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Love your commitment to this. You are doing excellent work to keep Wirth's computing spirit alive. Oberon's philosophy ( https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Oberon/Oberon07.Report.pdf…

It's not for you or me - it's for the AI companies so that they can have "human" content (good luck with that).

True. Australia is part of the Five Eyes alliance. Fastmail is an Australian company. Australia also has the Assistance and Access Act - https://havenmessenger.com/blog/posts/austr…

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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208461

What rubbish - only fools will believe that Russia has an interest in starting a nuclear WW3. Historically, Russia has never militarily attacked any NATO country. (And most of the …

If it is local, they probably can. But VoIP being international is the problem. See Why in the year of our lord 2022 am I still getting robocalls??? - https://www.vox.com/recode/22…

Many scammers use internet telephony to call someone and some even spoof the caller id. In India, the mobile companies request subscribers to report any international call which sh…

When there is smoke, there is often a fire. Columbia's Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio has also accused Israel and US of political interference and electoral manipulati…

That's one part of it. The current Government of Spain also believes it's a ploy to cause their electoral defeat in the future and help the Spanish right- come to power, and that t…

You are right, I was mistaken. Apparently permanent residency is a must now. The only way to bypass the employment based green card quota is to marry an American citizen.

Browsers have to kowtow too ...

> most Indians who immigrated to the US after 2010 will never become citizens in their lifetime because of the green card backlog. While a green card makes it easier to get a US ci…

Yeah, learnt the hard way to have backups in multiple medias and that you have to refresh / re-copy your backups every 4-5 years. Wish we had consumer tape drives so that it could …

Depends on the political perspective. Has the US bet all on AI tech to retain its power? Yes. AI tech currently is very energy intensive. So energy infrastructure too needs money t…

I am guessing, but many of us still use CDs / DVDs (/BluRays?) to make backups. It's cheap. Lasts long.

Now all it needs to do is fix its freshwater problems ...