Oh, not just Russians, anyone with “Russian blood”. This is probably the clearest case of racism I’ve seen on this site.

It’s Harris or Trump. If you’re spreading content designed to demotivate potential Harris voters days before the election, congratulations, you’re doing Trump’s bidding. I hope you’re at least getting paid.

I guess you’re right in that the headline is not Onion-worthy. But I find “it’s not cheating to cheat using a machine, let’s sue” a rather creative approach.

In 2010, Kraft bought Cadbury. Kraft then split up into Kraft (roughly: cheese for the US) and Mondelez (roughly: sweets for RoW), with Mondelez taking along with it Cadbury.

Or did they change that?

No

Sternly looking at you, Nextcloud Markdown Editor.

There are no FOSS payment methods. In fact, you’re probably lucky to find a payment processor that will handle FOSS stuff at all.

Thanks @ryandrake from HN:

Best I can interpret is it’s two separate products: One is a virtual person for “creators” to generate: it impersonates them, writes messages to fans on their behalf, and tricks their “audience” into believing it’s the real thing, and the second is a virtual friend that you can create and then have a parasocial relationship with.

Surprisingly apt.

What’s the QR code? Dominion?

A man of the people, chatting with one of the people.

Insane. So many web devs have used this CDN tooling in the past.

The article is not about that, the article is about essentially scam fundraisers, where 90% of the money goes to fundraisers and 10% covers administrative cost of the “charity”.

Real charities are usually transparent about the percentage of money they dedicate to the started cause. They dedicate somewhere between 75% and 90% of the money they raise to the purpose they serve.