There’s a typo in your headline; you probably mean “a world when… were still valid” rather than “before”.

The interesting thing here is that to maintain a trademark, you have to defend it, or you lose it. I’d think that would mean he’s going to have to get litigious and start suing anything that looks like it violates his trademarks.

While Snowflake is a pretty cool and worthwhile extension to run, I don’t think having a proxied connection to Tor will help Iranians if they just don’t have an Internet connection at all.

Gotcha, that makes sense to me; cheers.

I am, yeah. Like I say, I’m just not understanding what they’re suggesting Cloudflare should be doing differently in this case, other than not invoking Vance and Musk (which granted is pretty gross to do).

So your argument is that one of the biggest DNS resolvers should just bow to censorship imposed by a single nation? I’m not really getting what you think they should be doing about Italy’s demand. Are you saying they should just pay the fines and keep doing business there?

It reads to me like they’re being responsible and not bowing to censorship; seems very similar to PornHub’s approach to age verification laws. What would be a better course of action here, in your view?

Who wants a stadium, though? Those things are a blight.

https://archive.is/I1lyh

It would be helpful if this included an explanation, rather than just an assertion. Can you explain how FPTP allows this, and how proportional representation fixes it?

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Maybe Cory Doctorow can? https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/

Pretty close! It’s tar-soaked hemp fibers (rope traditionally being hemp), called oakum. Sometimes cotton under that for filling if needed. To me it still feels more about carefully easing out, particularly since paying out also has other uses that aren’t rope related, like falling off to leeward after a tack.

As long as we’re being pedantic, when you pay out pitch, you’re not covering the deck with it. You’re making lines of it that go in between the deck planks. It’s basically caulking. You actually have to be careful to not get it everywhere (not least because pitch is really hot when you’re paying it out), so just like when you’re paying out a line, there’s a sense of careful control and easing out the pitch.

I’ve been on the $5 a month plan, and go over probably half the time. The months when I do go over, it just means I start the next month a couple of days early. I’m probably actually somewhere around $6 a calendar month; my Kagi month is probably only 28 days or so.

Ah, but “Platner” and “Palantir” have most of the same letters!

ChatGPT, of course! What’s the worst that could happen?

Yeah, that’s what my dad says, and he’s a medieval historian, so I believe him. I guess it’s possible that lifespan in 1901 was much shorter than the middle ages, but that seems unlikely

It’s been a while since I installed is, bit I think the only thing I had to do was make a shell script executable, which I think it says to do in the readme? Could be misremembering though.

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