There is technically a second provider, Freja, but that is basically only supported by government agencies, and even that is spotty.

There are talks about a state-provided one coming soon, because of EU E-ID laws.

Life, uuuuh, finds a way.

This ignores that the forces of capitalism, the labor market, value, etc are all made up. They work because people (are made to) believe in them. As soon as people stop believing in them, everything will fall apart. The whole point of an economy is to care for people. It will adapt to continue doing that. Yes, the changeover period might be extremely painful for a lot of people.

The whole point of an economy is to generate value. Very, very different than caring for people

Feudalism was the dominant economic system for millennia. The point is to extract value for the upper class. Peasants only matter as a source of labor, and they only get 'cared for' to the extent of keeping them alive and working.

Now think about what feudalism might look like if the peasants' labor could be automated

Well, yeah, "keeping alive" sounds like caring to me. Not to a great standard, that's how we got numerous revolutions, and feudalism did end eventually. People stopped believing it, and some kings lost their heads.

How can you know this "as a matter of fact"? Because your not-a-healthcare-device sportswatch tells you so?

Not running, but in cycling we have power meters, and some workouts (eg 2 x 20' threshold) will definitely burn in the range of 800 calories in an hour. The energy measured by the power meter for this workout is 800 kJ for me (my threshold being around 260W). Now it turns out the conversion factor from kJ to calories is 1/4, but the body is only 25% efficient when producing calories for cycling, meaning one has to burn 4x the amount measured by the power meter. So that's 800 calories for this kind of workout, for me. I wouldn't be surprised if runners of similar fitness doing similar workouts had the same energy expenditure.

I'm not arguing that your body burns that much energy, that follows from the first law of thermodynamics.

But whether that means that your body will have a calorie deficit of that same amount, that is much harder to prove.

I've blown fairly competent colleagues' minds multiple times by showing them the existence of certificate transparency logs. They were very much under the impression that hostnames can be kept secret as a protection against external infrastructure mapping.

Can't it? If you get a wildcard certificate?

Otherwise if you are getting a domain specific certificate, you are obviously giving your cert provider the domains, and why would you assume it would be secret?

Your reading of "politics" seems quite narrow. Creating a place free of social status, hierarchies and with equal opportunity? That's 100% politics.

If that were the goal it might be politics. If its a side effect then its not.

If it's just a side effect then you don't mind if we get rid of it, right?

Because I will probably ask the AI for a rock instead of a bespoke hammer. If I even know what a nail is.

I very much like to use the years of debugging and innovation others spent on that very same problem that I'm having.

There was a switchover which made the derailed cars of the first train move into the track of the second one, you can't have a wall there anyway.

That has nothing to do with the EU, it's just capitalism. Even if the EU wouldn't exist, the energy companies would have found a way to sell the cheap Swedish hydropower to Germany.

Trustworthiness. You know a GmbH has at least 25000€ you can sue them for. And a UG has to put parts of their profits into becoming a GmbH, so eventually everyone big enough is a GmbH.

Conversely, what do you gain by using a standard port?

Now, I do agree a non-standard port is not a security tool, but it doesn't hurt running a random high-number port.

> Conversely, what do you gain by using a standard port?

One less setup step in the runbook, one less thing to remember. But I agree, it doesn't hurt! It just doesn't really help, either.