They are so often stateful and fall over when some scanner comes by, or if a light DNS DoS attack happens, compromising the entire access link, when the scanned systems or the DNS server weren’t even bothered by the amount of requests.

They introduce weird unexpected restrictions, like preferring to blackhole our customers traffic rather than accepting some asymmetric routing. And then we get blamed for their setup, which they don’t even know.

They ossify protocol development in general, requiring things like header encryption in QUIC to force them to ignore things that aren’t their business anyway.

They are apparently also expensive as hell, multiple customers have declined upgrades because they don’t have fast enough firewalls and not enough budget to buy faster ones.

Those are the ones that come to mind right now. There are also occasional bugs that make our or our customers lives difficult, but I can’t recall a clear one at the moment.

Firewalls in general.

Well not “just”. It’s also philanthropy. Could be worse, like buying media influence, or advertising.

I didn’t see any image credit for the bunny picture or the other rodent with the hood. So I don’t think the original creator’s credit was removed, only some remixer who didn’t give credit lost his unjustified watermark.

If anyone really cares, that’s because Pope Francis was from the Jesuit Order. The first pope to be one. They swear poverty among other things, so the golden chair wouldn’t look appropriate.

I mean 26 separate sets of law regarding what is taxed and how highly in each of the 26 cantons. Not one law with 26 paragraphs.

Here in Switzerland, tax law is different per canton. So for our ~9 million people we have 26 tax laws! We pay taxes on three levels, communal, cantonal and federal taxes. And who collects which part depends on your canton. In mine the commune collects the communal and the cantonal part, and the canton collects the federal part. Yeah… it makes no sense to me either.

Though regarding the filing that part is not so bad;you only make one tax declaration from which the taxes on all three levels are calculated. And as far as I’m aware each canton offers a free software application for filing. The filings are a little complicated compared to some European neighbours from what I hear. For instance we aren’t source taxed directly out of our pay-checks, so we have to list our earnings and possessions manually and list various deductions.

Still, from what I gather we have it a little better than the US Americans

Well, yes, because you’re still changing direction and have to indicate this. Our street traffic laws in Switzerland do not make exceptions for turn lanes.

earth has been segragated into 10 foot x 10 foot squares

I think you’re inadvertently advertising a cylindrical model of the earth 😁

Since you mention states and the site mentions federal taxes and the IRS, I assume this is for the tax system of the USA, it’s funny that it isn’t stated anywhere though.

And .de is also the third most used country code TLD. Only .cn and .tk are bigger. China is just so big and kind of has their own corner of the Internet, so that makes sense, and Tokelau is tiny but they offered free registrations to anyone for a long time.

There are two methods:

• You can use caps lock for the capitalized umlauts and caps lock and shift for the capitalized French accented vowels
• You can use the accent buttons and combine with a normal capitalized vowel. For example, the button between ü and enter is the two dots button ¨, so you press two dots, then shift-o and get a capital Ö. Same for the French accented vowels the two buttons on the left of backspace have ´ and ` (with alt-gr and shift respectively) and you can combine those with shift-e for É È.

The second method sounds convoluted, but you get used to combining keys anyway. For example for the circumflex ^ because â ê î ô û don’t exist pre-combined on this keyboard layout. The same goes for some rarer combinations like ï, which despite the dots isn’t a German umlaut, it’s an i with trema for use in French for example in haïr, to hate.

German only really introduced capitalized umlauts for printing around 1900, so people used to use the combinations of the vowel with e for capitalized umlauts in print. Then the first mechanical typewriters again didn’t all have umlauts, or sometimes had only small umlauts. The combinations with e is also used for systems that have technical limitations. If they are ASCII based for example. Therefore even today people are somewhat used to it, so if you were to write Oeffnungszeit instead of Öffnungszeit nobody would bat an eye.

Also QWERTZ, but the Swiss version that has these guys on the umlauts with shift äöü -> àéè

Looks okay to me. Not sure how important the last two are to be honest, but I included them for completeness

https://github.com/opencloud-eu/opencloud/blob/main/LICENSE

https://github.com/opencloud-eu/web/blob/main/LICENSE

https://github.com/opencloud-eu/web-extensions/blob/main/LICENSE

https://github.com/opencloud-eu/desktop/blob/main/COPYING

https://github.com/opencloud-eu/reva/blob/main/LICENSE

https://github.com/opencloud-eu/rclone/blob/master/COPYING

The marketing statements on the website say the right things too, but they are secondary to the above, obviously:

Openness

OpenCloud is and remains open source software. This means that you can download and use the source code free of charge and without obligation. We welcome and encourage any kind of participation in the work on OpenCloud in the spirit of open source collaboration.

OpenCloud GmbH also offers paid builds of OpenCloud for use in environments where support, professional services and other services are required.

Who are we?

OpenCloud GmbH is a young company founded under the umbrella of the Heinlein Group and employs a team of developers who are familiar with the project code.

The combination of the Heinlein Group’s many years of experience in the open source business and the unwavering enthusiasm of the developers, most of whom have many years of open source experience, provides the perfect foundation for an active project. And we warmly invite everyone to join us!

The foundation

The basis of the project is a fork of a widely used open source project whose components are co-developed by developers from the science organization CERN and other active participants. OpenCloud is now being continuously developed independently by the OpenCloud community and published under the Apache 2.0 and AGPL-3.0 licenses.

In the spirit of reusability of code under free licenses, we are grateful for the strong foundation on which we are building.

Mine are on different, non-overlapping channels, so there’s no need to reduce it.

Ahhh I’m rubbing up against all this nothing so roughly it feels almost sticky

At 17, I think yes. Unless Tiffany is too young. And make sure he has condoms.

I think I finally found what I was put on this earth to do: Knife goes in guts come out.

– Bart Simpson

Here in Switzerland the name really depends on which one you’re actually making. Omelettes, Pfannkuchen, Kaiserschmarrn, Crêpes, Pancakes. You can find them all. My mother likes making Omelettes the most, I like making Pancakes the most.

We still use RCS at work. For config files for our network monitoring. Works fine still.