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A 16 pack of extra-strength paracetamol, which is more than enough to kill you in one sitting, is 65p at Tesco.

Do you really think someone intent on killing himself will look at a blister pack and think, "You know, if this was in a bottle I'd go through with it, but this doesn't seem worth it, it's way too much work to take me own life"?

Hanlon's razor applies here.

There is no reason any company of any size should run out of IPv4 addresses internally, IF they are doing proper IP management. If I were to wager a guess I'd say there was a lot of waste going on, issuing /24s or larger to teams when all they need are /29s etc. It adds up over time. Once they exhaust private IP space they can always buy more at auction. They are Amazon after all, there's no shortage of money. This is just mismanagement of resources.

10%?! 10% is huge. So we should assume presumption of guilt with a 10% error rate?

If 10% of all planes crashed, you would never set foot on one. For comparison, the chance of dying in a plane crash is 0%... to the 7th or 8th decimal place.

The people that should be ashamed are those making false accusations, and those dumb enough to believe them.

Who made YouTube judge and jury?

Let's say, for the sake of argument, YouTube demonitized all Irish because they unilaterally decided they're all plonkers and they're a private company and they can do what they want. Because that's the level of absurdity here.

Nor do your examples hold water. This isn't a situation of "you were caught stealing paperclips on video". Rather, it's more a case of Sally the tart from accounting has accused you of fingering her in a pub toilet ten years ago when you were both drunk and now ten years later she decides she's upset so let's engage the digital lynch mob and proceed with ruining your life because we all know women never lie.

That's generally the premise behind "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law", as opposed to "guilty whenever the histrionic internet mob and its tech enablers deem it so".

How is that any different or of more concern than any other ISP in existence?

And the solution is to route all traffic through Google - an advertising company quite literally renowned for its data mining habits and abilities.

Yes we should all be worried about the local coffee shop who can barely make payroll manipulating our network traffic. Fortunately we can now proxy all traffic through an internet advertising company, with credentials tying it to our identity. We should all consider ourselves fortunate this option now exists. Who knows what Sally's doing with my DNS queries in exchange for a cappuccino. Might as well have Google hoover it all up so they can keep us safe.

You could get to the truth by reading between the lines in the whistleblower report after they fired Mudge, whom Jack brought in as an infosec consultant. I'd suggest reading it, it's quite an eye opener to pre-Musk Twitter. Notably their security culture was described as being 10 years behind industry standards, over half of their nearly 500,000 servers were running unpatched OSes that were EOL and no longer receiving updates, over 25% of employee computers had security updates disabled, etc. Over half their employees had access to prod. It reads like the dumpster fire you would expect from a year 1 startup yet their literal army of essential, irreplaceable, webshit cybergeniuses allowed all this to happen under their watch. Any rational person would read this and conclude, "What were these people doing all day?"

He means they were overpaid wankers who went to the office to mostly socialize and take advantage of free gourmet food. This isn't hyperbole, these people proudly documented it on their social media accounts and I've seen the footage.

The fact that Twitter hasn't gone completely offline in a fireball as predicted over and over by these same people itself proves they were redundant.

A professional athlete likes to lie down with ladies? Say it isn't so.

I've read Richard's blog (his "political notes") and I come away with a feeling that his extreme politics at the very least clouds his thinking, if not directly influences it.

The end result is he carefully picks and chooses topics for which he is passionate about (in the context of computing and 'software freedom') nearly right up and down party lines.

By enterprise he means non-webshit industry.

Because mushrooms are NOT "super high in protein".

A comparable serving of beef has about 12x the amount of protein as mushrooms.

Indeed, many programs interpret a kill -HUP signal as a "re-read config" command.