DNS is such a terrible thing, because, despite being amazing at what it does, and beautifully complex at times, it’s still a massively centralized system that basically controls the internet. Of course it’s based in the US.

It’s also the reason why domain names cost significant money, and they even sell TLDs for insane prices that only megacorporations can afford. They can decide what TLDs get to exist, and ultimately, they have the power to ban domains, whole zones, or even TLDs. They essentially have the power to dismantle the internet as most people know it.

There are some alternative projects that aim to replace ICANN’s root servers, but almost nobody has them set up (and the alternative root servers aren’t even considered “legal” or part of the DNS system by any provider). Which leads to the alternative TLDs being almost useless. It’s still a fun thing to set up, though.

You’d be surprised by how widely applicable it is, it works for virtually any road. Small city roads, highways, even residential streets.

There also isn’t a maximum number of lanes for this effect (well, there technically is, but it’s too large to be feasible) because cars are an extremely inefficient way of transportation, so they take up a lot of space.

Roads also become increasingly more expensive with each extra lane added, to the point where it becomes economically impossible to keep adding lanes. You also need to demolish buildings if the road was already too close to them. And the cost of the extra lane isn’t a one off, it also generates a running cost for repairs and inspections.

That money is better spent on making viable alternatives to cars, which actually will help traffic or even fix it.

That’s interesting. In spanish, we also say “health” (Salud). I wasn’t expecting it to be the same in a language as different as german.

The “religious” word we can say when someone sneezes is “Jesus” (Jesús). Which is also a weird thing to say. I’m pretty sure the origin is still christianism, but I can’t see why someone chose specifically that.

Oh, I didn’t know that. It’s been a while since I’ve been through there lol

But it’s good news at least

If I had a nickel for every francoist bar in Spain owned by a Chinese guy, I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t much, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

(The other one I know is called Bar Oliva, and it’s in Usera, Madrid)

Coincidentally, cops seem to love it.

This whole article reads like copium

Ai benefits the epstein class

They do give away lots of freeleech tokens to get your ratio going, tho

I have actually travelled quite a bit, and I always prefer hotels both because they’re cheap and because they’re not as damaging to local communities. Hotels usually include breakfast, and for relatively cheap you can also eat and have dinner there. Even when taking into account the price of the food and restaurants, they mostly still end up being cheaper.

Holiday rentals open in residential areas that are not built to handle big number of tourists.

Tourists will fill up residential areas even if there are no hotels/apartments in them. Cities themselves are not made to cope with that amount of tourists.

Residents don’t want to share buildings with tourists because they are laud and destroy the property.

This is an issue, but the main issue with rentals is that they drive up the prices and push people away to suburbs.

What the size of business has to do with anything? A local Rolex store will have as many employees as local fridge magnet store.

Rolex is not a local company, and will take most of that money away from the local economy. Small shops can be owned by locals, so most of the money spent there stays in the local economy.

Poor tourists only generate a lot of low paying jobs because you need a lot of them to make any real money. Cities are trying to bring more rich tourists to maintain the level of revenue and instead of creating low paying jobs serving poor tourists grow other sectors of economy.

I’m pretty sure Rolex pays its employees the same as any other company. Probably close to minimum wage. Rolex doesn’t care about creating high paying jobs.

No tourist city I’ve ever lived in has ever worried about rich tourists. In fact, most people want them gone first.

Hotels aren’t more expensive than rentals. Hotels generate jobs, which rentals don’t. That’s why hotels are preferred. Hotels also don’t drive up house prices, because they’re purpose built.

Rich tourists don’t generate more revenue for locals than poorer tourists. In fact, poorer tourists might generate more money for locals because they’re more likely to shop in small businesses.

Either way, the biggest part of the income does not go to locals, but big corporations and owners.

Tourism also kills other businesses and sources of income, making a city even more dependent in more tourism. It makes everything more expensive too, so the cost of life increases, driving out locals.

It is a strong source of income, for who?

Certainly not the citizens. Mostly property owners that don’t even live in the city.

I2P traffic isn’t that difficult to detect or block, mainly because bootstrapping a node requires connecting to known reseed servers. They can block those reseed servers and your node would never be able to connect to the network.

It will work fine, the issue is drive degradation. Especially if you don’t have a lot of ram, swap will be used a lot. SSDs degrade with writes, so swapping on them reduces their life. This is especially noticeable on old or cheap SSDs, which tend to degrade faster. One example is those 8GB RAM macs with soldered 256GB SSDs, which due to cheap and small SSDs and low RAM were breaking really quickly.

If your SSDs have a lot if space, they are relatively new and you have a lot of RAM (32 GB is perfectly fine), you won’t have much issue. If you’re worried about it, you can always check drive health with smartctl

Afaik qbittorrent also has a feature to torrent over i2p

If you want a way to torrent without a VPN, while using anonymous networks, look into I2P. It’s not a mesh network, and it will be slow, but it’s suitable for torrenting.

All of the energy that does calculations gets turned into heat. The only energy that doesn’t get directly turned into heat is the mechanical energy produced by the fans (which ends up turning into heat), and the electromagnetic radiation (which also ends up turning into heat).

If the calculations didn’t convert energy into heat, a computer would essentially use no power. You can think of a computer like a really complex wire. The power consumption you see is actually the heat loss of that wire. The less heat you lose, the more efficient the wire is.

Not so forever now

He quit because of optics (understandably, Linux people didn’t like a Microsoft employee making software that was in almost every distro), but he still works with Microsoft and other Microsoft employees

The issue is that some idiot suddenly appeared on the systemd repo to immediately push a change that adds the posibility of logging the user’s age into systemd. The community complained and explained that nobody wanted that change, and yet this idiot pushed through, ignored the feedback, and ended up getting the pull request merged. Not only that, but the discussion thread was locked to prevent criticism, and the merge was done by Microsoft employees. After the merge, someone tried to undo the change, and the effort was blocked by a Microsoft employee.

Despite the excuses, Systemd is not an OS, and it doesn’t even need to comply with any age verification laws. The fact that someone went and implemented a deeply unpopular change into a system that shouldn’t even deal with that info and that is used by most Linux distros, just to aid a surveillance government in implementing better surveillance on the entire world’s users is what lead to the pushback.

Additionally, Lennart Poettering used Claude to review the pull request, and has been using it for developing SystemD. I’m not gonna go too deep into that, but trust me, it’s really bad.

Double additionally, Lennart Poettering also defended not properly securing this sensitive data, because that would be too bothersome for him.

I’m very sensitive to high frequency coil whine from electronics, but I’ve never heard a stove do that. I don’t know when you heard one make coil whine, or how cheap it was, but I can tell you I’ve never owned a stove with coil whine. I don’t even buy the most expensive ones (just midrange). Definitely give them another go.