this premise.

one could argue that china's different approach is a factor of their status as an emergent power. maybe as they become more and more dominant this will change. maybe it's just their philosophy and their vision of a future multipolar world. i guess we'll find out.