There are perfectly fine email providers - free + donations, for-small-fee, at-the-ISP, etc.

Does anyone know...

* What happened to the creators?

* Who owns the copyrights, if at all?

* Has anyone been approached to release the source code and games resources?

Also, if anyone has an appropriate Linux emulator, which supports these games, please share a link and perhaps instructions.

> Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions

Who said they need to tweet 5 times a day on average? For important announcements, tweet. Make it, I don't know, a tweet every few days. Even with somewhat reduced exposure, it's still wide exposure; and if you count heads rather than impressions, it's even more significant to be on different platforms.

I have a(n unfounded) suspicion that this may be about the cultural signaling of staying or not staying on twitter.

1. That renewable energy development is supposed to allow a _reduction_ in fossil fuel consumption, not an increase in wattage used.

2. That investment should already be happening, not subject to some future plans of some holding company or billionaire investor. Keeping global warming at bay is no longer some kind of future concern; and we've begun to see some initial effects of it in recent years - drouts, fires, various kinds of biosphere degradation etc.

CMake is a combination of a warthog of a specification language, and mechanisms for handling a zillion idiosyncracies and corners cases of everything.

I doubt than < 10,000 lines of C code can cover much of that.

I am also doubtful that developers are able to express the exact relations and semantic nuances they want to, as opposed to some default that may make sense for many projects, but not all.

Still - if it helps people get started on simpler or more straightforward projects - that's neat :-)

So, it could be that:

* Iran is lying and that has not actually been an option.

* A lot of the ships which would otherwise have transitioned are involved with the war somehow.

* The relevant parties have decided not to coordinate transitions with Iran, for various reasons

* The data displayed at the link is partial for some reason.

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/musk-trump-feud-2024-electi...

and they're pretty bad news. But - Trump is not unique in being ridden by interested parties, and in particular, powerful donors or groups-of-donors. His predecessor, Biden, used to be known as "The Senator from MBNA" (That's the large credit card company based in Delaware), due to his devotion to their interests:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2008/08/senator-mbna-byron-yo...

and his winning presidential campaign had plenty of funding from Billionaires, although not in such individually high numbers; and from the financial sector more generally:

https://www.investopedia.com/top-donors-to-biden-2020-campai...

and we could go back and look at how Obama's cabinet was pretty much picked by Citigroup:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/10/15/wiki-o15.html

etc.

Also, looking at war crimes and crimes against humanity - the US has done worse than it's doing now, in the past, even if we count Gaza as the responsibility of the Biden and Trump presidencies. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, East Timor indirectly, all of its South America meddling... yes, there used to be more lip service to the avoidance of international crimes, to the avoidance of outright unprovoked aggression, to the UN, and Trump has stripped most of those remains away, I'll grant you - but he stripped was was rotten and fractured already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Armed_Forces_casualties...

Germany was also directly involved in the NATO campaign against (former) Yugoslavia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia

and finally, Germany hosts large contigents of US forces, including air forces likely involved in the current illegal war against Iran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramstein_Air_Base

In addition to the legal point regarding the constitution: A lot less people in those roles you listed, die. The compulsion is necessary for the state to get enough people to go die - or at least, seriously risk their lives - for it on the battlefield.

Here's a story from 2002 about how the supreme court there upheld the legality of a military draft:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-11-mn-37321...

anyway, if you refused to be drafted and did not want to go to jail, you had to more-or-less stop using any government services, rent with roommates, avoid using a credit card etc. until you've reached some age, and then you could emerge again because the duty to serve expires at that certain (not very high) age. It was cuh-razy.

G: They offered a very compelling benefits package gemma!

If you mean the _browser_, then I agree in principle, but - it is a browser offered to you by Alphabet. And they are known to mass surveillance and use of personal information for all sorts of purposes, including passing copies to the US intelligence agencies.

But of course, this is what's promoted and suggested to people and installed by default on their phones, so even if it's Google/Alphabet, they should be pressured/coerced into respecting your privacy.