tburkhol @ tburkhol @lemmy.world

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If you email to people on gmail or outlook, won't Google and Microsoft still end up with copies of most of your mail?

Ditto on hardware raid. Adding a hardware controller just inserts a potentially catastrophic point of failure. With software raid and raid-likes, you can probably recover/rebuild, and it's not like the overhead is the big burden it was back in the 90s.

Yeah, I think there are a lot of people in this thread who learned about the secret service from Hollywood. They rely a lot on local law enforcement, especially for former-POTUS and for unelected candidates.

I assume they thought they had visual coverage of the rooftop from the position they used to kill the shooter, and just didn't see him in time. Fuckup, but hardly monumental or inexcusable.

The GOP coalition isn't a bunch of idiots deceived into voting against their interests. I mean, some probably are. But the core is a bunch of people who have been convinced that sacrificing one less important interest will give them a big win in passionately held goal. This gives nobility to the harms, because they are choosing harm for their belief in the greater good.

Universities have historically been institutions of class structure, and not just in the US. I doubt that will change any time soon, and can't honestly think of how it could. Tertiary education requires that a person give up some part of their potentially-working day to activities that don't pay rent or put food on the table. Nevermind direct costs of education, if you don't pay people to be students, then it will continue to reinforce class structure.

Personally, I think it's in the state's interest to encourage every individual to pursue as much education, of whatever form, as they choose. Tertiary education through university, college, or trade school ought to be without direct cost, and we ought to have enough social safety net to secure people while they pursue it. Do that, and some new structure will develop so employers can identify upper-class candidates, like unpaid internships.

Once you have a microcontroller running things, adding new features is just a matter of software. Doesn't add to the BOM, doesn't complication production in any way. There's almost no marginal cost to techify everything, and the people who don't want those features can just not use them. The small minority of people who want a repairable car that they can understand and maintain in their own garage are undesirable customers who reduce after-market revenue.

In the US, plug-in hybrid is a decent way to cover the breadth of consumer desires. Get a battery big enough for 50 miles of daily commuting, but have the ICE for 500 mile holiday trips. More complicated, having both power systems, and you still have the tie to gasoline, but you don't have to lug a massively oversized battery pack everywhere you go and you still get most of your transportation energy from the electric grid.

I'm pretty sure the answer is that sky-daddy sent the little girl to test the pastor, that he might endure this challenge and come out a better man for the lesson. Sky-daddy doesn't give agency to women or children - they serve only as props in the narrative of men's lives.

The Heritage Foundation, having successfully destroyed the federal court system, has turned its dark eye on the rest of the federal bureaucracy.

Having that Heritage Foundation list of judges made it super easy for GOP Presidents to pick new, ideologically pure judges. Having the new list of ideologically pure administrators makes a far more effective revolution than tanks.

If you're trying to avoid a whole zigbee or zwave network, Govee makes some inexpensive battery-powered bluetooth thermometer/hygrometers, and have a HA integration, but bluetooth can be tricky to get running on Pis. I feel like most of the actual wifi devices are phone-home type setups. My govee thermometers have pretty good range - one of them even reads from inside the refrigerator.

Counterpoint: universities exist to teach young people to be competent, well rounded members of society, including exposure to quality academics, music, art and sport. If you just want job training, go to trade school; if you just want academics, go to the library.

Just out of frame there are a hundred shareholders cheering him on. The miserable look is an act.

It's even easier with digital broadcast. I finally had to give up my PCI tuner, because who puts PCI slots on a modern mobo? $25 will get you a USB TV tuner capable of getting all the OTA and cable channels. I used to get, like, 7 analog OTA channels - ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and a regional independent - but I get 30 digital. All the majors have added 3-5 channels of SD reruns or other filler. I mean, it's mostly shit, and the only thing I actually watch is local news, but for a one-time $25 cost, it's a great supplement to streaming.

My biggest problem with MythTV is it doesn't interface with streaming, so I use Kodi on the frontend to source from mythtv, netflix, hbo, or whatever.

Coffee all morning, because sleep. Iced tea all afternoon, because Atlanta.

I was listening to some pretentious film critic yesterday complain that modern films have stopped being artistic or intellectually challenging, because there's a huge audience of people who are exhausted all the time. They don't want media that makes them think, that challenges their assumptions, or even requires their full, sustained attention. Comfort media, like mac & cheese for the brain.

Fallout has become exactly that - some vague, nefarious organization as antagonist; raiders & feral ghouls as unambiguously bad cannon fodder. Just move it to a new city, put in some iconic landmarks, and let the money roll in. I can't honestly think of a franchise that gets past 2 without falling into that trap, but I just started another run through FO4.

It's because dropping out is 100% not in Trump's character. He's in the race for himself, everyone - even his supporters - knows that, and asking him to drop out is like asking a zebra to try all-black.

Biden, OTOH, is a public servant and presents himself as trying to do the best things possible for the country. He ran in 2020 to 'save us from Trump,' and he's running again with that premise. You can disagree with Biden on what is best for the country, and maybe convince him that someone else might be better able to beat Trump in 2024. I'm not really all that engaged, so I have no idea who the next-best Democrat would be, but Biden stepping aside is at least within the realm of conceivable possibilities.

I just don't like my logs filling up with scripted login attempts. Even with fail2ban, for a while there I was getting 100+ login attempts every day, and it upset my sense of order.

This is an old post about ipv6, but it inspired me to go looking, and I wanted to share my findings.

1. for globally routeable IPv6 addresses, probably do let it happen automatically, either direct from the ISP, through the router by prefix delegation, or your own implementation of prefix delegation.
2. for devices you want to access, internally, create a ULA within the fd00::/8 space, and assign numbers (and names) however you like. Translate all your 192.168.x.y IPv4 addresses to fd00::x:y and go. Only limitation is you won't be able to access those devices, using the ULA, from outside your network.
3. you can do both of these on the same subnet, and devices pick up both addresses then use the global address for internet and the ULA for intranet.

That means you can do dhcp, dynamic DNS, private domains, and all the stuff you know about IPv4 for IPv6, and still do all the stateless autoconfig that "they" want. Some devices, like my android phone, never played well with dhcpd6, but immediately preferred IPv6 as soon as I let them SLAAC.

If the prefix assigned by the ISP doesn't change, then device SLAAC address shouldn't change, either, because they're calculated from MAC, so if you need to access some internal devices from the internet, you have to mark that address, but (IMO) marking the full address is not that much worse than marking the prefix and remembering the device number.

I gotta say, I recognized both of those debate performances. One of them's the angry grandfather who's always complaining that his foreign neighbor is stealing his trash; the other's the nice grandpa who calls you by your cousin's name, then gives you $5 to go to a movie.

I wouldn't want either to babysit my kids - Trump because he'd steal my TV and throw out my avocados; Biden because he'd fall down the stairs and let the kids stay up to midnight eating ice cream.

But a President's job isn't really to be a subject matter expert on every policy. He's there to assemble a good team of policy matter experts and balance the needs of normal people against the power of megacorporations. And we have the rare opportunity to judge both grandpas on their past performance: Jared Kushner, Secretary of Everything; Janet Yellen vs Steve Mnuchin; Rick Perry vs Jennifer Granholm; Jeff Sessions & William Barr vs Merrick Garland.

I do ssh because I'm more comfortable with it: it's ubiquitous and as close to bulletproof as any security. Put it on a nonstandard port, restrict authentication to public keys, and I have no qualms.