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The legal threats against WPEngine and their customers, the lawsuits between WP/Automatic/WPF and WPEngine, the banning of several contributors, the takeover of WP Plugins on WP.org, the shenanigans with several check boxes on the login pages of WP.org.


While it wasn't as damaging from a legal or (business) reputational perspective, he also peeked into the Tumblr database in order to doxx people who were making fun of him, which doesn't say great things about his stability or fitness to run a company.


Your government has threatened military invasion of Denmark.


We have credit scoring in Germany (with the biggest scoring agency being Schufa).


And it's blatantly illegal under GDPR, but not prosecuted yet. Maybe it won't ever be - corruption runs deep.


We autistic people have feelings and empathy. We have trouble expressing feelings and reading feelings of others, but we know that we and other people have feelings.

Musk may or may not be an autist, but his deranged treatment of people is not because of autism.


The US is a major food exporter with a supply around 125%. Shutting down a few farms in the desert seems worthwhile.


Doing anything that uses a lot of water in a desert seems problematic to me. Water is only going to get scarcer in the west as climate change goes on.


I think the reasoning here is to have the fabrication being done away from areas where a natural disaster might cause an issue. No earthquakes, no tornadoes, no hurricanes, no heavy winter storms with a ton of snow, etc. If you locate it on an elevated area with good drainage there won't be any problems with desert storms/flooding either.


> Water is only going to get scarcer in the west as climate change goes on.

Predictions are all over the place but the average prediction seems to say that at least half the US gets more water.


Not in the west, from what I've seen. The state I grew up in, Illinois, is definitely trending toward being more humid.

If you've seen otherwise and have references, I'm interested. I'm thinking about where to live next.


https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-what-climate-models-te...

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth103/sites/www.e-educati...

These are the ones that showed up first.

Drying in the southwest is more likely than in the northwest, probably. The specifics are all over. But the bigger distinctions tend to be north versus south.


Optimization problems like placing trains on a network become computationally viable. We're currently using unoptimal solutions because calculating an optional solution would require way too much time.


AES can only encrypt up to 64TB; after that you need to re-key. So you need a mechanism for rekeying anyway. Definitely a good idea to use a battle-tested tool like wireguard instead of rolling your own.


>AES can only encrypt up to 64TB

I've never heard that before. Are you referring to a specific mode of operation?


I think alphager is referring to the upper limits of AES before a birthday attack becomes a concern. In GCM mode there's a realistic chance of an IV being reused after around 64GB of data. Other modes have differing limits.


Presumably this depends on the block size? GP did not specify.


Umm... IPsec?


Truly. I think IPSec is practically more "battle tested" than wireguard ever could be, and IPSec offers more useful functionality than wireguard ever will.


In Germany, the process to evict may start after three months of unpaid rent.

The eviction process itself takes about two years.


Real question: Do landlords resort to "hired help" to encourage non-paying tenants to leave more quickly? Two years sounds crazy. Many people who only own a second home for rent might go bankrupt without rent to pay the loan.


In Poland, they sometimes do. For example, they rent the property to another person (they claim that it’s legal), who is a goon. The goon moves in with the original renter, and makes his life hell. Other paths are to disconnect electricity from the property, by cancelling the contract with electric provider. However, some people are ok with living without power, if the apartment is free. Next steps are - disconnecting water and/or heating, although these are less legal than disconnecting power.

There also was a tragic case of an older lady who resisted being evicted from a building in Warsaw bought by a new owner, who in turn kidnapped her, drove to city outskirts and burned her alive to get rid of her.


I think that may be the point: to discourage owning a second home for rent.


I can fully recommend this book by one of the TLS 1.3 contributors; it doesn't require a cryptographer background and serves as an extremely good starting point: https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptography?a_aid=...


It has an incredibly high surface tension and "sticks". It's actually quite hard to apply. I see no risk of leaking.


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