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> Enterprises love paying for support contracts.

They can pay for Debian support! (I’m not 100% sure who they should go to, but e.g. Freexian are doing Extended LTS for Debian [1], so I suppose they could do a regular support contract as well?)

[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Extended

Okay, let me clarify: you don’t need need a license. What you need is a way to receive and send payments, which is certainly possible to regulate, but it’s also possible to navigate around those regulations.

Mostly you just a couple dozen bank / Venmo / etc accounts in different names, so when one gets blocked you don’t lose all your money. You can also open a bank card in a more lax jurisdiction and accept transfers there instead (so e.g. a user in the EU can send euros to their “friend” in Kazakhstan using Visa Direct -- good luck regulating that).

And it all exists today, on razor-thin margins somehow! I’m sure there’s a lot more shenanigans under the hood.

There’s thousands of smaller exchanges, and those are way easier to start up than banks. You don’t need a license -- in fact, you don’t even need a company.

Anything remotely shape-shaped triggers me!

Soooo... can you make a Wii out of an Xbox 360? :D

This. So basically like Visa/MC nowadays, except optional and you’re not locked into the one you’ve got your card from.

How does crypto facilitate dictators stealing from normal people?

Something like escrow smart contracts?

By giving cash to a shady backstreet exchange guy? Or maybe using a payment kiosk to top up a mobile phone / whatever other service the P2P seller can get the money out of.

But more likely scenario is they have friends who let them use their bank accounts (but don’t have friends who let them use their good overseas bank accounts, so not that useful).

I understand the sentiment, but as someone who had to use crypto because all other options weren’t available, I’d rather live in a world where it exists. (I do have different options now, but I still use USDT/USDC transfers when it’s cheaper.)

Without cryptocurrency, dictators and criminals would still be able to move money around, it would just be a bit harder for them. For ordinary people it’d be disproportionately harder and more expensive.

> than [...] brick-and-mortar banks

How so?

> Because they own and control their own smart contracts but do not own the network that the contracts are deployed to.

I assume they call a method on the contract to freeze the coins (with some superuser kind of signature), so they could easily write a method that moves the coins back, too. This should be similar in terms of gas costs.

The law enforcement theory seems more likely, yeah.

I haven’t seen tooling for rebasing OCI images yet. Considering you’d still have to do this and roll it out to the server, you can just re-run the CI, which would build the image again, but also test that it works with the new base image.

I guess? I agree that parsing out the articles and rendering them in the HTML would make it more readable. But the author didn’t just throw together Win95 and Encarta in a VM and call it a day, there are subtle tweaks here so I think calling it “human slop” is incorrect.

(For example, there’s some URL magic going on -- articles you open show up in the fragment portion, e.g. #/article/Art -- which is non-trivial considering you have to pass that information into the VM and back.)

It is loading a Windows 95 VM (using https://copy.sh/v86/) and runs an actual copy of Encarta 95 there, yeah.

> Bookmarks are so badly neglected tabs might be preferable.

Okay, okay, but what if! https://files.catbox.moe/4m6c5x.png

After trying out Swift first!

Considering they’ve also made pdf.js, I have hope.

I don’t understand your complaint. There is a free tier, and there is a paid tier which hopefully helps maintain it. What’s the problem?

The goal is to see whether the “pull the cord on all your servers RIGHT NOW” panic was the appropriate response, and whether the embargo was the right approach.

It’s Sunday already! (or almost Sunday, depending on your timezone)

It’s dropped 51 positions near instantly: https://hnrankings.com/50204754/

I don’t think flags work like this.

Hence the “shield” part. I guess it’s easier said than done when you’re a Swiss non-profit and not an anonymous sysadmin in Iraq (or whatever jurisdiction would work for this example, idk).

This is the Lockpicking Lawyer, and what I have for you today is a eMudhra TLS certificate...

> I prefer haproxy to mitmproxy. It's faster

If you’re proxying all the traffic in your network it makes sense, naturally. mitmproxy is usually used for debugging and/or reverse engineering (e.g. with a specific app).

Solar/wind farms are great when you have the land suitable for those. My favourite example is replacing the U.S. farms growing corn that is used to produce ethanol (which is then added to the gas) with solar farms. This would produce more energy while not disrupting any ecosystems (at least not more than the existing farms).

So either Spain has no land like that, or the Spanish government has fucked something up. Judging by the rest of your post, I‘m leaning towards the latter :-)

I suppose homeowner associations are useful for something.

I’ve just realised: could shareholders sue for this? E.g. if I’ve bought the stock pre-enshittification, then the conpany decided to prioritize short-term profit, and then some time after the stock price falls (and that’s a big “if”, sure).

I think people mostly get .app or whatever when the .com is already taken. I have a couple .dev ones, they’re a bit more expensive than a .com, but not that much. (I should probably use .org more often!)

And there are first-year promotions for .com, too: currently a few registrars are offering one for $3-ish, although this is usually limited to one domain per account.