In Spain, power companies are untouchable - remember the power outage which took the entire electrical network down for almost two days several month ago? Well, no one has been blamed for it.The reason is very clear: When high-rank politicians retire from politics, they are hired as "consultants" by these electricity companies getting big bucks for doing essentially nothing (we call it "revolving doors"). Therefore, politicians are very careful of not bothering their "retirement angels". Approving a law which would force the electricity companies to spend money in safeguards, redundant systems, etc., might put their "golden retirement" in jeopardy.
This happens since the moment the ex-president Felipe González (supposedly "socialist") privatised the main power companies in Spain... and then became part of the Board of one of them.
Telephone operators, on the other hand, are not as involved in politics as power companies are, so they are more "vulnerable" to laws which force them to comply with minimum standards of service as they don't have a way of "retaliate" later.

Have you ever purchased a firearm? In the scenario you've, there's case law specifically for you!
https://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/j...

Aside from any background check requirements, state laws, or the fact that you are obviously selling a lethal weapon to someone who isn't even in kindergarten (reckless conduct, public endangerment, etc), you alone have demonstrably broken several laws, if not a dozen or more.

I'm not sure the five year old could even be charged with anything other than unlawful possession unless they pointed it at someone. And I think they'd stand a pretty good chance in front of a jury.

\ IANAL

My money is on BGP cascade due to misconfiguration of reroutes for the maintenance

US-East-1
Brain not awake yet....

Step aside, US-1-East, there's another single point of failure to the internet!

(seriously though, have a fallback CDN. Much less effort than multi-cloud)

Unity was the reason I switched from Ubuntu to Mint.

We don't know yet. But the European Commission has to give its approval first. On the other hand, being from different countries might dodge the anti-trust laws (IANAL, though).

This guy really put the "up" in "upload".

My current device hierarchy, ordered by how much I would like to use it to work on a task:

My (former) work linux laptop (I bought it, data scrubbed) (Debian)
My (former) work linux desktop (same as above) (fedora, although I'd like something in the Debian tree)
My Windows VM on my linux desktop
My current gaming laptop (windows, not federated in any way)
My current gaming desktop (same as above)
My rooted android tabled
My unrooted android tablet
My no cost to me, modern with all the features I want Windows laptop that is almost identical in hardware to my first choice, company laptop

I can't put into words how much the user experience, as someone who started on MS-DOS 5 and was a wintelbro thru 2k12r2, has changed. There were manuals, there was a promise. Do things this way, it worked. That promise is gone. Entra and MS Partner program is a hot bag of undocumented garbage that changes without notice. I am spending an hour on a simple IT problem that should take 10 minutes if I were actually able to do things I was able to do two decades ago. When they doubled down on PowerShell? I was ecstatic. I believed in that commitment...deprecating ADUC for ADAC? When ADAC was just a frontend for PS? I was a believer. But now, I'm dealing with the same problems I was a decade ago. Admittedly, PS has made great inroads, but it still isn't complete. It just feels like someone got almost there and just gave up within sight of the finish line.

I know that I am not alone in this. Why is /. pushing some Microsoft marketing link? I've not really been engaged for quite a while, but I have been here...and AFAIK this community was never really happy with MS

Because yes, they are investing significantly. I'm sure using every keystroke a Windows/O365 user types to train your AI has been very helpful in your training. You actually know when it's not another AI generating the data! What a lead that must give you in a world where data-scraping has dead-ended and you have an overwhelming, systemic market share!

Just a side note FYI: In Barcelona only tourists eat paella. And it usually is fast-food paella, which tastes awful and is likely to give you an intestinal storm. Oh, wait, the bus company must be behind... Bus-Paella conspiracy, anyone?

...so for sure El Trumpo wants them down.

I know that's supposed to be impossible to do that without it being public, but I wouldn't be surprised if they Yadayada unallocate redirect DOGE contract something something

My (Japanese) wife and I got married in Spain. Then we just registered the "already existing" wedding in Japan, and that's it!
It can be a romantic alternative for Japanese couples: instead of getting married before the wedding trip, get married during the trip. They have Hawaii quite close, which is a very common holiday destination for them, so it shouldn't be that difficult.