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> They were aware there were issues, and negotiations happened on how to fix them, with the French leaving them with the impression everything is good. The French culture is to nev…

Yep. France has sufficient votes on its side to veto this. EU voting rules make it easier to stop something than to get something done.

France cannot get the EU behind it. On the original contract in 2016, Germany also bid and in all likelihood could have won, since Germany has far more experience with building non…

These things, like user accounts, more auth methods, flexible endpoints, IP pools, ..., should be integrated in a product in a secure manner. What wireguard does is the irresponsib…

There are, but they can only audit and report. Change and punishment would need to happen politically, but that would need a majority of states. Two thirds of the states profit fro…

Lowering rents was part of the plan anyways, I think. Market manipulation through rent caps has been tried before and (in the Berlin version) declared unconstitutional.

Context switching overhead is bad for microkernel performance. All the reasons why the userspace wireguard implementation was slower apply to each and every part of a microkernel s…

Problem is, "not be paying market rates" will never happen. Market rates will be paid, because disowning anyone for the public good is only constitutional, if market rates are paid…

Berlin doesn't care about money. Back when separated by the iron curtain, Berlin always got a special deal in federal/state finances because of its situation. After reunification, …

Nope, UCS-2. Which is UTF-16, but just the BMP, so only the first 65k codepoints and all characters are fixed-length 16bits. Only later windows versions at some point learned UTF-1…

Well, easy in case of VW: If the optimization involves checking "steering wheel has never moved out of 0 position since engine start" and "intake air is at exactly 293K", then it i…

Red tape. Medical devices need to (depending on type and country) conform to medical device regulations, be approved by a medical device regulator, be sold only to medical professi…

All the Java world is still firmly stuck in XML-land. So a better XML editor in Eclipse is right where it is needed.

Microsoft doesn't cater to the more knowledgeable admin population I guess. They are used to the point-and-click crowd mindlessly accepting every answer as gospel. Because usually …

Transmission or no transmission is a huge difference in maintenance cost. And land locations south of Hannover are poor conditions for wind turbines generally, with few exceptions.…

It used to be "form follows function". Then came "function follows form". After that "form follows phantasy". Design is just masturbation nowadays, design has lost any practical pu…

Should have mentioned, I'm running testing/unstable. After the stable release, all the new experimental stuff for the next release floods into unstable.

Agreed. The latest Debian upgrade installed pipewire for me, and I didn't even notice, everything just worked fine! And that after years and years of fiddling with alsa and pulseau…

Another copycat change to get the same crappy non-ergonomics in unrecognizable controls as the others. Can we please fast-forward all the UI circus to arrive at something usable ag…

Thank you, your phrasing is far better and clearer than mine.

Well, obviously China is suspected of having let Covid-19 escape, so of course this is first and foremost about restrictions that affect China.. What are you getting at? Also, of c…

We are already at 4 Million fatalities from Corona, with a probably significant unknown number of deaths in third-world countries without proper diagnostics and healthcare. Vaccina…

There is a long waiting list for research at the south pole. Also, if that research is important enough, it can be sufficiently high-paid, so that people willing to do it can be fo…

1. An unsafe lab is one, where pathogens can possibly get out with a non-negligible probability. And where those pathogens are infectious and deadly enough to be of concern. 2. Mic…

It is theoretically true. They have changed the protocol at least three times, there are no user-accessible settings (just about:config) to point at your own sync server, there is …