As a Kiwi, sand flies aren't everywhere, but the worst place I've found for them in NZ was Haast on the west coast.

D-link didn't even support these for 5 years, which is pretty shite. In general thou I would say the manufacturer is morally obligated to provide security fixes until the day they open source the firmware.

Honestly I don't even understand why it was available, because the only real use case for UBO Lite is on Chromium based browsers, as UBO lite is the nerfed Manifest V3 version. If you're running Firefox, use the original, unnerfed version which IS still available in the store.

I'd imagine the biggest challenge is building things that can survive that level of radiation.

Outside of the /. crowd, only a very tiny minority of people are ever likely to use Linux on the desktop... Linux Server vs Windows Server performance would be a much more useful benchmark IMHO.

Anyone got a download/torrent link?

For those that missed it, he's autistic. That almost certainly means his desire to keep hacking things is a compulsion/obsession rather than deliberate behaviour.

That aside, those of you who think locking someone up because they pose a non violent threat to corporate interests are the ones who should be locked away. Information wants to be free, and we need to encourage anyone who's helping destroy the concept of intellectual property, even if in less than ideal ways.

None.. You should NOT be able to own an idea or concept.

So as an actual kiwi who's been using the internet in NZ since "the internet" consisted of using a 1200 baud modem, have some background.

Go back 15 odd years, our internet was pretty shit, cable was a latecomer to NZ and for all intents and purposes was only really widely deployed in two main cities. DSL was the main technology for most people and dialup was still a thing. Politics in NZ like in many places, mainly consists of two main parties, Labour and National (nominally left of centre and right of centre respectively). National was in power and decide that for a small country at the bottom of the world, good connectivity was likely to be critical to a digital future. Amazingly it didn't become a political football, both major political parties managed to actually agree it was a good idea, and thus what's known as "UFB" (Ultra Fast Broadband Initiative) was born. It's an FTTH GPON network covering nearly 90% of homes in the country (basically most towns of more than a few hundred people), with a secondary rollout of additional 4/5G cellular known as "RBI" (Rural Broadband Initiative) to cover much of the rest. The UFB contracts round the country were divided up between Chorus and 3 other smaller regional entities, in basically a private-public partnership.
It's not perfect, but it's worked out pretty good. The network is by law open access and price regulated, so any ISP can use it at the same price, resulting in a fairly competitive retail market. The days of connections being capped or throttled in NZ are basically gone, 300/100 is the standard entry level plan now, 1000/500 is fairly common, and 2000/2000, 4000/4000, 8000/8000 have been available for awhile but have fairly low uptake. An independent third party monitors real world speed across a range of ISP's and connection speeds and the results are published on a quasi regular basis by the government regulator, which helps keep the ISP's honest. Any ISP that fails to provide the headline speeds in those reports is likely to suffer bad press, which because of our freedom to chose from dozens of ISP's is likely to result in them loosing customers.
Pricing is quite reasonable too, I pay around USD$55/month for 1000/500 with no data cap, no throttling etc, which I gather compares fairly well with US options.
I don't think the 25gb service will have wide uptake to begin with, but it's great that the option is going to be there, and will inevitably drive the price of the other options down.

Kiwi here,

While I don't personally agree with the decision to ditch the combat jets, our air force is still reasonably suited to our countries needs. NZ is a couple of small islands well away from anyone likely to invade us, and anyone trying to invade us would pretty much have to go through Australia first, who are our longtime ally and have a proper air force. If someone did want to invade us and for whatever reason Australia was out of the picture, I think we'd be pretty fucked anyway even if we still had jets.

I doubt the train services are that reliable in communist third world hellholes at the best of times.

JMS said in his twitter announcement it won't be a direct reboot for a bunch of reasons and to quote "we will not be retelling the same story in the same way", so I'm hopeful it won't be the same characters doing the same things with different actors.

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." - John Gilmore I don't care how batshit crazy, radical, or offensive someone's views are, they are entitled to have them, and spout them online as long as they aren't 'yelling fire in the theatre' so to speak.

Very good but also very long article about the background of this can be found here: https://www.newyorker.com/maga...

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