ULAs are standards compliant but tbh it's a layer of complexity I rather not have.

Just give me GUAs and be done with it.

GUAs are dependent on the PD you get from your ISP. Change ISPs, all your IPs change. ISP decides to change the PD, all your IPs change...

Or your router reboots, or...

The nice thing about ULAs is that you can have completely static addresses for internal services.

How do you know what it spat out is correct though?

If it’s beyond our ability to review and we blindly trust it’s correct based on a limited set of tests… we’re asking for trouble.

Usenet is a distributed policy from the ground up.

It’s centralised in the way you describe now that it’s only used for large files / piracy, but it used to me much more diverse.

Every major browser except Firefox is Chrome

or Safari

VP9, AV1

As the article says, there are companies seeking royalties for both of these codecs.

The funny thing about patent licensing alliances is that there's no guarantee that nobody else outside of the bloc will pop up and start suing people.

Basically, you can consider AOM to be a licensing alliances, where the fee is zero.

There is no proof that their patent claims over AV1 or VP9 are valid.

For now they try to bully some smaller companies with the threat of the big legal expenses that would be needed to fight these claims.

i don't think Snap Inc. and Amazon are small companies

Seeking is not getting, not even close. Suggesting it is only supports their propaganda and adds momentum to their bogus race to a cash grab.

C’mon it was worth a shot.

Remember how amazing the original NFTs were?

You can opt-in to encrypting those backups so Apple have no access.

Yes. I believe a small percentage of Apple users do this. Unfortunately that doesn't prevent Apple from reading your messages from the backups of the vast majority of people you correspond with.

So funny to think about this now.

Our email systems are mostly mediated by giant hyper-scale companies (Microsoft, Google etc). The location of mail servers being where the recipient is seems quaint (and wonderfully decentralised).

And even if we do manage our own servers they are automated, and apps often containerised. Nobody ends up with older MTA due to an OS upgrade.

Remember reading this like 20 years ago nice to see it again.

Thing is there is no reason Microsoft’s Linux distro wouldn’t be just as horrible to use “out of the box”.

Just like with browser rendering engines it’s much better if there is variety out there in the ecosystem.

That’s not to say you’re wrong.