Alex

I have a sneaking suspicion a lot of the posts there are just engagement bait anyway.

Especially useful on my TV’s anemic Sony browser when I’m trying to diagnose of my network is crapping out or the apps are just in a go slow.

This horse with her fole I saw while walking the dogs yesterday.

The western nations had a similar problem with debathification in Iraq. When a system invades and takes over a state how do you keep things running while ripping it’s influence out?

There’s a scene at the end of Band of Brothers where the guy from Easy company is taking to a German who’s recollecting the countries he’s visited while at war. It’s a reminder that not everyone in Germany was a Nazi but it was hard to sit it out in a nation committed to Total War. It might be easy to say you’d never sign up to the party but if the choice was between staying in the civil service or being shipped off into the meat grinder? Where else could you go?

We never really have the luxury of tearing down whole societies and rebuilding from scratch in a more prefect form. Generally the countries that have gone through such radical changes have paid for it with a lot of suffering.

I expect because it wasn’t a user - just a random passer by throwing stones on their own personal crusade. The project only has two major contributors who are now being harassed in the issues for the choices they make about how to run their project.

Someone might fork it and continue with pure artisanal human crafted code but such forks tend to die off in the long run.