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In countries other than the USA there are strict controls on personal information.

The UK/European countries have GPDR for example.


This has nothing to do with GDPR, but nice try. By default you need to provide your details for domain registration, to hide these details is optional.

Nothing wrong with that, but coupled with hiding yourself on open source project as well and coupled with host which proudly advertises:

Dedicated Servers & VPS with DMCA Ignored Hosting

No, thanks. Probably Russkis but still.


Having the support chat on Telegram is really sketchy. No thanks.


Actually the entire whois database is "privacy protected" because of GPDR (if my memory is correct)

Thankfully, because I used to get postal scams for the hundred or so domains I used to host.

You good for tinfoil bro?


I am not your bro, and no you are not correct.


* plan9 PORT sigh the clue is in the name


Yes, it's a plan9 port; why would you expect it to change any more than is absolutely needed to get it running on the new host OS?


Yes, not plan9.

I despair at your (and GGP) lack of comprehension


I don't think it's a lack of comprehension, so much as that we disagree what a "port" means.


I was correcting the user's "plan9" comment.

It's a port of a collection of plan 9 userspace to a non-9 operating system.

Perhaps you've now learnt something

GG


We've seen this before and we'll probably see it again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NO2ID

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194


Not really. British governments have always been increasingly authoritarian.

The stated reason is to stop illegals working.

Unfortunately we have an ID for working, called a national insurance number. We literally can't get legally paid without it.

So a National ID card ... Is irrelevant. You still need this number for benefits, etc.

I've got an NI number, a driving license and a passport. Not to mention a NHS number.

I don't need another form of identification to link together everything about me so my government can leak everywhere.


NI is not ID for working. It's a tax identifier.

The ID for working system is https://www.gov.uk/prove-right-to-work , with its digital ID "share code" https://www.gov.uk/view-right-to-work

(what does the digital ID scheme add to this again?)


Yes, and to be paid via PAYE you need a NI number.

The prove right to work is a slightly newer thing thats additional


The nuance is that you can have a NI number, then have your visa lapse for whatever reason - you still have the NI number. Hence the requirement to prove your right to work through another means.

Previously you could use proof of British nationality or a physical biometric residence card - but they've been replaced by the digital share code system (which tbh hasn't been too bad)


No, those are still the ways of proving you have the right to work, it’s only if you’re not a national that you need the share code.


Sorry I worded that poorly - I was trying to make the point that citizens prove their right to work using passport/birth certificate, and until recently visa holders used a physical BRP, and now a digital system (which oddly enough uses your expired/redundant BRP number as a username)


The share code stuff is not for nationals. It’s not clear to me exactly how it works and whether it’s scalable.


Sorry, you're not trying hard enough to find bad cases of terrible professional software.

Besides, the article reads like a noob using xcode for the first time.


True.

I'm in rural UK. Blessed with fast fibre. However if the power goes out, it's a proper blackout. I'm slowly sorting out the ups situation along with nut

When the power goes out or fibre dies I cannot rely on 4/5G as they die also, so starlink is the only option


For how long and how often does your power go out? Living just across the channel in NL, I don’t know that I’ve ever had my power go out one time in the last 3 years that I’ve lived here.


There was a 60-hour-long power outage in parts of Berlin, Germany, just 5 days ago. However, to be fair, it only affected like a quarter of the city, and it was caused by an intentional attack (arson) rather than a malfunction.


Not S3, but I use longhorn to store persistent data on my clusters.

Sometimes you'll need admin skills, but only if you spread your cluster out over availability zones or poor connections


Huh? It was fairly common for typewriter ribbons to be destroyed where confidential information was typed, as it was possible to acquire previously typed characters.


Obviously. But how obviously to someone who assumes anything without an Internet connection is constitutionally unsurveillable thereby? How does it occur to you to destroy a ribbon, or consider all the other methods by which a sufficiently motivated adversary will defeat your toy air gap, if you believe your air gap isn't a toy?

Of course we are deep into the realm of movie plots already, where we've fantasized a superstate-or superhuman-level adversary still somehow capable of being defeated by "going crude." But if that's where we're going to hang out, why half-ass it?


I realize that your /s key is broken, but ...

... you would be shocked by how much could be surveilled back then. Pretty much any voice communicated were sent in the clear. It didn't much matter whether it was sent over wire or over the air. Snail mail was virtually always sent as clear text. Even digital communications were rarely encrypted. Even ignoring the legality of it, few people had the creativity to envision a world of secure communications or wanted to expend their (limited) computing power on it. There were, of course, exceptions like the military.


Who's being sarcastic? My point is precisely that a typewriter is not a magic bullet, and I lived back then; I assure you I am very well aware.

I really do grow frightened of people's reading comprehension on the internet, having observed a qualitative decline especially in the last twelve months. Granted, this seems more due to indolence than actual impairment, thus far at least, but atrophy must eventually tell.


I'd rather there be no coding interviews.

Honestly it's disrespectful.


It’s not as unix-y as you think.

Go try it


AFAIA plan9 takes the original unix ideas further than Unix or its descendents. in this light, plan9 is more unixy than unix.


In two aspects only

1. Everything is a file. 2. A command does only one thing well

There's no init, fstab, etc etc etc. Very little of your Unix muscle memory will work.


I've used it plenty ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's an odd duck and very interesting but the Unix roots are still clear IMO.


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