So, national stack ranking?

Russia has been on the verge of collapse for the past 3 years. One can regard it as a zombie nation, lurching forward despite there being no way it could be viable.

Some VPNs like Mullvad have the option of padding out the flow of data to thwart traffic analysis, at the expense of speed.

Police have UPS-like devices which splice into existing mains cables to keep machines alive on the way into the forensics lab. Presumably it’s standard practice to use those.

Of course, the server could be configured to wipe itself if it loses connectivity for more than a few seconds, or its routing changes. The police would need devices that route Ethernet traffic over 5G, though those would presumably be detectable as bandwidth goes down and latency goes up.

The Tangara is interesting technically, but the firmware is a bit half-baked, and large parts of it are written in Lua, and thus slow. I had one but sold it, and got a Rockboxed HifiWalker H2.

He rescued Millei, by throwing US beef farmers under a bus

Star Trek fandom. The series appears to be the moral compass of Mastodon.

Mastodon is for kind middle-aged trekkies to hold forth about how to live a good life (it involves Linux, and stopping to look at the flowers)

Lemmy is for goblin-moders to vent about their mental health issues using memes

If the procedure is reversible, sure. Give it a try, and if it doesn’t work for you, you can go back.

My first thought on seeing the photo: “Christ, Billy Idol’s looking rough these days”

I have a HifiWalker H2, a Chinese MP3 player that works off SD cards. The default firmware is Linux-based, but you can also flash it with Rockbox.

Being able to set up personally hosted RSS feeds would be useful. If the feeds are fetched periodically, that could also allow archiving of accounts.

Or even if it could provide RSS feeds of accounts, for following in a RSS reader.

Though excellent work!

“Ronnie” has a nice midcentury vintage feel, if that’s of any value to you one way or the other.

Also, in the age of online communications, when information can be limitlessly copied, it’s impossible for authoritarians to destroy information they disapprove of. It is possible, however, for them to make it difficult to find by flooding the world with vast quantities of plausible-looking alternatives to it, making it hard to identify what is real. Before LLMs, doing this at the sort of scale that would have been effective was prohibitively laborious.

I can vouch for Mythic Beasts

How about “jackanapes”?

I love Weimar America as much as I love Weimar Germany. ICE can have jazz, rock’n’roll, the beat poets, David Lynch, Prince, Bikini Kill, Calvin & Hobbes, etc. when they take them from my cold, dead fingers

I thought that there had been historically a boxing match the day after Christmas, and while the name remains, the actual barbaric spectacle went the way of bear-baiting due to people becoming more averse to violence.

The 3.5” disk was designed as a consumer product by Sony, whose industrial design is second to none. (Compare the 5¼ “ and 8” floppies, which were designed by IBM engineers and only intended for use by technical specialists.)