Because the major newspapers with "Times" in their name are paywalled, and The Guardian has publicly committed not to require a paid subscription.

Would this be more honest? "I enjoy reading short stories. However, given my life circumstance, a novella about as long as H. G. Wells's The Time Machine is the upper limit before work or household interruptions inevitably break my concentration."

This will lead to two things: more paywalls to replace the forgone ad revenue, and more service providers discontinuing service in Vietnam.

How would you recommend to fund writing and hosting a website if the website operator cannot sell "behavioral" ad impressions targeted to the individual viewer's inferred interests? I'm aware that it's possible to target an impression to the context of the document in which the ad appears. This is called "contextual" ad placement. However, advertisers are willing to pay three times as much for a behavioral impression than for an contextual impression. Banning publishers from selling behavioral impressions would lead to more countdown interstitials, more paywalls, and more websites disappearing from the Internet when their operators run out of money.

I fail to imagine how one might store which cookies the user has deselected, other than in a cookie that cannot be deselected.

We're going to need some primitive projectile weapons.

Or perhaps they instead voted for a better economy, and this was a part of the package deal, whether they wanted it or not.

We have a republic, not a democracy. We didn't vote for this, but for the person who would occupy the office of the President. How much different would our country be if legislation proposed by congress had to be passed by national referendum? It's not the 18th century anymore. The bills are published on the Internet. We could create an electronic voting system which would allow the public to vote every spring and fall for proposed legislation, except for the fact that such a system would take power out of the hands of the politicians and return it to the people.

100%.

Flat Design SUCKS because it turns every signal into noise where you can no longer easily tell what is:

a) interactable vs
b) static.

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Path of Exile 2 IMHO is a boring, tedious Ruthless Souls-lite grindfest.

I haven't read this bill. But if it's remotely like the right of erasure pursuant to the European Union's GDPR, it does not apply to data that a data broker is required by law to retain.

Last I checked, it was a crime in Slashdot's home country to make children's sleepwear out of cotton or other flammable fabrics.

I've read that even though T-Mobile Home Internet offers IPv6, it blocks all inbound TCP connections even on IPv6. Its gateway appliance offers no port forwarding nor DMZ.

Once there are more Internet subscribers than IPv4 addresses, then by the pigeonhole principle, some subscribers aren't going to have the sort of dedicated IPv4 address needed to accept a TCP connection. Therefore every ISP is shit.

The problem with IPv4 is that there aren't enough possible network addresses for an ISP not to be shit.

A reverse-SSH tunnel requires one of two things: either your local computer is on a network that can accept inbound connections, or there's a relay ($) in the middle accepting connections from both the client and the server.

I believe there's a substantial qualitative difference between "extra effort" and "cost", especially when the latter is a recurring cost payable to the rent-seekers that run relays.

That's the easy part. Getting your ISP to forward a port to your LAN is the hard part.

Is it a good thing that everyone who needs to connect to a home NAS or remote desktop from outside the home LAN be required to subscribe to a relay like Pinggy, Tailscale, or Hamachi, on top of what the user already pays the ISP per year for an Internet connection?