And then Android also exits the market because of the same regulations, and now Europe is back to using Flip phones with basic SMS.

One can dream...Maybe then I don't need an app to start charging an EV.

The shift from cloud back to server closets is already happening. Only, this time they are calling it "edge computing".

Yes, there are lots of nuances like processing a sensor network on-site and only sending aggregate to the cloud, but ultimately it means that less stuff is going to the cloud. And if cloud goes down for any reason, you still get to access the on-site elements...

When the day comes that I can watch whatever I want because I just ask my TV to make something for me, to my specifications and on demand, that's the end of the studios, the end of distributors, the end of theatres.

Depends. I mean, assume you work it like holodeck on Star Trek. You still had to do quite a lot of specs. Setting, characters, some overarching plot.

"Give me a fair-play whodunnit story that lasts two hours".
  - "Ok, what time period?"
  - "80s"
  - "What setting?"
  - "City"
  - "Who's the detective"
  - "Just a city cop who has just started at homicide"
  - "Who's the victim?"
  - Just go with what you think is good already!
  - Ok, Generating....
  [Opens with an establishing shot of Times Square, New York]
  - HOLD IT, I don't want this to take place in New York!
  - You specified "City" ... and so on. Of course, you could get something like fanfic community going on where someone else does the actual prompting and generation and you just experience their stories. However, at that point you start approaching the same situation where we are already - best storywriters get paid better.

IPv6 does support NAT, but NAT is a horrible kludge and is best avoided so it won't get used unless you have no other option.

There's one use case for NAT.

Your very basic VPN that you use to watch Netflix appearing to be coming in from other countries.

For the rest of the stuff, agreed.

I have a /56 at home from my ISP, obtained with DHCPv6 PD.

If Steam would roll out some sort of service where you'd get to play *all* of Steam's catalog for 10-15 EUR/USD a month, sure, why not.

But I'm not going to dish that same out to Epic/Ubisoft/Origin/Rockstar Social/HumbleBundle/Honest John's gamer service.

And also, just like with streaming, some games are bound to just disappear to some Disney Vault-type thing.

So...no.

I just want to go to the web and type in the name of a movie or show and see what platform it is even on - because nobody remembers.

I use https://www.justwatch.com/ - works fine.Not sure if it has all the possible services though.

Trolls count to Many.

One, Two, Three, Many,
Many-One. Many-Two, Many-Three, Many-Many,
Many-Many-One, Many-Many-Two, Many-Many-Three,
Many-Many-Many-One, Many-Many-Many-Two, Many-Many-Many-Three,

LOTS.

Pretty much. My experience attending a couple of these shindigs has been more or less "There's food, booze, a couple of presentations as well. Oh, and some sort of game is going on below, not sure if it's important or not. Watch if you care."

You're thinking of Nikon and it didn't need special parts, those were part of every camera of the time introduced with the D2X. You did need special software and Nikon did try and fuck you over with the $200+ price tag for it.

Canon did that same too, all the way back. It was a bit of metadata and could be verified using Canon Data Verification Kit. (Three versions, DVK-E1, DVK-E2, OSK-E3). I think it was also phased out because it was based on a key shared across all cameras. I couldn't really find info on it's retirement but DVK-E2 was from all the way back in 2004 at least according to this press release I could find: https://www.dpreview.com/artic...

Same observation for me. Pre-covid, there were three floors in our office building that was for our company.

Now there's just one. It has basically just stuff you cannot bring home, meaning equipment lab and some secure areas (where you have stuff that is air-gapped), as well as storages for field engineers when they need to grab gear for installations.

Headcount has not decreased at all.

The cube is the coolest gimmick but I gave up on multiple desktops because when new windows pop up they could pop up anywhere.

When someone successfully solves that, virtual desktops will be much more useful.

Umm, that's pretty much up to your window manager. I've been using KDE/Plasma since, well, 3.x days, and "Window rules" have been available at least since then. It's really easy to set up. For me, Firefox always starts on desktop 2, Dolphin browser on desktop 5, some default SSH Konsole sessions on desktop 1...and so on.

See e.g. https://docs.kde.org/stable5/e...

Took a quick look and it's actually missing the *only* "good" portion of the Holiday Special - the animated sequence that introduced us to Boba Fett.

We seem to have gone against the mainstream in our family in the sense that we have *never* told our child that Santa is real.

Essentially, I've donned on the red suit and fake beard...in full visibility of the child. Then we have gathered around the tree and handed out the presents, I've gotten my milk and cookies and it's all been fun. Even though the kid knows that I'm not real Santa riding on a flying sled pulled by reindeer, they are pretty much into it. I mean, this same kid can imagine that a cardboard box is a car or a house or a teleporter, why would dad being a Santa suddenly be something beyond imagination capability?

Same for the others. Yes, coin exchanged for baby tooth...or chocolate eggs around the house - of course it's set up by mom&dad! We tell them that yeah, parents are now going to play Easter Bunny and you can then go for a bit of a egg hunt! Kids have amazing capability of make-believe.

This has now gone on for 7 years. This time around the kid is going to dress up as an elf and be Santa's little helper when we have some extended family gathering. We've said that some of the other kids in attendance may not be aware of Santa's true nature, so don't go around telling that.

Here's to *hoping* that when the kid reaches the angsty teenager phase, we'd at least have some additional trust points as parents because we have never lied even on such trivial matters as what's the deal with Santa. We'll know in about 10 years.

No, they do not have to *link* them together (as in interferometry). They just have to use the largest antennae they have - the 70 meter ones - at the Deep Space network sites. They have multiple sites so that the entire sky can be covered, but different sites take turns.

See https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn....

I prefer AWS S3 bucket with rclone (https://rclone.org/). Works both Linux & Windows. You can set the storage class depending on your needs, and there's versioning support too.

I use Glacier-IA for my backups and it costs like few dollars a month for storing a few terabytes.

Rclone also does client-side encryption.