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" If someone is hosting their own blog and use ads to help offset that..."

It used to be that hosting your own blog was a hobby, not a cost-neutral or revenue-positive venture. Like any hobby, you did it for your own enjoyment and if other people enjoyed it, too, then that was a benefit and maybe you'd made the Word a little better.

So if you're not willing to pay a few pence per day to cover the cost of your hobby out of your own pocket, then the answer is "stop blogging" rather than "I shall inflict ads on those who dare to view my output".

CPI is based on prices such as these, so it provides no useful signal.

Apple sold around six million Mini models per year that they were on sale.

It's hard to envisage a boardroom scenario where that's not considered successful, but apparently it exists.

" to spend half of your earnings on the collective"

Why not 99% then? Or 90%? Or a bargain 85%, leaving you some money for bread and circuses ?

It's for the collective good, so how could you complain?

Even if the features are ignorable, they have consumed development time and attention to get there.

No, that's almost as bad.

Locking knowledge into a benignly-ruled centralised blackbox instead of a despicably-ruled centralised blackbox isn't solving the core problem.

> and aren't purchased for the same reasons

Yes, that's his point. Quartz watches have eaten the market for "I need a cheap portable time piece", like artificial diamonds did for "I need diamonds for tooling".

Both mechanical watches and natural diamonds have therefore been pushed into a niche market of posers and the easily-influenced, who buy them for different reasons than the mass market.

> Lab diamonds and mined diamonds are literally identical products.

No, mined diamonds are inferior for any industrial task due to their flaws and weaknesses.

> That's insane progress and worth celebrating.

A non-reusable launcher that can put small payloads into a Polar orbits only, due to launch site latitude and lack of an orbital bus. It's fairly 1960s stuff.

"Traditional accounting depreciation would imply that purchasing local hardware is a terrible financial decision."

Depreciation is designed to _encourage_ purchasing of useful local tools, by incrementally matching fractions of the cost of the tool to the revenue it generates over its useful life. The fact that a graphics card might have a book value of $0 after five years of depreciation is a feature, not a bug.

Since the invention of corporation tax it has also had the benefit of offsetting tax over the same period, instead of just one big offset in the first year.

The Shorts 360, very similar to this aircraft in size, weight and structural design with a strut-braced wing, cruised at 216kt ( 249mph ) for 400nm with 36 pax, three crew and fuel for 50nm diversion and 45 min hold.

> You still have to choose your opportunities wisely

It's odd that you've gone off on this as opposed to people who spend their 'opportunity time' on Netflix, Call of Duty or D&D.

Sysadmin is a hobby I enjoy and I don't consider it lost time, or wasted opportunity, when so many of my colleagues go out getting drunk or watch football.

> They're developing 40 million lines of code

Isn't half a billion dollars per year enough to maintain that? Over $10 per LoC annually?

That's their choice, nobody forced them to implement that corporate structure and they can decide to deconstruct it any time.

Google pays Mozilla for default search engine selection in Firefox, no other product. If Mozilla then redirect that money to other non-Firefox ventures then maybe they should explain why.

The problem is that to achieve privacy through security, Graphene has to treat the user as a potentially hostile actor.

Therefore, the system needs to protect itself and other apps from the user. Which is very much contrary to software freedom.

The Russian response to directional antennas is to mount GPS jammers on satellites

https://www.gpsworld.com/todd-humphreys-russian-satellites-a...

"What makes it any different if the website executed the same logic cloudflare is on their own box?"

Without Cloudflare it's highly unlikely that 20% of websites _would_ implement the same logic.

Try editing key-values in Regedit using only the keyboard.

Aer Lingus have introduced app-only self-service bag drops, which are invariably swamped with passengers trying to get them to work while a single staff runs around clearing on-screen errors and directing people to rescan, or reweigh their bags, or move closer to the window to get a 4G signal.

Meanwhile non-app users are directed to the otherwise idle staff at the check-in desk. It's bliss.

Sounds like gratuitous over-use of technology.

Please just put placards on your exhibits, then I can take as long ( or as quickly ) as I need to digest the info.

People can then use their phone to translate into other languages, if needed.

"It is a common userspace decision to lock things to userspace"

Yes, running in userspace for the majority of tasks is good hygiene.

Preventing the user from ever escalating beyond that layer on their own devices, however, is restricting their freedom to control their device. When that happens with tractors, cars or other gadgets that's considered anti-user. The same attitude should extend to phones.

Unfortunately ( for the WiFi Alliance ) that doesn't sell new kit.

Like their G-Shock watches, the actual area dedicated to showing the time is overwhelmed by superfluous elements. Must be barely 20% of the top surface that actually performs its primary function.

When I look at my watch I want to see the time, not wasted space announcing "Casio Step Tracker" or "Water Resist" ( which isn't even proper English).

I moved to Timex a few years ago as their basic digital watches have nice big numerals for the time display.

"Solo geniuses don't have the money to operate the patent system"

Very true, a friend patented a design, that he had developed over a decade, and tried to license it to established players in the astronomy field. They looked at his pitch and just implemented it anyway. Without buckets of money there's little a solo inventor can do.

And when the crack came out on the same day as the CD release it was called a zero-day. A term that has long since lost ita original meaning, in fact it has been inverted.

You're fortunate if that's the case for where you live.

In the UK weeding is at the discretion of the Branch Librarian. Books I checked out 15 years ago have now vanished from the system.

Yes, I think that identifying patterns and applying the appropriate combination of A+B to solve is true intelligence. It's a combination of knowledge, insight and inspiration.

In the UK organisations such as GCHQ ( Brit NSA ) use brain teasers as a recruitment and filtering tool.

> but that can hardly be blamed on cloudflare

They are installing the gates with configurable locks that the site owners use. They are absolutely to blame.

> convince rich people to give the non-profit large amounts of money

And yet Google's funding remains 85% of Mozilla's income, so that 'convincing' doesn't seem to be worth paying for.

> The UK already has so much CCTV.

But most of it, the overwhelming majority, comprises standalone installations at best networked into a corporate HQ but most commonly just recorded on site.

It's not like in police drama programmes where they can switch from the camera in the Tube station to the one in the newsagent outside for seamless real-time tracking.

If you do an ADSB playback the C-32 was flying as SAM112 In trail of AF1

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?replay=2026-07-08-21:06&icao...