The US just did the Brexit thing, or the thing that Russia did when it handed the country over to Putin. "Let's vote for the radical solution because it can't get worse than this". Well, you retards, it fucking can and it fucking will.

Project 2025 doesn't even need Trump to survive long enough to move in, and after that there will be no coming back for decades. Did you think the stacked Supreme Court was bad? Silver lining: No more political uncertainty.

*sigh*

The IPv6 proponents shoot their own feet more than enough. No need to blame anyone else. The original addressing schemes with permanent unique addresses everywhere, OMG. The insistence that there be no NAT with IPv6 and the expectation that end-to-end connectivity be restored are major problems with IPv6. Multihoming still has no workable solution with IPv6, network renumbering and multiple prefixes cause endless problems. Support for workable addressing schemes in widely used network configuration tools and firewalls has only become available in the last 5 years, and I wouldn't call the current implementations finished. In the end, IPv6 becomes feasible because everything is HTTP/QUIC anyway, and name based virtual hosting and reverse proxies solve all the problems. Unfortunately for IPv6, they also solve the problems with IPv4 scarcity. IPv6 adoption only happens where it's automatic. Hardly any normal person chooses to use IPv6. It has come far enough along that you can use it now, but you get no benefits from it. Yes, you can get addresses cheaply, but if you have no IPv4 addresses at all, you're still fucked. For far too many people, that means you're offline.

This is not about the copyright regarding any later edition. It is indeed about the original texts. The "online scholarly edition of the complete manuscripts of Anne Frank" is published by the Vereniging voor Onderzoek en Ontsluiting van Historische Teksten (Association for Research and Access to Historical Texts), Avenue Louise 209a / Louizalaan 209a, 1050 Brussels. Brussels is in Belgium, where the copyright on the original texts has expired, and the authors of that "online scholarly edition" want to make their work available freely. They can't publish their own edition in all countries due to the copyright on Anne Frank's original manuscripts, which is held by that fund that her father founded in Switzerland. That fund is now going after their geoblocked publication of the authors' own work because the fund deems geoblocking insufficient for protecting the copyright on the original manuscripts where it hasn't expired (among others in the Netherlands). It's a pity for anyone who still wants to wallow in the misery of Anne Frank. They'll have to wait a little longer until her father's fund can't stop them from learning about her.

Don't wait until Monday.

I remember when that happened and it made the evening news everywhere. IIRC Torvalds pleaded with the EU that he should be allowed to hide APIs from sleazy outfits like Crowdstrike. I just can't find any record of it now.

You can install any crap you want on Linux, but few people do. And if they do, that is often only because their companies require an anti-virus software as a precondition to giving network access. Guess which flea bag OS caused that requirement.

Harsh. Perhaps give them a second chance as indentured servants?

Your OS is such a pile of garbage that companies see a need for bolted-on scareware like Cloudstrike. Don't try to use your failings for political bargaining, you miscreants.

Someone I didn't know linked to my web site from their personal web site because they thought it was cool. Stupidly registered for birthday greetings on a web site before people stopped doing that for obvious reasons and long before people started stupidly doing that again. Visited new web sites daily and at some point thought I'd seen all the good ones. Read HTML. Had a Geocities web site after all. Marvelled at the first web cam - hot stuff.

5.16 per 100 millimiles. That's terrible, almost 1 every 100 feet. Or do you mean 5.15 per 0.161 square kilometers? That doesn't seem much better and even more nonsensical, if that's possible. Your use of units is weird.

You can turn solar off on the spot with not detrimental effects. There's never a reason to pay someone to take solar electricity. Electricity prices go negative from other sources of energy which can't stop producing electricity or would incur a cost greater than what they pay to take the electricity. Nuclear, for example, cannot follow the load quickly.

and they will.

And isn't Cygwin only a problem if the test ends up being CPU-limited? I've run iPerf3 on Windows on fairly old computers and they still saturate Gigabit-Ethernet, even on long distance links with non-local latency. What's the issue?