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They certainly still recommend it. Too bad the evolution & development of Vala itself has stagnated mostly.

Some do, most don't. (Don't generalize)

The easiest to type is to make a 'time' alias (or shell function in fish, or whatever your shell prefers…)

There is in fact proof of this in the real world, where Russia has been paying people in Europe to do actions that rile up "the left" & "the right" (in both directions).

It would be quite naive to think they don't do the same in the virtual world of the internet, where it is even cheaper…

It looked like Cracker Barrel's own logo in the 1960s/1970 IIRC.

Landing at an alternate location is significantly more expensive, so I assume Ryanair put pressure on its pilots to avoid that…?

Not just adversarial to passengers but to their employees also.

Which is something that can cause annoying bugs when 2 identifiers that are "obviously" different when you see them in CamelCase are interpreted as identical by the compiler…

It never was "alphabetical" but rather an order determined by the numeric index into the used encoding table.

Doesn't help that most surveys are on external unknown domains, and look very suspicious (tracking codes, etc.). I get such links to surveys & other commercial bullshit from my bank too, like they want to train you to click fishing links…

You think they haven't done that sort of things yet?

My first thought was also that this relates to Intel's foundry business. Even if only to be able to use it in price negotiations with TSMC (it's hard to threaten to go elsewhere when there is no elsewhere left).

That was a problem at some point, but I think most of the GPL3-to-GPL2-relicense-issues have been solved by now?

Most Android users have the malware scanner in Google Play Services enabled.

There are bots that hurt the expected operation of your server, of course:

- those that cause far too much traffic

- (comment) spam bots

- (for some companies) bots from companies that steal data & resell it verbatim

- …?

Whether CloudFlare is actually the best (or even a good) tool to fight all those, I have some doubts…

Those bugs also exist(ed?) in other browsers, and from what I understand they worked on fixing them, but they still can’t get through CloudFlare’s blocking after fixing the crash.

There might be ways to deduct that from total traffic/referral/… numbers without spying on individual users.

Not unlike how they (roughly) deduct deaths by an epidemic from peaks in deaths compared to averages.

Testing all (or at least most) browsers should be quite easy to automate…

"Mozilla" & "Firefox" are trademarks which would come with their own legalese I’m sure, and of course there are some services used by Firefox (the Mozilla addons store, the malware blacklists managed by Google IIRC, etc.) that would still require legal statements even for distro or other 3rd party builds.

In 2023 the Wikimedia Foundation had 700 paid employees/contractors working for them.

At the end of 2023 Mozilla Corporation had 964 employees and Mozilla Foundation had 118.

So the difference isn’t that large…

"Online menus" are fine; they allow quick updates without requiring the restaurant to re-print menus, and allow for just one copy/version of the menu to be used everywhere.

But then they should also display them publicly outside/inside, and/or have a bunch of tablets ready for visitors to use.

Most such bad software is provided by a small number of very large companies, so none of it is "niche".

The main difference being that you talk with real humans who try to help you, not computer programs designed to give you an illusion…

That works out only as long as you don’t have to replace the whole machine (motherboard & possibly CPU/CPUs) to be able to add more RAM… So essentially the same problem as with disks.

In the end it all comes down to: there are a whole lot of trade-offs that you have to take into account, and which ceilings you hit first depends entirely on everyone’s specific situation.

It's actually very simple & cheap to be compliant: stop tracking EU citizens.

The more DDoS there are, the more business CF gets. Take your own conclusions…

The fact that they block some people from accessing the websites behind their service negates their claims to be "just a passthrough"…

I assume you mean running btrfs on top of md (mdadm) or dm (dmraid), not the other way around?

And for reference: a ultra-tiny tactical nuclear bomb would still be >1 GJ.

Interpol is an organisation for cooperation between national police organisations. They don't visit ordinary citizens or tourists, nor are they allowed to do any police actions in (other) countries. Are you sure that wasn't part of some (attempted) scam?