You act as though there aren’t already definitions for these things. You don’t treat a child’s pool float the same as an ocean liner.

Considering that a blockade is an act of war, it has not in fact “stopped”.

One shiny platform like for example Nextcloud to do it all might be nice for a lot of users when they have someone dedicated to maintain it. But for selfhosting (as in: mainly for myself) the constant attention needed to fix stuff was quite tedious.

I have run nextcloud for many years, I would love to know what this “constant attention” you talk about is.

Occasionally I need to run an “occ” command after an install to fix some indexes, but other than that I don’t do much?

Yeah - it “makes sense” but getting from logical to legislation is a bitch. People don’t like “new taxes” and working out the details would be tricky. Do you apply it to ICE automobiles as well? If so do you reduce the gas tax? If so you’ll be giving a potential benefit to gas guzzlers. etc.

It’s more that “the law and order president” wants to conspire with autocrats Putin and Xi against the rule of international law. That’s your headline, not scuttlebut about whether Putin will regret a war he started.

It’s not a bad idea - though it does add the overhead of some new bureaucracy. Somebody will need to gather that data yearly. Maybe could be done as part of auto inspections though.

the Chinese president made the comments during wide-ranging talks that touched on Ukraine and included Trump suggesting that the three leaders should co-operate against the International Criminal Court.

Wait… What? Who cares about gossip about Putin when this is sitting right there?

Which sounds reasonable until you think about what costs we refuse to externalize (road repair) and which costs we happily externalize (pollution).

The fact is that road maintenance is funded in part by a gas tax and we’re increasingly adding vehicles to the road that do not pay gas tax. The road maintenance is still there and I’m sure EV drivers will want it to be done as well. Go over to a /c/bicycles forum and ask them how willing they are to subsidize any road maintenance and you’ll figure out quickly why we do something akin to a “use tax” on roads using gasoline as a proxy.

My excuse for what?

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Also not preserved - me needing to spend a weekend getting the flash plug-in to work on Netscape under Linux. Just to watch a badger loop…

Time well spent.

I believe the phrase you’re looking for is “decadent capitalist pigs” - best spoken in a faux Russian accent.

upgrade

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I did some research on the blacks

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I don’t feel optimistic after Trump’s talk with Xi either.

Classic “over the shoulder”. 🙂

Same, though recently I’ve been using httpie which gives a bit of a cleaner cli.

https://httpie.io/cli

Your friendly reminder that you can seek whatever dollar figure you like in a lawsuit.