This administrations brand is to sell government work (or non work) for personal favours and there literally accepting “exposure” as payment to signal how normalised they made it.

If you are a big enough name they don’t care how petty the bribe is. As long as it shows the world that they are open for this kind off business.

Every bribe, no matter how small is pure profit if you never owned what you’re selling.

Cannot find the source for the pick but there is this where Bernie covers all the same points in different words:

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/ai-poses-unprecedented-threats-congress-must-act-now/

I like to use dashes myself but the combination of overuse with other tells often does make me suspicious.

Which isn’t bad, even an intellectual can write things wrong, as ai can also write things right. Always read critically.

I didn’t think dashes where out of place here, but i did get a real ai vibe of the last paragraph. Is this something Bernie is really considering or is something to round up a generated list of scary scenarios. (Which are all existing valid concerns still)

I wish more projects did stuff like this.

It just feels silly and unprofessional while being seriously useful. Exactly my flavour of software, makes the web feel less corporate.

I assume this some kind of philosophical metaphor but as someone who isn’t into random acts of animal cruelty i have to ask for the answer.

Why not help?

There are custom themes out there that change the interface.

Right click -> identify-> Title name, has yet to fail me.

Its been a long time since i used plex so I can’t say how much “easier” its over there but compared to the days before streaming this little upfront work takes less time then going to a physical store to rent.

Maintenance takes no work and it cant be enshitificated (someone will just port it)

I don’t know why it works but if i rename a .webp extension into a .png or .jpg it just works.

If you want to put in some work i can highly recommend self hosting a nextcloud/owncloud, maybe together with some family members.

Something more obscure you can do is create a shareable public link with or without password to share large files with whoever you want.

On the downside, whenever i see a professional use we transfer or the like i cringe massively.

I sometimes contemplate if i rather lose an ear or an eye.

On the surface an eye seems so much more important but vision with one eye is still mostly the same vision with one corner cut out where hearing from one ear is instantly very disorienting.

Also i believe different notes hit my brain differently depending on the ear, hence why stereo is the norm.

Is this open source? I may want to self host if.

I am not sure what you mean with pov that no one else’s understand because many of my European friends speak english on top of native language.

What i can attest is that each language has its own expressions, saying and emergent philosophy that is not always translatable in other languages.

The language you speak/think directly influences what and how you think. Knowing multiple is therefore a very enriching experience.

You become god.

(Not oc, this is a known joke)

The power to reply to my own comment.

Not enough learn action adventure games to my liking.

Definitely checking every single one of these though.

Remind me when i applied for a tech store chain.

“We also mandate workers to recommend extra warranty to customers that ask for advice , how do you feel about this”

“I always try to help people who come to me for advice the very best i can, i would need to see the details of this extended warranty but if i believe it would really serve the customer then of course i will recommend it”

They laughed; i did not get the job.

Actually, having just read the article they are not banning vpn at all. (Bad title)

They are mandating that sites that subjectively provide sexual content ban traffic that comes from a vpn.

Both corpo and private networks are fine.

I am not sure how enforceable this is. It might be limited to a “known list of vpn providers ip addresses” but how they ever know if you have a personal server running overseas?

The further we go in time the more complex life in society becomes.

A feudal lord making logistical decisions about how iron in its economy was still capable to grasp how iron is used/reused to make tools, weapons and contraptions.

With modern technology our tools have become a black box (almost literally) we use them but we do not understand the components and systems it relies on.

Many times a bad law can still be followed, proven by the many dumb rules people today still follow regardless of the existence of new facts.

But when you blanketban vpn? It becomes to nonsensical to even consider following it.

Vpn is more then just a tool to avoid local internet rules. They are an essential technology for secure connections between devices. Standard in almost any professional corporation.

(Anti corpo as i am, this time i actually believe there lobbying will stop this. Enemy of my enemy is a useful tool )

This is the equivalent of the feudal lord looking at the iron logistics and ruling that smithing and metallurgy are now banned practices.

Leaving people without proper tools to work the land, the soldiers without weapons to enforce any law.

Greedy neighbour lords ready to exploit your mistake to invade then.

I saw a gif about some cool hyprland dotfiles and i fell in love.

Instructions said it was designed for arch.

There are many more other reasons i stayed. Its great to actually feel in charge of my system.

Debian/ubuntu has its uses in server reliability but its missing snap for daily use.

Fedora is to close to corporate for my personal interest.

Just general command key for shortcuts?

It is probably my most pressed button because of this, also i changed the keycap to eye of horus.

There is some nuance to what exactly is banned.

I self host a vpn at my home that i use to connect to my home network on the go. This is a super common use-case and also cant be used to circumvent regional blocks.

Work also uses a vpn to securely tunnel company hardware to our servers.

A blanket ban on vpn software and technology would be ridiculously dumb. Almost as bad as blanket ban on encryption.

If they make exceptions and only ban vpn with intention to hide and circumvent the law, then you only need some legal excuse if someone comes asking and its more a morality guideline then a criminal law.

If they blanket ban “vpn technology” i would simply suggest ignoring it. Laws that stupid are too incompetent to take seriously. I recon its completely unenforceable.

Either way you’re unlikely to be investigated unless the government already has a reason to investigate you. In which case you’re probably fucked no matter how secure your internet.