I agree in general, but let's not pretend they have 0 support from Palestinians, or that there are no Palestinians active in Hamas. Israel sees them as one and the same as evidenced by their indiscriminate bombings. Just as Hamas sees all Israelis as violent settlers and directly responsible for massacres like Deir Yassin and the Nakba in general. Neither which is true, of course. All military, paramilitary and terrorist organizations work hard to dehumanize and generalize their opposition to ruthless brutes when that in reality is only a small part of the actual people involved and impacted by the conflict. For every ruthless murderer killed on either side hundreds or thousands of innocent die.

I meant war and conflict in general as what choice do they have. Didn't you read all of the first post? Killing civilians is always inexcusable.

Oh my god, thank you! This changes everything for me and my planning. I was just starting to look into authentication and properly securing my stuff and was feeling overwhelmed. This adds the features I need without locking me in unlike pretty much all the other alternatives I've looked at. No need to refactor my setup much at all, and if I want more granular control of an aspect I can, seemingly, easily decouple that part. Just fantastic. I wouldn't even call this a all-in-one solution, since it can build on top, it doesn't need to be all.

The same as Hamas, not kill civilians indiscriminately. But both sides are horrible and I'm not the least bit interested in a breakdown of who's the worst. They both suck, and have for more than half a century.

That's why I say this is a shit storm loooong in the making.

I agree

It's the Palestinians in Gaza paying the price regardless. Right or wrong they haven't ousted Hamas and thus, right or wrong, Israel sees them as one and the same as proven by their indiscriminate bombings.

I didn't state Hamas represents all Palestinians.

Likewise I didn't state Hamas is oppressed, a terror organization can't by definition be "oppressed" in the sense that we should pity them.

What I did state was that driving someone into a corner like Israel has been doing with Palestinians for decades leads to attacks. And it's not like 100% of Hamas members are non-Palestinians.

What choice did they realistically have? Be strangled out slowly by Israel while watching settlers pushing borders slowly but surely? No one has given a shit about Palestine since before ISIS / Syria, by my recollection.

That said it's also, of course, completely inexcusable to kill and take hostage civilians no matter the underlying justifications they might have.

This is just a shit storm about 80 years in the making. And there just isn't a solution in sight.

I think Nitro could "save" them from IPO because they have actual cash flow. Before they started monetizing I was absolutely just counting down the time before they'd need to do an IPO. They have the game store and other sources as well. Though I have no insight into if they're profitable or not.

Correct, Open Source wins by establishing the value of community collaboration. If you use something mission critical, like monitoring, container orchestration, billing, case management etc and you've spent time training and learning the system then it follows that you want that system to get continuous updates and improvements, you want that system to succeed and have longevity. For closed source this is gauged by how their financials look and how many customers they have. But in the end its a risk, a guess, because if they go tits up then you SOL and need to change the system right quick due to a multitude of factors, not least security. For Open Source it's different. You can much more directly contribute, both by paying optional fees and by supplying developers. And in the case the company fails then the code is still there and you can simply fork it and maintain it yourself. If the community is large you can even still collaborate and what was lost was the central steering and support which of course bring value but aren't critical to a mature system.

The Open Source model makes a lot of sense even in our capitalistic world, so much so that I firmly believe it will kill all other business models in the software sphere in the coming 50 years (stuff like this is a very slow process). Multiple government agencies here in Sweden now have stated open source policies in place because for them procuring an open source system is just the correct risk management approach. And I working with large enterprises see it creeping in slowly, and the younger people at our customers start to get it, it's starting to "click".

I might not be in the majority but I rather liked Andromeda (though I steered well clear of it at release due to how insanely janky it was as stated in reviews). I also absolutely HATE loose ends so tying that up feels like the right decision. Anything else would feel like a cop out, a pussy move. There is potential to tell a fascinating story here so I hope they really did their homework on the writing.

Though it is a challenge to weave so many writers different styles and takes on the universe into a cohesive whole. I don't envy the people taking on the task but I truly hope they succeed, because I need Mass Effect in my life!

While saying, "stupid assholes there are no proper races of humans just color variations".

• The punishment for murder should never be murder
• The person shooting the unarmed civilian
• If the 16 year old is engaged in the fighting and is a soldier then he's no longer a civilian and thus fair game. The people putting rifles in the hands of kids and telling them to fight are to blame.
• Someone using a kid as a literal meat shield in an actual firefight is an insane hypothetical. But shooting the kid to kill the commander can't ever be considered the moral/just/right answer.

You're just apologizing for war. Why? What's so good/important about war that you need to defend it? Why is it insane to expect nations to not kill civilians?