nulbyte

Not if he controls the funds. Tax deductions are only afforded to contributions if they are charitable and am actual gift. If the contributor benefits, it is bit deductible, and control of donated funds is a benefit, as is the ability to direct funds to a particular person or persons.

A quick perusal of the site yields this page, which tells you what it uses by default: sysvinit.

https://www.devuan.org/os/init-freedom

It lists other options. It also lists other operating systems that don't use systemd.

I think what I hate most about systemd is that it has seemingly indoctrinated so many into believing that there are no viable alternatives, only some random mess of unintegrated incomplete long abandoned half-baked subsystems.

You could be right. But plenty of websites with useful information intentionally obfuscate their pages to trick the browser into disabling reader mode.

No, NAT64 was invented so v6-only hosts could access v4-only resources. CGNAT was invented so v4 hosts can have a v4 address without having to purchase limited public address space.

I tend to despise senders that believe email is always an effective real-time channel. Delays happen for all sorts of reasons, ranging from massive outages to scanning incoming emails for spam or malware (my corporate email is sloooow).

Greylisting has been so effective for my personal email, I don't mind waiting a bit on the rare occasion (by now, most senders are already recognized). And on the rare occasion I get spam, it's been cathartic, adding a rule to reject the sender with a quippy SMTP eerror. It's also been easy enough just to forward it to abuse@google.com, because it's almost always from Gmail.

We replaced VHS with DVDs. It took 42 years before we gave up on VHS. DVDs have been around for 29 years but were mostly replaced with BDs before disappearing off the shelves in favor of streaming.

We replaced records with tapes, tapes with more tapes, and more tapes with CDs before they, too, disappeared from the shelves in favor of streaming. Except that some stalwarts have successfully resurrected vinyl.

We replaced AM with FM, and analog radio with digital radio, then streaming. We replaced broadcast analog TV with digital, then cable and satelite, then streaming. Mostly.

None of these changes were backwards compatible, and all of them were meant for the general public. They took a while. They were successful.

I don't think they are arguing for a decrease. I took flatline and peter out to mean stabilize.

The problem of IPv6 adoption in the US was largely engineered by major ISPs not caring while hardware manufacturers take their cues from major ISPs.

Why would CGNAT be deployed as a response to IPv6 on mobile? I don't understand the logic there. CGNAT is deployed due to a shortage of publicly routable IPv4 addresses. IPv6 was introduced due to having much larger publicly routable space.

I would hazard a guess that most of those apps are garbage on Windows, too.

It's not that much headache, and this isn't necessarily about public-facing sites and apps.

Take file storage: Some folks find Google Drive and similar services unpalatable because they can and will scan your content. Setting up Nextcloud or even just using file sharing built into a consumer router is pretty easy.

You don't need to rely on Cloudflare, either. Some routers come with VPN functionality or can have it added.

The self-hosting most people talk about when they talk about self-hosting is very practical.

...nor do they provide a way to send encrypted mail to their users' accounts without using their official apps.

I'm confused by this complaint. Sending encrypted mail is the job of the sender. You can PGP encrypt your mail and send it to a Proton user just like any other recipient. I've done this at work when I need to send myself paystubs.

If it's really that difficult for parents to engage their children and parent them, maybe that says more about a society that doesn't prepare parents for parenthood than it does about those who don't have children.

This take is really detached from reality, I get down voted for this whenever I ask, but do you have kids? If not sorry, but your opinion means nothing.

The reason you get down voted is likely because you are neither sorry nor correct. Just because someone doesn't have children does not mean their opinion of technology that affects them just the same is invalid. You will get better results engaging others in meaningful debate without dehumanizing folks simply because they aren't like you.

Credit card transactions cannot check for name or billing a part from the zip code.

This is not true. Name and address verification is common.

https://corporate.visa.com/en/solutions/acceptance/verificat...

I used Free Fill Fillable Forms last year for both federal and state. I honestly don't know why I didn't try them sooner. It sounds daunting, filling out your own returns, but it was quite painless for my situation.

I don't know why this was flagged. It may be wrong, but I think it worth discussing to correct.

Not all of Federal law supersedes state law. The Tenth Amendment clarifies:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

If it's not given to the federal government to regulate, the federal government can't regulate it.

But, isn't intercepting communications using a fake cell tower a wiretap?

Gmail regularly lets through spam, including backscatter spam from mail sent to the google.com domain spoofing Gmail users. Industry-leading is not the term I would use to describe their spam heuristics.

Grey listing has been far more effective at stopping spam than some half-baked AI garbage from Google.

I remember the days when things didn't arrive immediately. I miss them. We were more patient back then.

There have been places that host personal and hobby websites for free for at least the last 30 years. Some older ones have left, and newer ones keep coming along. Cloudflare didn't make this any more accessible.

That depend on how you view money. Lending does increase the volume of money in circulation, in that sense it creates money. But that view is too simple to be useful.

Far from being too simple, it is the primary method of money creation in modern economies.

The regulators that regulate, and in particular control reserve ratios (complex calculations that banks have to make about the relationships between their various assets) and base interest rates are the real creators of money.

Simply setting rates does not create money. It can influence it, but it is not the ultimate cause. Lending is. Reserve banks can and do lend, but commercial banks are responsible for the majority of money creation.

I also reported it safe, as it is still there hours later. There is apparently no way to turn off the use of safe browsing in Firefox for Android, which is disconcerting. So I blocked safebrowsing.googleapis.com. After that, clearing the app's cache did the trick for me.

This. It seems every website these days needs Javascript enabled just to load static content that could have been loaded between the time I hovered over a link and clicked it.

I...don't have this experience. It doesn't hold true for me, and I suspect I am not alone. There are certainly some online stores that are not very great, but by and large, I just don't have problems with them. I prefer the seller's website over Amazon.

Amazon, on the other hand, is plagued with fake or bad products from copycat sellers. I have no idea what I am going to get when I place an order. Frankly, I'm surprised when I get the actual thing I ordered.

As a customer of many companies who has also worked in call centers, I can't tell you how frustrating it is when I, as a customer, have to call back and the person I speak with has no record or an insufficient record of my last call. This has required me to repeat myself, resend emails, and wait all over again.

It was equally frustrating when I, as a call center worker, had to ask the custmer to tell me what should already have been noted. This has required me to apologize and to do someone else's work in addition to my own.

Summarizing calls is not a waste, it's just good business.

...you really don’t know the ramifications of this.

You might not fully anticipate all the potential ramifications of a given action, but in this case, I think anyone who spent a minute thinking about this could anticipate exactly what happened.

It is. The very first news item on the original page mentions it. It's plain as 1993.

Do most of them let you add an NS record?

Banks are happy to de-bank risky customers all on their own; they don't wait for court orders.