We already have a standard for shortening long names. Thus

* a13n replaces 'authorization', and
* a14n replaces 'authentication'.

both of these are 1 char shorter than authz / authn, so it should greatly simply things.

DDG and Kagi and Brave are also bullshit due to AI.

Not news to me, either, Drew.

Aaw, I should have told you. Thereâ(TM)s some equation that relates energy, mass, and the speed of light. Probably most physics postdocs have heard of it.

Thanks, Will-O. I quite remember this cia guyâ(TM)s rubber stamp collection with dozens of great stamps: NOFORN, EYES-ONLY, and different fonts of Secret and top secret. Damn, but the guard at the place seized my paper with all those stamps.

On the other hand, I still have a VIP parking pass for the CIA headquarters â" Lets ypu park right at the front steps. Valid, if you have a time machine going back to April 5, 1988.

My warm thoughts fly over to you, Kill (owatt-) Hour â" last weekâ(TM)s eclipse fund me beneath stratus clouds just east of Buffalo, having a wonderful (though cloudy) day with 4 generations of my family. Itâ(TM)s a joy to see how my home town has evolved â" memories of climbing the Michigan Avenue Lift Bridge at midnight and watching them tap the redhot coke ovens at Bethlehem/Lackawanna Steel mills.

Following up, I am honored by the attention and kindness of fellow nerds and online friends. When I first started on that chase in 1986, I had no idea wrhere it would lead me.

A curious accounting error led me through Unix internals, tcp/ip protocols, early Arpanet connections, and backwards to a group of computer hackers working for then Soviet & Stassi agencies. Along the way, I met people from the FBI, NSA, CIA, AFOSI, and plenty of very smart computer jocks.

It was a time of analog phones and dial up modems; when you would carry coins in your pocket to make calls on the street.

Since then, thanks to the support of online friends and math folk, I have explored and shared interests in topology and math. Along the way, Iâ(TM)ve made plenty of mistakes and bloopers; pretty much the same as student times. Goofups in grad school are easier to sweep aside!

To all my friends: May you burdens be light and your purpose high. Stay curious!

- Cliff

Iâ(TM)ve been away from slashdot for a while, and Iâ(TM)m now on a post-eclipse trip on the east coast.

With good fortitune (and Amtrak), Iâ(TM)ll be home in 10 days; Iâ(TM)ll then fill the tsunami of Klein bottle orders that havve arrived in the past few hours. Over a dozenâ" Iâ(TM)ll be catching up for a few days!

Smiles all around,
-Cliff on a rainy Saturday in Potsdam, NU

FreeBSD is also free software as defined by the FSF. ZFS is too.

When were you born?

They were a membership organization run by 3 universities.

Ok, that's interesting - my understanding of that ruling was that recording could only be allowed if it could be guaranteed not to capture any images of people! Maybe I now buy a dashcam for my cycling!

I am pretty sure you are correct, certainly in Germany where even dashcam footage is inadmissible in court, and there is no Google Steeetview

> I don't actually care if I get it, if it's going to suck for at most a few days and then I'm fine.
But you may get it and die. Or get long covid, or pass the virus along to someone else who gets the same, or maybe can't be vaccinated.

This is true, but it includes most geographical features, and in the English Lake District where I often hike the osm footpath network is much more complete than the official Ordnance Survey maps.