> Half the problems with the TCP/IP protocols stem from developers and operators working with bare addresses

and the other half stems from DNS :-)

If we sent a probe to Alpha Centauri it would be small and unmanned to be fast.
Remotely operated would mean watching what the systems on board decided to hold the camera on.

We donâ(TM)t even have proper unicode on slashdot, but we have secret alien technology.

âoeWeâ have been reverse engineering alien tech for decades?
Show me one scientific breakthrough in STEM or one invention where the shoulders of the giants the inventor is standing on canâ(TM)t be traced back using published papers and I may consider the idea.
Ah, yes, international governments have been keeping it secret, collectively, and nobody did even try to make a profit of it? For sureâ¦

no comment

â¦and it requires less education and less of an attention span than the average person whoâs left on slashdot has.

That video ironically is in 240p :-)

OP wrote
> This is only a solution to a limited set of cases where batteries or direct grid connections are not possible

You wrote:
> You obviously never worked anywhere critical where diesel generator backups are needed.
> Backup generators are way more critical than you realize.

You are building a straw man, the influence of backup generators on climate change is completely irrelevant, it’s immeasurable.

The equivalent on iOS would be 1Blocker, which brings an (optional) VPN to filter all traffic.
You pay for this, however, and they don’t have a deal with MS.
I’ve been using this with good results for multiple yers now, BUT, since (on iOS at least) you can only have the traffic go through one VPN at a time, it is useless in some situations.

https://1blocker.com/

I often switch on AirDrop-visibility for everyone and then broadcast my (phone's) name to everyone around me for weeks.
I was waiting for a feature that turns promiscuous off after a while and this seems to be it. It's a security and privacy feature from my perspective and it should always have been an option.

> Is email moderated?

I share my mail server with some of my friends. I guarantee you that I would kick out everybody who celebrates the attack on Pelosis husband.
Is this moderation in your eyes?

> The ability to surround oneself with people that agree with you is the worst facet of social media's many ills.

I do not see why surrounding myself with people who celebrate hitting the husband of a politician with a hammer would be a good thing.
All of us who are still using Twitter to post content are validating this.

> This shit has made international news. How do you not know this?

Google must have censored Faux-News, too.

> It seems there are very few people in government that actually think it was a good idea.

Only an economically illiterate idiot can still think that Brexit was a good idea.
The the next PM will either be a liar or an idiot.
As we have witnessed this is not an exclusive or.

The article is based on the conclusions of the people cited, it is not presenting the journalists conclusions.

You are building a strawman to keep the tale of biased reporting on climate change alive and your next posting may contain the phrase “two sides“