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  • Not sure what you mean by "what was provided"... who is providing a username and password for your yunohost?

    You are supposed to create your own username and password during the "Begin" setup process after it first installs. "root" and "yunohost" are very insecure and if you use passwords that are copy/pasted from somewhere else on a machine connected to the internet it will be hacked, potentially almost immediately. People have bots that literally just try to connect using these common default passwords all day every day to every site on the internet. I have literally had machines with such crappy passwords hacked within minutes of spinning them up. The same thing can happen even when you are first doing the setup process. If somebody else can get in, they can (most likely with a bot) do the setup process themselves and set up their OWN username/password, and now it will ask you for that password that THEY set, which you have no way of knowing. The instance belongs to the first person to claim it, and if that's not you, you have to wipe it and start over.

    Your yunohost VM interface should not be exposed to the internet during setup. Even briefly, or someone else can immediately compromise it like this. The only way to ensure you are the first person to access it is to make sure you are the ONLY person who can access it, until it is properly set up and secured. Bots are WAY faster than you can be.

    Use localhost console, VM port forwarding or some other secure method of making sure nobody but your own host computer can access the IP of the server where you are setting things up, until it has a strong, secure password (not "yunohost") and make sure you have all its security features configured and working before you even think about making it accessible to the internet.

  • From my understanding (and experience) dating apps/online dating in general is dead, fucked up beyond repair by capitalism, toxic incels, predators, scammers, crooks and most recently AI. No technology can possibly survive such an onslaught and most of them wouldn't profit from doing so. They have a financial incentive to attract repeat customers.

    In person meeting and dating should be the obvious alternative, but apparently nobody goes out socializing anymore since COVID and nobody can afford hobbies because of the economy and chronic social malaise and terminal online doomscrolling has broken people's ability to form human connection anyway so I think civilization is probably just ending after these last few generations, frankly.

    If there is a useful option I'd love to know what it is too.

  • I believe rural school zones are sometimes 50km/h. In context the non-school zone speed limit is usually 80km/h or more, often with visibility from one horizon to the other and a sprawling parking lot, it's not quite the same as a congested urban school with a driveway big enough to fit a single bus and dozens of cars parked along the curb.

  • In absolutely no particular order:

    https://www.youtube.com/@VBirchwood - historical fashion/lifestyle
    https://www.youtube.com/@EmmaThorneVideos - a self-described "silly little guy" (hint: not a guy) politely mocking religion and other stuff that deserves mockery
    https://www.youtube.com/@darbinorvar - woodworking and maker stuff
    https://www.youtube.com/@AtRachelGilmore - Canadian independent journalist
    https://www.youtube.com/@AnnaRudolfChess - originally chess (she's an international master and chess commentator) and video games but after a long mental health hiatus, lately more mental health discussions and variety
    https://www.youtube.com/@LauraFarms - farming, obviously
    https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceMog - astronomy, astrophysics, space
    https://www.youtube.com/@karilawler - retro computers/video games and programming
    https://www.youtube.com/@acottonsock - Playing The Sims with sometimes inappropriate commentary
    https://www.youtube.com/@EngineeringwithRosie - engineering explainers with an emphasis on renewable energy
    https://www.youtube.com/@BeckyStern - electronics maker stuff
    https://www.youtube.com/@aprilclucks - incredibly deadpan sarcastic Australian life advice and mockery of everything and herself too usually, in a style appropriate for the 4chan crowd

  • Just because they look rusty and old doesn't mean they're junk, but even if they are, there will be no urgency to dispose of them. Most people who aren't minimalists don't dispose of things except for aesthetic reasons, unless they're out of room. Many rural people have a relatively narrow scope for aesthetics that doesn't include what you might call the front yard, and being rural, it's really hard to run out of room. Therefore, there is no urgency to dispose of stuff that has become "junk", and when you do, you will probably do it all at once, as a project, once you start feeling like you're running out of room, which takes quite awhile, so you're very likely to see the development of the junk pile in its intermediate stages.

  • I think that's just called capitalism.

    For an actual answer, I'd turn to the idiom of dangling a carrot which evokes the idea of an animal chasing a carrot being held out in front of it on a stick by its own rider, unable to reach the carrot since it moves forward as they do, but it swings momentarily towards them creating the illusion of progress, so they continue chasing it forward anyway.

    Edit: not to be confused with the very similar sounding idiom of "carrot and stick" in which the stick implies punishment.

  • But if someone can’t be bothered to even use a throaway protonmail address to file a bug report or feature request? Quite frankly, what they have to say wouldn’t have been worth our limited time anyway.

    You don't know that, because you've never once heard what someone didn't say. Their time is limited too.

  • Absolutely true, but the point isn't whataboutism (well, sometimes it is, but it shouldn't be). The point should be admitting and owning our mistakes and doing what we reasonably can to:

    a) admit that we did and validate the experience of the people who suffered from it
    b) make sure we're not still doing it (way too often we still are, just through subtler means)
    c) try to make reparations if we can

    Even getting to step 'a' is a big fucking step. Nobody's innocent, but honesty is the foundation on which improvements can be made.

  • Yeah people thinking the Democratic Party is going to save them are delusional IMO. They are part of it and many of them have been working towards the same goal. They are a false opposition at best. Not all of them, some of them are legit, like Bernie, and look how he has been treated by the Dem establishment. Any real resistance is marginalized.

  • Oh good now maybe the Subnautica developers can go independent to make a spiritual successor that isn't called Subnautica and isn't garbage.

  • Fuck Canada in particular, as usual. It's starting to feel a bit personal.

  • You can only be banned on certain instances/communities in the Fediverse. Some people take being banned from certain fascist instances as a mark of pride.

  • The next escalation will be from expanding the protests until they can be organized into a general strike.

    People need to stop going to work. Together. All at once. A lot of people. Enough that they can't be replaced and that important things that the government and billionaires rely on, stop happening, potentially for a long time. The country needs to shut down, like COVID. This is going to have consequences. But it has to have consequences. That's the point. Consequences for both sides, and more consequences until the situation gets resolved, one way or another. People have to come to terms with the fact that they're going to lose their jobs anyway. This is really just accelerating the inevitable. People are losing their jobs right now, when they are deported. People are losing their jobs when they're imprisoned. People need to realize that no one is safe, and in the longer term the way things are going with AI and robotics and utopian techbro billionaires owning everything and being handed whatever they want by the government it seems clear you're ALL going to lose your jobs at some point, so why not now? Do it early, in a coordinated fashion, for a cause. Accept the inevitable consequences, and turn them to your advantage by doing them with intention, on your own terms.

    Everyone thinks they have a great job when they have to confront the possibility of losing it, but that's the scam. You have a shitty job, working for someone else who is much, much richer than you and your shitty job and its "benefits" are the reason you are not rich despite living in the richest country in the world. There will be new, better jobs to get when you win. If you win. The need for these jobs to be done isn't going away. It's time for people to start creating some intentional artificial scarcity to drive up wages while there are still things that can't be easily or effectively automated.

    People have to organize, and do it quickly, while there is still time. A lot of people are still trying to "prepare" for what's coming but that's not a luxury you have anymore. They've been preparing for this a lot longer than you will be able to. The clock is ticking, the administration is working furiously to remove the people it considers most dangerous to its goals and remove the systems and supports that could be used against it. The more you delay, the worse it's going to be. Time wasted "preparing" is time wasted, period. The time for action is now. The rebellion is forming. Be part of it.

  • They do see them as people, but specifically bad people. A non-person would be beneath their notice. A bad person on the other hand, becomes the target of their wrath and cruelty and it is justified to do this to them because they are bad.

  • They are freely expressing their fear of dangerous western ideas which must be censored to protect the motherland /s

  • You need to work on your reading comprehension then, because as I said:

    OP's comment is clearly saying they currently won’t go there because of the political situation. That's why they said "BUT I'm not stupid". They are agreeing that it would be stupid to go there now, that's why their statement of wanting to go there is made conditional on a "but" that is false.

    Like saying, "I love spicy food and I wish I could eat a whole ghost pepper at once, BUT I'm not stupid [implied: so I WON'T eat a whole ghost pepper at once]"

  • KSP1 is the bees knees and the modding community is still going as strong as ever. Still worthwhile even at full price.

  • We don't absolutely know what the future holds for our own planet much less the universe, so it's impossible to answer this with any conviction, but based on my current understanding or the general scientific consensus, and the fact that the universe is expanding and that expansion is accelerating, no, by placing them at the edge of the observable universe and the effects of relativity, their hypothetical signals will never reach Earth and almost certainly not the Earth that we know of that's orbiting Sol and full of humans patiently observing the universe for signs of their lost ancestors.

    But we don't know with any certainty that the universe's expansion or acceleration is going to continue indefinitely, we don't even fully understand why it is happening. So maybe their signals will eventually reach us. Maybe the universe will start contracting eventually and in a few trillion years they'll swing right by Earth on their own, waving as they go by as we mutually go careening down towards the big crunch. Besides, if the universe is infinite, and is going to last an infinite amount of time, well "infinity" is a very long time and you can't rule out the fact that another wormhole could open and bring them (or their signals) home at some point now that you've proven such a wormhole can exist. So when you put all the things we do know and the things we don't know together, I'd give them about 50/50 chances, with a margin of error of plus or minus 50%.

  • Fedora

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  • That's why we call them flavors. People like certain flavors. It doesn't mean the nutrition is any different or that you need to always use only whatever flavor is somebody else's favourite. The lovely thing about Linux is the freedom to choose and to try different things to find what works best for you personally. There's no organization trying to shove certain tools and principles down your throat for profit. It's literally just personal preferences and they're all equally valid choices. We try to make recommendations on things that might be easier to grasp or might suit a person's situation better but really they're all just flavors and they're all good for the people who like those flavors.