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Here me out for a moment -

Clearly the provinence behind HaveIBeenPwned is much better than this commercial shenanigan — However having some manner of redundancy for something as important as HaveIBeenPwned.com is useful. Presently HaveIBeenPwned's bus-factor is only 1 (IIRC) ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ).

Why are people paying 1½ months of what I earn to sit in a desert for a while, again?

As a Brit myself, Sellafield is a cracking demonstration of both:
- the British tendancy to vastly overestimate ones own individual and organizational competence.
- and vastly underestimate the reliability of the things they design and build.

Sellafield is such a tremendous mess because of the half-arsed approach to the processes and safety considerations.

Two examples I can think of just off the top of my head that demonstrates this well are the Windscale Pile fire, and the Magnox Storage Ponds (B30).

Windscale's first plutonium reactors were air-cooled and carbon-moderated. Anyone that knows even basic chemistry will know if you heat up carbon enough in air it will catch fire. Which is exactly what happened in the UK's rush to manufacture plutonium. If it was not for two people's insistence on air filters installed on the exhausts, at the time called 'Cockcroft's Folly' because it was thought completely unneeded, the radioactive fallout that spread across europe would have been considerably worse.

With the storage ponds, the fuel rods were supposed to be kept there for three months before they reprocessing. But, when the UK had (yet another) miner's strike that threatened power supplies, the UK's Magnox reactors at the time were run absolutely ragged to make up for the shortfall in coal generation.
There was simply not enough reprocessing capacity and spent fuel was simply stored in B30. Which is not waterproof. And until recently was completely open to the elements.

In the context of a modern spreadsheet application, I'd be after a modern data format. Especially with the shenanigans excel users can get up to at times.

For parsing data on the CLI? For sure, CSV's (usual) simplicity 100% wins out.

I'd strongly recommend using a more strictly defined format like JSON for any data like that.

Heck even YAML or even an bloody HTML table is less faff than CSV in my experience.

Part of the problem is the intentionally poor design of a lot of these consent banners, using dark patterns to make exercising ones rights and declining them extremely tedious.

WordPress itself is a fork of b2/cafelog

If a client needs a page builder, we often recommend using Gutenburg.

When it was launched in v5.0, it was not at all ready for serious use. Enabling it by default was also extremely unwise, rather than at first giving people the option during installation or upgrade.

These days though, as far as pagebuilders go, it's one of the best available currently. And it's leagues ahead in terms of useability and rendering speed of legacy page-builders like WPBakery / Visual composer.

Thankfully it also doesn't take much to disable if it's not required.

This is tomfoolery of the worst calibre.

I'd be extremely surprised if WordPress wasn't forked after this.

It's particularly ironic given WordPress's initial success when Movable Type burned all of its bridges and goodwill.

They will only face a fine of that magnitude, or any fine at all, if they break the law.

Importing people to fill an economic need as a policy tends not to be very popular with people already living in a location. Equally, it gives political opponents who are happy to seize on those fears something to wield and amplify, giving them a convenient underclass that they can demonize for their benefit.

Case in point: every nation in Europe and North America.

I disagree - the internet has wonderfully lived up to its promise of providing complete freedom!

Including the complete freedom to: follow users, personally identify users, sell users' personal information to the highest bidder, sell users' browsing history to others, harass those that one disagrees with, spread authoritarian propaganda, amongst other freedoms! But most importantly it has provided unfettered freedom to consolidate monopolistic power; and the complete freedom to remove freedom from others!

Came here to say exactly this.

If an application cannot run properly on a piece of hardware, use a different application.

This is the MO for basically any tech-adjecent VC-funded start-up. They attempt to corner the market for the thing they're targetting by spending collosal amounts of money; then either successfully corner said market and raise the cost of doing business with them to generate income, or hope to get bought by someone bigger along the way and net their shareholders a nice windfall.