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Your license choice is perfectly fine. If you do not have CLA, you have an AGPL codebase with many people owning the copyright on portions of it.

In terms of future proofing against the project "going commercial" (i.e. changing the license going forward), it doesn't get much better than this, because pretty much all the copyright holders would need to agree on a license change.

Ideally, the bulk of the copyright does not reside with a small number of authors - the more authors, and the more evenly the copyright is spread among them, the better.

> It's possible that your situation being so simple is exactly what makes it hard for them to be confident that the requestor is you.

You know, in theory this sounds reasonable. However:

- these organizations are grossly incompetent (is there anyone left in the US who has not had their data leaked by a credit bureau?)

- the incentives are very badly misaligned (it is our data, but we are not their customers, other corporations are, and they only provide this service because the law requires it)

I'm going to hazard a guess that it's just really crappy software that's causing this.

Which, incidentally, is also something electric motors are far superior at (flat curve...).

Yeah, Sony was always pretty good at the ergonomics, but I decided long ago against buying anything they make because they always wanted to go it alone and define their own formats, and refused to join in with other manufacturers to create a common, interoperable standard. E.g. Memory Stick, MiniDisc, etc.

Sony gear always seems high enough quality, but the proprietary lock-in that it inevitably comes with, one way or another, is a nonstarter for me. I haven't bought anything they make in decades.

That was a good boss who cared about you.

> I'm a US citizen, so roughly half of my gross income goes to support US war crimes

That's unlikely, cf. https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/where-do-our-fe....

It also has some significant advantages over hydro: can be built anywhere, requires a small fraction of the space, doesn't destroy vast landscapes by putting them under water.

That was yesterday. Today, the situation is evolving quickly.

.... no way.

Cache freshness checks involve a lot of headers, which take up way more bandwidth than one unicode character.

It's because they can host the images in S3 buckets, so that their status page goes down when S3 is down.

/s

But, this really happened in 2017.

That LG one I posted above comes with a remote.

There is Matrix (https://matrix.org) which now integrates nicely with Jitsi (https://jitsi.org). There's also BigBlueButton (https://bigbluebutton.org).

Yeah, don't buy a TV, just buy a (very large) monitor. If you're happy with a 43", this one is a good choice: LG 43UN700-B - but it's not OLED.

There's also the helium network (https://explorer.helium.com/) which has a surprising amount of coverage, especially in urban areas.

> You also need a way to communicate back the tracking results, which presumably implies a SIM card and thus more opportunity to get detected (and linked back to you). But yes, in theory you can (and always could) do that.

I think gp included the lorawan for that purpose. No SIM required.

> Don't buy domain names I'm not sure I understand this one - anyone have an explanation?

When you buy a domain name, you are supposed to supply accurate ownership information. If you do not, the registry can yank your domain when they discover that. Most registrars obfuscate/hide the information in their whois service, but they still need to have it to comply with the rules of the registry. That information can be subpoenaed.

The purchase/renewal transaction(s) also leave a trail that can be followed.

> you start off heading a vast empire that's on the brink of collapse and you've got to try and prevent that from happening as long as you can.

Neat. Reminds me of some of the scenarios in the old Simcity where you became mayor of a big city with _issues_ and had to turn the ship around.

Sorry to hear that, that sucks!

> Attitude like yours is why many early companies are obligating their investors to prove net-worth.

I didn't express any attitude about the current rules around "accredited investors", I merely expressed what the current status quo appears to be, i.e. the system is largely based on self reporting. Obviously, there are all sorts of problems with that.

For what it's worth, I don't particularly like the current rules around "accredited investors", they seem pretty arbitrary, and at the same time too lax (self reporting) and too restrictive (obviously, these rules give rich people access to a lot of opportunities not available to others).

> The accredited investor rules in USA seem draconian

I don't know about that - it hardly seems draconian, it's a trust-based system, entirely reliant on self reporting. Most of the time you just have to check a box that says you are an "accredited investor". Sometimes they want you to upload a few bank statements.

> This is surprising to most americans, but the Western EU countries are the least safe when it comes to mugging, stealing, and general crime.

This map would also be surprising to Europeans.

This map was generated based on data from Eurostat, "who bases these number on police reports from each country." (sic, cf. https://landgeist.com/2021/10/12/robbery-rate/).

So... the obvious question, then, is how many robberies do not result in a police reports in each country, and how good each country is at reporting all robberies to Eurostat.

I suspect that this map is more of a reflection of the rate of reporting for robberies than the actual rate of robberies, which is why the map is so surprising: it's misleading and does not reflect reality.

I would even say "infamous".

> The next thing you can do, instead of paying for whitelisting, ist to contact the mailserver-admin at system you are trying to deliver mail to. This can be a bit of a hassle - seeing that your mailserver just got blocked - but it usually works. The same way systems don't want to receive SPAM they also don't want to overblock, after all they want their users to receive emails as well. If you are the mail admin of a sending system and you're reaching out to the receiving system this is usually a pretty good indicator that you don't want to spam them.

That's nice in theory. In practice, UCEPROTECT level 3 is used by, for example, all Microsoft properties (including hotmail, etc). And UCEPROTECT level 3 lists a lot of netblocks.

So, if you want to send e-mail from, say, Digital Ocean, to any Microsoft managed e-mail domain, you can just forget about it. DO doesn't care, Microsoft very much doesn't care. Good luck trying to contact a postmaster there!

> The dishwasher I buy will never need software.

If you have that option. Not sure if you've shopped for white goods recently, but the options without wifi are relatively few, and mostly lower end models.

We needed a new stove, I wanted one without wifi/internet connectivity. Due to the above and supply chain issues that limited availability of a lot of models, I didn't have a choice and ended up with a model with wifi/internet connectivity. I have, of course, not connected it.

> an electric car has about the total-cost-of-ownership co2 footprint as a diesel (sic!)

That's nonsense, ICE propaganda which has been thoroughly debunked. Cf. https://energypost.eu/latest-data-shows-lifetime-emissions-o...

> I ride a bike or go by foot

Excellent! Can't be beat in terms of co2 footprint!

Because you're not going to have a great time with /bin/sh (i.e. dash or the like) if you want to do anything more than very, very basic scripts.

> That advice can cause substantial headache on Ubuntu/Debian, where the Almquist shell is /bin/sh. This does not implement much of bash and will fail spectacularly on the simplest of scripts. This is also an issue on systems using Busybox.

At least for Debian and Ubuntu, that's why we start bash scripts with #!/bin/bash, of course.

Your point is valid for Busybox, though.

Yes. And the law would simply state that the customer may not be billed more than that maximum for the service period. Up to the business to restrict their use of the service, if they want to.

If it's really so 'complicated' that that part can't be done, well, I'm sure it would suddenly become a business priority to cut off use when the limit is hit, if the business can't charge for it.

> Banned visiting beaches during the early phases - you had to crowd into indoor spaces.

As sibling comment says, large indoor gatherings were also not allowed.

This was back when we knew next to nothing about COVID. We didn't know yet what was safe or not. We didn't know if it was transmitted via the air or via touch. We didn't know what was safe, and what was not. Hindsight is 20:20...

Yeah, new hardware can be wildly more energy efficient than older systems.