It was dial-up service and web site. It wasn’t very big, but i think it was around for some time. This is the best i could find: https://variety.com/1995/digital/features/europe-online-gets-at-amp-t-dialtone-99124960/

Enshittification company buys the O.G. enshittification

I believe Europe Online was a service about the time when AOL was a thing

Bill, stop trying to make nuclear happen. It’s not unlimited free energy. It’s not going to greenwash AI and besides AI is not going to fix the world.

Renewables are here to stay and solar is as close as we will get to ‘free’ energy.

US-American.

Unfortunately most the so-called west is toast when the US fails. From Military to Cloud all US-dominated.

Also:

Selection process

The department expects a high volume of applications and it will not be possible to provide funding to all eligible applicants.

Selection will be a non-competitive process. Once an applicant satisfies the eligibility criteria they will be included in an anonymised random sampling process to determine the pilot participants from the pool of eligible applicants for the BIA Pilot.

Funding for the scheme will allow for approximately 2,000 eligible applicants to participate in the pilot scheme.

Well, what we mean by “on the same network” maybe more complicated then it sounds if a device has multiple network interfaces and a non-trivial routing such as any modern smartphone that smartly switches between wifi and cell. It’s plausible that various apps and devices have a different behaviour which network they treat as local/standard.

However, I just tried it out with two Samsung Androids. One is a hotspot and has no other wifi. The other one uses the hotspot (and no other wifi obviously). Then lauching pairdrop, they can “see each other” (through broadcast packages I assume) on the local network. During testing the hotspot device had internet access through 5G, so both devices could reach paridrop.net, but I believe, this is not needed while in local network mode. At least the file transfer itself should not go through the internet in this mode.

I had similar a similar experience with syncthing. Sure, the hotspot is a hack and neither super reliable nor super fast on most phones, but at least my phone does not seem to block access from/to the hotspot device.

Is this really a showstopper? You could use a hotspot.

Just dropping https://pairdrop.net/ here. Works on the same network or via the internet. There is an app, but it would also work in the browser on literally any device.

The cartridges are a HP design. The CC license is the smallest problem here.

It’s a thing. Print shops use these to print different formats, usually for size > office paper. I checked on DDG and could easily find a supplier in my country for sizes the fit the OpenPrinter. Not sure if the paper roll is cheaper or more convenient, given that you have to order from specialized stores, but certainly it’s a great idea.

We don’t know anything about political motives. Threat came from a German dude on a killing spree against his family.

Thanks.

So where is booking.com in that list?

Fuck. Because what we need right now is another war.

I wonder what the link to booking.com is? An AirBnB style room in occupied territory? Guess that’s expected when not actively blocked.

A huge resort development exclusively marketed through booking.com? Very different story.

Somewhere in between? Capitalism.

Yes, that’s why it’s potentially poison. Ukraine had no other option than to take it. No one will blame them.

Sounds plausible. We should listen to this guy.

We shall hope so.

A few tests failing in beta, when this can be fixed before the release, is hardly newsworthy.

However it leaves a bad taste to even consider replacing coreutils when it’s nur clear that the replacement is rock solid. Those commands are used in millions of shell scripts distributed alongside applications. Should coreutils break, we’d learn the hard way.

This depends on the goal. Sure, installing Linux in a VM is easy and will always work. Also working within a VM is usually just fine. However you still have to keep Windows underneath with all it’s problems like end of 10.

Take any distro you fancy, Mint is a good start. Create a bootable USB stick an try it out. This is does not modify anything on your computer, just loads linux and let’s you test it. I usually play a youtube video. This shows that wifi, video and sound work out of the box.