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They can just ship it under a shell company
I haven't seen A/I commit any terrorism. Which train station did they blow up?
If the purpose of law isn't to hurt bad guys without hurting good guys, then what is it?
Gold is a fiat currency because it has no inherent value.
The difference is that the Canadian truckers were doing bad things and A/I were doing good things, obviously, just in case anyone is confused here.
A/I chose to avoid cryptocurrency on ideological grounds and did not accept cryptocurrency donations.
Not only this, the US maintains a credible standing commitment to invade any country that arrests one of its operatives for human rights violations.
Re:Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @12:39PM (#49538858)
They were - in the past. I imagine that right now, Discord is their Discord.
They can just do it.

They already have agreements for it anyway.

Re:Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:46AM (#49533575)
Bad news - Google doesn't need an account to track your app downloadsm

Perhaps you'd be more interested in creating a website that downloads all the apps from the play store using burner accounts and makes them easily anonymously accessible.

Apps can only exit the store after users do.
Re:Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @12:59PM (#49524689)
You could suck it up and do the phone number verification, it usually costs around $5 for a phone number.

Or you could go through the android phone sign-up process which doesn't require one. Buy a cheap android phone and keep resetting it and making a new account each time.

Or you could buy an account on the grey web from someone who already did this. Should be under $2.

If you are really into this you could become a phone company and own a whole block of phone numbers.

Re:Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @12:57PM (#49524669)
Market price for a Google account is about $1.50, you can also buy a burner SIM to set up the maximum number of accounts Google will let you with the same phone number.
Re:Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @12:55PM (#49524639)
But not for everyone for free. What it means is Epic, or anyone like Epic, will be able to write to Google, send a nominal amount of money, and get some API key and bare documentation which is only allowed to be used in Epic. It's a B2B commercial transaction under court-ordered terms, not an open API. Same as the Apple browser API. If you want, you can register a company "Kotakat App Store Inc" and get access to the same terms but you'll probably need to sue Google to make them give you access. Apple hasn't approved any browsers, either.
Re:I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul on Saturday August 29, 2026 @08:15PM (#49494479)
Every anarchistic community ends up with rules to ensure things run smoothly. I think anarchism should be viewed as the movement towards less rules, not a movement that allows absolutely no rules. Allocating office desks so that everyone knows where their desk is is just common sense - if you're concerned about people envying the best desks, randomise it every week. You have to mark out roads if you want there to be roads.

Law enforcement was probably there because law enforcement said they'd ban the whole event if law enforcement wasn't there. That's how they typically work.

Re:Bye, Bye GitHub on Saturday August 29, 2026 @08:11PM (#49494465)
Or moving to Azure, a known garbage platform, which happened at exactly the same time the problems began.
Re:Bye, Bye GitHub on Saturday August 29, 2026 @08:10PM (#49494458)
Is your a majority of your project LLM code?
Re:Bye, Bye GitHub on Saturday August 29, 2026 @08:09PM (#49494455)
Or if they have to do them by email or instant messenger. What's wrong with joining a Matrix channel to send a drive-by bug report?
Re:Bye, Bye GitHub on Saturday August 29, 2026 @08:08PM (#49494446)
GitHub encourages this by using an arcane pipeline configuration format that could have been a shell script and has no way to run it outside GitHub.
Re:Bye, Bye GitHub on Saturday August 29, 2026 @08:07PM (#49494433)
Microsoft owns 27% of OpenAI.
Re:Bye, Bye GitHub on Saturday August 29, 2026 @08:04PM (#49494414)
What kind of collaboration were you getting on your random GitHub uploads? I didn't get any. This collaboration thing seems like an excuse if people have a way to contact you.

Codeberg only banned projects that are majority LLM-coded. They did not ban all use of LLMs.