The same thing that accelerated email’s consolidation may affect the fediverse as well - spam.

interesting pivot

Linkerbaan, where are you yourself from?

Performance is the major flaw with microkernels that have prevented the half-dozen or more serious attempts at this to succeed.

Incurring context switching for low-level operations is just too slow.

An alternative might be a safe/provable language for kernel and drivers where the compiler can guarantee properties of kernel modules instead of requiring hardware guarantees, and it ends up in one address space/protection boundary. But then the compiler (and its output) becomes a trusted component.

Surge suppressors do not drop extra voltage to ground. They selectively short out surges between whatever two conductors have a high potential between them.

No ground conductor means there cannot be a high potential between it and anything else!

English carries a lot of information in vowels, making it concise.

In this case, it’s natural for English speakers to pronounce words with different meanings differently, to disambiguate them.

Useless? That’s a necessity for using your router console port!

Where are you from?

The government doesn’t have all the data. For example, if you pay a guy to install energy efficient windows, you will need to tell them so that you can get the credit.

In the USA, you can download your tax transcript at will from the IRS, and it includes all information they have. Commenter you’re replying to is underinformed.

they will definitely tell you, just go online and download your tax transcript – it contains all reported information.

This is true in the United States as well, and IRS really doesn’t give a shit if you don’t owe them money and never file - the failure to file fee if you don’t owe is minimal. But you will lose your ability to get it refunded after 3 years.

That’s true only for very simple situations.

Everything from upgrading your doors and windows or your air conditioner and getting a tax credit, to renting out a room and deducting that portion of your home expenses, to working a side handyman or cleaning gig, to spending some cold-wallet crypto to buy gold, to the cost basis of previously unreported gains, to getting married and deciding to file together - the IRS doesn’t know.

And some things are arbitrary, and you have to make the choice and then tell them what choice you made, and how you value it.