Ah, the good old power of projection.

For me, “civilized countries” explicitely excludes the US. Does this make me a racist, or just a fact checker?

That’s about what the Nazis thought about Jews.

Gaza is just Warsaw 2.0.

The specifics were already covered by the term “Klein bottle”. Everything is inside all Klein bottles. You, me, and the universe.

He simply was dumb enough to believe he could ignore reality. Didn’t work, as always.

All ships actually are already in all Klein bottles.

Took them long to find out the obvious answer. Nice they finally did.

I would not want them to monitor my calls, either. I meant exactly enforcing SHAKEN/STIR - if they cannot guarantee that the call/text is from the number shown on the display, don’t route it.

This way you can block the spammers or even sue them if you are on a do-not-call list.

It should be the other way round. Telco providers should be fined for any spam call and -text they don’t prevent from happening.

I run a computer on Win7 at work, because it needs some important legacy software. It can’t be containered because it has a nasty licence manager.

And my oscilloscope runs on Win98.

For a ship that the authorities said had lost power it was rather lighted up like a christmas tree…

Still be worth it. And isn’t Walmart changing prices on a regular base, anyway?

Here would it be a simple database push, and the price tags would update with tariffs, but we don’t have them.

Just like Nazi Germany back then. June 22, 1933.

Lure them in, pull the rug, harvest profits.

Walmart should put up price tags showing how much of the price is “Trump Tax”.

I got a login on an IBM system. I logged in and moved to the change password mask. Changed my password to something filling out the 12 character new password field. Logged out, and got the login mask again. With an eight character password field.

You’re right, cost of content creation comes on top of the running costs, too.

With Taler I wait for it to work the kinks out. And, of course, for it to be available somewhere reasonable.

But even running an indexer on a YT-like scale would need serious money, even if you spread the hosting and streaming load around. And for most users, this would not be attractive, as you probably would have to torrent the data first and view it later.

Then there is the issue with responsibility. If someone throws e.g. CSAM into the system, who could be held responsible? Who would have to deal with DMCA notices? Who would deal with issues like “Dictator X demands all videos showing him in a bad light to be removed immediately!”

And: Opening a payment system is a serious can of worms, especially if you need it to work internationally.

Honestly, I’m not against a YT alternative, but I don’t want it to die after three weeks because the person behind is was too optimistic to consider to potential problems.

Why bother, just sign an EO. /s