Good job on making the right call and preemptively shutting the server down. Thanks for being alert!

I may well be wrong and too naive, but I think the hate is in many cases rooted in the scary idea that they could find them attractive. And so they signal that "it could never happen to them" and that they are doing it to protect other, weaker people.

One wonders how they market their services : "come to us, we are the best fake reviewers you can find on the web and these 5-star reviews prove it!"

There is an optional Ocr pass, from what I understand

Same for me. I have been reading Linus (Torvalds) posts since decades and it really seemed out of character to me. I even clicked on the link but I admit that I haven't yet understood what is going on. I have decided that it's not for me...

The Malazan book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson would be my recommendation. Start from Gardens of the Moon and go ahead... It keeps getting better and better!

What is an "Analogue pocket" for those of us ... Out of the loop?

So long, and thanks.

Well said... Thanks for spelling it out!

Great news! And looking forward to take part in some of these new communities.

How much I do love those fonts. That proper spacing and balancing... It will always a place in my heart and I fear the day that I will fail to recognize it!

Your last one is a good question. I don't have an answer but I was leaning towards some sort of conservation law (e.g. normal stars have magnetic fields, when they get squeezed down to a neutron star those fields must go somewhere and it will be very much "concentrated"). Apparently this is a bit too easy (didn't expect to be nothing different). Wikipedia provides a reference to a not too recent (2003) survey, namely this one: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0307133 . I don't know if it's the state of the art but it surely is interesting.

I hope to be able to see it in a theatre. Nolan is one of my favourite directors and this is a movie I have been expecting since I first heard of it.