Don’t forget brib…sorry, I mean lobbying from rich people and corporations owning a lot of properties.

Yes, but 1000ms latency is super bad. No service has anything even close to that high.

It is rejected, for now. But that could change, only really takes one massive game to do it to open the floodgates.

U don’t think it will happen, but what if GTA6 did it? They would be big enough to be able to pull it off, and most of their revenue will probably come from online anyway, so adding a base game subscription could make sense for them.

Very much depends on the game though. A bit of lag in strategy/city builder/etc is not really an issue. But in a competive shooter it is a huge deal.

Levitate? Do I look like some priest? I just blink away!

Or more likely, hit blink, it bugs out and you go half a meter backwards instead… But then you can always ice block or slow fall to save the day!

other warlock

It is always the warlocks that are the problem.

Signed, a mage

Getting a replacement SIM from the phone company is often shockingly easy, just a tiny bit of social engineering. And then you have access to the number and everything that 2FA “protects”

They also know that just a tiny tiny percentage of users will go into settings, and even less actually change something.

I used (g)Vim on windows back when I used that

Imagine if it did get that kind of funding

It highly depends on their contract and if they are a big name or not. There is a reason a lot of bands tour though as they make a lot of more money from it than CD sales.

Having a single centralized source will always give those issues. It can go down either temporarily or permanently. It is all part of the conveniance/single-point-of-failure scale.

In the short run it going down will cause some issues, which can be mitigated by having local mirrors of critical repos. However, moving to another place should in theory be as easy as replacing github.com with gitlab, codeberg, your-local-git-server url, etc (and auth info of course)

Actually testing what will happen if github and/or other services are down and see how your product or build pipeline handles it, is a very good thing to do, but very rarely is it done. It can be easily accomplished by for example adding a drop rule in iptables. Testing for bad things never seems to happen though, and then when it really is a problem nothing works and everyone panics.

I dont like having 90%ish of all git repos all in one handbasket. Even if MS was benevolent, its not good to have all things in one place. A bad actor could take down all of GH and we would be screwed.

That is not how git works though. If github disappeared today it would be a lot of confusion, but the code exists everywhere it is checked out. The owner/maintainer (or anyone really) can just add a new remote and push it. If they use github specific features like issues, they would be lost though.

It doesn’t really matter how you measure it, number of flights, duration, distance traveled, etc… No matter which, air travel is by far the safest option. The only other that comes anywhere near is trains. Going by car is bad (though motorcycle is even worse), but so many are afraid of flying that they instead takes the car. Which is among the worst things you could do from a safety point of view.

Humans are awful at accessing risk and chance, one of the reasons casinos and lotteries thrive.

Look at fear of flying for an example, all statistics say you are many many many times over more likely to get into a car accident on your way to the airport, than during the flight. Even when the ride to the airport is usually short and the flight very long. Yet people are afraid of flying, but not going by car. By percentage, there are of course those, rightly so, afraid of cars as well.

Some TLDs don’t allow full unicode either. Country TLDs usually just add their own special chars, for example .se (sweden) allows åäö.

The whole thing has a name as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack

I open the series folder from the mounted network share and watch it in VLC.

Similar, but I have a RPI by the TV running LibreELEC and Kodi.

Just a matter of time until you can’t chose what to watch on the lowest tier, you have to follow their playlist of what you should watch.

And we have come full circle back to broadcast TV

Pretty naive to think someone isn’t doing it already, but as someone else said you don’t need to shutdown for it. Infact it is worse if you shut down as you don’t get new data.

I think that is just an effect of growing, or at least not shrinking and sticking around. There is ni point in spaming somewhere where there are no active users.