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It still surprises me that people can't immediately spot that comments like that are slop.

I don't know why it still surprises me, given the frequency at which it happens, but still.

The UK doesn't use any form of electronic voting. I don't think anywhere even uses electronic counting machines any more either.

>The article cites “mechanical systems” as being infallible, and reading that language, it reads to me as some archaic legislation that never got updated for computer software.

It's worse than that.

The law was fixed in 1984[0] and then the fix was intentionally reversed in 1999.[1]

[0] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/60/section/69/1991...

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/23/section/60

If there's a Wikidata QID associated with it then one can also use that to look up names in other languages

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There is already a term for this type of software licence: Proprietary.

I don't think we need a new class of licence that tries to extract the goodwill generated by the free and open source community, without adhering to the moral underpinnings of that community.

>But it would be absurd to think that if everyone was really more productive at-home, companies would still be forcing everyone back in the office.

To draw this conclusion one would have to assume that companies are measuring productivity correctly.

Or that the companies are acting rationally, and we know that's never always true.

>The results show that QUIC and HTTP/2 exhibit similar performance when the network bandwidth is relatively low (below ∼600 Mbps)

>Next, we investigate more realistic scenarios by conducting the same file download experiments on major browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera. We observe that the performance gap is even larger than that in the cURL and quic_client experiments: on Chrome, QUIC begins to fall behind when the bandwidth exceeds ∼500 Mbps.

Okay, well, this isn't going to be a problem over the general Internet, it's more of a problem in local networks.

For people that have high-speed connections, how often are you getting >500Mbps from a single source?

The last 300 years have seen copyright laws being ratcheted up and up and up. I think it's a fairly safe bet to say that trend will continue for the next 75 years, even if it's not inevitable.

>In the meantime, the copyright duration could be shortened.

There's a better chance of you winning every lottery on Earth twice in a row than copyright terms being shortened in this century.

Well we already have UPRNs[0] but they're a little unwieldy for human use.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Property_Reference_Numb...

JSON-LD isn't the only way one can embed these metadata (though I think most tooling prefers it now).

For example, Microdata[0] is one in-line way to do it, and RDFa[1] is another.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdata_(HTML)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDFa

The EU does not require data to be hosted locally, though.

>A user who runs the program in such a way that visitors communicate with it from remote stations obviously is required to enter into the license also and comply with its requirements.

Only if the user modifies the program.

The remote network interaction provision of the AGPL is conditional.

Under British law, however, courts presume that a computer system is working flawlessly unless proven otherwise, so if computer says guilty it'll be tough to convince a jury that you're not.

And that was made even harder by the massive and continuous perjury by the Post Office when it came to the robustness of the system

And Malta

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The EU obviously does have a tech industry.

There's a difference between having global-scale hyper-corporations based in the EU and having an industry, and conflating the two is a silly thing to do.

For people who unironically use the word "based", yes.

>"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." (stupidity is the wrong term here, lazyness is more apt).

Ah, but sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice

NATO's intervention in Kosovo is the one that routinely cited.

That wasn't defensive by any means, but that also doesn't make it unjustified nor should it really be called "aggressive".

Chomsky, naturally, denied that ethnic cleansing was happening there because it wasn't the US or "western" countries doing it.

Because two key parts of the open source definition[0] are that the license "must not discriminate against any person or group of persons" (criterion 5) and that the license "must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavour" (criterion 6).

[0] https://opensource.org/osd

>Time to exclude EU government use from all your open source projects in the license.

You can't.

Well you can, but then by definition they would no longer be open source.

The EU doesn't have the legal authority to legislate when it comes to national security matters - the member states themselves retain exclusive control.

>afaik there was a serious lack of v6 support within aws services.

There still is, even though they've started charging for v4!

>No, the Data Protection Act (2018) is just the legal instrument which sets out the (UK) GDPR.

That's not right either.

The GDPR is law because it's an EU Regulation that was made while we were part of the EU, and it became UK law automatically when it was passed, as regulations do.

The Data Protection Act 2018 augments the GDPR, but the GDPR would be the law of the land with or without the DPA.

That's what debt is for.

I actually feel dumber for reading the phrase "quiet hiring". It's training. Employers offering employees training.

Such an innovation!

Well this part of the article could be one reason why:

>Even more disturbing, however, is Balaji’s tight connection with Tan, the Y Combinator CEO who has publicly aligned himself with the Network State for years. “I legit believe [Y Combinator] is a prototype model for what @balajis talks about when he says the Network State,” wrote Tan in August 2022, shortly before he was named CEO.

Did anyone actually believe that any part of the Cybertruck was high quality?

From my POV outside of the Musk cult of personality it was painfully obvious that the thing was a dud from day one.