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There is a quote, I can't remember by whom, going something like "all translation is interpretation" (IIRC I heard it on a great courses course on the bible). To think that there i…

I wonder how true this is, we have the same system in Sweden, that court judgement are not legally binding precedent for lower courts. But in practice lower courts will follow the …

Do you have any examples of this?

I can highly recommend the radio documentary https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/vipeholmsanstalten-min-... it's horrifying (in Swedish of course but hopefully more understandable…

I like Rust and have an ambition to learn it as well (I've had a few false starts...). One of my issues that I have is that every (slight exaggeration) library that I seem to come …

IIRC CIRA who is the delegated ccTLD manager of .ca is not a government entity (this is quite common in the ccTLD space actually, a lot of ccTLD are being managed by foundations or…

I think RDAP is going to be adopted by more and more ccTLDs as well. WHOIS is not a particularly well liked protocol (I was at an IETF meeting where ICANN did a presentation on the…

There are a variety of ways! Some TLDs gives you open access to just query the DNS and do an AXFR (download the whole zone), for example the .se and .nu ccTLDs (which I happen to w…

IIRC those were dropped by a second plane accompanying the Enola Gay.

I have some insight into this domain (pun duly intended), I work for a foundation managing two ccTLDs. Once the ccTLD has been delegated to an entity it is very hard to get that ba…

I know two people that spend some of their time writing COBOL for a major bank. They do find that part of the job pretty boring, it is basically just writing down SQL queries in a …

If you want WHOIS with a better defined format we have a protocol for that! It's called RDAP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_Data_Access_Proto...

The British Museum have somewhere on the order of 8 million objects. Having been collected since 1759 (and indeed before) in various state of being catalogued correctly at the time…

They say quite clearly why in their privacy policy: https://proton.me/legal/privacy (section 2.5: IP Logging). > 2.5 IP logging: By default, we do not keep permanent IP logs in rel…

The problem for Ukraine was that they didn't have that much control over the weapons. The ability to launch them was only something Moscow could do (they might have been able to re…

I think everyone working in this space (i.e spaced repetition learning, tools for thought etc) should read Andy Matuschak ( https://andymatuschak.org/ ). There is a lot to learn fr…

If you'd tried going to fnac.nl or say use curl for a http request you'd see that it is in fact correct. Ping does not a http request make as they said in the olden days.

Those are all part of the DNS.

While there are certainly complex and weird stuff in the DNS world. The basic of how the DNS works is really not that complicated.

The DSA has already been passed and there are no "prohibited" services (the digital service coordinator can under some special circumstances request a limited suspension of service…

This is just wrong. In many EU countries the free speech protections are quite extensive (and some of us live in countries that have protected speech longer than the U.S have been …

Indeed you can. All Swedish unions will publish annual reports that include information on what they've done and what the money has been spent on. Here are all the reports for the …

Microsoft also has financial incentives with their PhotoDNA software [0]. [0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna

I certainly didn't say that Wikipedia claims he is a loony conspiracy theorists (I am though implying that the scientific field of archaeology thinks that) and I didn't mock you, b…