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algo_cheeseon Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

Yes, keep the lights on keep doing your boring job while the Russia army is bombing around some of your offices ...

IMHO, when the collateral damage is that some of your employees are sleeping in metro tunnels and some of their neighbours are dead because of the bombs falling on their cities, cutting off customers from the country invading them is very very justified.

algo_cheeseon OpenHistoricalMap

Around 1800 Switzerland was invaded by French armies so it's not really true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Napoleonic_...

algo_cheeseon Fastly Outage

> We're currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services.

Guys, you are offline with a 503 error, this is a little more than "potential impact to performance".

algo_cheeseon Fastly Outage

And a large part of GitLab

algo_cheeseon Open-source, not open-contribution

In your project "Settings" -> "General" -> "Visibility, Project features, permissions" -> "Merge Requests".

IIRC, you must be owner of the project.

algo_cheeseon Librem 5 Docs

There is an another big difference: groups

algo_cheeseon Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API

Correct, Android is not GNU/Linux, I responded too fast. As the parent comment spoke about DirectX support, I should have phrased it 'Android is also in the camp of "Doesn't support DirectX" and counts for a large number of devices.'

algo_cheeseon Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API

Not if you take Android into account.

algo_cheeseon FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Face Extradition to U.S

Well the FIFA is not a league of amateur in this field. They know that they must accept their gifts in other countries and follow the law at it's strictest in Switzerland so that they risk next to nothing.

algo_cheeseon FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Face Extradition to U.S

According to the Swiss Federal Office of Justice, the bribery has occurred in the US and paid through US banks :

The bribery suspects [...] are alleged to have been involved in schemes to make payments to the soccer functionaries [...] totaling more than USD 100 million. In return, it is believed that they received media, marketing, and sponsorship rights in connection with soccer tournaments in Latin America. According to the US request, these crimes were agreed and prepared in the US, and payments were carried out via US banks.

https://www.bj.admin.ch/bj/en/home/aktuell/news/2015/2015-27...