Is Frederick T Gates related to Bill Gates?

Given the funny ending, I'll repost a interesting Answers.com answer to the question whether Frederick T. Gates is related to Bill Gates. This was published 11 years ago (2014):

To the unpaid Snopes intern/Gates family PR slave above me : Frederick Taylor Gates just happened to be present in the Greater Seattle area in 1891, THE SAME YEAR Bill Gates Grandfather was born, the supposed furniture store owner. What are the odds of that? Get out your Snopes calculator. Furthermore there are ZERO public explanations as to why Bill Gates has III for a Suffix, and his father II, when there are clearly TWO additional preceding William Henry Gates in succession prior to his Bill's father, NOT ONE. This is significant because Bill Gates should be IV, and his father III, yet they are not numbered correctly. This is a huge red flag and puts the focus on the supposed existence of this fourth William Henry Gates that precedes Bill Gates' Grandfather. The completely unexplained "error" in their numerical suffixes, combined with the fact that Bill Gates' dad has changed his name twice, first "changing" it from William Henry Gates II (supposedly this is what he was born as), to William Henry Gates Jr (which is what is on his military records - meaning MOST LIKELY what he was actually born as), to later William Henry Gates Sr, and there is more than a reasonable suspicion that the original William Henry Gates (Bill's supposed Great Grandfather) doesn't exist. In addition, the various reasons for the two name changes are awkwardly inserted into his Bios, Wiki, Obits, Interviews, etc. It's constantly added as an anecdote, in a very forced way, yet none of these excuses for his twice changed Suffix explain why there are FOUR William Henry Gates in succession, NOT THREE, yet Bill Gates is numbered as III. Again, when considering the clealy "misnumbered" suffixes, combined with Bill's dad's multiple Suffix changes and forced explanations being inserted in numerous places unsolicited, this would lead to a more than reasonable suspicion that the first William Henry Gates (Bill's Great Grandpa) DOESNT EXIST. And what an odd coincidence that Frederick Taylor Gates is present in the Seattle area when this supposed original William Henry Gates is supposedly witnessing the birth of Bill's Grandpa... What are the odds that Frederick Taylor Gates is there in the Seattle area when Bill's Grandfather is being born???? Especially given the fact that as the original questioner correctly stated, Frederick Taylor Gates was from an East Coast family?? It is Highly Likely that Frederick Taylor Gates, John D Rockefeller's main advisor, creator of of the wicked Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research that carried out secret vaccination experiments on the US Army (headed up by his son (Dr Frederick L Gates) that created the Bacterial Pneumonia outbreak known as the "Spanish Flu" that killed hundreds of millions of people, is in fact BILL GATE'S GRRAT GRANDFATHER.

To all of those covering up and obscuring this connection, just know that you are participating in evil beyond your wildest dreams and if you care about goodness even in the slightest, you should stop now. You either have no idea what you are talking about, are deliberately lying, or are too stupid and/or lazy to research the Rockefeller/Gates history of Medical Experimentation. You have no idea what you are involved in defending/obscuring and would be advised to cease your activities.

China's CO₂ Emissions Per Capita Has Already Surpassed the EU

According to Our World in Data, China's CO₂ emissions per capita have already passed those of people in the European Union and the UK, and will surpass those of the US and Canada roughly around 2028:

The Dutch Nitrogen Regulation Makes No Sense

The Dutch Raad van State in 2019 has argued that a nitrogen deposition of 5.09 mol per acre per year is damaging De Heide (Heath) too much. This is the same as putting down about one one grain of fertilizer the size of a sugar grain per two square meters per week.

How ridiculous this may sound, this verdict has blocked thousands of farmers and builders from expanding their business or homes, and even caused many farms to close down. Furthermore, many farmers in the Netherlands, which have often been farmers for many generations, are not sure whether they will be allowed to continue farming.

Yuval Noah Harari on Science and Truth

Harari in his own words:

Truth was never the highest priority of human society. It was the highest priority of some individuals, but never of society as a whole because society as a whole does not function on the basis of truth. And if you take two of the most powerful institutions of humankind, let's think about science and the scientific community, and let's think about religion and churches and so forth. I think none of them has truth as their chief value. As individuals yes, but as institutions know, I think the chief value of science is power and the chief value of religion is order, is organization. Religion is all about having order in society and science is mainly about gaining power. Gaining power over the world. They use truth to some extent on the way to achieving power or to achieving order, but this is not their highest moral.

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Google Shenanigans

For years it has been a common theme among programmers that Google's search results have changed for the worse. It feels like the suggestions are becoming less and less applicable over time. Today, I spotted one of the worst cases that I have seen so far when searching for a documentary called "Flatten the Curve Flat Earth" (2022). This documentary is about flattening the curve of the earth and has nothing to do with medicine.

However, Google automatically interprets it as a kind of medical statement:

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The X Community Notes Are Different, Are They?

In some cases, Wikipedia feels the need to "clarify" a certain video, which a commenter aptly called the "the blue box of gaslighting":

Now X community notes was promised to be something else, but to me it does look very similar. The note posts some helpful "context":

The reason that I'm critical is that especially on a topic like this, the note doesn't add any information. People who believe that the moon landing was staged will still believe that and people who believe it was real will still believe that.

Quote about fines from YouTube

Interesting quote from below a YouTube video:

When the punishment for committing a crime is a fine, then it is a punishment only for the poor.

Google does not allow Google employees to use their new IDE

Gergely Orosz on X:

Amusing: Google does not allow its devs to use its newly launched IDE, Antigravity, for development.

Classic example of “externalisation” at Google: they have an internal (increasingly different!) version of it, but they won’t use what they launched to everyone else

(Devs with a @google .com address cannot sign up, and it was communicated internally as well to not use it)

Making IPv6 work with Caddy and Hetzner

After a few hours of fiddling, this site is now properly accessible via IPv6. My configuration uses Caddy as the reverse proxy meaning that it forwards the requests to the right service based on the Host that the browser specifies. Thanks to this, one server can host hundreds if not thousands of websites from one IP.

In my Caddyfile, I had specified the following

www.huijzer.xyz {
  redir https://huijzer.xyz permanent
}
huijzer.xyz {
  reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:3000
}

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Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare if You Don't Need To

At the time of writing 12:43 UTC on Tue 18 Nov, Cloudflare has taken many sites down. I'm trying to browse the web, but about half of the sites show an error:

Most of these sites are not even that big. I expect maybe a few thousand visitors per month.

This demonstrates again a simple fact: if you put your site behind a centralized service, then this service is a single point of failure. Even large established companies make mistakes and can go down.

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