> (..) since Firefox shares same "Safe Browsing" database with Google
This. Firefox even sends the hash and filename of each download to Google. So if you use Firefox to download the Tor browser, an abortion price list or a secret PDF, Google knows you downloaded it.
For reference for HN users who don't know who this is:
> Greg Kroah-Hartman is a major Linux kernel developer. As of April 2013 he is the Linux kernel maintainer for the -stable branch, the staging subsystem, USB, driver core, debugfs, kref, kobject, and the sysfs kernel subsystems, Userspace I/O (with Hans J. Koch), and TTY layer.
I think it's fair to say he's the number two guy in the kernel. Is he younger than Linus? I could see him running the show when Linus has enough and calls it a day.
What is probably meant is "find easier to deal with" (hence the quotes around "manageable"). I'm only guessing, though - but in any event, let's not forget that not everyone around here is a native speaker of English! I can relate to the fact that it's sometimes difficult to express exactly what you have in mind.
It used to be the case that there is only a single UK government.
The local governments (Scotland, Wales, NI) are formed no more than ~20 years ago, and are in charge of local affairs such as healthcare and education.
There is never an England local government, but effectively the UK government only have to deal with England with regards to local affairs.
It's not particularly independent, but it is the last of the unreformed medieval municipal corporations. In earlier times every borough/city corporation was chartered ad hoc and often had completely undemocratic rules for membership (e.g. selection by the outgoing members, maintaining a self-selected oligarchy, or election by an extremely restricted franchise). There was a process from the Municipal Corporations Act 1835[0] onwards where the old order was reformed into a more modern (more uniform and more democratic) county/district/borough/city councils system. We eventually ended up with the local authorities we have today.
Except for the City of London. Here, a combination of the Victorian power of the Corporation, coupled with the tiny resident population of the City (and a consequent desire by central governments to leave elections in the effective hands of the companies who employ people in the City rather than those who live there) have left a body allowed to take its own direction. Along with the Council of the Isles of Scilly (weird because Scilly is far too small to justify its own principal authority, but too far from Cornwall to be conveniently governed by it) it is one of only two really sui generis principal local authorities in England.
That's a great explanation, but it's also worth adding that the City of London was the only city mentioned[0] in Magna Carta, which stated:
"the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties by land as well as by water"
These liberties being "ancient" even in 1215 AD means they date back to "time immemorial"[1] (that is, before 1189 AD) and thus their exact nature is not known. As such, replacing the legal basis for the City would likely have contravened or at least complicated the interpretation of that foundational document.
Yes - the traditional liberties of the City are long-standing and fought for. I'm not sure that being mentioned by name in Magna Carta was reason enough to leave it unreformed. The Cinque Ports have been reduced to essentially ceremonial status despite their mention (and the large majority of Magna Carta has simply been repealed over the years[0] - it's not a constitutional document in the sense that it's ever been entrenched).
No, that's not true or fair. The gov.uk contains stuff for all countries not just England. Although it may contain stuff for England that does not have a place elsewhere.
The fact England doesn't have a devolved government is insanity to me, but people were really pissed at Blair when it came time to vote on it... so here we are.
But really - we like to think there's a sensible definition of what a country is. There isn't. What makes Scotland a country and not Montana?
I'm in Ireland, the examples get even more convoluted. For some sports we field a team as a UN-recognised nation-state. For some sports we field a team as an island. If you're born on the island to parents who are citizens of the island, you can claim an Irish passport - whether or not you were born in the country of Ireland. Sometimes it's a geopolitical entity, sometimes it's a geographical entity, sometimes it's a political entity. Sometimes it's not even green.
Is the UK a nation? Is the US a nation? Is the Navajo Nation a nation? Is the UK a country? Is England a country? Is Malboro Country a country?
My passport says "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". But I'm not convinced Great Britain is a United Kingdom (England and Scotland legally are, Wales may be a principality depending on who and when you ask), and I'm not sure if Northern Ireland was ever a Kingdom (Ulster perhaps, otherwise it's not a kingdom, but the remains of a king's claims).
Nationhood is almost as convoluted as the modern take on gender. You can self-identify as anything you like if you have an army to back you up.
England, Scotland, Wales, and NI are called “countries” for historical and traditional reasons. They are not “countries” by any internationally applicable definition (if they were, then the states of the US, the provinces of Canada, etc. would all count as “countries” too by any such definition I can imagine).
Note that .cat is for the Catalan language, which is spoken in other places besides Catalonia, inside and outside of Spain. There is also .gal and .eus for the Galician and Basque (Euskara) languages as well.
Sure. The same goes for email, Twitter, Telegram, Nextcloud and any other service that is not end-to-end encrypted per default. However, I see the least danger with Mastondon, since the discussions usually take place in public anyway.
And: I don't know if this is only the case with the instance on which i am, but Mastodon is even transparent and displays the following hint when you want to send a PM.
> Posts on Mastodon are not end-to-end encrypted. Do not share any sensitive information over Mastodon.
I would expect the opposite. Doesn't DHCP make more sense, for example, if the user creates a snapshot and restores it with a new IP? I don't use Lenode, so I can't judge, but I would expect DHCP to be default.
Default created Debian based linodes use a static IP. How they assign you the IP is they have an initial network boot script that injects that static IP into your config.
I learned this because I wanted to test image recovery of deleted linode. When I restored it, I got a different IP address from linode (the static IP assigned to me), and I couldn't connect to it. Using the web console I found the IP address was hard coded to the old one still.
Just checked my tiny Nanode 1 GB image (Fremont) running Debian and it's indeed running dhclient. Still have access, but I need the instance this weekend for a virtual event. Kind of sucky timing for a potential outage, Linode.
- And if it is getting bigger and brighter by the second, you should evacuate the area.
On the non-joking side, most of the lights in the sky do appear static, as their relative positions only change by earth's rotation. If the light does not appear to be static, then it is not a star or planet, and probably is human made, unless it is a meteor or shooting star.
And if the light making these radical maneuvers zips down and lands in your yard and a grey guy with unusually long arms and fingers and very cool, huge eyes steps out, that's just Bob.
He just needs to use your restroom. It's cramped in that flying thing. Take care to lock your medicine cabinet if you can though. You never know what Bob is really looking for and I don't think they're sending their best.
I'm not sure I'm a fan of that. I would like to see more cars parked in garages or underground garages and not "polluting" the streetscape. Before we had so many cars, the streets were so much emptier and nicer. Here in the neighbourhoods the cars cover the pavements and in other places the shop windows. A large part of the quality of life in cities is lost due to parked cars.
I think this and multi-story car parks are going to be the best solution; what's worse than streets lined with cars parked everywhere? Streets lined with parked cars with wires snaking to and from them.
The place I just moved to is already pedestrian-hostile, who needs it getting worse because we shoehorned electricity into our transport?
Don't get my wrong, I'm a big nerd, I want an electric car, but the way we're doing it doesn't seem right.
This. Firefox even sends the hash and filename of each download to Google. So if you use Firefox to download the Tor browser, an abortion price list or a secret PDF, Google knows you downloaded it.
https://www.pentagrid.ch/en/blog/block_browser_requests_to_g...
Disclaimer: The blogpost is two years old, but I assume this is still current.