Sure thing, your nurse ain't gonna clean your mom, in the restaurant the chef ain't gonna prepare a dish he doesn't like, your accountant ain't gonna file your taxes if you've given him data he doesn't like, etc.
Your paid to do a job, you're either professional or you aren't.
So you don't do your job and submit a PR you didn't even read, and I'm supposed to waste my time that I have to the explain at my next performance review? I didn't sign up to read slop, thanks! If my boss wants me to spend 10x time time on this kind of shit, he has to pick something else that I no longer have to do. My time is not elastic. It can't expand to fit your slop.
Microsoft is the one the TFA refers to cryptically when it says "the Faster CPython team lost its main sponsor in 2025".
AFAIK it was not driven by anything on the tech side. It was simply unlucky timing, the project getting in the middle of Microsoft's heavy handed push to cut everything. So much so that the people who were hired by MS to work on this found out they were laid off in a middle of a conference where they were giving talks on it.
It does indeed work pretty well today, but they have already developed ways to circumvent it. For example, serving ads from the same domain as the main page.
AFAIK, YouTube has been doing that for years and uBlock has consistently adapted. It's also easier for Google to do that since it owns the ad network and doesn't need to verify ad prints are legitimate and not inflated by the third party that displays them.
The point is that you still need uBlock, this can't be done via DNS filtering. I expect this kind of stuff to become more common in the future if adblocker usage grows. It might be CDNs doing that, too.
The rioting in Washington a while back had little to do with people not being able to make ends meet. Many civil wars (including the US Civil War) came about for other reasons.
US Civil War was a civil war in name only. For all practical purposes, it was an interstate conflict.
And yes, riots can be caused by other things too - e.g. religious riots. But whatever it is, people have to care a lot about it, enough so to be willing to put their own life and limb on the line. This is not one of those cases.
They are also not averse to using legal means to block them. For example, back when Microsoft shipped Windows Phone, Google refused to make an official YouTube client for it, so Microsoft hacked together its own. Google forced them to remove it from the store: https://www.windowscentral.com/google-microsoft-remove-youtu...
That's why we need to spread the word and get more people using adblockers. It's not even a hard sell - the difference is so striking, once it has been seen, it sells itself, even for the most casual users.
Some European countries were trying to reduce their dependency on proprietary American software for decades now, with varying success. The recent events have likely accelerated this trajectory, but it is not new.
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