Forgejo has a responsible disclosure policy, but this person seems like they just don't want to deal with that and instead opted for the nuclear option immediately.

Took me a sec but it's Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS.

Usually articles are located by where they are written, not necessarily by where the subject of the article is.

I work in the IT department for a fairly large payment service provider. I can tell you now that you seem to be vastly underestimating both the financial aspect of this as well as several legal aspects.

• Federation would almost certainly have to be opt-in rather than opt-out. I don't think you're going to pass KYC checks for any PSP if it's opt-out, the risk of someone (ever so briefly) selling illegal goods through your website is too great otherwise. Stripe would just shut down your account (if they even let you open it), PayPal probably won't let you open it at all.

• Selling goods from other sites through your own, makes you liable for any returns, warranty claims etc... Simply "passing these on" isn't going to cut it. If the other site disagrees with the customer claim, you are on the hook for it, because it was sold through your website.

• The financial logistics aspect here is really complex. If you're going to process payments on behalf of another site, you have to deal with reconciliation. After reconciliation you have to the send the money to the other shop, incurring additional (sometimes surprisingly sizeable) fees. And coming from someone who deals with (automated) reconciliation on a daily basis, every payment method does it differently and they all find extremely creative ways to mess up your systems. And that includes unannounced changes, mistakes, random unexplained fees, failure to deliver settlement files, etc...

• How do you deal with the risk of scam instances? E.g. instance A tells instance B that a product was sold and the payment was processed. B sends it out, but it turns out the customer was the owner of A, and there was no payment at all. B just lost a product with very little chance of getting it back.

• Then there's practical aspects. How do you deduplicate products in search? Or will you have dozens of listings for the exact same product?

The only remotely viable way I see this working is if only search is actually federated. Once you are on a product page, you can only pay using the payment page of the instance that has the product. You won't be able to pay for products of multiple instances at once, and you might lose some unified styling. But at least that approach has a chance of passing KYC and deals with all the legal issues regarding returns/warranties etc..., and it reduces the scam risk because you're in charge of your own payments. But at that point, you've only federated product search and nothing else, and then as a consumer you might as well just Google it instead.

I appreciate you have experience in running a business, but running a marketplace, especially a very complicated one, is really not like running a usual business.

Silly Americans, submarines are supposed to sink! This was clearly a successful test.

It'll definitely continue until the inauguration at least.

France has a slightly odd election system, where the vote for president is a free-for-all initially, and then the top two candidates face off.

He's currently the second largest party, so he's banking on being the contender against Le Pen for president, hoping that the left, center and moderate right help him win again (because Le Pen would be worse than he'd be).

It's not a terrible strategy, but it is a little risky.

Conservative undertones? I'm curious why you think that. Could you elaborate?

There's strong tones of anti-corporatism and a clear favour towards communal living. And the obvious "care-for-the-Earth" stuff. But I don't think those are necessarily conservative. I could see the argument for Christian undertones, but more in the traditional "love thy neighbour" and "custodianship" sense.

They're all gods among men.

It's about Hitler somehow travelling forwards in time and ending up in the present. It's a comedic social commentary. Think Borat but Hitler.

The EU is forcing them to do this as part of the GDPR. Google isn't allowed to store personal data for longer than is required, and an account that's been inactive for 2 years is very likely an account that will never be accessed again. Therefore, Google has no legitimate purpose to store that data, ergo they must delete it.

The PA has power in the west bank, but not in Gaza (where Hamas is in charge). They're not a very effective government, but they don't seem to have genocidal intent either.