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Just because something is easily available does not mean that it isn't easily banned. That doesn't make it go away, but it gives a dystopian government a lot of excuses to go after people breaking the law.

To be fair, the vegas loop is operating - shipping a few racks to space to save face/muddle the issue won't be a problem. Operating/scaling it in a commercially viable manner is the issue.

Blocking DNS doesn't do much if the device isn't resolving hostnames and just pushes data to a bunch of preconfigured IPs tho...

> The average person could care less about following politics

Could they?

They'll argue you're "buying" a license that they can revoke when they feel like it. My feelings on the matter have been summed up by someone else more clever than me as:

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.

> And yes, USB as main connection standard was driven by Apple. But USB as main charging standard was set by the EU.

Hard disagree. Yes, they were quick to say that if you want to connect a device to their computers, you'd better be prepared for it to be USB. But their computer market share simply wasn't there to drive anything. More of a "lead by example" deal.

With phones OTOH, they COULD have driven it, but in the end they had to be whipped by Brussels to adopt standard USB(c).

Can't read it without consenting to unwanted tracking or clicking through 100+ individual spying "partners" to opt out.

Garbage.

What do you base "its international waters" on? It is considerably narrower than the 12nm limit for territorial waters.

Well, I may want to have a say in what websites the employees at work access in their browsers. For example.

> I’m generally with you, but I am not prepared to say companies should be forced to host and distribute content they believe reflects badly on them.

If Apple and Google are hell-bent on killing sideloading, and they control 99% of the mobile market, I think they have an obligation to host things they don't like, as long as it is legal.

It's pretty, but almost exclusively focused on ATI/AMD and Nvidia with an intel thrown in for fun. Not actually a list of important GPUs.

Honorable mention, the Rendition Vérité 1000 https://fabiensanglard.net/vquake/index.html

Released before the Voodoo 1 with glquake and gl support for Tomb Raider.

Yea, add a VNC jump host and a flaky spice based terminal and there are a bunch of things that can make your input not register properly.

Plenty of bad habits that cause chemical dependence would still benefit from a pause, even if temporary.

Managing documents on the back end can be very sensible, depending on your work context. Not having to deal with installations is also a real advantage in a heterogeneous environment with a mix of US-controlled operating systems and unencumbered OSes. It also makes migration between them easier, since you only need a common browser to be supported.

About half of all Faroese traditional food is fermented mutton or fish - air dried and boiled/roasted it triggers a lot of savory flavors that simply aren't on the spectrum of food you can buy at a supermarket. All of these methods were developed out of necessity before refrigeration was a thing. You needed the october meat to last till summer of next year in a subarctic climate. Methodical drying and curing did the trick. There is a wonderful spectrum of aged/fermented/dried before actual inedible rot/decay.

I'll allow it.

After seeing Grok trying to turn every conversation into the plight of white South African farmers, it was extremely obvious that someone was ordered to do so, and ended up doing it in a heavy-handed and obvious way.

There's also a good case for geothermal plants at these sites, if the geology permits it. There has been a good deal of development, and more sites are usable.

Writing top to bottom, and even left to right has/had advantages for mostly right-handed writers to avoid moving your hand over and smudging previously written text.

Reminds me of the youtube video where Ahoy recreates one of the classic 4 Byte images from the 80's 4-Byte Burger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4EFkspO5p4

> Entrenches Google, Facebook, etc. because they are the only people that have enough money to comply with the regulation.

I have very little sympathy for the idea of NOT storing user data is some sort of onerous regulatory burden.

Just stop collecting it

> As long as a market exists that can profit from exploiting PII, and is so large that it can support other industries, data will never be radioactive.

The EU bureaucracy machine can be slow moving, but has the potential to fix this. The stricter the rules, the simpler the implementation. You could cut a LOT of the administrative burden by specifying what data is allowed to be stored at all, instead of what isn't.

Big tech needs to be put in their place, and as others have commented; if this kills your business model, your business model doesn't deserve to exist.

Much like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is nominally democratic.

Corner to corner with their hinge opened to 180°

There have been plenty of pictures of older landing sites. Most of those people have a part of their identity tied up in contrarian ideas, and would find a way to call it fake, even if you personally flew them up to the landing sites to have a look.

I'm guessing poorly configured log files?

If anyone needs a palate cleanser after listening to a depressing ATC recording, I can recommend this heartwarming first time solo flying teenager dealing with her landing gear coming off after takeoff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ5q7Iv5wTM

Regarding sci-fi; Joshua "Lagrange" Calvert did a fancy maneuver in Peter F. Hamilton's Reality Dysfunction involving a lagrange point that gave him that nickname.