RIP indeed. I didn't always agree with him, but I sometimes quite liked him. (View Post)

A list of 14 Russian oil refineries hit in the last two months, some two or more times: https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1971508218477105602 (View Post)

As ever, one of the first questions that is asked about any proposed system should be "How could it fail?" It may be easily possible to have an alternative for phones for some people, but t… (View Post)

On ID cards: I am instinctively against them; but how much I am against them ("over my dead body" versus "That's a terrible idea") will depend on the proposal. I therefore re… (View Post)

And it is possible that it will be well implemented. Though precedence does not bode well. One of my fears is that it becomes overwhelmed by feature creep. Instead of having a relatively minimalist s… (View Post)