"if laws are not being enforced, it might be prudent to repeal them."

agree

uh, found several mines :)

sometime I have the feeling having a username that ends with "xx" does not help much :)

super! thank you

and it confirms (from my laptop, of course)

…/dnsperftest ./dnstest.sh

                     test1   test2   test3   test4   test5   test6   test7   test8   test9   test10  Average 

cloudflare 53 ms 53 ms 52 ms 53 ms 52 ms 54 ms 52 ms 49 ms 53 ms 52 ms 52.30

level3 1000 ms 94 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 285 ms 184 ms 183 ms 1000 ms 674.60

google 69 ms 53 ms 54 ms 54 ms 51 ms 59 ms 49 ms 54 ms 52 ms 55 ms 55.00

quad9 1000 ms 112 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 911.20

freenom 246 ms 286 ms 286 ms 242 ms 177 ms 233 ms 500 ms 175 ms 204 ms 274 ms 262.30

opendns 74 ms 52 ms 65 ms 81 ms 56 ms 60 ms 59 ms 53 ms 52 ms 53 ms 60.50

norton 53 ms 51 ms 56 ms 52 ms 64 ms 54 ms 49 ms 55 ms 45 ms 48 ms 52.70

cleanbrowsing 52 ms 51 ms 55 ms 50 ms 56 ms 50 ms 52 ms 50 ms 55 ms 51 ms 52.20

yandex 94 ms 95 ms 90 ms 92 ms 84 ms 97 ms 281 ms 147 ms 88 ms 83 ms 115.10

adguard 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000.00

neustar 87 ms 74 ms 71 ms 124 ms 75 ms 75 ms 75 ms 71 ms 75 ms 72 ms 79.90

comodo 1000 ms 62 ms 1000 ms 66 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 160 ms 52 ms 1000 ms 634.00

nextdns 304 ms 202 ms 351 ms 199 ms 191 ms 188 ms 71 ms 72 ms 73 ms 81 ms 173.20

I tried in Usa and Italy, and quad9 there has fast performance, so the issue I experience is probably limited to queries from Germany (so I've updated the title)

Nice. If nothing else that gives a list of alternatives to use in the mean time and a way to tell when one could switch back to Quad9. 1000ms = time out.

Results from USA near Yellowstone National Forest:

    alias hn="sed 's/^/    /'"

    ./dnstest.sh | sort -k22 -n | hn
                         test1   test2   test3   test4   test5   test6   test7   test8   test9   test10  Average 
    127.0.0.53           1 ms    1 ms    3 ms    1 ms    1 ms    1 ms    1 ms    1 ms    1 ms    1 ms      1.20
    _local_unbound       2 ms    1 ms    1 ms    2 ms    1 ms    1 ms    1 ms    1 ms    1 ms    1 ms      1.20
    cloudflare           12 ms   11 ms   43 ms   13 ms   42 ms   12 ms   14 ms   44 ms   13 ms   12 ms     21.60
    norton               24 ms   23 ms   24 ms   24 ms   25 ms   24 ms   23 ms   24 ms   23 ms   25 ms     23.90
    neustar              24 ms   24 ms   24 ms   24 ms   24 ms   24 ms   24 ms   24 ms   24 ms   24 ms     24.00
    cleanbrowsing        25 ms   26 ms   24 ms   26 ms   25 ms   25 ms   27 ms   25 ms   24 ms   25 ms     25.20
    nextdns              23 ms   24 ms   24 ms   24 ms   24 ms   24 ms   44 ms   25 ms   25 ms   23 ms     26.00
    opendns              23 ms   24 ms   24 ms   31 ms   23 ms   63 ms   24 ms   31 ms   29 ms   24 ms     29.60
    quad9                25 ms   42 ms   41 ms   41 ms   23 ms   40 ms   40 ms   24 ms   24 ms   24 ms     32.40
    level3               42 ms   38 ms   39 ms   37 ms   39 ms   37 ms   37 ms   37 ms   37 ms   39 ms     38.20
    freenom              10 ms   10 ms   25 ms   10 ms   10 ms   10 ms   75 ms   41 ms   10 ms   219 ms    42.00
    google               42 ms   43 ms   98 ms   65 ms   46 ms   81 ms   57 ms   63 ms   41 ms   68 ms     60.40

used to be 90g when we had 3 courses per meal (primo, secondo, formaggio/frutta)

150g nowadays if y only have one course and are hungry

200g is indeed a lot

RI 3-year upfronts apply 3% (raising up to 9%) to full prepaid in month 1 (with no money back if you cancel support even the month after): this hits budget

omg, this is pretty sad

Why?

a dead end loop, apparently, applying not just to Stack Overflow but all similar content providers:

A. AI became "Intelligent" thanks to Stack Overflow

B. Stack Overflow collapse due to AI

C. AI cannot update/evolve due to lack of Stack Overflow

Who is going to produce mediated and revised ('good') content?

> C. AI cannot update/evolve due to lack of Stack Overflow

> Who is going to produce mediated and revised ('good') content?

This take is ~3 years old and already obsolete. For the past two years RL flavours (RLAIF, RLVR, etc) have been driving the new models.

omg, thanks I did not know (I am obsolete, too :(

Human trainers. There are tens of thousands of people doing it full time for AI companies. Their mode of work isn't much dissimilar from answering SO questions. Just in a closed manner.

did you notice there is nothing from the Vatican about the theocratic regime?

If you are curious on how it looks a website taken down by Italian state apparatus, have a look at

https://phica.eu

(in details: the action was carried out by the Central Directorate for Scientific Police and Cybersecurity within the Department of Public Security, Ministry of the Interior).

The domain resolves (by many DNS, 1.1.1.1 included) to Cloudflare IPs :)

soooo good!