Travel restrictions should NEVER prevent people from going home. In fact, they should encourage going home ASAP. I still can't believe how badly some countries fucked this up.

What benefit is there to stranding travelers in your country? They're going to be pissed off, they might run out of money and you'll have to support them, etc... Just let them go home. This isn't complicated.

I lean pretty hard left but I have to agree on this. I'm still seeing so much bitchery about masks, it's unbelievable.

One person I know wears an N100 respirator everywhere she goes and is constantly ranting on social media about how she doesn't care what people think and that people who don't wear masks are "selfish" and she wants nothing to do with them. Even though I don't care what she wears, we still had a huge falling out over this because I simply don't care about masks anymore and only wear one if required by the venue.

Then you have the extreme opposite, people who harass mask wearers and rant against vaccines on social media.

Like come on, people, grow up. If you want to wear a mask, wear one. If you want to get vaccinated, do it. If you don't, don't. We're past the emergency phase of the pandemic and individual choice is the way things are going to be going forward, whether you like it or not.

You don't need a car in NYC, and if you're able-bodied, can get around the entire city without one, pretty much. Those with disabilities may need vehicles to get around but it's not a large percentage of the city population.

However, all cities need trucks to deliver our stuff, and those trucks need places to park while making the deliveries. The laws should be adjusted so trucks have an easier time parking to load and unload, while at the same time making it more difficult for passenger cars so fewer people try to drive them into the city.

When Flickr said they were going do delete older photos from non-paying members several people I know FREAKED THE HELL OUT about it, saying that they were going to lose those photos forever if they didn't pay and that Flickr was basically extorting them.

I asked one of them "well what about the copy in your own photo library" and he said he doesn't have space to keep all his photos.

So yeah, people really depend on services like this to archive their stuff. It's absolutely insane to me, but they do, and they're just one unfortunate company decision away from losing their memories/recordings/etc.

If hardware manufacturers make it impossible to determine if a system is running as a VM, software makers like these won't be able to place restrictions on software based on it being on a VM or not. This is a good thing as virtualization shouldn't be discouraged.

Yeah people love to talk about how great underground wiring is, not having poles and cables running overhead but the cost of running new cable or repairing existing cables is five times as much.

It's easy to put in when building a new subdivision but have fun 30 years down the line when it needs upgrading or replacement...

People (kids especially) will see their beloved characters and be happy about it. I don't think anybody is going to be whining about continuity at a theme park. And if they do, there's always the Please Please Pleese Get a Life Foundation.

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>Swell nice to hear the largest providers are doing well. It would be a shame if anyone wanted to compete and had to fight for scraps or if people wanted a prefix to run their own shit and their ISP charged them extra. What's there not to love about a completely unnecessary multi-billion dollar market (e.g. tax) bankrolled by customers?

Just wanted to say I agree completely. It sucks that Amazon owns so much IPv4 space and thus has so much sway over the market. That doesn't change the fact that they do, though, and that this is hindering IPv6 adoption because people can just spin up a few instances and say "Well I have IPv4 working why bother with v6 when it works fine?"

I wish we could have ripped this bandaid off 20 years ago.

It's more that it's a bidirectional chicken-and-egg problem, but backwards.

There's no motivation on the client side to use IPv6 because if you have IPv4, whether directly or through NAT, you can access the entire Internet. You're not "missing out" on anything other than incoming connections if you're on NAT, and most people don't need that capability.

There's no motivation on the server side to use IPv6 because if you have IPv4, everyone can reach you. Period. There's still a lot of IPv4 space available, it's just owned by big cloud providers like AWS where people tend to put their services up anyway.

Full IPv6 adoption will not happen until it becomes a lot more painful to not use IPv6, and sadly that's not going to happen anytime soon. Mobile providers use IPv6 by necessity due to the sheer number of clients, and many are already pure IPv6 and using 464XLAT to get to IPv4. In the end this is NAT with extra steps. We get closer every year, but each year we travel about half the distance, so we're not getting there any time soon. :(

People who are calling social networks liberal for blocking certain kinds of speech don't realize that they're not blocking conservative opinions. They are blocking people making threats, trying to drum up violence, and so on. Just because it's mostly conservatives doing this doesn't make the action of blocking that speech inherently biased towards liberals.

I've seen plenty of liberals banned/blocked from Twitter for making threats and calling for violence as well. If more conservatives are being banned/blocked on social media than liberals for being assholes, that says a lot more about the conservatives than it does the social media sites.

I'm paying for it, thus there should be no ads.

I'd rather they raise the price than put in ads. Even if you're on an ad-free tier, Netflix originals will now have awkward breaks where ads would be inserted on the cheaper tiers.

Screw that. Either make it FREE with ads, or PAID with no ads. There should be nothing in between and it's downright annoying that there is on other services.

>Maybe workers just don't want to have to dodge human excrement laying around on the ground.

Is it really that bad? I was in SF a few years ago and don't remember seeing any poop on the ground, even when walking through the Tenderloin which is a neighborhood supposedly famous for that.

The city seemed clean overall, though there were more... how should I say it... "characters" walking around than I've seen in other cities like New York and Chicago.

But poop? Didn't see any. Maybe some trash and such but that's expected in American cities sadly.

If you have an established social media account with hundreds of connections, it can be really difficult to rebuild that.

The biggest problem with social media is that when something goes wrong with your account, it's pretty much impossible to get a real person to look at the problem and fix it. You're at the mercy of the same automated tools that banned your account in the first place.

This has happened with several friends on Twitter. Their account gets suspended for something ridiculous and it can take MONTHS, if ever, to get a person to review it. And if that person is an asshole and decides to leave the account suspended, they're pretty much screwed.

People depend on these accounts to communicate with their friends and family. It shouldn't take so little for them to become suspended and so much to get them back.

Indeed. I was reading that Telegram was designed from the start to be extremely difficult to block. It's a distributed protocol, with servers all over the world, often hiding in cloud providers like AWS so trying to block it ends up blocking other applications too. They end up playing whack-a-mole with IPs.