He might be making decisions on behalf of Russia (no comment), but a LOT of rich and powerful Americans and politicians supported him and what he said he was going to do (which is exactly what he did do).

The USA absolutely dropped the ball.

As someone posted above, someone obtaining access to your encrypted data might lead to an issue in the future:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_now,_decrypt_later

smartphone app

It’s a PWA, just install the site on your phone as a native app. I’ve been using it for about a year.

Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?

Not according to that thread - it looks like they don’t yet know what caused it:

https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114178916120483761

No any details from GitHub yet. One contributor mentioned a temporary visit to disputed areas a long time ago — GitHub probably just flagged the account, and their bots messed up after that.

I’m just glad a world leader is finally coming right out and saying it.

We will need to dramatically reduce our reliance on the United States. We will need to pivot our trade relationships elsewhere. And we will need to do things previously thought impossible at speeds we haven’t seen in generations.

This is some concrete and serious talk.

Maybe I’m a philistine, but I love this:

Spanish moss whispers—
Snow blankets Bourbon Street’s glow,
A rare Southern sigh.

I had to look up what Spanish Moss is, but that made the imagery even more vivid.