IIRC, it’s still 100% privately held by the founders, who have no intention of selling up.
IIRC, it’s still 100% privately held by the founders, who have no intention of selling up.
Another recommendation for Mullvad. Solid privacy options and no marketing snake oil
I wonder what the proportion of bots to actual gamergate incel chuds who idolise Musk was.
If you have a border with Russia, paying some Ukrainians to wear down the Russian army is just a sound investment
I’m guessing that with the name having a brexity “Great” prepended to it, the classic British Rail logo will be redone to have thin lines next to the thick ones, making it look more like a Union Jack. After all, we didn’t vote Leave to have an unpatriotic railway logo that could just as easily exist in Belgium or somewhere.
That looks like an Iain Banks non-sci-fi book jacket
Both of these services appear to be dependent on BlueSky. I.e., if BlueSky ceased existing, or cut them off from its API, they’d die. In that way, they’re not that different from “Log in with Facebook” or similar.
One could theoretically make one’s own independent AT Protocol network, but not in a way that interoperates with BlueSky as a peer. You’re either a subsidiary part of its network or you don’t exist as far as it’s concerned, which is a much poorer value proposition than ActivityPub and related protocols.
No, because the AT Protocol is not designed for interoperability, but rather for entrenching the silo owned by the main node (BlueSky) whilst giving the illusion of being decentralised. It’s to decentralised social media what Microsoft’s OOXML file format (tl;dr: a memory dump of Microsoft Word’s internal data structures encoded in XML, and useless to anything that’s not Microsoft Word or a very precise emulation thereof) is to open document formats.
It’s possible though less than ideal. Drivers that connect to devices are part of the attack surface, and probably the part you’d least want implemented in C when the rest of the kernel is in Rust.
There’s a Pareto effect when it comes to them, in that you can cover a large proportion of use cases with a small amount of work, but the more special cases consume proportionately more effort. For a MVP, you could restrict support to standard USB and SATA devices, and get a device you can run headless, tethered to the network through a USB Ethernet adapter. For desktop support, you’d need to add video display support, and support for the wired/wireless networking capabilities of common chipsets would be useful. And assuming that you’re aiming only for current hardware (i.e. Intel/AMD boards and ARM/RISC-V SOCs), there are a lot of legacy drivers in Linux that you don’t need to bring along, from floppy drives to the framebuffers of old UNIX workstations. (I mean, if a hobbyist wants to get the kernel running on their vintage Sun SPARCstation, they can do so, but it won’t be a mainstream feature. A new Linux-compatible kernel can leave a lot of legacy devices behind and still be useful.)
Drew DeVault recently wrote a simple but functional UNIX kernel in a new systems programming language named Hare in about a month, which suggests that doing something similar in Rust would be equally feasible. One or two motivated individuals could get something up which is semi-useful (runs on a common x86 PC, has a console, a filesystem, functional if not necessarily high-performance scheduling and enough of the POSIX API to compile userspace programs for), upon which, what remained would be a lot of finishing work (device drivers, networking, and such), though not all of it necessary for all users. Doing this and keeping the goal of making it a drop-in replacement for the Linux kernel (as in, you can have both and select the one you boot into in your GRUB menu; eventually the new one will do enough well enough to replace Linux) sounds entirely feasible, and a new kernel codebase, implemented in a more structured, safer language sounds like it could deliver a good value proposition over the incumbent.
Wouldn’t this be about the time anti-SLAPP laws come down on Musk like a tonne of bricks?
Yes, and also they had the British Rail arrow logo redrawn in union-jack colours. If we’re keeping their ridiculously jingoistic name (for a nationalised rail company that goes beyond the scope of what they had in mind), we should keep the aggressively Brexity iconography as well.
They should lose the word “Great” from the name. I know that the landmass is officially named “Great Britain”, but sticking a “Great” in the name of a railway company reeks of insecurity and Brexit-era Faragist flag-shagging. If nothing else, it looks like something the Tories would have put up as a distraction while they helped their old school chums loot the public purse.
On many occasions, in Europe (the Austrian ones are good, the new Swedish ones to Germany are decent), the UK (London-Scotland) and Australia (Sydney to Melbourne and Brisbane; they’re comfortable and good value, though about to be phased out because the management believe that seats are good enough). I can recommend it.
Don’t forget that every recent Intel CPU contains an extra 486-based system on a chip running a stripped-down version of Minix (a predecessor of Linux), to implement the remote management engine.
It’s because the UK’s privatised electricity companies have made running electric trains prohibitively expensive, to the point where passenger railways run diesel trains on electric routes because it’s cheaper. Another thing we have Margaret Thatcher to thank for.
I’m guessing this data is from one hemisphere (the northern?)
They’d be better off ploughing that money into a dark-money influence campaign to get the UK into the Schengen zone. (If hedge funds opposed to EU tax transparency rules could pull the UK out of the EU, surely it’s worth a try.)
Just goes to show that if you support the railway industry, it’s never gonna give you up