People have reported regressions with post-3.4.1 versions of rsync. If it’s a coincidence, then it’s one hell of one.

Strong fences make good neighbours

That doesn’t bode well for the future of the FIFA Peace Prize as an institution

Has this been audited? It’s easy to claim that something is secure, but there have been products that made such claims and were trivially exploitable.

Why, does Switzerland still have a patent on LSD?

Rather embarrassing for Israel to fumble something so basic

The Kims had entertained ambitions to conquer South Korea, capture its industrial base and add its surviving population to the labour camp work force. Perhaps the pace of progress in Ukraine has caused them to reevaluate the feasibility of this.

They’re a south-pointing compass (if they assert something, you know it’s wrong)

Looks like someone got ChatGPT to summarise some Wikipedia pages and pad the result out

Vibe coding, the crystal meth of software

Indeed, it is said that John Mastodon himself is German

the meme of the goose chasing the boy. Caption: “freedom to say what, motherfucker?”

You’ve got a bit of Edward Gorey in your Gary Larson

They just rename the Communist Party to the Trumpist Party, use their totalitarian system (now reinforced by Palantir technology) to guarantee cheap labour to US firms that kiss the ring, and cede some prime Havana real estate to the House of Trump-Kushner, as “compensation” for property seized in 1957. In return, the newly liberated Cubans get Netflix and Chick-Fil-A.

One could say the same about Singapore, yet it seems to be here to stay.

The US SUV-style aggressive-looking headlight ports are a nice touch.

In the UK, Scots is close enough to English to be almost comprehensible to an otherwise unprepared British English speaker. (Case in point: Trainspotting.)

The gold will be donated to the Russian war effort

In German, they use the adjective “abgefuckt” in similar cases; that’s an English swearword with some German prefixes underlining the complete and destructive nature of the state of affairs.

It’s the same in Icelandic, only spelled “kex”. There’s even a hotel in a former biscuit factory with that name.