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May you never have to call someone to give them your mother's maiden name to unlock your account.

Very interesting list, but perhaps it is meant to include some hardline former members of the SED?

That description matches dozens of persons I know ;)

And that's how the CA system is actually supposed to work. You add to the trust store those entities you trust rather than those that are trusted by the browser makers...

To be fair that is exactly how the Internet itself was treated by the media in the 90s.

That's why I can get away with selling my home-made "cocacola" without legal issues.

Diplomatic status can be revoked in probably every country.

According to legend, the 1-second gap was patent-protected, so that's why not every manufacturer implemented it. Arguably became more of a problem after the Internet since on BBS you were mostly …

... and for $40/mo + $5/hour you can watch any movie while traveling with Netflix's special roaming plan!

Nit: You have to provision the VPS by peak usage, not dividing monthly usage evenly across the month. So if your peak is 13x the average (very easy, specially if you don't have a worldwide audien…

Their legit review probably also fit that profile (same IP, same domain, etc.)

I used to complain about IPv6 until I got it. It just works, and per-byte 93% of my data traffic is IPv6 now.

That describes so much of the history of Chomsky's theories...

No.

Tar does not implement decompression. If you don't have xz installed it won't work.

Yup, I don't know what GP is talking about. English literature would still be the most amazing national literature in scope and depth and popularity even if it didn't have Shakespeare. But i…

Brasilia, the capital of Brazil (mentioned in the article) was built by disciples of Le Corbusier. It is a horrible place, a totalitarian technocracy modeled as a city, a place that forgot that humans…

Let's not forget that while the official excuse for the closed market was to (somehow) foster the country's industry, the real reason was that Brazil was a dictatorship and the dictator was …

We can figure out Paxos but can't figure out how to order a server in Europe.

That's something that is little understood about gaming culture - from inviting friends over to take turns playing single-player games on the NES to Let's Play/Twitch/speed runs, g…

Supposedly the general feeling was of relief when you heard a V2 rocket strike. Because you knew you were still alive.

And in other news, for some reason, .horse is a top-level domain.

I think that adding the "probably" is probably being overly careful. Red Hat is an amazing company.