International law is more like a code of conduct. Also as with most laws, if you’re powerful enough you can ignore the law.

International customary law applies even if you’re not a treaty member.

That’s not true. Customary international law also applies to states, that are not themselves members of a treaty. In the case of international maritime war and international humanitarian laws this is widely accepted as such.

Have you read your link?

Geographically, the Strait of Hormuz is clearly what’s called a transit passage** strait**: it connects two open seas, has no alternative route, and is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Under transit passage rules, other countries have an almost unrestricted right to sail and fly through. Iran can barely interfere at all.

It’s considered international by international maritime law. Free passage, freedom of navigation is essential to trade and commerce.

Iran‘s attack on international shipping is a breach of international law and an act of war.

A blockade can be legal under international law, but it’s always an act of war. Demanding a toll to pass means it’s not a legal blockade.

Bulk deletion of your posts might remove useful information from the internet.

Well, maybe it’s now all saved to ChatGPT‘s faulty memory.

People criticize Trump, ICE, Israel on Reddit all day every day. There are many subreddits dedicated to these topics.

Mods on Lemmy are at least as ban happy than those on Reddit. Appeals? They don’t exist at all. At least you can easily make a new account on different instance on Lemmy. Reddit has strong enforcement of also banning all accounts they can link to yours with cookie and IP.

Lemmy admins are likely to comply with local law enforcement as well, if they have to. So far it’s just untested because of irrelevance.

OpenSuSE is German, so unlikely. They will go for some French distro like Mandriva.

Free labor is a luxury for the affluent.

Without capitalism, I wouldn’t even have a carpet or toaster.

My fully automated base will keep exploiting the natural resources.

Dungeon Keeper 2 was just great.

The American use of political terms like liberal and socialist are warped from their original meanings.

Both can mean supporting healthcare for everyone for example. Even though that’s neither a policy following from the theory of liberalism, nor is socialized healthcare dependent on following socialism.

The same is true for progressivism and leftists. All of these terms are often used interchangeably to the previous two.

There’s a deep lack of nuance and specificity.

Actual Marxist leftists and democratic liberals are ideologically opposed to another in many ways. In the US they might agree on better healthcare for everyone and waving rainbow flags. Liberals should be for free markets, (regulated) capitalism, freedoms, etc. A leftist should be opposed to all of these. Freedom to a Marxist means something else than to a liberal.

Nowadays a lot of political discourse across the spectrum is deeply rooted in identity, creating division, virtue signaling, moralist preaching, etc.

Discussion on specific politics and details is often cut short by the above campism and clinging to identities.

This applies to the right and the left equally.

Not if age verification is done by a digital signature from the smart card in your government issued ID.

LibreOffice doesn’t run on mobile.

Hopefully

Im happy with EnPass.

Mobsters will always try to gain and then enforce a monopoly with violence. They don’t want any competition. Mobsters want to control the price in high margin business.

Depending on how they operate, they will also scam people, sell low value real estate at high prices, etc. Being organized means they are much harder to catch.

There‘s existing infrastructure, that runs on hardware from the 1980s. Especially in industrial applications there are still plenty of gigantic machines controlled by a 386 or a C-64.

The used vintage market can keep these running for a long time. Eventually you replace them with an emulator or an FPGA that runs the same software.

Big banking, insurance, airlines, shipping, governments, militaries bought huge IBM mainframes from the 1960s onwards. They ran for decades. Many of these were transformed into virtual machines, still running their ancient FORTRAN code.

There’s also the story of (IIRC Minutemen) nuclear missiles needing 5.25 floppies to program their guidance systems. These were still operational in the early 2000s. Lots of military weapons systems run on ancient hardware.