I missed Eurovision’s finale this year, because I watched the 803th Interstellar Song Contest

I’m carefully spending my money by buying less games, mostly DRM-free indie games.

She was immediately placed under expedited removal—a process to quickly remove her without the right to have her case brought before a judge

Mateo’s attorney, Luis Campos, told reporters that when he attempted to visit her at TMC, ICE agents blocked the entrance to her hospital room

Isn’t she being denied the right to a fair trial, which is proclaimed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the United States Constitution? And the right to counsel?

I hope the USA see consequences for ignoring basic human rights and the rule of law. Including effects on tourism and foreign investments; fewer people would come to a country or invest in a country that blatantly ignore the rule of law and human rights.

Generating plausible-looking gibberish require resources. Giving any kind of response to these bots is a waste of resources, even if it’s giberish.

My current approach is to have a robots.txt for bots than honor it. And drop all traffic during 24h for IPs used by bots that ignore robots.txt or misbehave.

In my experience with bots, a portion of them obey robots.txt, but it’s tricky to find the user agent string that some bots react to.

So I recommend having a robots.txt that not only target specific bots, but also tell all bots to avoid specific paths/queries.

Example for dokuwiki

User-agent: *
Noindex: /lib/
Disallow: /_export/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /*?do=
Disallow: /*&do=
Disallow: /*?rev=
Disallow: /*&rev=

This dark pattern seems similar to what spammy companies do. After registering you’re automatically registering to 10 differents newsletters/spamlist. Clicking unsubsribe at the bottom of a newsletter removes you from 1 out of 10 lists. People either need to repeat the operation, or better, delete their account.

It’s an objective improvement over EMV which doesn’t protect privacy at all.

Taler protect payer privacy while exposing income information. Meaning it can help collect taxes to pay for infrastructure, education, public service, …

That’s a fine compromise. I hope Taler become a practical alternative to EMV and other shitty payment systems being pushed by banks.

I would settle for 100x slower but uncensored Internet.

Ça fait probablement partie de la réflexion. Mais ça ne règle pas le problème et impose aux FAI le développement d’un système de censure/modération. Les ayants droits c’est en permanence le concourt lépine des mauvaises solutions imposées aux autres.

Les clients Conversations (Android) et Dino (PC) sont relativement conviviaux et gèrent les réactions sous forme d’émoji sous les messages.

Conversations est très sobre en usage de batterie.

Ça fait un moment que j’aimerais tester Matrix mais le client officiel a un gros impact sur la batterie. Matrix semble intéressant mais a encore du boulot à ce niveau, et semble beaucoup dépendre d’un seul logiciel serveur développé par une société. Il n’existe pas d’autre serveur considéré stable à ma connaissance.

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The house I grew up in is much older than the USA’s inependance. It’s not the oldest building in town.

The town’s church is ~300 years older than Christopher Collumbus’ arrival in the Americas. If it didn’t burn twice, and didn’t had to be rebuilt twice, if would have been a few 100s of years older.

There are countless towns and cities with buildings older than the USA at every street corner here. That person obviously never been to Europe.

Discovering a huge deposit of easily accessible lithium is the kind of event that could make this kind of factory appear.

And regardless the kind of resource being mined, environment regulations are useful to limit environmental damage. As long as it’s sensible and enforced fairly, and not crafted specifically to manage renewables energy sector.

Pourquoi passer à nouveau par une obligation de blocage pour les FAI, alors que c’est fondamentalement facile à contourner ?

Est-ce qu’ils ils ont essayé de s’attaquer à l’éditeur du site lui même ? À son hébergeur ? À son registraire de nom de domaine ? Ces 3 acteurs sont plus directement impliqués qu’un FAI, et capable de couper le site à la source.

Posting here as this is relevant to global health

Please pay no attention to these distraction.

Do pay attention to the felonies, unethical cuts in lifesaving aid, attempt to undermine democracy.

Insurers take the first hit, but pass those costs to homeowners

Isn’t it the whole point of insurance? Spread the cost of reconstruction over a large number of people, over some period of time.

If climate change frequently destroy a large part of homes in an area, then living there won’t be viable, with or without insurance.

same on all chains. All have a proposal, discussion, implementation, waiting period (for code to be deployed), and activation

I though most of those steps didn’t occur on-chain in the case of bitcoin. But I could be mistaken.

Would you mind sharing a link with the equivalent information on bitcoin, ie its governance process and how each governance operation (proposal, vote, activation ) is handled by the chain?

I’m looking at BIP-1. It explains how to submit a proposal via mailing list and versioned repository, ie off-chain.

Also looking at BIP-9. It does rely on the chain for governance, and allow polling for the most popular soft-fork. But it focus on exclusively on testing soft forks, which severely limit its usefulness.

allowing multiple backward-compatible changes (further called “soft forks”) to be deployed in parallel.

It seems BIP-9 doesn’t provide a solution to propose/vote/activate the larger non-backward-compatible changes, ie doesn’t help prevent hard forks. And big social and environmental issues affecting bitcoin probably require such large change.

Tezos would still require all nodes to upgrade to the code which contains the new algorithm. It can’t just automatically know what the new code is. It then can schedule these to activate at a certain block using a signaling system of some sort.

Code proposal, vote on new code activation of new code, are all Tezos on-chain operation. These operations include a hash of the new code to be deployed. There’s some off-chain work happening to update tools, which I guess include compiling said code. So you’re right, some off-cain action is needed for deployment https://www.tezosagora.org/learn#an-introduction-to-tezos-governance

My understanding is that compared to BTC governance, a larger part of the process happen on-chain. Also there is a relatively smaller portion of nodes (baker) involved in creating/verifying blocks that must update. This allowed various protocol changes without forks over the years.

Funny, and sadly too plausible.