That’s both smart and worrying.

Disabling interconnexion shows what still work, and what breaks when only the country’s own network is accessible. Doing multiple short tests allows gradually building a more isolated network while limiting disruptions.

Is there a server component, or is everything running in the browser?

Supporting SciHub and Archive.org, or just not suing them, would also help.

Publishers decided to sue unfortunately:

• US court grants Elsevier millions in damages from Sci-Hub
• Internet Archive Opposes Publishers in Federal Lawsuit

The mobile standard setter, GSMA, and Google have said encryption will be coming to RCS, but there’s no firm date yet.

GSMA, please don’t come up with yet another poorly designed encryption standard.

The IETF is already working on Messaging Layer Security (MLS), please work with IETF and adopt MLS. IETF have more experience and do a good job at designing secure protocols. And multiple organisations and services are already working on adapting MLS (Mozilla, Google, Matrix, Wire, …)

As an alternative to newspaper and magazine subscriptions, go to your local library’s (website).

My library card allows me to access a bunch of newspaper and magazines online, and cost me just a very low yearly fee.

I understand being bumed out by what’s being reported in these articles, these are bad news. But I don’t see an obvious hard right turn in how NPR is reporting. The article on Elon even mentions criticism for SpaceX’s environmental impact.

He’s also giving more material to the CoC board by posting this. He’s free to do it but it’s not helping.

I wish he would avoid commenting and stay away from the drama, until he hears from the board if there’s any complaint and what it is.

I wasn’t aware, that’s surprising from NPR. Could you please share the title or link to the NPR articles you’re referring to?

Still, better than Xitter.

“I can potentially make it really big,” Lin said, hopeful despite the modest earnings.

This sounds like Uberisation, ie relying on entrepreneur wannabes to replace employees and warehouses with self-employed workers and their living room. I’d be curious to see if it allows them to earn a living wage with a 40h week, or if it’s exploitative.

Every service may be abused to spread misinformation. Here, the complaint isn’t that people abuse a service against the owner’s will, but that the service is operated to spread misinformation.

One way to address this could be to look at moderation. Is there meaningful moderation to limit misinformation? A service operated to spread misinformation wouldn’t moderate it.

It’s worse than that. Trump is a danger for the environment and climate. And the whole world will suffer consequence.

EV producers in the US are going to take a hit, whereas the ones in China and the EU would probably be fine.

Sounds like shooting itself in the foot.

Is this for real?

Telling your contacts not to use Google nor Meta/Facebook. If everyone you email use gmail, then Google has all your emails.

This isn’t a basic copy of a whole file. This is creating a new file from a portion of an existing file.

Are there downsides to using reflinks, like alignment and read performance issues?

Compatibility shouldn’t be an issue, ie it should be relatively simple and safe to have a fallback that copy when reflink isn’t available.

Even so, we shouldn’t accept it as a norm

Then someone will write an utility that automatically sets timezone using geoclue location data.

There’s the environmental impact: these ultra-fast planes burn through massive amounts of fuel, releasing far more emissions than regular aircraft

Hypersonic flights are a way to get us to a NON-inhabitable earth faster than ever before.