Thanks for the pointer! I took the opportunity to learn a bit about more recent NNTP by reading the standard: RFC 3977. It looks like nntp v2 circa 2006 added MIME encoding, so I would guess that may be how a service provider would differentiate.

I haven’t used Usenet since the turn of the century. Back then it was all text (including every article under alt.binaries), and even pirated media needed to be split into a multi-part format (often rar) then each part uuencoded so it could be included in an article.

Does your ISP not give your router a public (even if dynamic) IP? If not, then after your router you’d be double-natted right? Yuck!

What do you consider large files? Isn’t the article size usually limited to something like 1mb (it’s been a while since I used Usenet)?

So it would technically be about the number of articles rather than the eventual size of the combined archive? At the core it’s all still text right?

My dialup ISP in the 90s included Usenet.

Are you saying that physical attraction is the only valid type of attraction?

The patent office has long said they’re unable to attract and retain the expertise needed to evaluate novelty in any given field, and so the courts are left to sort it out.

I wonder how could a government agency not have the funding it needs? /s

That’s pretty good too!

You get bonus points if you do it while going around a corner.

Maybe if you’re the guy with a zamboni.

Now you might only be able to get a couple rotations until the ice has had at least one night at twenty below. That’ll set it up real nice. After that you should be able to properly whip a shitty worth telling your kids about some day.

Is it even worth trying before that point in the season? You betcha!

But they are just as directly related.

It doesn’t matter how these units were originally defined. They have all been redefined as science progressed. As long as you relate the arbitrary unit to a constant it can be translated.

It might be funny if it were true, but it’s just a sad show of ignorance. It is exactly as possible in one as in the other for obvious reasons. It’s just not as easy to memorize.

To be specific:

• energy required to heat to boiling point 1180 kJ
• energy required to convert to vapor 8420 kJ
• energy required to heat to boiling point and convert to vapor 9600 kJ

That saying too often gets used as an excuse to not even try moving away from patronizing a harmful business, as though it isn’t worth any inconvenience since we’re screwed no matter what.

Also, these numbers are only for user data. Other components are even more centralized including the ones they use to censor speech that their corporation or certain governments don’t like.

That’s dangerously close to something Microsoft would say, like

“LiNuX is tHe LaSt ThInG you WaNt FoR sEcUrItY”

But I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and hope you just meant that Linux mobile isn’t ready for use as a daily driver yet.

(sent from iodé)

I don’t think it necessarily needs the victim to have voted for them - it’s more about the majority supporting the referendum and also the incompatible representatives. The LEPF party were elected and are doing what they do.

This is similar on mac and windows. Some software is available in the built-in package management (aka store). Some are installed from msi or dmg files. Some are portable executables. Some are PWA. Some are via command line utilities like homebrew and chocolatey.

No workstation OS has every possible option in one place.

https://porteus-kiosk.org/ looks like a distro that makes it easy.

Many of the founding fathers were against political parties altogether and absolutely anticipated a two party equilibrium.

https://www.usconstitution.net/founding-fathers-warnings/