digdilem

It's not /just/ about colour. Plenty of white people are being detained illegally. The only way to be certain not to be illegally detained in the US is not to visit the US. Sadly, not an option for many people who are already there.

Debian for about two decades: It would take something pretty major to shift me - probably a hostile takeover, major policy shift or commercialisation, none of which is likely.

At worked we shifted from Centos to Rocky for the obvious reason, and are happy with the choice so far.

It's dangerous. People are a 35 times more likely to be killed by guns than my country.

Whatever you use, don't build it to a definitive target.

From personal experience, which may not be universal: No matter how carefully you plan this, your needs will change sooner than you think. Expect to re-organise things things, make changes constantly, and occasionally deal with messes you made. We do this to tinker and play and experiment, and that creates mess.

So design something you can change. Luckily, that is what racks are about anyway, but do stuff like having space behind it for an extra coil of cable, space between servers, a shelf or two for those annoying random things, ability to extend. Space around it to work and move (don't fix it to a wall in such a way that you can't reach it all - wheels are good together with enough cable flex to be able to easily pull the rack out so it doesn't go Whoo..... as everything suddenly powers down)

Obviously some rules are hard-baked, like "heavy stuff at the bottom", but be fluid.

What, they're listening to the courts now?

That's exactly my point.

The legislation, from the start, should have upheld the do not track and similar settings in browsers. Require websites to check and honour those flags.

Instead, we get some half-arsed requirement to add cookie banners to every website under some vague threat of prosecution (which never seems to happen unless you're a social media giant) that inconveniences every single user, and often more than once.

This here, now, is a tiny bandage on a gaping wound caused by not doing what was required in the first place.

Another layer of annoying on a massively stupid piece of legislation that has made the internet immeasurably worse for everyone.

These preferences should be settable in the browser, transferred during http* connection and honoured by every single website you use.

Any changes that marketeers come up with should be ratified in the same way that changes to internet protocols are, and if the browser doesn't support them yet, they are assumed "do not".

Every time I've tried it, my work has been reverted a few days later for reasons I don't agree with.

Whilst I like Wikipedia and use it as a reader, my motivation to help it grow (like I do with many other things) is zero.

Good answer. Like a michelin chef working at McDonald's and having a little secret area of his own.

That sounds like hell.

Interesting. I'd not heard of those before. Are they dateable?

Here in England, on the other side of the world, we have similar structures that have been dated back to the Bronze Age (3000 to 6000 years ago) These had a rock base, with mud/daub/wattle upper walls with thatch or turf roofs.

The similarity probably isn't that surprising, people have needed shelter and use what's available to make it. Even modern ruins from a few hundred years ago look pretty similar.

(One example below from Dartmoor, there's thousands in this area)

Sharing filesystems could be useful, I can see that.

I do that with target dev platforms anyway, using things like NFS, samba and sftp, but I do see that it could work well for this.