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You can vote in all other elections too, which would make a re-election of him have less bite.

It’s through eroding all systems between local mayor and the presidency that the right wing has any power.

The president has no power if all layers below his position are steadfast against him.

I got a company to install an extra consumer grade internet connection with a different ISP on top of the main (already redundant) business one.

Sold it to them as being best for redundancy and to make sure that if sync traffic between our 6 locations was heavy, it wouldn’t impact the main line.

The main line was actually more than sufficient to handle 100x the heaviest traffic we ever had. We were right next to a university, which got us a hookup to the national backbone on fiber (this was in the age of T1 and T3 lines being the norm, 2 of those 6 locations had to make due with 256KB lines), so it was rock stable, blistering fast and because it was backbone connected, utterly and completely unrestricted and unmonitored by third party.

But the advantage of consumer lines in that period was that cable and DSL were starting to become common for consumers, at speeds comparable to most business internet lines. These also usually had dynamic IPs.

This was simply so my and my colleagues internet and at the time Napster traffic wouldn’t show up on the traffic logs and wouldn’t be identifiable by our official IP range :p

AI still as splendid as ever butchering hands.

Because the delay is part of adblocker detection on non Chrome based browsers.

All I have left to say about Google and Youtube in particular is that Youtubes ads have become so problematic, both in amount and quality (like seriously, people get banned for using innocuous words in videos targeted at adult audiences, yet completely fucked up ads are squarely targeted at children) and at this point, it’s time for YouTube to die.

A new platform needs to come along.

Which will be hard since Google has such a stranglehold on the datacenter and backbone level that they have an absolute advantage when it comes to bandwidth and storage costs. Which is the main cost for video platforms like YouTube.

I suspect this is less of a slowdown and more of a “we’re trying to detect adblockers and in Chrome we can do most of this check on the application level which is fast, while on Firefox we have to do it the extra slow way and we CBA to optimize any of it because the delay is to our advantage.”

Yes.

In Belgium.

Generally you can only easily buy hunting rifles here.

But you can buy every kind of firearm if you get the proper licenses and have them registered.

My uncle is a gun nut. He doesn’t fire them other than the required qualification renewals. He’s more into them to show off and simply have them.

His most prized guns are a Barret M82-a1 and an antique “elephant gun” chambered in .577 Express.

He has a load of various revolvers, handguns, a couple ARs and an AK, all bought legally.

All but the “normal caliber” hunting rifles he owns are to be either disabled (firing pin removed) or stored at a shooting range.

Most of them are disabled and in a display case at his home. The Barret, 2 ARs and some of the handguns are at the shooting range.

EDIT: note, there are of course different regulations when you’re in a profession that requires a gun, like security.

My answer is how it is for your regular person that just wants guns for recreation or show.

Meanwhile, IRC just keeps trucking on.

Quite a few systems use torrent style distribution.

Heck, even Windows uses a distributed bandwidth system where you can set it to download chunks of updates from local networked systems.

All technologies, like bittorrent, nonSQL databases, blockchain, AI and the like become used as an invisible part of systems once the idiotic hype about the technology wanes.

None.

Halloween isn’t really a thing here, but last year the elderly home organized a Trick or Treating event where everyone was invited, but it was mainly setup to give the elderly a fun activity.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen people enjoy dressing up for Halloween as much as they did.

Yeah, my SSD can do somewhere around 7GB/s read/write, barely half that with the encryption enabled.

And I have an external USB carry with an NVMe drive which should be perfectly capable of doing the maximum (1GB/s on a USB3.1 port) , but with encryption enabled, it’s struggling to do over 350MB/s

I check both Reddit and Kbin, have both of them open in pinned tabs.

But I spend a whole lot less time on Reddit than I used to.

And it’s not like I now spend the less time I spend there on Kbin either, I’m just mostly beyond browsing it obsessively and do other crap instead.

Same with Twitter.

After I quit Twitter and moved to Mastodon, I do read my feed once or so a day, but compared to a year ago, I barely participate anymore.

The Nazis, Pedos and other whackjobs will stay tho. They’d be so convinced that the amplification of right wing chatter on there, because everyone else has left, means they are now everyone and “won”.