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A blank cheque on corpo infrastructure just means that billionaires win and everyone else loses. At that point, just paint "Peasant Slave" on your forehead if you don't have a multi-million lobbying group at the state and federal level.

"All your base are belong to us" => Billionaires of USA

When that happens rename the nation to Corporate States of America as well.

Thankfully, the webpages I make are so god-awful that no one can accuse of me of using an LLM. I use bog-standard browser controls for forms - they look fugly but its so rare to see raw/naked form controls nowadays that they look snowflake special.

The best way to sort this out is to have truly random election winners and heads of organizations and bids for govt contracts. And yes, you must have enough numbers in the input for random selection.

If a Pvt corporation fails to deliver a bid or lies in customer features, then CEO is caned (Singapore style) and taken out of the next pool for random selection.

If a politician fails to deliver an election promise in his term, then politician is caned and taken out of the next pool for random selection. Randomly selected judges decide the severity of crime and magnitude of punishment.

I agree with you. There are 2 dozen foot-guns to be kept in mind. And discovered a new footgun regarding multi-byte strings and NUL handling today on HN. SQLite became popular because it was the only free and open-source choice 2 decades ago. Now there are other type-safe and robust choices.

The GPL mandates that if you modify and distribute GPL licensed software, your derivative work must also be free and open-source. This ensures code cannot be made proprietary.

Other than that, there is no expectation of political stance.

Only in the current ultra-modern age, has politically neutral devolved to meaning that you must agree with me on 99.99%.

U.S. is actively considering restricting highly advanced "open-weights" models due to cybersecurity and national security concern.

Chinese models will be enlisted in NATS - the National Terrorism Advisory System.

Can't have the fat, rich big boys who give the campaign contributions fail.

As a non-American, USAID was an agency heavily used by American 3-letter agencies to influence domestic matters of other nations. They should have probably been been gentler in sifting through the programs and shutting down intel operations, but they just took a big hammer to the whole agency.

Regarding puzzling design choices, I am wondering at the preponderance of data attributes like

   <e-toast
    data-type="success"
    data-position="top-right"
    data-hide-after-n-seconds="5"
    data-close-icon="/images/close.svg"></e-toast>

For custom web components, maybe the author forgot that you don't need to prefix attributes with data ?

If Russia had been the one to launch over ten thousand satellites in mega-constellations occupying LEO space, there would have already been a dozen senate hearings all talking about extraordinary and imminent threat to US national security and urgent need to eliminate the problem.

SQLite has a LOT of footguns that one only discovers over time. Dynamically typed by default, Off-by-Default foreign keys, ID re-use in AUTOINCREMENT, WAL Mode needing explicit enabling to ensure readers are not blocked, double-quote/single-quote issues, positional placeholders & named parameters issues, no TIMESTAMP type in 2026 despite being a CORE feature in SQL-92 standard, etc.