GRRM is still writing his series.

That’s simple: have the earliest works released into the public domain, while he keeps squatting on the newer and promised ones.

How long do you think copyright should be?

No easy solutions but my general guideline would be that both copyright and patents should never last more than half the retirement age of a current generation, calculated via actuarial tables or some trustable scientific method.

The rationale is simple: the ultimate purpose of both is (or, well, should be) to promote creation so that society in general can be participant of the resulting effects. Half the retirement age not only is a good compromise between giving creator control and giving at least half of society the opportunity to enjoy the public good result of creation within their lifetime and within their fair opportunity to earn wages, in particular in such cases as eg.: big pharma and medications, but also promotes that big creators, such as corporations, act towards the public good of lengthening life and providing good living standards for the rest of society.

And they specifically logged and delivered data about freedom fighters and environmentalists, so there’s some bias on Proton’s hand there.

Yeah I just checked Atkinson Hyperlegible and, at least the version I can access (the one on Github) lacks entire Latin and compatible character ranges, as well as having a substantially limited math symbols set (only two greek letters show, for example).

The weird thing is, if I understand how fonts correctly, that shouldn’t have been an issue. The font doesn’t register those missing characters, so your browser should have known to fallback to a default typeface for the missing characters. It’d be weird if you have none of the many compatible fonts (not even, say, Times New Roman).

Leading with the hard questions, I see!

(I honestly wouldn’t know how to answer the question. I guess in order to pirate it, you’d have to fetch a copy from someone who broke the license terms and is thus not authorized to distribute it, but that kinda turns into a Catch-22)

Yeah I’ve heard about punycode. Personally, I’m well against it because it puts down non-MURRICAN English domain names as second-class citizens on the internet. If I have a website about Copiapó, a perfectly legal town, there’s no good reason why the domain name should not be copiapó.cl rather than copiap-xcwhngoingohi4oleleiyho42yt4ptg4ht4.cl, making it look “suspect” and “malware-y”.

There were quite some complains back in the time about Firefox choosing not to “flag” internationalized names as potentially dangerous, and pretty much all those complaints that I know of likely came from English speakers who simply can’t understand other countries in the world even can have different alphabets.

It’s likely that system only has the base Latin-1 font set for some weird reason? Or a misconfigured fontserver (or equivalent in Windows). My understanding is that the text “sail the high seas” uses glyphs in both the Latin D group and the phonetic extensions groups (feel free to correct me!), so pretty much any Unicode-aware font since 2010, FOSS or otherwise, would render this correctly.

I personally recommend the Liberation font set, although it’s free software so you can’t really pirate it.

And don’t get me started on TLS certificates in local networks…

I hate this and the fact that modern platforms seem to require TLS even if you’re serving localhost, so much.

I’ve taken to using .here (or .aqui, “here” in Español, much harder to match outside) as alternatives until something better comes up.

Ideally I’d use .aquí, correctly with the diacritic, but DNS doesn’t seem to support even the basics of Unicode in 2024.

64-bit IPv5

64-bit IP would be IPv8, not IPv5.

Not a big deal. We’re projected to run out of years by 2000 and then the world will end.

I felt dirty!

“Senpai, route me like one of your French ISPs”

128 bits basically gives one ip4 address space to each square meter of earth.

That sounds like terminal stage capitalism to me. Why would we want every tree in the Amazons to be cybergorized with its own IP? I don’t know Rick, 64 kbits bits ought to be enough for everybody, and I’m already risking it.

IPv6 is unfortunately not six bytes, no. For some weird, ass-backwards reason.

Boy do we like it!

That’s what they thought for IPv4… and for 2-year digits… and for…

1.1.1.1? :p

SQL uses it but yeah, not programming language :p.

I was on mobile so I didn’t have a .XCompose available to type ≠.

The fun thing is that, C++ being C++, this is actually an std::overflow_error…

“We were here first,” as the saying goes.

True. As corporate goes, take a good product name that exists in the wild, bury it with your own shitty product, best case you get to kill two products for the price of one (eg.: Google with “Gemini”).