Speech is already not entirely free and it works fine. You can’t scream “murder all the X” in a theatre. It doesn’t break the concept of freedom to have regulations, and assuming nothing can be regulated just leads to governance by corporation.

> You can’t scream “murder all the X” in a theatre

You actually can.

Without consequences? Where?

[Edit:] Oh you’re quite right. In the USA that’s legal sometimes. Where I live that would be seen - reasonably enough to us - as a call to violence.

The people rely on them too much, sadly

This may sound weird, but: Alternatives will appear, just like how Chinese people have been able to live their lives without access to Google, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp etc. The alternatives may not be good -- I'd argue the Chinese version of Google (Baidu) is quite a lot worse in many ways -- but they work and are good enough for most people.

That's not weird at all. This is the very schumpeterian premise this forum is built on.

I think you’re not aware how deeply engrained WhatsApp and instagram are in Brasil.

I think dependence is definitely a problem because everyone would get mad at you for having to switch. Sure in the long run it wouldn’t be an issue but immediately you will lose some voters

When WhatsApp was banned for a day, people immediately migrated to Telegram. This is not an excuse.

Didn't Brazil massively adopt Bsky as an alternative to X? And in a very short timespan too? Did they turn around on that?

Maybe, I don’t use either - but WhatsApp is a different use case too

I didn't know some of these details and it's quite impressive what they were capable of, if this website's accurate, at least...

It's reported here https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openai-hugging... so presumably accurate, and they have raw data viewable

Or, it's impressive that, amongst the millions of hacks it has copied from various chat sites, were some that worked in this case.

The scale of these things is impressive, but the mechanism is not much better than brute force.

The original author and also creator of the RAR format, Eugene Roshal, is Russian. I think he moved to the US way back in the day, but not sure about that. He has been very private with his life.

The company doing the software distribution, is located in Berlin. The Managing Directors for that company seem to have Turkish names, but I don't know if they're Turkish.

BTW, Looking for some info I just found a website [0], clearly AI generated (but not necessarily meaning the content is false) claiming Eugene Roshal had severe kidney failure this past month, and he's waiting for surgery. They're asking for donations. There are some names on who's theoretically behind it [1] but they don't link to any LinkedIn profile or personal site. I can't find any other references. The BTC wallet they're using for donations hasn't seen any traffic ever. BE WARY, SMELLS FISHY.

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  0: https://eugeneroshal.org/
  1: https://eugeneroshal.org/about/

WHOIS information for the domain shows it's registered in the Philippines. The name of the owner does not show up in any of the about section people. So I think those are fake.

In addition to what the other comments said ("WHOIS information for the domain shows it's registered in the Philippines"[0] etc), the "hospital bed" picture is blatantly AI-generated. If you zoom on his face, you can see that it looks extremely unnatural.

I suspect that someone's running a script that looks for public (-ish, Eugene has a Wikipedia page at least) figures without active social media presence and creates fake donation websites with AI-generated texts and pictures.

If my suspicion is correct, this is one of the most evil scams I can imagine.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801838

A donation site that takes only bitcoin as payment is very suspicious, surely there are alot of services like GoFundMe who would accept him if it was genuine. I think this is a fake scam

edit: can you write in brackets after the URL that it may be scam. I think alot of people may just go to the URL without reading your warning

Only 200s if a query parameter value is the solution to a question encoded on the rest of the route, and has to be a question listed in the index, and can respond with 200 only one time per correct answer.

A lot of these projects and commits would benefit a ton from proper decentralisation. What functionality of GitHub are you *actually* using?

Self-improvement, for one.

Improvement in what way?

In much the same way as exercising any other muscle, by increasing the strength and flexibility and utility of your moral fibers.

It's so that they can sell more things to enterprise customers

Is the policy now to "harvest whatever we can ASAP" without any regard or consideration for the future or the environment?

> s the policy now to "harvest whatever we can ASAP" without any regard

Given the degree of corruption and criminality, a more appropriate metaphor might be "smash and grab".

Or, you know, the future bottom line. I wonder how much these people understand that if you kill everyone or put them under serious resource strain because of environmental collapse, there's no one left to pay anything to you. How hard is that to understand? Don't pull the trigger, because yes, right now you don't have a bullet in your foot, but in a few milliseconds...

Most of those people are old and don't care about the future. Not their problem.

Once you are a trillionaire or getting there, personal safety can be bought even without receiving future payments.

Nah, this gets you the "How do I keep my bodyguards loyal?" problem.

Of course they're typically not smart enough to have realised that first, but "I was too stupid to understand that I've doomed myself" doesn't mean you haven't doomed yourself.