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LTS releases will only upgrade to other LTS releases unless you configure it differently. Just avoid non-LTS releases.

I'm super confused: doesn't Debian also have a 5 year support cycle? How is Debian better than Ubuntu on this particular issue?

I've been upgrading the same Ubuntu server across LTS releases since 14.04 - now on 22.04 - without any major issues. Spending 30 minutes every two years to upgrade major versions isn't that big of a lift.

Caligatioon Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

You can literally buy it from Sony and they email you a game key.

They're changing all their documentation to match their new announcement: https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cjlnn1/sony_tr...

Caligatioon North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs

I actually had to look this up, it depends if the possessive form is actually said with one or two Ss. For instance, it's Jones's and Bridges'.

https://grammar.collinsdictionary.com/easy-learning/what-are... https://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/apostrophe/...

Caligatioon Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-games/helldivers-2-...

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Caligatioon Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries

As a Helldivers 2 PC player who also owns a PS5, this new requirement doesn't bother me personally.

However, adding a requirement (it was previously optional) is boneheaded, maybe illegal. It must be terrible to be Arrowhead; they have to sit by and watch while their player base implodes because of a Sony edict.

Caligatioon Chinese students in US tell of 'chilling' interrogations and deportations

Don't confuse nationality with race/ethnicity.

It's 100% acceptable to be suspicious of foreign nationals hailing from a country that is currently at social/political/military odds with one's own country.

Caligatioon Microsoft blamed for "a cascade of security failures" in Exchange breach report

I would love to know of a major tech company/product that has NOT had a security failure. This goes double for companies that provide hosting of services that hold juicy personal information.

Caligatioon Government of the NIMBY, for the NIMBY, by the NIMBY

Living in a society is sometimes a short term negative to a particular individual. If everyone solely optimized for their own situation, society would fail.

Why should I have to be OK to have a sidewalk on my property when it lowers my property value? Why should I have to agree to have utilities be buried in my yard if it might lead to a loss of use if said utilities need to be repaired? Why should I need to be OK with housing that will give people a place to live if it means I have to endure more traffic?

Caligatioon Aegis v3.0 – a free, secure and open source 2FA app for Android

Old andOTP user turned new-ish Aegis user here: it's super easy to migrate and Aegis just feels like a better product.

Caligatioon Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

CloudFlare has equipment in 120+ countries, including China: https://www.cloudflare.com/network/

I again ask: is it desirable for any of those countries to be able to unilaterally force a company to enforce its laws regardless of where the individual in question is?

Caligatioon Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

It's infinitely easier to spend $0 vs $0.01 if you're trying to be anonymous online. The criminals can certainly afford it but that also almost certainly means interacting with financial systems that leave a paper trail.

Caligatioon Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

Which government do you mean when you say "the government"? Any national government? Only the US government? Only governments in which the US is friendly and/or has agreements with?

Would you want authoritarian governments to be able to demand Cloudflare stop serving those they consider criminals that are outside their borders?

International law is messy.

Caligatioon CorsixTH: Open-source clone of Theme Hospital

Two Point Hospital is very much the spiritual successor to Theme Hospital and I would have no problems pointing people towards it first rather than Theme Hospital.

I have extremely fond memories of playing Theme Hospital back on my PS1 but it does have some rough edges.

Caligatioon US designates more Chinese tech companies as military collaborators

Having a foreign government covertly influence your thoughts and actions should be of concern. It's one thing to have your thoughts and actions be changed by a logical process; it's a whole other concern when an agonistic foreign power is expending non-trivial amounts of resources to bend your opinion.

This isn't mutually exclusive to being concerned about the US government actions in this space but the risks are completely different.

Caligatioon ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x

There's a difference between something working by design vs. working by happenstance. I would argue using a gTLD that isn't supposed to be registered is working by happenstance whereas the proposed .internal would be working by design.

As an example, some (terrible) ISPs intercept NXDOMAIN records which could leak into misconfigured networks that are squatting on unregistered gTLDs. This behavior would be far worse if they did this for the proposed .internal.

Caligatioon Switching to Firefox's Deb on Ubuntu 22.04: A Guide to Avoiding Snap Packages

I believe the PPA team is composed of Ubuntu maintainers for Firefox + Thunderbird whereas the new repository is supported by Mozilla directly.

Caligatioon FTC bans TurboTax from advertising 'free' services, calls deceptive advertising

The tax code is deliberately complicated because, in part, of the lobbying by Intuit and H&R Block. They're creating an artificial market for their $150 services and convinced the populace this is reasonable.

Caligatioon How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment

I'm not the OP so I don't know what they define as "crap." However, there is a lot of programming out there that solely exists to keep children's attention while doing nothing with it. The most egregious example that comes to mind is the CoComelon channel on YouTube: literally 1-2 hour videos of nursery rhymes with mediocre animation. It's not some small channel either; one of their 2+ hour videos has 484M views.

Caligatioon Disney's earliest Mickey Mouse enters public domain as US copyright expires

This intrigues me as I had no idea, at one time, that the US didn't have the most restrictive copyright laws in the world. It looks like the US had to restore/extend copyrights to foreign works as part of the agreement that established the WTO?

That being said, copyright is a product of laws and laws can always change. Your comment made me believe that the copyright owner somehow extended their rights; not a literal act of Congress.

Caligatioon Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)

I feel like this must be fading because I lived in North Yorkshire for almost 5 years and never heard a thee/thou used. On the other hand, English dialects are hyper localized so there might be villages where it is normal.

Caligatioon Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Plans for Wayland and Xorg Server

I had weird flickering and micro screen freezes with my 2070 on Arch using Wayland on my new desktop build 3 weeks ago. Switching to Xorg fixed everything.

Caligatioon Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive

You're moving the goal post from "self-sovereignty" to supports federation with an infinite number of servers. Nothing is stopping you from compiling your own Signal server and modifying a Signal client to use your server.

Given that Signal is free as a service, supporting federation only increases their expenses.

Caligatioon Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

I've been wondering the same thing! My explanation is that the planet was already known/cataloged and that the crew has access to that knowledge somehow.

Caligatioon Governments Shouldn't Be Allowed to Use a Drone to Spy on You Without a Warrant

I would argue ease-of-use and lower costs should be factored into all sorts of privacy decisions. The easiest thing to point at is public records: at some point one's phone number and address were distributed in a paper book to a geographically related area. Now there are countless websites that aggregate your phone numbers and addresses over years, publish that information online, and make it easily searchable. These are not the same impact to privacy yet they use largely the same legal justification.

Taken to the extreme, someone should not be able to record every currently-legal moment of your life using any means using the same legal argument as hiring a PI and/or a helicopter.

Caligatioon Rite Aid Files for Bankruptcy

Depends on your view of companies. If you believe they exist solely to enrich their owners, then your above statement is reasonable. If you believe they're economic engines which should gainfully employ people, then stripping away assets with an eye towards ultimately declaring bankruptcy (and/or dissolving the company) is pillaging.

Caligatioon Rite Aid Files for Bankruptcy

> I'm not sure if (or why) they aren't going after the doctors making the red flag prescriptions, however.

As someone who was an (alternate) juror on a Federal "pill mill" trial, they are. That trial was truly eye opening to how flagrant some doctors are when it comes to writing bogus prescriptions.

The doctor in that trial had deals with imaging companies to create justification for egregious prescriptions. I'm talking about starting people on 160 mg/day of oxy for relatively minor "injuries." Several pharmacies reported the doctor which helped get the investigation rolling.

Caligatioon Rite Aid Files for Bankruptcy

It's easy when you spend other people's money to buy something, extract value from the purchased company, and then have the company declare backruptcy.

Caligatioon The database servers powering Let's Encrypt (2021)

Given that they're using a HSM (actually several), there's really not much that needs protection via FDE. The certs are obviously public and the domains are in the transparency log.

On the ZFS note: it's been rock solid for me with Ubuntu but a living nightmare with Arch. My Arch update would upgrade the kernel but then OpenZFS would semi-routinely incompatible resulting in an unbootable system.

Caligatioon X sues Calif. to avoid revealing how it makes “controversial” content decisions

> the most recent decision that it was in fact unconstitutional.

This is not really what the decision states. The government can request all it wants but it cannot partake in "threatening, pressuring, or coercing social-media companies in any manner to remove, delete, suppress, or reduce posted content of postings containing protected free speech".

I'm personally OK with the government requesting things to be moderated; I'm not OK with the aforementioned methods if the request isn't backed by law.