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  • I think improved road safety is a great idea. 20mph lowers emissions and wear on both roads and cars.
    I just wish they made it 20mph in other areas, rather than where I drive.
    I think it's a great idea, and support it. Just... Not in my back yard.

  • Just buy from the EU.

    Yes, but...
    The same could happen the the EU, as with any foreign power.
    It's unlikely as the EU is fundamentally built differently. But it could, no doubt a country that wanted to push through their adjenda by exploiting loopholes that haven't been discovered/exploited because of "decorum" could still happen.

    Buy source-provided.
    So, you get everything you need to maintain the platform with the purchase cost.
    If you want updates and improvements, they have additional cost.
    Like so many software licencing models. 1 year of updates - except it's source provided.
    It's more expensive, but you get what you pay for.
    Renew your licence every year for another year.
    Stop paying? You get to use the EJ69 fighter jet platform as it was in 2019 for as long as you can manufacture parts for it.

    Or you could buy the cloud-hosted fighter jets. And risk the off-switch. But it's less upfront cost, higher long-term cost

  • I consider myself technically apt.

    I was expecting a parcel from abroad so was expecting to have to pay customs.
    Received an SMS that looked fairly legit, from a named SMS number that didn't set off an alarm bell, asking for additional information. The only red flag that got me were some unusually personal questions, like date of birth. I was close to giving away a bunch of personal details.

    Another one was a "your parking permit is about to expire". We recently had permitted parking introduced, and I figured I'd messed something up. But thankfully I looked into that via the councils parking permit page, and knew I was months away from an expiry.

    My parents received a "help, I've flushed my phone down the toilet and need a new one for work tomorrow. Sorry for the strange number, I've borrowed a friend's phone. Can you send me $$$ to [account details] so I can get a new phone?" from a scammer pretending to be my sister.
    Apparently they made it up to a "this is a new account number, are you sure this isn't a scam?" prompt in their banking app when they finally decided to try and contact her. She immediately picked up and said "stop, it's a scam".

    It doesn't take much to make you vulnerable to social engineering.
    An expectation of events and something that would normally red flag suddenly doesn't seem suspicious.
    An emotional manipulation, time pressure, all that stuff, and it's easy to ignore red flags.

    I always say "if you ever feel pressure, take a moment and analyse the situation". Time pressure, emotional pressure. And analyse looking for anything that seems odd, then pick at that thread.

  • accessed from the internet

    Accessed only by you and close family/friends who you are also hosting services for?
    Or accessed by anyone?

    "Accessed by anyone" carries more risk.

    "Accessed by users you host for", the risks can be eliminated (well, other than risks from those users) by using a VPN. As in, only the people authorised to be on the VPN can access the services.
    Wireguard is the go-to these days.
    Tailscale is much easier and free for 3 users and 100 nodes.

    If it absolutely has to be "accessed by anyone" I would look into a "reverse proxy over VPN/tunnel" or just straight tunnel style approach like chisel (or crowbar, or corkscrew), rathole, frp, or cloudflare tunnels.

    Basically, don't point a domain at your home public IP and don't forward ports on your home router/firewall

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  • Killing Donny wouldn't change much, tho.
    America has shown it wants Donald or a Donald substitute.

    Project 2025 is now Americas playbook.

    Other countries changing military suppliers isn't going to change back to america for 10-15 years (hell, maybe even longer, I dunno what the service life of a jet platform is).
    The risk that has surfaced of "America has an off switch" - even just the potential risk of rumors of an off switch - means all those military assets are useless when America elects unhinged leaders that are willing to subvert democratic process in order to run their playbook.
    And America has shown it is willing to do that. Even prefers to do that

  • I guess it depends if the frame count is an in-game frame, or a recording of the gameplay.
    If it's in-game frames, then a slower newer snes has the advantage. You have more IRL time per "scored" unit of time.
    If it's frames of the video, then the faster barrel-aged SNES have the advantage, at the cost of requiring faster button presses

  • The value after the : isn't in double/single quotes, so it is a literal value. Thus, a float value will be parsed as a float. Whether it is 1E-5 or 0.00001. They are numerically equivalent, but not stringly equivalent.

    If you are having errors parsing your JSON, then use a proper JSON library instead of trying to roll your own.