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> Why are these service providers being punished for what their users do ? Because they crossed the line from common carrier to editor - an entirely different set of obligations. Also, even such common carrier as telcos must abide to sta
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Hetzner and OVH are top of mind, Gandi is nice too. Not Amazon-scale, by far, but European companies hosting in Europe with decent service.
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In the 70's there was a significant trend of translating programming languages to French - for example LSE, Pascal, Cobol, Algol... Didn't abide - we now take English for granted but reading code in my native is a strange sensatio
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Or a smart overwhelmed person who comes home tired and would love not to have to consider extra problems on top of family life and their demanding job. Plenty smart in a domain and just doesn't want to think in another is a common patt
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The Internet ? No. The Arpanet ? Also no. But SAGE was - its prototype (the Cape Cod air defense project) was a packet-switching network and SAGE itself was as well... And staying up on doomsday for a bit of nuclear combat was the essence
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Network redundancy (sometimes up to quadruple for some of the French electrical infrastructure) is indeed vulnerable to asymmetrical attack, if the attacker knows what secures what. I can throw burning fuel into a manhole or at a street cab
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No. Pjerem obviously knows cheminots - they worship rail infrastructure. Labour conflicts involving cheminots are often brutal, but harming the rail infrastructure is a taboo never transgressed. In general, in labour conflicts across any in
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> It does take less than people think. You just need enough to buy a cheap house in the middle of nowhere, an ability to give up some luxuries ... Until you need any medical care. Also, good schools for the kids. And being with reach of
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Legacy warts aside (16 Levels, the underdeveloped step sequencer) and incomprehensible omissions notwithstanding (tons of quality of life improvements, easily within the device's ability but neglected), the MPC sequence-based workflow
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> I’ve always found Roland user interface designs to be inscrutable banks of deep menus, arbitrary buttons, tiny screens, and “wizard” style branching between wholly disparate aesthetic presets This also describes the Akai MPC world. I s
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Even with Pentium + Adaptec 2940UW + UW SCSI disks + Plextor SCSI + tons of RAM, just opening notepad.exe resulted in a buffer underflow... I practically held my breath while the damn thing was burning a CD !
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At that price point, the cost of the RJ-45 port is probably more than the cost of the 802.3 chip and I wonder if the cost of supporting that old chip on a contemporary device doesn't surpass the cost of the components for a nowadays st
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I have taken an electronic music hobby recently and the small forum where users of my instrument congregate has been a refreshing throwback to the early 2000's, making me realize how much I had missed a sense of community on the megasi
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I have been often judged harshly for not subscribing to parental paranoia and refusing to breach trust with constant surveillance. I stand by my choice: surveillance harms trust, children need space and safety is good enough. I'm way t
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> Salesforce is a generic application platform today Indeed. So, if one is going to customize the hell out of it anyway, with most of the functionality being extensions, then why not just use a free software core ? Vertical solutions pro
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Cars are sufficiently dangerous to justify government interfence, but lets not go overboard - no need for realtime surveillance across a network: a local black box is sufficient, with adequate protocol and logs of each lawful access, maybe
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> I am saying this as a bitter outsider without a Bluesky account but with FOMO You'll be pleased to learn that Bluesky sign-up has been open to all without invitation since last February.
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"Degenerate" in this sentence is a neo-Nazi and white supremacist dogwhistle - overt racism with a blink and a nod... "You know it when you see it" as a later poster answers when someone asks for a definition. Please mod
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Cookie banners are just like ad banners: adblock fodder.
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Conflation between weapons and generators was weird then - and it is fossil idiocy at this point. There was a grain of truth at the time when all civilian nuclear programs were the flipside of military programs, but even then the imagery of
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"relatives don't share pictures of our kids' faces" - serious question: why ? I have seen that from friends too, and I respect it - but I don't understand what bad outcome that prevents.
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Lavishly packaged though !
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Even in electronica, trivial "vocal hooks" go a long way towards getting the audience to bond with the music.
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"Track" covers the whole range.
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Carbon tax, including as international tariff would sidestep that question, make the emitter pay and let the consumer choose.
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Indeed, threaded demands more effort from the user, hence why I usually push Discourse for casual communities - flat works better there. But here we are talking about "complex discussions", for which flat is frustrating. Market se
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Serious question: what is wrong with HN/Old Reddit style ? In my experience, that system manned by competent moderators delivers satisfactory discussion.
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And if the user indefinitely uses the service within the free tier, they are not the target customer anyway - so count the infinitesimal usage as evangelization !
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One of the reasons why I put a serious fume extractor over my gas stove - with remote engine and rooftop exhaust. 15 years old setup - made most sense at the time but, if I upgrade some day, it'll be for induction.
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On the Internet of parrots, they really mean it when they give you the bird !

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