I’ll use the cliche meme of “I was today years old when I learned where the name comes from”. Just made the connection when I read this article, and I love Pulp Fiction.

But I too am not a native English speaker. Just always accepted the clunky acronym as the reason for the name.

I remember a talk a few years ago where someone engineered controlled detonations to destroy a single server in a rack without damaging any surrounding equipment. Was pretty fun to follow the engineering.

So? The majority of the rest of the Christian world follows the Pope.

If the traffic plummets, YouTube wins. Serving content to ad-blocking users only costs them money. They don’t want those users.

I would be bowled over if any el stations had them.

I like that expression, I’m going to steal that.

These train displays haven’t changed in probably 30 years here. Vienna also has a bunch ofthese public clocks on big intersections and squares.

Really? Where are you located? I walk past three clocks on the way from my office to the metro station alone.

But that’s the thing. When that Video was made, almost all of the advertising was focused on the same BS the article is disagreeing with.

I remember lots of NordVPN ads by uninformed nontechnical creators just reading the provided script. Saying that Balaklava wearing hackers will steal your credit card data just by being in the same cafe as you, and only an expensive VPN subscription can protect you from that. Or that only using a VPN will protect you from malware.

This sort of advertising is what Tom Scott critizied back then. IIRC he even said that there are real use cases, but that you shouldn’t believe the fearmongering. Same as the article.

The fearmongering advertising was the problem, not advertising the service itself.

Vienna found a weird workaround to make social housing not become slums: Let some influential people live there too. Don’t make it housing only for the poor. Make it housing for everyone.

In Vienna’s social housing, they mix almost all the social classes. Poor immigrants live there, as do young academics. Simple laborers live there, as do local politicians.

A government that doesn’t care can neglect a building full of folks who can’t stand up for themselves. They can not easily neglect a building that also houses outspoken, politically active educated folks. They can not easily neglect a building where some of them live themselves.

You should come to terms with the fact that not everyone is an anarchist and believes that any form of the concept of a state is by itself evil.

Learn Austrian German instead, all you need is the dialect version of Alter: Oida

I feel you. When I go to Hungary, my brain breaks. In most surrounding countries, I can sort of guess common words. “Exit” is more or less the same word (vychod) in all nearby Slavic languages for example. And then there’s Hungarian where it’s probably szönözökémül or something.

Sounds like the relationship between German and Dutch. To me as an Austrian, Dutch sounds like a drunk northern German speaking half English.

No JavaScript or ads. (…) Prevents Wikipedia getting your IP address.

Wikipedia is light on JavaScript and has never had ads. You prevent Wikipedia from getting your IP address but instead reveal it to some random third party, combined with letting them know everything you look up.

What the hell is the point of this. All this does it confuse people and decrease privacy.

What lights do you use?

We need a badwomensanatomy community for that title.

We do that upstream, no way for you to avoid it. For good reason too, our team handling abuse notifications mails was super swamped with people whose ancient XP PCs had malware sending spam.

Forget running your mail server on a residential IP anyway. You’ll be instant blocked by any mail provider, residential IPs are always spam, because of the aforementioned XP PCs.

Personally I wouldn’t self host mail anymore anyway. Too much trouble.

Unless you browse Geocities sites from 1998, intercepting and MITMing is simply not an issue. Everything built nowadays uses https, which fully protects you against those.

Don’t know what government you’re referring to, but if the EU anti-trust regulation kicks in it will affect everyone. EU agencies are slow but they do their job eventually.