This covers what you can legally do in regards to copyrighted works:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/part/I/chapter/...

There are more legal allowances than that.

But yes, it's an allowlist rather than a reasonableness test. The US 4 point test is somewhat decent in this regard.

> UK websites are collected and preserved under legal deposit legislation, which does not allow the Legal Deposit Libraries to make most archived websites freely available online.

Having the thing at all is valuable. The legislation provides a very limited exemption to IP law to allow archiving. Future legislators can work out how to loosen restrictions if its valuable to do so.

Sorry, my point being performing the archiving is the thing that must happen now or it is 'lost' forever.

Not providing wider access can be changed at any point in the future, so it is only 'lost' now.

OS isn't a co-ordinated movement with a single set of values.

Essentially you're right.

The effect is quite strong.

Humans are stupid and fail to make logical decisions, instead they reinforce and justify their previous ones.

Showing you the product you purchased is the best way to get you to transfer your purchase decision to purchase additional other products.

This is presuming that the type system is nomitive rather than structural and there is not serialisation/deserialisation or type refinement occurring. A structural difference is much more preferable.

They did get away with it in London. They broke laws, argued unfaithfully in court, got denied a license, got an extended probationary period from a magistrate, and finally are operating in the clear.

Very very few other businesses get to act so brazenly and dangerously, then get an extended period of time and support to do the bare minimum to qualify as compliant.

Amazons b2c is Alexa, Kindle, Video, Music, Store, Whole Foods and a bunch more. Its revenue is about 350b annually, just shy of half their revenue.

Its probably better to embed clearer strings in the binary that conform to some spec. Then searching over binaries would find them.

Trying to respond to a signal is a nightmare of routing and lifecycle bugs. Never mind the fact that most dependencies won't be registered. Currently file/process signature matching is ok for major runtimes, and tends to fail on specific version detection. This would effectively formalise that.

I could see it being a successful standardisation for major runtimes and many libraries that wouldn't currently be detected - but take up would never be universal. A kind of CVE search stamp.

if it's in the elf then the kernel could handle the interrupting. that way every app wouldn't need to implement the handler. just a named BOM symbol and when the kernel sees the `kill -s BOM <PID>` it reads that BOM symbol without calling any app code.

but there needs to be a way to query the running tasks so the control plane could query running VMs without querying the FS

As it stands, customers aren't leaving because of the degraded performance. Free is generating paying customers.

Raising prices risks churn, reducing free tier risks lowering customer acquisition rate.

Churn to what exactly?

You can free tier but still sensible rate limits and QoS policy. You can have separate region or cluster for your paying customers. Finally you can spend time re-architecting GitHub Actions or just aquehire one of many competitors that do better co/cd.