always the knees

You need to verify your hypothesis if you want other people to build on it or everything will eventually crumble down like a house of cards.

you can disable the need for a password or key if you like, and you also don’t really need fail2ban, since nothing is actually port forwarded anywhere

i am a tailscale enjoyer, which means i can set up tailscale ssh once on each machine and then from another machine just login over tailscale

samurai sometimes owned land and were part of the aristocracy, at the very least being retainers of lords and thus being a more privileged class and caste.

there’s now a no-teflon nonstick carbon steel pan made by misen, and it looks really good on paper and in early reviews, but it’s only been out for a short while and I’ll look at what happens to it in a year or two before deciding to buy it. After all, hexclad and their imitators with grooves of teflon really don’t fare well after a year or more. I’m very excited for it though, maybe the dream of a good pan with no maintenance is finally real.

I have learned to stop anywhere in a book and it helps a lot with chores. My condolences to your wife for her addiction.

hot and starchy

party officials, not the general population, vote on the general secretary

looking at the lyrics of that song, i would not exactly stan

they’re pushing visa and mastercard over germany’s own payment system

but what people in Germany really use is cash or a girocard (card attached to your regular checking account).

but yes, european reliance on america is horrible, usually in addition to the girocard functionality on your card, which is usable only in germany, there’s also some mastercard or visa functionality in the card, which allows you to use the card at the very least in the SEPA area (single euro payments area, 41 countries are members, visa vpay or mastercard maestro) and in cases where you get the full mastercard or visa on top of your girocard you can of course pay worldwide with a bunch of asterisks.

that means cross-country payments with your card are locked behind america, which is why wero (europe’s new digital payment system for use in the SEPA) makes so much sense.

Britain

rules aren’t neutral or grown out of the void. people with biases and maybe even ambitions create them for specific purposes

EDIT: To quote Anatole France: “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”

in some cultures being friendly and nice makes you suspicious and unreasonable

one has a lot more power and uses a lot more space than the other

have you considered making shitty get rich quick scheme courses? you can buy my course on how to make courses with AI for only $999.99, discounted to $666.66 when I feel like it

get with the times old person, they’re making office chairs with footrests now, and they also make XL chairs that you can sit cross-legged in. and if you have enough money you can also just hire somebody to make you a unique exclusive chair. clearly your issue is no money.

didn’t google pixels only recently switch to ultrasonic scanners instead of optical ones? if your fingerprint scanner has to light up with a bright light, it’s usually less good

unless you use your fingerprint or face to unlock it (iphones and many androids have a key combo that quickly locks your phone and disables biometrics until you unlock it again with your pin or password. google it. useful in duress situations, but some manufacturers (in my case xiaomi) remove the feature. it doesn’t prevent the stealing of all available data on your phone in case your attacker happens to own a cellebrite device and takes your phone away for a few hours (almost nothing can prevent that, except grapheneos), but it prevents quick in-the-moment abuse.)