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Or they could potentially ban Cloudflare from having servers/property in Japan. Which considering the economic importance of Japan in the Asian sector, might actually be something Cloudflare would want to avoid.

It's like the false positive/negative game. If you are an actual person, then waiting a week or two for your account to mature in age is but a mere inconvenience to you. In comparison, keeping all the fresh spam/bot accounts off the platform is much more difficult. So the general consensus is to slightly inconvenience new users in the beginning in favor of having a better community in the longterm.

Because it is an authoritarian regime now, and not a state of law and order anymore.

Slightly off topic, but is there still no viable Minecraft fork?

Maybe I missed something in the original article, but where are you getting the info that these extra requirements would expire if the PSF held the money for two years?

I am glad that PSF is not bowing to these requirements in order to get the grant.

Could you give a bit more context?

Arguably sometimes drivers for older devices are more likely to have been ported to Linux at some point then conpletely new devices.

Not to speak for Windows or against Xubuntu, but didn't Xubuntu just recently have some secrity exploit that was pushed as an update to devices?

If this is starting post 2012, then social media is probably also to blame.

Well... is this a bad aspect in something generally good, or a good aspect in something generally bad. (The good being using public infra, the bad the overworking.)

AI for the win in figuring out how to use code libraries with minimal to non-existent documentation scattered accross the entire web.