Hold it… are all of these government workers being paid to go to a prayer meeting? 🤔

All I do:

• Run updates daily
• Disable password logins
• Run sshguard
• Daily backups to a cloud and off-site host

I think that’s it. I have my host exposed to the Internet. As far as I know, it’s fine.

BTW, sshguard is for the IMAP and SMTP that run on the host, which do allow password logins. But it helps reduce load from brute force attacks on port 22 (which are pointless anyway).

I’m much more worried about my son installing dodgy Minecraft mods, or my wife installing another app that she saw on TikTok. I really should put them each on a separate VLAN…

Political revolutions usually involve a wealthy class being kept away from political power, combined with a particularly unpopular and stupid absolute ruler.

In the US, the wealthy are the political class, and while Trump is stupid and unpopular he has only been in power a year. Most people think he will be gone in 3 more years, and even if he jettisons the Constitution and stays in as President, he is old and unhealthy.

Purging the ranks so that when Trump orders the occupation of American cities there is no resistance from the military.

The bar is so low these days. 😭

I’m old school, and would set up Fetchmail. It can pull down either POP or IMAP (I haven’t used POP in 25+ years, but I guess it works fine still). Then I’d run Dovecot or some other IMAP server on my host to read mail from there.

All the terrible things going on, and this is what you choose to criticize. 🙄

Increases in productivity go to the owners, not the workers. Even imaginary increases in productivity.

So the idea is that people should not have fun while there are terrible things in the world? Especially the people trying to improve the situation somewhat? Am I getting that right?

If you tax income then the ultra wealthy can find some financial construction to ensure that they have zero income. Of course, this is also true for wealth (see: the Gates Foundation), so maybe there is no good solution. 😅

Mostly accurate, although the flight delays tend to be announced one short delay at a time. “We’re going to be a few minutes late pulling out from the gate.” “We missed out takeoff window, so we’re going to have a 20 minute delay.” “We need to refile our paperwork, so we’re heading back to the gate.” “Ground crew changed shift, so we need another 45 minutes.” And so on…

Damn Mamdani for giving me so much hope!

DNS is never the Domain Name Service.

The very first sentence of RFC 1034, the document that is the basis of DNS, identifies it as the Domain Name System.

Also, buying or building something to cover the less is cheap, and possibly fun, mini-project. As long as you allow a bit of airflow…

What do you use for your Kubernetes build?

Also, do you have an S3 compatible storage? If not, what do you use for persistence?

One reply to this is that God can do anything possible.

Now, ideas about what is possible vary. For example Descartes could not conceive of a triangle where the angles did not add up to 180°. However, even in Descartes’ time it was known that a triangle on a sphere will have angles that add up to more than 180° (you can make a triangle with 3 right angles on a globe and those angles add up to 270°).

So the idea might be refined to be more that nonsensical things remain nonsensical. As in, you can ask the question, “Can God change the color of a flower to Tuesday?” But even though it is perfectly correct English, it doesn’t make sense, and your question is bogus, not God.

Nuclear wars before the UN: 1

Nuclear wars after the UN: 0

Saying “please” when asking someone to do you a favor isn’t excessive, IMHO. It indicates that you are making a request and not issuing an order, and recognizes that you are grateful for the assistance.

That and the century of humiliation.

Presumably you had to travel to get there. It’s likely you didn’t have anything to drink while travelling. So they offer you a drink.

Also, it’s nice to sit and chat while enjoying a drink, whether that is a warm drink (coffee, tea, whatever), a cold drink (water, juice, soda, whatever), or an alcoholic drink (beer, wine, whatever).

Edit: Also why are you annoyed? If you don’t want anything a simple “nothing for me, thanks” is fine and shouldn’t put you out too much!