All hypothetical of course. Not convinced things will go that far without some more clear indicators.
The root servers are already spread over the globe. Enough of them are operated by non US orgs too to handle things initially, I suspect that the localised anycast servers located outside the US for those USA based operators would probably go on serving.
It'd be trivial to replace them anyway, and frankly we traffic would be much lower anyway since a lot of the Internet is run by us based organisations.
For domain registration on tlds not run by the us, they should continue to operate fine.
Well, I'd expect that if they allowed 5v through but with a low current limit (I think the default 5v standard states quite a low current allowance). They could catch anything drawing too much and shut the port off until it detects disconnection/other reset.
I mean, if they're thinking about protecting a downstream device, adding this logic would make more sense than just not supplying any power unless a negotiation is made.
In any case, since standard USB ports on a computer will output 5v without anything being negotiated, then it's really no less safe than any other USB port in that regard.
But wait. Doesn't this make them both dumb? I'd expect a modern USB-C charger to still support basic 5v low current lazy devices too. If there's a USB-A to C cable that works, it must also still be possible to send the basic 5v down a C-C cable.
I also think there's always going to be a balance between how much a device needs to make and/or how much it needs fast charging to make sense to add the charging circuit for PD/PPS. Even $1-2 on top of the cost can ruin margins in the current electronic market.
I've been to the US twice since 9/11 and neither time was I asked for my phone. Not to say it didn't happen before now. It happens in many countries if they decide they have even a tiny bit of suspicion.
But, frankly right now I would not travel to the USA for any reason.
The point he makes in this episode about the menu prices. This is probably the same reason your supermarkets don't include sales tax on the pricing. If they did most people would go to the "cheaper" one.
Most of the world have laws to require this, and things are much clearer.
No one will change this behaviour voluntarily, as they showed people will see the ones that don't change as cheaper, even when in reality they're not.
If everyone has to change to meet legal requirements, then they will all need to change and it'll be fine.
The government absolutely uses sql frequently, even if they still have older mainframes with some other database architecture.
This makes more sense. But even then they would surely transfer data from the old system over.
I mean I'm liking the idea that they went down into the basement, started up an old mini computer, with "superman 3" magnetic tapes with data from the 1980s to force them to try to integrate with that and only after transferring the data at 1000cps, find out it's entirely out of date.
I mean, it won't be the case, but I'd really like it to be. 😛
It's a terminology thing really yes. I mean a database (SQL or not) shouldn't need de-duplication by nature of how the record index/keys work.
If they're not using a form of SQL though, I'd be very interested in what they are using. Back in the 90s I was messing around with things like Btrieve and other even more antiquated database engines. But all the software I used that utilised such things was converted to use a form of SQL (even if in some cases there were internal wrappers to allow access in the older way too via legacy code) over 20 years ago.
If I were an American though my biggest concern would be that Musk is able to know the structure AND content of the social security database. His post (if we believe it) demonstrates he must have access to both pieces of information.
I monitor for good deals. Because there's no contract it's easy to add one, move stuff over at your leisure and kill the old one off. It's the better way to do it for semi serious stuff.
I think their auction servers are a hidden gem. I mean the prices used to be better. Now they have some kind of systrem that resets them when they get too low. But the prices are still pretty good I think. But a year or two ago I got a pretty good deal on two decently spec'd servers.
People are scared off by the fact you just get their rescue prompt on auctions boxes... Except their rescue prompt has a guided imaging setup tool to install pretty much every popular distro with configurable raid options etc.
Thanks. I think at the time I made an instance (about a year and a half ago I reckon), there was quite a batch snapping up kbin/lemmy on every tld imaginable.
It's actually not a bad idea. "The front page of the threadiverse" so to speak. There are plenty of instance lookups out there, but they're generally self discovered. Something that helps match a user to a smaller instance cannot be a bad thing.
Having large instances is a good thing of course, especially for hosting larger communities. But, in order to remain fully independent, smaller instances that can be run truly as a hobby on affordable hardware are essential for the fediverse in my opinion.
Well. I don't think I've seen anyone advertising hot local singles using my instance. I've mostly seen medical adverts and random websites (for products not services). So, you're not missing anything I think.
No. I see several genuine looking users that registered and did nothing (fine I guess). But there's a lot with very similar
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@gmail.com. Some don't do anything and so far I've left them. Some are clearly posting advert crap and they get deleted as soon as I see it. Every now and then I just go through purge the rest that are clearly bot accounts.
If I was actually getting genuine active users I might look into making a form or otherwise making it difficult (not sure if mbin has that ability mind you). But seems I don't really get real users. Just me, posting and commenting all day.
No, I think it's just me on my instance (that probably has the capacity for 1000+ active users) and the steady influx of suspicious accounts that pass the email verification and captcha and then either post nothing, or post adverts get banned/deleted and it goes on.
Mind you I don't really advertise the instance either. So that's likely why.
I suspect people coming from reddit don't understand the fediverse (I know I didn't when I first got here). So they go to the hosting instance and join there, not really understanding they can join any instance and then join the community (if not already on the instance).
Yeah I stopped at three when I realised I could be there all day when it comes to regulations that private companies need to adhere to. But I would agree those should have been on my abridged list too.
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All hypothetical of course. Not convinced things will go that far without some more clear indicators.
The root servers are already spread over the globe. Enough of them are operated by non US orgs too to handle things initially, I suspect that the localised anycast servers located outside the US for those USA based operators would probably go on serving.
It'd be trivial to replace them anyway, and frankly we traffic would be much lower anyway since a lot of the Internet is run by us based organisations.
For domain registration on tlds not run by the us, they should continue to operate fine.