fine_sandy_bottom @ fine_sandy_bottom @lemmy.federate.cc

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I don't really know anything about Chagos, but is that really what the islanders want? A quick google suggests the islanders might find it difficult to agree.

Most micro island nations just aren't viable as a sovereign nation in 2024. They need air travel, health services, telecommunications, building materials, food imports, education, et cetera. Sadly they just aren't able to produce anything of any value with which to pay for all of those things.

In many cases they end up trading their sovereignty for political positions. It looks like there's already a detention centre for sri lankans in Chagos. China will happily pay then millions a year for them not to recognise Taiwan as a sovereign state, which is kinda ironic.

Nauru is a fairly interesting island nation. They sold the rights to their phosphate (bird poo) 80 (?) some years ago, and after it was extracted they were left with a moon scape. Sadly they squandered the money with some comically bad investments, including a broadway production IIRC. Health outcomes are pretty terrible.

It looks like there's already a military base in Chagos, so I guess that's something they can trade on.

Another problem with sovereignty is migration rights. If you're born somewhere like that you would absolutely want the opportunity to go to university in Australia or UK or similar.

Now I'm confused. I do have the actual PC plugged in to the TV. Isn't that what you were suggesting?

I have a Lenovo M700 running LibreElec (just enough OS to run Kodi), which passes a HDMI signal to my surround sound receiver.

When you turn on the TV, it takes about 2 minutes for android to boot up. Then you have to switch it across to HDMI input so you can see the signal from the M700 / Kodi.

Kodi is pretty great and I do like it. The reason my wife doesn't like this set up is because she likes to watch things on youtube and just let the algorithm choose what to watch next (I know right). You can watch youtube from Kodi, I even scrape youtube channels to my home server for the things my kids watch, but it just doesn't work in this "let the algo feed me more" kind of way.

Yeah. God forbid you have to navigate the UI, it's like wading around in a swamp.

Is this thing thrashing the coast of mexico right now ?

Everyone seems to be talking about florida.

Sure, or you could go outside and play on some days.

Obviously this guy is a scum bag but what even is his angle here?

"look at me being punished for breaking this law everyone universally thinks is a great idea"

Imprisonment is always the least-bad option out of a bunch of bad options.

I'm not really into the "send a message" aspect of punishment, I don't want this guy punished so that others of similar mind fear being punished.

However, I'm glad that his imprisonment clearly demonstrates that our society has resolved that nazism will not be tolerated.

If the price is this idiot being more extremified then so be it.

Sorry, my guy seems like a nit wit all the way up and down.

If you want to sell mods as a side hustle that's great, but don't form a company with the explicit enterprise of infringing the rights of one of the largest and most litigious rights holders in the world.

No one cares about catching specific phishing campaigns.

That's what I'm doing?

Just that I have a shitty TCL TV.

I hate our TV so much.

I have a HTPC but it takes forever to turn the TV on and switch to HDMI input.

Also my wife refuses to use HTPC.

I gave up on this years ago.

Figuring out how they got hold of your email won't be very satisfying. It's not possible, but if it were you would find it's some obscure forum you signed up for 10 years ago to make the search function work, which hasn't updated their forum software during that 10 years, and is now leaking email addresses.

Point is, the horse has already bolted and now your email address is on the lists that get sold on the dark net. There's no going back.

My understanding with spam / phishing is that most email providers will identify and remove 95% of it. gmail will catch 99.9% just because of the volume of emails going through their servers. I personally would pry my eyes out with a fork before using gmail so I'm stuck receiving 5% of spam. It's nothing really. Every day (or several days) I look at my inbox, action and archive as appropriate, and delete the rest. It literally takes less than 1 second because I would have to "delete the rest" anyway.

As others have mentioned, "catch-all" email addresses are one method to kind of mitigate or manage the problem, but ultimately I've found it to be a cool trick but ultimately inconvenient and maybe pointless.

This is me.

In public dns, configure *.home.example.com as an A record pointing to the local IP for my traefik container.

Traefik then manages all certificates. It sets a TXT record with my dns providers API like privatesercice.home.lebowheatcroft.com, requests the cert from letsencrypt, then deletes that TXT record.

Yes the local IP of my server is leaked, but names of services are not.

I think you're pretty much talking about the fundamental attribution error. It's a cognitive bias whereby we interpret the actions of others as the result of their character, but attribute our own behavior to external situational things.

I think another component of this is generalisation, like how often does someone have to do mean things to qualify as "an asshole". Once in a lifetime? Once a year? Every day? All day?

I used to think I was a super nice person. These days I will absolutely acknowledge that there are times when people would think I was a bit of an asshole. I think sometimes it's unavoidable if you don't want to be everyone's door mat. For example, when you disagree with someone sometimes you can just let it go to keep the peace, but if you feel strongly about it for whatever reason and have to stand your ground, it's easy to end up looking like an asshole.

He could become non-verbal as the result of a severe stroke, and it wouldn't hurt him at the polls. Come to think of it, he would probably be a better president that way soo...

I'm not advocating for the devil, I'm merely skeptical about this advertorial for a docudrama.

If you want to continue believing that 50 year olds don't find 23 year olds attractive, then more power to you.

Ugh. The ad hominem is childish.

What you or "most people" think is creepy is irrelevant, because that's the very definition of subjective.

You're absolutely entitled to make judgements about age discrepancies in other peoples relationships if you wish, but labeling them evil or manipulative or criminal on that basis is presumptive.

Nah. If you're catch and release then stremio is much better than all of this. Install the app on your Android TV, get debrid for a few dollars, and you're off to the races. Great wife approval factor.

I know I shouldn't be but I'm just kind of astonished.

I get that some states are predominantly red voters, but how many people must be involved in this process, and among them not a single person with a shred of integrity. I'm a lefty, but I'd like to think that if I was in a position to have any input into a process like this, I'm pretty sure I would be screaming blue bloody murder, even if the money was going to my own preferred party.

It's just so embarrassingly obviously corrupt. I would be genuinely ashamed to be involved, even if my involvement was simply not saying anything.

Amongst christians I think there's a general consensus that they're the good guys.