The 2003 SARS outbreak resulted in under 8500 confirmed cases and the 2012 MERS outbreak in around 2500. Confirmed COVID-19 cases are currently over 80000. Only considering fatality rate paints a flawed picture.
Google does this for its search results. Hovering the cursor over it shows the actual URL of the result, but whenever it detects an onclick event it replaces it by its own tracking URL. Super annoying when trying to copy an URL - luckily you can easily get rid of it through user.js.
It is extremely annoying. When I do a web search, I want real URLs, not obfuscated tracking links, but search engines seem to have collectively decided to sabotage their own search results.
Even if you are addicted to tracking (and assuming that tracking is a good thing that users actually want) surely there is a way to do it without sabotaging URLs.
It's still a big pile of black-box systems where it's unclear what kind of data they collect and where they send it to whenever you connect it to a network. Never connecting it at all does defeat most of the points people like about Teslas.
It's amazing how truly unreliable ultra-cheap VPS providers can be. You're lucky if you even get an upfront notice before they decommission hardware you are relying on, or the entire company just disappears overnight.
I've used the same openvz instance with my ultra-cheap VPS providerfor as long as google's "Cloud" platform has effectively existed. It's been extremely solid with almost instant support over IRC. I've paid $5/mo for this the last decade.
Sounds like you just made some bad choices. Big companies are only marginally less likely to disapear services than small companies are to disappear.
Digital Ocean is $5 per month. You could probably run hundreads of static sites off a single instance depending on traffic and these days many websites are just business cards really.
Not a problem. VPS's are a commodity, you just switch to another supplier and repeat the steps. If it's too much trouble, make a bash script that runs the setup. If you can spare a few extra dollars per month, sign up to additional providers for redundancy.
Not explicitly outlawed. However, cars are favored over everything. An example: when it snows, giant plow trucks come and clear the roads but the snow gets pushed to the side often covering the sidewalks so nobody can walk unless they walk in the road. Jaywalking is considered a crime in many places since the road is only for cars. Spending on infrastructure meaning 98% for cars and 2% for everything else. Scooters/lighter vehicles/bikes could be a bigger way to get around but made more dangerous and less practical because all of the money for transport is spent on cars and roads are often designed just to make cars go faster at the expense of everything else.
Any place that outlaws large apartment or condominium buildings is effectively outlawing public transportation, as there simply won't be a sufficient tax base to support it, nor will the distances between places be close enough to make the public transportation effective to use.
Imagine a city where specialized roads exist for last mile mobility like electric scooters etc., Where one parking spot per block is scooter/bike. Instead there are regulations on how many shared scooters can exist in a city, how many bike shares, etc.
There is a minimal critical mass to enabling them to be effective and we're not at it because laws.
The configuration still exists in memory somewhere, so you could extract it from a dump... whether you should want to do this is an entirely different question though.
That's not necessarily true I think. The program could read the config at startup, and create structures or objects inside its heap to represent the config. After that it would have no need for the actual bytes of the config.
I very recently transferred a few domains to Gandi, and they also managed to lose one. I had to contact their customer support and they were able to restore it - it was all very strange. Combined with this incident and their responses on social media I'm getting the feeling that I should move them elsewhere again...
Since most websites seem to prefer slapping banners and modals on their pages as opposed to actually ridding their sites of tracking cookie usage I've found that just blocking the elements using a filterlist[0] is a nice solution.
There are still a lot of unknowns, as stated in the media briefing.