jfernandezr

Spain's blackout was exactly 1 year ago, no other blackouts since. And the mix of nuclear stayed almost the same.

That was not a stabilization problem per-se, but the companies that had to do the stabilization just didn't although the were being paid for that. Please read the final report.

After the huge impact on the PC gaming community, it's logical to despise AI and ban it from any awards. First cryptocurrencies pumped huge price raises on GPUs, then prices won't return to normal due to AI and now it's impacting RAM prices.

Next year a lot of families will struggle to buy a needed computer for their kids' school due to some multibillion techs going all-in.

Also the DigitalOcean deoplet includes 500GB per month, which for me is absolutely limited. Last month I consumed about 10TB.

The article doesn't mention it, but there is an increasing worry that the USA could remotely disable some jet functionalities at will, or that any basic operation should be monitored and approved by them. So, this is not a reliable weapon that any country would like, unless the politicians agree to be vassals for life.

Wow, initially I thought this was the typical libertarian thing to pay less taxes. But thanks to your explanation, I see that the scheme is absolutely crazy. Software devs salaries, as any other employee, should be considered an expense.

But, in a second thought, if you sell a software that you hand crafted to a single customer, in Spain, the software enterprise currently deducts all salaries, while the customer has to depreciate the cost. Think about that in the likes of building an expensive machine: the manufacturer deducts all costs while the customer has to depreciate the machine cost over 20 years.

So the question is, how should a software development piece be considered when it's used internally? Why if you sell that software to others have a tax implication different than if you yourself use it?

That's a very difficult question to answer with too many edges.

I would love that Firefox focuses on the browser. I think I wouldn't oppose some monetizing strategy like DDG based on affiliate sales, or even a realistic affordable subscription model (10€/year?). They should put the efforts on privacy and good website usage, maybe include an ad blocker.

But we'll have to wait until Google finally stops paying them for the default search engine. Maybe diverting resources on the Firefox Focus brand will be a transition phase.

I remember when doing web development in 2001 in a company with massive traffic we had a total size limit imposed in each landing page or site, kind of what it's still required for ad networks.

It wasn't unusual to reject some designs due to weight. 500 Kb tops at the begging, so degraded backgrounds were a no-go.

I only have configured a task in Shortcuts that I find useful. I'm a freelance, and sometimes I have to use my personal car to do some work. So, I did a task that I voice activate on CarPlay in order to record the current mileage into a Notes note, storing the current date and the voice transcribed mileage.

I could not find another use for Shortcuts because there aren't enough integrated apps.

Spanish here. IMO all those services should be state owned. Set them with a tariff-free base monthly consumption and start charging beyond that threshold.

I'm ok with private companies providing the service to the state, if they think they can do it more efficiently and with fair pay to their workers. And, short leases, no more than 3 year contracts. But the current scenario, where most of the services are effectively privatized, is awful, expensive, inefficient and corrupt.

I've been trying to go IPv6 in my network for several years, but it is really impossible. My ISP (Movistar, one of the big ones in Spain) does not enable it on its fiber network, although there is a beta program that does not allow new joins.

I've obviously configured HE's Tunnelbroker, and technically it works great. The downside is that their closest tunnel endpoint is in Paris and then all the usual web services identify my traffic as VPN/proxied/bot and it makes a constant flow of captcha solving requests or directly service refusal.

Adding to that, my wife cannot work from home, as the VPN her company uses fails when on IPv6.

If nothing big and dramatic happens in the close future, we'll be on IPv4 beyond my retirement.

This is what I don't understand. In Spain you can only vote in your assigned precinct. Otherwise, you have to vote by mail.

Every mail vote collected by the Postal Service gets delivered on the election day to the assigned precinct. At the end of the day, all those votes are mixed in the ballot box and then counting starts. It takes no more than three hours to get the 99.5% of the votes counted nationwide.

In order to vote by mail, you have to walk into any Postal Service office with your valid government ID and explicitly ask for it. The PS agent will verify your identity and will send you the voting papers to the address you register into. Then, you do your choices and go back to any PS office and send the vote to your electoral precinct by certified mail.

From the moment you ask for mail voting, you get marked in your precinct as a mail voter, so you cannot go in person and vote anymore. You can, though, on the election day go to your precinct and verify that your vote is there.

I don't see the difficulty on this.

The cookies popup at least made aware to a lot of people that over 800 companies want to access your data if you visit a site.

Firefox Focus works great. I have it set as the default browser in iOS and use it for browsing sites and opening pages from Feedly or other applications. As soon as I close it, say goodbye to cookies and all tracking info. It's like a private browsing browser.

If I need to go to a site and log in, then I use Firefox with standard protection (and then use the built-in password manager). But I do 95% of browsing in mobile that I want private, so FF Focus is a gift.

Because, as it happens with a lot of apps, the developer teams, product managers or whoever with decision powers are not users of their own applications.