Hmm, sounds interesting. Any interesting/notable differences that set this project apart from other similar projects like IPFS?

DSA and OSA are very different pieces of legislation

They can’t force 4chan to implement age verification, or to implement geoblocks. They can issue fines if they feel like it, but they’re uncollectible.

The UK has every right to restrict their own residents access to things that are illegal internally. Just like how they have customs controls at their physical borders to prevent illegal physical items from being imported, they should have just blocked 4chan off the rip instead of trying to fine them.

Yeah, reading this I think we are indeed on the same page.

I feel like I am missing something reading your comments, but it seems pretty clear to me that they do do business in the UK. They have users in the UK, to which they are providing a service (the 4chan message boards) in exchange for eyes on adverts placed on the page (from which 4chan makes money).

Just because this law is really stupid, and that 4chan does not have servers in the UK doesn’t really matter. UK laws can still be enforced for individuals in the UK (which is expressly what is stated in the message from ofcom). Ofcom is not demanding that age verification is implemented for all users world wide, but for UK users. 4Chan can decide to not comply (which I think is good), but then it is not surprising that if you keep doing business in the UK (not blocking UK users/IPs) that fines (which 4chan will just ignore as they are not UK based) and possible bans on your service in the UK follow.

I expect VPN + Aurora (or any other non Play store) will be enough to get around it

Amazing to see that they successfully migrated. This is a great example for the rest of Europe and the teams that worked on this will (hopefully) have plenty of work ahead of them in helping other European entities migrate away from US big tech!

Taipei 101 if I am not mistaken, but not sure what the significance of the day is.

I quickly did an edit on my phone so that the colours roughly matched how it looked to my eyes. Proper work on the raw image will have to wait until I am back home.

I could see a market for vaccinating Americans abroad in Canada and Mexico if the US continues on this path

I still can not get over how pickleball is an actual thing and not just an internet meme

I would just create a point to point VPN connection and run it over that (for axample an IPsec tunnel using strongswan)

Don’t forget the dot com bubble

I am not saying that a government list like the one proposed in Ohio is good. I think it is terrible. But a list managed by an industry group where the keepers of the list are direct stakeholders of the list, while not beholdend to Freedom of Information requests, as suggested by the parent comment, is even worse.

Ah, maybe I misunderstood you. You said that it is not an issue of ghosting but of reneging on an agreement, while the parent comment had a clear example of reneging on an agreement. Also, as far as I know rescinded job offers are quite difficult to persue legally as contracts usually have some trial period where any side can cease the contract for any reason (or are completely at will). But I have never persued such action so I am not sure what the precedent is.

Woo, both parties are terrible, irresponsible, and should be held accountable

How is recinding an offer not reneging on an agreement?

Expecting basic curtesies and being frustrated and irritated when someone did not do a tiny bit of effort to save you a lot of time and money is fine.

Advocating for an industrialized system to ruin peoples lives because of it is the problem.

Sure, wasting peoples time is awful and should be avoided (from both sides). The thing is, coming in saying that any government list/database is inherently evil, so let’s have private companies do it instead is a take that is bound to invite some very heated arguments.

An industry list is a system that (I believe) is ripe for abuse.

Some problems I can think of from the top of my head

• Listing applicants that rejected offers to prevent them from getting better offers elsewhere
• Applicant time wasted if they are blacklisted (an industry list has no incentive to publish said list. Job seekers would just keep sending out applications never knowing why they do not get through the automated application filtering step)
• Listing your own employees to prevent them from switching to a better company
• Plain old spite if you left a previous employer on bad terms
• I am sure companies can come up with some creative other uses of list mechanics

Also, an industry blacklisting an individual does not have an even effect as a reciprocal list where companies with unfair hiring practices (such as ghost jobs that never get filled or ghosting applicants without explanation) get listed. If the effect would be the same (i.e. not being able to work in said field), then the sanction on a company would effectively be dissolution (difficult to run a company if you are not able to do any work in the field that your company specializes in).

I feel for you missing out on time with your family. I have myself also worked overtime because I was enthousiastic about a specific project or task, but part of choosing to work that overtime is accepting the risk that the time will not be successful or productive.

If this has happend multiple times, I would say, be less flexible in your planning, and don’t work overtime but spend time with your loved ones. (If you live in a jurisdiction where overtime is not defacto mandatory)

Say there is a pile of company time wasted by applicants and a pile of applicant time wasted by companies, then I think we both know which pile is bigger.

I disagree, it is great to use. Yes, some things are more difficult but as OP mentioned he wants to learn more, and running your own cluster for your services is an amazing way to learn k8s.

Yup, sorry to be the bearer of bad news🥲