Can confirm, the option was available for the no cost option was there for me. Billing -> Learn more -> "..you can opt out ... by clicking here...", https://admin.google.com/?acti...

I have nearly a couple TB of personal data, documents, family pictures, family videos.

Today, I use Duplicati which backs up to Google Drive (GD was the best option at the time I started). Duplicati supports tons of cloud storage providers, runs on all the major platforms, and well maintained docker containers exist (highly recommend the docker solution). It supported everything I was looking for: good list of supported cloud providers, good price (free), open source, encrypted, deduplication, emails on completion, progressive snapshots, and ran on my platform of choice.

Prior to that, I was using Rsnapshot to a friends house and the friend did the same to my house. I don't remember all the details anymore, but we had it setup so the remote drive was mounted over SSH and used something like LUKS for encryption. That way, the encryption keys were not stored with the remote data. It satisfied most of my requirements and worked well enough, but I found cloud storage and Duplicati to be a better/easier solution.

Let's also hold a press conference on a carrier with a big "Mission Accomplished" sign. Good job everyone!

Chicken and egg. In Azure, the only way you can get a public IPv6 address is by using a load balancer. You can't just put a single VM up on IPv6. Even if some other provider does offer better IPv6 support, Azure is #2 atm, so they'll need better IPv6 support as well.

And then deny it shortly after

Tesla claims that you get 400 miles in 30 minutes on a supercharger.

How to download WhatsApp from Fdroid?

Self driving cars need to prove themselves on the ground first. I've heard that the AI needed for flying is simpler than that needed for ground based driving, but more is at stake, so I still think ground based AI is a necessary proving ground.

It takes more energy to fly than to drive. Let's get a bit farther down the path of solving our energy issues before switching to a mode of transportation that gets 5 mpg (a 747 gets about 5 mpg, maybe not a fair comparison).

It's inevitable that a car will fail mid-flight, it's going to happen. What if they fall out of the sky and take out little Timmy while he's sleeping? Should cars be limited to flying in certain corridors? Certain distances off the ground? State inspections today are a joke, what would need to be changed there?

If they do become a thing, I'd expect at least initially that they will be so highly regulated that the common folk cannot afford one. The "state inspections" should be much more frequent and much more thorough. Insurance for when it falls out the sky would be needed. The management costs would be so high that a flying taxi like service (where the AI drives) seems like more of a possibility.

This gives me an idea. gTLD wide HSTS should be done for some other gTLD as well. I'm thinking like *.bank and the like. It just forces any user of that gTLD to be at least somewhat security conscience and adds some good public reputation to those select gTLD. A private company that owns a gTLD could use this to increase the value of their gTLD because it will have a reputation of being more secure.

These are dev environments we're talking about. They are often only accessible on local networks, sometimes even only on a localhost. Deploying https in a dev environment isn't really necessary for most development.

People are getting upset because you wouldn't be able to obtain a cert signed by any reputable authority for a domain you didn't actually own. After this change, you have to deploy https on those gTLDs which would mean going through self signed cert shenanigans. As others have mentioned, people probably shouldn't have ever been using the dev gTld and should have used an IETF blessed gTLD for testing.

Talkie Watchies

I wonder if the original donors know that their blood is being sold for this use? I know that if I donated my blood thinking it was going to save a life, and it was instead sold for profit, I'd be a little disturbed.

Even in it's dysfunction, I still prefer congress. Gerrymandering and oligarchy arguments aside, they seem to be a better representation of "the people". If "we" are going to make bad decisions, I prefer to make them collectively. It doesn't make them right decisions, but hopefully more people will accept responsibility to fix the mistakes if they feel they helped cause them.

Trump has really highlighted how much power/influence we choose to give to a single person. It amazes me that a president can unilaterally enter into or exit from agreements of this magnitude. If he has any positive legacy, I hope it's a legacy where we decided to further limit the power of the presidency.

If we were to write a book for children of good vs. evil, it would be hard to cast Trump as the "good guy". Even if he were cast as the "bad guy", he makes decisions that seem so clearly wrong that it would be rejected as too cliche.

I'm sure someone said the same thing when it passed $1k. If you bought in at $1k, you'd be feeling pretty good right now. With that said, I'm not buying any right now.