A thousand or even a few hundred years ago most people travelled very little and often were born, lived and died in the same village. At that time the village was the natural unit of organisation. As communications improved, with horses, trains, planes, internet the unit of political organisation had to scale up to cities, regions, nations and now supra national organisations like the EU

The nation state is an outdated concept that has lived its time. In a world where those we need to talk to are the US, China, Russia even big EU countries like France and Germany are too small so we need to scale up.

It's so much easier to move aroud, both for short term travel and longer term too. The common currency (at least in most countries) really helps as do things like no roaming charges. If you decide you want to go and look for a job in another country you just do it, no visa hassle or asking permissions.

I was born in the UK and moved to France (long before Brexit thank goodness) it would have been much harder without the EU.

I certainly consider myself a EU citizen, more than British or French (I now have both nationalities).

Of course it's not perfect but getting rid of individual coutry vetoes would help with a lot of things in the wider geopolicital sphere - and has already been done in many domains)

Of course the important thing is to decide what should be handled at the city, region, nation and EU level. There's a tradeoff. Decisions made at lower levels are generally better for accountability and give better adaptability to local circumstances but on the other hand they often lose leverage.

A city wouldn't be able to talk as an equal to large companies like Apple and Google for example, even many countries can't. But the EU can. Replace Apple / Google by Russia / China / US and it's even worse.

For server side software where there is a sysadmin in charge of keeping it running I generally agree.

But for end user software (desktop, mobile, embedded) no one wil read the logs and there the logs can, and probably should, be aimed at the developers. Of course you can and should still provide usable and informative end user oriented error messages but they're not the same thing as logs

Even as a native English speaker I find this type of language hard to understand, fluffy and ambiguous. We would all benefit from using plain language not just non native English speakers

Sure corporations have to respect the LAW in their juradiction, even if said law is unpopular or unethical. But they don't have to, and shouldn't where ethics and human rights are involved, go beyond what is required by the law. Since Trump has come to power a lot of big organsations seem to be reversing their previous positions to gain political favour, which is wrong.

The solution is probably for them to appeal to the public. "We stand up to ICE abuse" would probably help them in the markets.

Something interesting happened recently in France where it turned out that the American subsiduary of CapGemini was selling serives to ICE. They were forced to sell that subsiduary after public outcry.

To steal is to deny the original owner access to their property. That is true for physical objects, if I steal your wallet or your car you no longer have it.

But if I illegally copy some of your IP you still have access to it. Sure you may experience some financial prejudice from that but you still have it.

Ultimately though it's probably the whole market theey are in (relatively cheap household goods) that is difficult for a company based in a rich country, whatever their ownership model.

The sooner the EU rids itself of the US the better

But previously the motivations were difficult to understand for many, either being about saving money on licenses with dubious returns once retraining was considered or about software freedom arguments that are difficult to explain to non geeks.

These days the US is increasingly seen as an untrustworthy partner / supplier in Europe and the digital digital sovereignty arguments are well understood, both by politicians and the general public.

INIT_LIST_HEAD is of form VERB_NOUN so is called from within a function to programatically initialise the list.

LIST_HEAD_INIT is NOUN_VERB and is used within a structure initialiser not from a function.

But my main point was to show the "embed the list in the data" approach rather than "embed the data in the list" or "point to the data from the list" and not to discuss the naming details in the kernel implementation of the concept.

An example of "normal" users that side load (through F-droid or direct APK) is most Ingress players. While Ingress itself is in the playstore most people use the "companion" intel app called IITC which isn't in the playstore as it's technically against the ToS.

So I wrote my on assembler in BASIC :)

Actually I wouldn't have an issue with that had she been convicted of, say, assault. In that case it would be reasonable for the electorate to decide if her being convicted of assault makes her illegible in their eyes.

But here she has been convicted of fraudulent use of EU money to fund here own party. That money could be used to buy her votes.

France, and most EU countries I think, have strict laws about funding of political parties and campaigns in order to have a level playing field and prevent rich candidates / parties having an undue advantage. If politicians could illegally fund their campaigns beyond what is authorized that could be used to unfairly influence the vote.

Because some types of illegal behaviour of candidates can influence the vote.

This isn't about a court banning MLP because of her views or policy proposals (that would be very bad) but because she has been show to have comitted fraud by abusing EU money to pay for her own party.

Unlike in the US there are strict rules in France about how much politicians can spend on campainging and where the funds can come from that are intended to ensure a level playing field rather than favouring rich candidates.

If courts couldn't ban candidates who don't respect the rules then elections could be "bought" illegaly.