> the new Microsoft Teams and its incoming-call notification sound

I absolutely have this issue and would love to know more about any suspected causes.

Agreed, OP has seen too many movies. Other suspicious things (some of which suggest a longer-brewing confrontation):

- The "hint of a Russian accent" that Zac supposedly put on (but nobody except Shamji ever noticed)

- How quickly Shamji and his associates were to claim that Zac "seemed suicidal"

- The "heating up knives and clearing up blood" text from Shamji hours before Zac's death

- The traces of blood spotted by the police when they searched the apartment Zac jumped from

But hey, the cops asked a few questions and none of these shady characters instantly signed a confession so what more could they possibly do?

> How quickly Shamji and his associates were to claim that Zac "seemed suicidal"

It's already known that they knew he jumped into the river; this is pretty easy to explain.

Again, may be sheathing up knives, not heating them

You'd have to assume he was a nonnative speaker for that, and he isn't.

No surprise, since it's how U.S. military spending has worked for our entire lives. Military: "We need $x to build something so secret we can't tell you what it is." Lawmaker: "Add a few more zeros, put at least $y of it into my state, and I'll sign whatever you want."

The real life version of Radar covering the clipboard with his hands while Col. Blake signs something that is "top secret".

Thinking back on all the breaking changes I've dealt with since 2010: 32-bit Linux distros discontinued, SMB incompatible between Windows versions (and samba versions) without tweaks, root encryption certificates added/removed, OpenSSL requiring all SSH keys manually updated: This NetBSD machine may have been running for all that time, but no way was it unmanaged. Some Morlock was turning the cranks and oiling the gears.

>This NetBSD machine may have been running for all that time, but no way was it unmanaged. Some Morlock was turning the cranks and oiling the gears.

When I read the article, it said it went down once due to an earthquake 13 years ago. Depending on what it is used for, tweaks may not have been needed, also it may not have been connected directly to the internet, but behind a firewall in another router.

So I say this is true, NetBSD is very stable and it does not need all the sub-systems Linux needs just to be useful. Some of those things are in pkgssrc (like dbus), but if not needed, it is not used.

Whatever it did, and what I know about NetBSD, I would not be surprised other NetBSD systems are still active in some hidden place forgotten about, doing its job without any "thanks" :)

I'm moving to netim.com which is another French registrar. They run their own email and seem to have a good reputation.

Free version of TextWrangler was the sweet spot, for me. BBEdit is more than I need for day-to-day and seems comparatively slow. Not an "upgrade" I wanted.

same… fond memories of TextWrangler.

Because router vendors need some kind of "secret sauce" in order to keep selling routers, otherwise the whole thing becomes a commodity you can buy from anywhere. This is also why OpenWRT is unable to utilize all the features on a lot of routers: The closed source firmware and software pieces needed to do so have yet to be deciphered.

Vendors can ship OpenWRT + closed source drivers. Anyway they use Linux kernel (yet to see a closed source BSD router; PfSense is occasionally used but its open source) relying on GPL exceptions allowing to use closed source drivers (and firmware blobs).

Sort of like moving your smelly dumpster in front of your classy restaurant to increase the dumpster's reputation.

And now, the restaurant is on fire, while the dumpster is fine...

This is a good metaphor, so let's run with it.

It would certainly improve your reputation among raccoons.

Yeah, something like that. Idiots, trolls, etc.

There are probably some important Apple patents that would have been good candidates for this use case.

That was my first thought. Shut down voluntarily in 2019 for no particular reason after 22 years? Mysteriously back and even better? Doesn't pass the smell test.

The page talks a big game about hating criminals, but these days if you don't put up a cookie banner RoboCop will shoot you in the dick. And if someone really isn't a criminal we've got a fix for that, too: Just ship them to a country where they are!

On the other hand maybe this post-HSA, post-Snowden world has made me jaded and the site really is just good clean fun.