Switzerland is not a member of the EU.

Switzerland participates in the single market, but not the customs union. It's also part of the Schengen area.

But still. Not a member of the EU.

It increases costs for everyone, not just for immigrants. Canada is in the midst of a housing crisis for exactly this reason... we haven't built enough homes to keep up with population growth.

That's correct. Kids are not paid to do homework, so burdening them with two hours of work on the weekend when they should be playing and relaxing is even more egregious.

Any decent teacher will have the chops to evaluate whether or not homework is too hard for the kids.

And I'm sorry, but when my kids were little, it was not my job to do their homework. If they really needed help, they knew they could ask and I'd help them, but I've seen cases where the homework is so ridiculously beyond the ability of the kids that the parents ended up doing it.

(My kids hardly ever asked for help because their teachers set appropriate homework.)

Yes, of course some homework is helpful. I never said otherwise. Reading assignments and essays are fine in higher grades, as long as the average amount of homework doesn't exceed about 20 minutes per day, which is 100 minutes per week (homework on weekends is just cruel.)

I agree that it's important to instill a love of reading in kids and that public libraries are a fantastic resource. My kids loved going to the library when they were little, and it helped that it was a 10-minute walk away.

It makes no sense for the average business to accept payment cards online anyway. Outsource it all to Stripe or some other vendor; it's not worth the headaches of directly accepting cards online.

Also, hiding the version numbers in software banners is arguably a good security practice anyway. Falsifying them, probably not.

That is correct. My Forgejo instance has some read-only public repos. But I do not give write-access to the public to the Forgejo instance. For that, they need to use either Codeberg or salsa.debian.org. I can pull and merge from either of those and push to all the mirrors.

I have a cloud VPS that costs me $3.50 per month and is more than capable of running Forgejo. Sure, it would probably collapse under the weight of Gitlab, but Forgejo is extremely lightweight.

Debian is the answer. While a decade or so ago, Ubuntu was easier to install and more polished, Debian has pretty much caught up in terms of polish.

The PCI nonsense is easy to get around by configuring the relevant daemons not to report any version at all, or even to lie about the version.

PCI testing is a giant BS scam anyway; the scanners are way too simplistic to catch actual problems and so rigid that they report many false-positives.

Well, I'm just going by my own experience from when I was in school, many decades ago.

It was useful to me to have some homework to practice things that needed practicing, like times tables when I was in the early grades and more advanced mathematics in the later grades. But any day where I had more than about 20 minutes of homework, I became very resentful and fed up.

OK, if you're employed, please sign up for two hours of extra work on the weekend. Thanks for volunteering!

But the whole point of GitHub is collaboration. If GitHub is down, it becomes hard to collaborate on PRs, etc. with people from outside your organization, and maybe even with people within your organization if everyone's checked-out git repo is only accessible from their machine.

(I removed all of my repos from GitHub a while ago and use a self-hosted Forgejo instance, along with mirrors on codeberg.org and salsa.debian.org.)

2 hours of homework on the weekend is excessive. Should be zero. And maybe 10-15 minutes on weekdays.

I certainly don't think kids should be loaded down with an hour or more of homework every single day. But I think 10-15 minutes per day of drills or practice exercises is fine.

Also, do not give kids homework they can't handle, especially if they have to rope parents in to help them or do it for them. That's just nonsense.