darklamer

I just can't take an article complaining about ads seriously when it's that peppered with ads …

The average person understands email pretty well.

No, they really don't.

Only if it's installed somewhere beneath the current working directory, whichever that might be when running the command.

I think Paris is a great city that I really enjoy visiting every time I go there, but you're perfectly right that it's incredibly overrated, anything with that reputation really must be, nothing that exists in reality could possibly come even close to such a myth.

Considering that HSBC is remarkably evil, even compared to other major international banking corporations, this might be a good nudge to stop doing business with them.

The answer to every single one of those questions is: Conan the Barbarian

I like my stuff self-managed.

Bitwarden / Vaultwarden is a popular available working solution for self-hosting and self-managing passkeys (as well as passwords).

Malta

Maltese is an awesome language!

Why would someone own 8 vehicles?

He might be too poor to be able to afford more than that.

I don't believe this claim to be true. If you insist that it really is true, could you please point to the exact place in the US constitution that prohibits a permanent standing army?

Why is it so pervasive? And why does some of it seem to be ignored for literal years?

Considering that you know that these problems have not yet been fixed, you must still be using these products despite these problems not yet being fixed and there's your answer: What would the motivation be to fix problems that aren't severe enough to make you stop using the product?

It had a wonderfully bizarre name: fsn