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OP lives in Rome, where the average driver mentality is somewhere between "need for speed" and "carmageddon". Basically no one is ever willing to wait for anyone else, as OP's reas…

Acting like what makes Rome's traffic dangerous are cyclists or moped drivers (even if those can often be quite reckless) is basically victim-blaming. We should never take such pos…

This is indeed correct. Wikimedia overall uses less than 2000 bare-metal servers, so yes the infrastructure is tiny compared to those. What can be interesting, I think, is that you…

It's both a waste of donor money and a starvation of resources for people actually consulting images on wikimedia commons.

Any for-profit entity hotlinking Commons is unfair. Heck, they have the right to redistribute freely the image as they see fit, instead of consuming resources that are a common goo…

Purges have been migrated to kafka as a mean of transport, at long last. So now if a purging daemon crashes, purge requests are not lost. You can see per-server stats on purges hap…

The real throwback would be going back to use newsgroups, and only have competent people posting.

The hard upper limit on a neutron star mass, the Rhoades-Ruffini limit, is at 3.2 solar masses. This discovery is significant, because we never found a collapsed object in the 2-3 …

The article is full of inaccuracies and errors. Confusing threads with eventloops is just one of them. I can't imagine it's being upvoted.

You remember incorrectly. It was a plan from a past Executive Director that never even started.

Changing of ownership fundamentally resets the trust we all had in PIA, which was due to you having proven in court you deliver on what you declare. And in the VPN world, trust is …

I did unsubscribe a couple weeks ago and got a canned response too, almost immediately. When your business is privacy and trust, any acquisition is problematic. Let alone an acquis…

That's only partially true. A big part of security is your relationship with the people providing you hosting. The compromises to nordvpn and others came from a rogue hosting compa…

When you people will be able to scale git to accept the number of revisions Wikipedia has, and add several new ones per second with millisecond latencies, please let me know. Also,…

Physics gave up being "deterministic" (in the sense you used the term in) about 120 years ago. And mathematics is just a convenient tool with which we describe reality, no one woul…

What a whole bunch of inaccuracies. I have no time to waste rebutting all the multiple falsehoods in this post, but I want people living in other countries know that it is filled w…

booking.com and hotels.com 50/50? LOL. And yes, failing to kill booking.com when Expedia was a clear market leader is a huge mistake indeed.

Techops at WMF here: the TL;DR is "no", but I can get into details. MediaWiki accounts for the lion's share of the servers we run (between MW itself and the databases and the objec…

If McDonald's provided cheap food by ignoring the labor laws, would that be fair? Or any safety regulation on how food is preserved, etc. I could go on, but I think you get my poin…

The solution to that is to allow more licences, and maybe to use those new licences to compensate current drivers for the loss of value of the licence they bought. Allowing a corpo…

Selling at a loss when you have a lot of money will give you an unfair advantage over others that can't sell at a loss. You do that so that you can take a stranglehold on the marke…

Please beware Italy is not a common law country so legal precedents are not binding, and you do need a new law here to future regulate something.

heh, yes, just wrote this too early in the morning. Editing, thanks!