The Bruderhof movement also comes from a Hutterist heritage and has several communities in the US and the world, including a historically significant community in Asunción, Paraguay (Villa Primavera)
Religious freedom is one of the claims to fame that my country has.
One of the oldest ideas in Western statecraft is that you can't have a country with religious diversity. So when a town became protestant all the catholics had to leave and vice versa.
But in the Netherlands the leaders devised a sort of "diversity is strength" policy tolerating all kinds of weirdos as long as they paid taxes and didn't disturb the peace. This is how Jews ended up in Amsterdam.
However the real crazies who did not want to function in society ended up in America.
I think a factor in Optane's demise was dishonesty on the part of low-end laptop manufacturers.
You were a poor student looking for an entry-level cheap laptop and saw a lot of models with 4GB [RAM] "memory" and suddenly there was this one model with "20 GB memory" for the same price. Seemed attractive to the regular guy, but this in fact was 4GB RAM + 16 GB Optane non-volatile storage (and maybe a paltry 32 GB SSD for the rest). Optane would be treated as a drive for storing the Windows OS.
That conflation of Optane storage as "memory", hinting that this was equal to RAM, turned many people against it once they fell victims to that bait-and-switch.
I never bought one because I only saw Optane in these low spec configurations. I didn't see any use for a tiny SSD. I only learned more about it after it was discontinued.
I'm firmly in favor of copyleft. But I get what chardet's maintainer has done: reimplement a piece of software.
This has been done a lot of times. Musl reimplementing glibc, llvm reimplementing gcc, etc., all of them with non-copyleft licenses.
However, the purported reimplementations did not usurp the names of the reimplemented product. Reimplement chardet using AI and insisting in calling the product the same as old chardet with a new version number and a new license is, I think, not exactly honest. At least he should have used something like "chardet-ng", "chardet-fresh", or whatever, and a completely different source tree.
Not GP, but for me two of the most exciting things are the UTF-8 ready engines such as LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX, on one hand; and on the other, the fontspec package and similar ones, allowing LaTeX to seamlessly use system fonts.
On the scholarly front, the use of BibLaTeX is a significant step forward re: BibTeX.
Yup, I totally agree that LuaLaTeX and BibLaTeX are awesome; that was even my platform for the (uncontested) TUG board election [0]. But UTF-8 mostly just works with LaTeX these days, regardless of the engine: even pdfLaTeX has defaulted to UTF-8 since 2017 [1]. Fonts are still a mess in pdfTeX though, so I'll definitely second your fontspec+LuaLaTeX recommendation.
Congrats to all the TeXLive team on a new release.
If you're stuck on something LaTeX related, remember there's the latest edition to The LaTex Companion. It even has an appendix explaining the (in)famously cryptic LaTeX/TeX error messages:
Look on the bright side Silicon Valley is terrible at politics. We still live in a democracy and none of these tech bros have the charisma or debate skills to get their own mother to vote for them.
Their website: https://www.bruderhof.com
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