Not completely down; as a signed in user I didn't notice a thing.
Noughtmare
joined 2 years ago
. means function composition in Haskell. (f .) . (+) is just an obscure way to write \x y -> f (x + y). It's not recommended to use this point-free style in production code, but it is sometimes fun to experiment with for challenges like this.
They are considered volunteers in the Netherlands as long as the compensation is way below market rates. I don't understand why you think this is a problem.
In the Netherlands, volunteers can be paid up to โฌ5.60 per hour and up to โฌ2100 per year (tax-free).
The Netherlands also has mandatory ID.
It's e2e encrypted, so what could they do if they were evil? (honest question)
You can choose a custom donation and make most of your money go to the EFF. Then the top tier is just like a โฌ24 donation to the EFF and you only really "pay" โฌ10.30 for the actual books.
Or anywhere in the EU. And I don't think the USA is more lenient on piracy. But perhaps they are if a big company is the one doing it.
That's is how things used to work here in the Netherlands, until the EU forced us to change our laws in 2014:
I when I read reports of the downtime on mastodon I checked status.codeberg.org and saw that almost everything was a red line, except for the authenticated traffic. I guess I was lucky that I still had my cookies.