It seems to be possible, but it’s likely cheaper to have fixed connectors.

should be

> equation because detecting errors

Thanks for the catch, did the edit.

And indeed, this is very much what Rust was designed to do with the ability to interface with existing C/C++ code in both directions. So this is the strategy that the designers of the language had in mind from the early days. It's a deliberate choice to offer this, and not an emergent property that was later discovered.

I believe the long term damage this has caused in immeasurable and the only way to remedy this would be that both Israel and the US find some way to investigate who and why started this war - and possibly prosecuting any war crime that may have occurred.

Also, the EU needs to grow a spine, fast.

But alas, I have no hope of that happening. We’re all worse off for that.

This will also happen to people that use residential gas. As less and less people use residential gas, the maintenance of the gas network gets distributed among less and less customers.

> The 'balcony power stations' are the same thing. They get subsidised, and you even get a fixed kWh price when pushing into the grid.

They are subsidized on purchase, but the price they get when pushing energy into the grid is by default fixed at 0. The network accepts the power, but there's no payment. It's also capped at 800W delivery, meaning that at peak power generation, you'd earn a whopping 5 cent an hour with the current subsidy for full scale solar power. So in practice, the only benefit owners have is that they draw less power from the net which is much more attractive because of the pricing structure. You can, optionally, register your balcony power station as a regular solar power plant, but then you're subject to a whole bunch of rules and regulations (for example you need a suitable elctricity meter etc.). This option is generally not attractive for such small power generations.

Fundamentally, though, the same issue as with the water and gas network exists with all localized (solar) power generation. If more and more people use the grid only as a backup, or for winter energy needs, then the overhead of maintaining the grid will have a larger cost contribution to the total cost of electricity.

Take for example Article 3 of the declaration of human rights:

> Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

The article already has a collision set up in itself: You have the right to live in safety. But also, everyone has the right to live in liberty. If taken as an absolute, the right of liberty would prevent incarceration of dangerous individuals, violating the other individuals right to all life in safety.

Similarly, other fundamental rights get curtailed: The freedom of speech is in balance with the right to personal dignity of article one and other rights.

Not acknowledging that even fundamental human rights are in a tension with each other is just ignoring reality and will get you nowhere in a legal discussion.

The discussion is not which right is absolute, it is about how to balance the tension between the various rights. And different societies strike a different balance here.

Take for example the right to freedom and liberty. Lifelong imprisonment without parole as punishment is not a thing in Germany. There’s an instrument that allows the court to keep the perpetrator locked up in case the court considers the individual dangerous, but until 1998, this could not be retroactively be applied. There was a major legal upheaval with multiple rounds to the constitutional court to change that and it took until 2012/2013 to find a legal framework that wasn’t declared unconstitutional. To this day, however, Sicherheitsverwahrung is not a punishment, but a combination of therapy and ensuring the safety of society and it’s subject to regular checks if the conditions for the lockup still exist. The individuals are also not held in prisons, but in nicer facilities.

On the other hand, many US states still have the death penalty and are proud of it.

(3) would be easy to handle if DNS Cookies were sufficiently well supported because they solve reflection attacks and that's the most prominent. Rate limiting also helps.

At the moment I'm at selectively running the DNS server when the kids want to play because we're still at the supervised pre-planned play-session. And I hope that by the time they plan their own sessions, they've all moved on to a Switch 2.

So we're hosting our own minecraft server and a suitable connector for cross-play - and it's easy to join on tablets, computers and so on because there's a button that allows you to enter an address. But on the switch, Microsoft in its wisdom decided that there'd be no "join random server" button. But there are some official realm servers, and they just happen to host a lobby and the client understands some interface commands sent by the server (1). Some folks in the community devised a great hack - you just host a lobby yourself that presents a list of servers of your choice. But to do that, you need to bend the DNS entries of a few select hostnames that host the "official" lobbies so that they now point to your lobby. Which means you need to run a resolver that is capable of resolving all hostnames, because you need to set it in the switchs networking settings as the primary DNS server.

Now, there are people that run resolvers in the community and that might be one option, but I'm honestly a bit picky about who gets to see what hostnames my kids switch wants to resolve.

Whitelisting networks is impossible - it's residential internet.

The reason I'd be interested in running this behind a VPN is that I don't want to run an open resolver and become part of an amplification attack. (And sadly, the Switch 1 does not have a sufficiently modern DNS stack so that I can just enable DNS cookies and be done with it. The Switch 2 supports it).

Sorry if this sounds complicated. It's just hacks on hacks on hacks. But it works.

(1) judging from the looks and feel, this is actually implemented as a minecraft game interface and the client just treats that as a game server. It even reports the number of players hanging out in the lobby.

For example, I can have my kid do whatever he wants in his room. I know what's in there and while he may have the occasional stupid idea, it's all fundamentally safe.

But even a tablet breaks that barrier. It's entirely safe for him to listen to music and stories and I want him to be able to do that unsupervised. But solid control over content on Spotify isn't a thing. The catalog contains things that I consider not appropriate for him. And they've lately been adding vidoes to the feed and while I know he tries hard to resist, they deliberately push videos further and further up. So we're back to "I can turn on the story for you and you can listen.", which is super stupid and could be much better if I had solid controls that I can trust.

Yes, I know I can talk to him about not watching the videos. How can an 8 year old compete with the combined effort of the Spotify team paid to make him watch videos? That's just not feasible.