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Biden did get some new appointees on the board: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/people/2022/05/usps-board-is-now-mostly-biden-picks-following-latest-senate-confirmations/ but i'm not sure what the hold up is now.

edit: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/07/25/president-biden-announces-nominees-4/ more recent additional nominees.

Is this loss?

Price fixing is a problem because of the power imbalance between businesses selling products, and individual consumers that need to buy them.

Worker unions are a solution to that power imbalance.

I hear ya. I know they're not all old, and I know they are not all weird. I'm just amused that it seems that such a trite + petty label is finally rankling their jimmies because all the other labels that stunningly apply to a lot of the conservatives in office don't seem to bother them in the least. As if ... they already knew about the other ones. The MAGA conservatives waste no time slinging all sorts of generalized labels, thinking that it makes them seem stronger, but in reality, it's just .... weird.

Because they're old, and weird.

They also made RIPTerm and RIPscript iirc. Those were the days…….

They are also using this as an excuse to get customers on their data hoovering apps to get access to any of the best deals.

Amoral? "Thou shall not bear false witness ...." That's one of the big ten list .....

At $dayjob I switched from Apache to nginx 15+ years ago. It's Callback/Event based process model ran circles around Apache's pre-fork model at the time. It was very carefully developed to be secure, and even early on it had a good track record. Being able to have nginx handle static content without tying up a backend worker process was huge, and let us scale our app pretty well for the investment of time. Since then, Apache implemented threaded + Event based process models, Caddy, traefik, and a bunch of others have entered the scene.

TBH, I think the big thing nowadays is sane defaults, and better configuration, even automatically discovered configuration -- traefik is my current favorite for discovering hosts in consul/Kubernetes/simple host definition files, but since traefik can't directly serve files, I simply proxy from traefik to .... nginx :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40906148 <-- And not for any reasonable technical reason either. It's purely a policy/interface thing. If can wrap your head around the tech, that person figured out how the codes are generated, and made a web page that could make them (without cracking or 'stealing' an unpaid ticket)

Navidrome is another server that works pretty well, implements the subsonic protocol ( so all the apps that can cache and stream to your mobile device work). You can have multiple logins, or just share out playlists and albums individually to non-authenticated users.

Paige, no, no, no, no, no!