the progress is slow tho

Just about what we should expect from the same FSF that has been developing GNU Hurd for more than 30 years now?

From a summary:

Drinking damages the liver and may make the body more vulnerable to infectious diseases, including sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis.

Or from the review itself:

Infectious disease

The causal impact of alcohol on the four broad categories of infectious disease from the last Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health [1] has been confirmed in recent reviews [15, 16]. The main biological mechanism involves alcohol-induced liver dysfunction, which disrupts both non-specific innate and adaptive immune responses through acute and chronic alcohol consumption [80-84]. Lowered immune responses increase susceptibility to communicable diseases. More specific biological pathways are described in the references listed in Table 1.

paywall

Probably doesn’t help in this case, but check out Bypass Paywalls Clean :)

a robust free office suite

The few times I tried using LibreOffice, it’s anything but robust. Very bad UX, and even worse, it frequently crashes and fails to recover, resulting in data loss. And I’ve only been using Linux for more than 10 years now.

social faux pas

It’s not that. It’s just a basic lack of reading comprehension on your part.

Although it is true that they now fully use HTTPS, the claim about signature verification is untrue; they only perform a CRC-32 check on the downloaded executable, which is not cryptographically secure.

This is the wording from the blog post. Tom’s Hardware just rephrased it very poorly. (see e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1ixgas1/articles_from_tomshardwarecom_should_be_banned/)

In the first quarter of 2026 its operating profit rose to 57trn won ($38bn), more than eight times as much as a year before.

I suppose, “write so many words and yet say so little”? Or less awkwardly, “say so little with so many words”.

They are not democratic socialist. They even got kicked out resigned from Socialist International.

The PAP was officially committed to democratic socialism from its inception in 1954 until its resignation from the Socialist International in 1976.

In 1976, the PAP formally resigned from the Socialist International (SI) after the Dutch Labour Party had initially proposed to expel the PAP for the Singapore government’s internment of political prisoners without trial, and accused it of human rights violations.[116][117]

That’s good. Seems like they’ve added it just this year:

2026-02-17

Added Your Data Protection Rights covering GDPR, CCPA, and state privacy law data subject rights.

Just enforce an exit tax, to be honest.

Like any other product, the owners are guaranteed to make decisions that are not aligned with a fraction of their prospective customers needs/views.

And the part where the CEO and the company pretends that data protection / privacy laws don’t apply to them? Can you overlook that?

This Kagi?

Between the absolute blase attitude towards privacy, the 100% dedication to AI being the future of search, and the completely misguided use of the company’s limited funds, I honestly can’t see Kagi as something I could ever recommend to people.

https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

It seems like it might be a myth? Tried Googling but couldn’t find anything much…

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1jq17bg/was_canada_known_for_war_crimes_in_wwii/

As they should be.

Drunk driving (or drink-driving in British English)

Yours is an incorrect correction.

And he has resigned…

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-anti-corruption-officers-search-office-zelenskiys-chief-staff-officials-2025-11-28/

One example is it reviews code a lot better than human beings. It’s not just finding obvious errors but it catches logical error that no human would have caught.

No, it does not.

Source: Open-source contributor who’s constantly annoyed by the useless CodeRabbit AI that some open source projects have chosen to use.

Two bad things can be true at the same time. 😆

Several big polluters from the global north invited fossil fuel representatives to join their official delegations including France, which brought 22 industry delegates including the CEO of TotalEnergies, and Norway, whose group included six senior executives from its national oil and gas giant Equinor.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-cop30

I mean, also, yes?