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Merit-order pricing keeps consumer prices high. Whether it is the best mechanism to incentivize a transition towards renewable energy sources is debatable, but OP at least implies …

This would require a complete new ecosystem and likely new language where any degradation of code flow becomes communicatable in a standardized and fully documented fashion. The cl…

One thing that has not quite been mentioned in the blog, is how much of the MITM spyware comes from very big and well known „security“ companies. You know, the ones that really kno…

The GPDR is not criminal law. But ignoring that, regulators barely pursue GPDR violations. Consider the swaths of dark patterns surrounding cookie terror banners. The GPDR language…

If I infiltrate someone else’s computer, secretly run code in order to to exfiltrate data I risk prison time because objectively it seems to satisfy criminal laws over where I live…

We operate an MSP business for tens of thousands of customers and have our own ASN, but gmail outright refuses all our corporate email. Why? We do not know and gmail refuses to tel…

You can run your own mail server and name server on top. The network of mail is very much federated. In mail we have so many freedoms. We have become so locked into technology that…

Bandwidth costs next to nothing these days. And it is also rarely if ever measured in petabytes. Commercially percentile based (in terms of speed) billing is the norm, but that onl…

You can use your own router in Germany, this is enforced by the regulation agency BNetzA. Your ISP must provide you with sufficient information to set it up.

As a point of interest, there is a class of patterns called Standard Essential Patents (SEP), which the patent holder is required to sell licenses under fair, reasonable, and non-d…

What is even more interesting: At a given power rating, coal plants produce up to 3 times more radioactivity than nuclear power plants directly in leftover ash because coal contain…

The modern supply chains behave this way precisely because no such requirements exist. It’s a typical facade argument you might hear from politicians when they parrot lobbiysts.

GDPR has no such exclusion criteria. The definition is astonishingly simple: ‘Personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data s…

Neither is the case. Elm semantics were originally loosely based on functional reactive programming in the sense of Conal Elliot, as per the thesis of its author. Redux on the othe…

The primary problem is language/library designers/users believing there must be one true canonical meaning of the word „length“ like you just did, and that „length“ would be the be…