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I'm disappointed in that writer.

Better phrasing: Sega started as a rock'n'roll breath of fresh air that did what Nintendon't.

Sure, but the way this usually works is that the government tells you to do something and if you don't, they'll find someone (or a couple of someones) on that list, arrest them, and charge them with a crime.

Doesn't matter if they did the crime, and it doesn't matter if they'd be convicted, but the play is to keep your friends in jail until you capitulate to what they want. This is actually something that's happened with tech companies before, like what they did with GoDaddy's C-level in India.

The problem is that there's no damn way I'd want to be arrested by the upcoming US administration, because I'd bet $100 that their playbook will portray not doing what they're demanding as a national security or terrorism offense, and if you've been watching ANYTHING for the last damn near 25 years, that's a free pass for them to basically just vanish you until they feel like doing otherwise.

It's fantastic leverage against organizations that have US people and are, presumably, not willing to just let their friends spend who-knows amount of time in prison, and could probably result in some cooperation.

And I'm about to both get downvoted and WELL AKSHULLY'd about how you can't just vanish people under the US justice system, and sure, you're technically correct. Except we've passed law after law after law since 9/11 that have basically given the government the ability to do any damn thing they please if they call you a national security risk or terrorist, up to and including Gitmo, in case you've forgotten that existed: which you shouldn't have, because we STILL have prisoners sitting there.

This is doomer as fuck, and horribly unlikely, but so is a demand to stuff backdoors into everything. But, if we head down that road, the only safe software will be ones that can't be blackmailed like this which is essentially none of the major projects.

Well, yes, it does: https://www.debian.org/intro/organization

But the corporation that handles all their funding and owns their trademarks is in the US, so they're possibly subject to the same pressure. And of course a good number of those people in that org tree are in the US, so again, same issue.

My point was more 'this is silly, because if you REALLY think that, there's nobody and no project that's got any ties at all to the US that can be considered safe, and you should maybe get rid of all your computing devices now', rather than an intent to say that Debian or anyone there is at more or less risk.

Perhaps it's just me, but they've been releasing a good number of actually good things, though?

Persona, Yakuza, PSO, and even the fact the Sonic movies were..... good? Or at least entertaining enough, which is a victory for a video game movie series, heh.

So uh, if I can ask, why?

Like what are you doing that needs this kind of uh, upgrade?

I mean, if you want to carry that line of reasoning out, the Linux kernel is governed under a US-based foundation, so should the kernel itself be suspect?

How about FreeBSD? Or something like Debian? Or Ubuntu, which isn't US-based but they're in a typically cooperating jurisdiction?

You're def being paranoid and somewhat irrational, since it's unlikely to happen and if it did, it's not like you could trust anything at all anyways.

One thing you probably need to figure out first: how are the dgpu and igpu connected to each other, and then which ports are connected to which gpu.

Everyone does funky shit with this, and you'll sometimes have dgpus that require the igpu to do anything, or cases where the internal panel is only hooked up to the igpu (or only the dgpu), and the hdmi and display port and so on can be any damn thing.

So uh, before you get too deep in planning what gets which gpu, you probably need to see if the outputs you need support what you want to do.

I'm sure an AI babysitter won't be immediately and utterly broken and bypassed by every single kid in these "classes".

(Seriously: we're talking about 8-12 year olds here and the absolutely are smart enough and incentivized to break the ever-loving crap out of this stupid idea.)

I'd seriously consider unifi gear, like the other comments seem to have also suggested.

The only thing you don't get is ethernet drops out of the APs or anything like that, but the UAPs in a mesh configuraiton could proabbly do everything you want, unless you have a shockingly large piece of property.

underestimate how much work Mozilla does in standards and low-level shared API’s via w3c

Oh, I didn't mean to disparage the work they do: I know it's important and extensive. I've been a Firefox user since, well, it was called Netscape. It's a critical piece of software.

I was mostly just rolling my eyes at the sheer panic they're having with the only funding source they've bothered to cultivate going away, along with the fact that a good portion of that money is spent on things that aren't the browser, and frankly, don't bring a lot of value to the table or matter in the slightest.

Dumping the Corporation baggage and making the Foundation strongly independent makes a lot more sense than begging to let Google keep paying them, which seems to be their approach, at least based on that open letter.

These drives aren't for people who care how much they cost, they're for people who have a server with 16 drive bays and need to double the amount of storage they had in them.

(Enterprise gear is neat: it doesn't matter what it costs, someone will pay whatever you ask because someone somewhere desperately needs to replace 16tb drives with 32tb ones.)

But the article says they used Yahoo once! (When, I assume, Yahoo outbid Google.)

I agree we need an independent browser, but right now Firefox is about as independent as my cat, and they're both a bit deluded into thinking that's not the case.

The first thing that I have to ask: do we need Firefox-the-business providing Firefox-the-browser, or are they just dragging around a lot of Google-induced baggage that's otherwise worthless.

I have a strong feeling on that one, but hey.

What's your budget?

A $200 budget is going to get you VERY different options than a $1000 budget, especially since you're wanting to connect multiple buildings.

It's viable, but when you're buying a DAS for the drives, figure out what the USB chipset is and make sure it's not a flaky piece of crap.

Things have gotten better, but some random manufacturers are still using trash bridge chips and you'll be in for a bad time. (By which I mean your drives will vanish in the middle of a write, and corrupt themselves.)

Yeah, I remember the 'grandma wanted to die for the economy!' ghouls.

And the 'it's just a flu!' people pissed me the fuck off. Like have you morons never HAD the flu? It's not like the flu is somehow pleasant and fun. You don't want the flu! Nobody wants the flu! You idiots got a flu shot, get your damn covid shot.

Okay so you're able to access it via the IP it's hosted on, but NOT via the domain name in the tunnel?

Is the working IP a public or private one?

My $5 is that you don't have the tunnel configured properly and that's why you're having issues, but maybe not.

Also, what specifically did you put in the config file? Usually they're not asking for an IP, but the FQDN of the site.

Am I missing something, or is this just the argo tunnel thing Cloudflare has offered for quite a while?

Are you using Cloudflare as DNS, proxy, or via their argo tunnels? (I know you said tunnel, but then mention accessing via IP address, so I'm not entirely sure what you've done.)

Kinda changes what you should be looking at.

The problem was it was too quick: if you died of COVID, you were dead. You could be memory-holed and everyone would simply forget you and move on.

If you had Polio, though, you were paralyzed and stuck in a metal tube and kept alive.

Can't forget your not-dead kid who lives in a tube, and thus it was treated as more of a thing that should be fought because there was a clear and visible reminder of what this disease was doing to everyone's kids.

If COVID left a couple million people living in tubes, then we absolutely would have treated it differently, but it didn't.

(Alternately, if COVID had killed 10 or 20 million people, we would have also treated it seriously: it just wasn't sufficiently deadly OR left a wake of broken, but living, people.)

10000% this.

Tell me what it does, and SHOW me what it does.

Because guessing what the hell your thing looks like and behaves like is going to get me to bounce pretty much immediately because you've now made it where I have to figure out how to deploy your shit if I want to know. And, uh, generally, if you have no screenshots, you have no good documentation and thus it's going to suuuuck.