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Comment · 13 days ago
Nope, they're not blocked from youtube, they simple cannot have accounts. Nor are are providers required to check ID.
Comment · 15 days ago
Doubt they'll go over well in Australia as well, given the media bargaining code.
Comment · 15 days ago
Nope, the whole point of this is to remove the coupling for UTC. You can either have monotonic time (or at least per-observer monotonic time), or you can follow earth's rotation. Choosing monotonic time is perfectly fine (and feel free to pick your epoch and time unit), but like we have timezones such that 12:00 means something (mostly), having the human conception of what time means does imply that we do kinda need to look at what's happening outside.
Comment · 15 days ago
Then those chromium flags should not exist.
Comment · 18 days ago
I'm not sure what you think specifically needs maintaining, it's the same as LAMP, LEAN, JAM and the various stack acronyms? The BSD you choose is naturally maintained by the various BSD distros (though there's an implicit assumption of OpenBSD as will become obvious), C is C (so defer to your C-complier), httpd comes from OpenBSD (https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8), and SQLite is SQLite. You can naturally choose to add additional libraries (some are suggested on the site, I don't know what their status is, but the article includes libcurl and libsodium, which are also well maintained), but as the example shows, you don't need much to start with. A key thing that's a bit hidden is the use of CGI and the various OpenBSD hardening tools (e.g. pledge, unveil), which make exploiting the C binary much harder than on other systems.
Comment · 19 days ago
Given https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-10/how-firmus-the-bigges... and the above, I'd say we're already primed for a fall. Given 5 years is a pretty long time (that's 3 US elections cycles where politics can increase uncertainty about AI), and the length it took for the subprime market to create the GFC (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Subprime_mortgage_origina...) looks to be about 3-5 years, I'd be 99% sure the crash would happen by then (with the 1% covering both the uncertainty in the cycle and something odd happening).
Comment · 22 days ago
Absent either strong unions (or similar bargaining capability) or laws, businesses (and employers more generally) do get to dictate the terms of employment. The gig economy is an excellent example of it, no 40-hour work weeks there (which to be clear, I think is a bad thing, we need stronger employment laws). Furthermore, when bargaining you need to work out your aims, what conditions you are willing to trade off. By far the simplest way to reduce your hours is to take a pay cut (and similarly, to reduce the number of days with the same pay is to work more hours per day), so again, unless you want a pay cut, I don't see where the less hours in winter come from (I'm not located somewhere it snows, but maybe you could do a hybrid WFH where you left early to ensure your commute was in daylight and argue that it's a WHS improvement)?
Comment · 24 days ago
Except you're not going to be more productive working those additional hours in the summer, so as unless you're willing to take the respective pay cut for working less hours, this proposal is a non-starter. Personally, I'd argue that more (smaller e.g. 15 minute) shifts would be better (and you could more closely track sunrise), and avoid the hard shift which it feels is the main complaint people have with switching timezone.
Comment · 24 days ago
That is exactly the same as timezones, except uncoordinated, so even more of a mess.
Comment · 24 days ago
You can have smaller timezones.
Comment · 24 days ago
Exactly, time zones exist (and have always existed, they only appeared once you needed to coordinate time across different places) as a coordination mechanism. Who and what you need to align with (e.g. where you sit on the international date line, your latitude and longitude for the solar phase) is the important part, not the actual number that appears on the clock (or on someone else's clock for that matter).
Comment · 1 month ago
Unless you only use what's in the "main" section (which is surprising small, far more things are in "universe" than you'd expect), then you are getting the same software (or sometimes even older) than Debian.
Comment · 1 month ago
Debian and Arch are the same, grub at the end.
Comment · 1 month ago
Pretty sure it's supposed to be parody.
Comment · 1 month ago
Planets travel along the ecliptic, so they're pretty easy to map.

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