Well. It makes more sense to me now. Not the Israel part, I’ll never figure out why any remotely civilized society would side with them on anything, but at least the Iran thing is just greedy capitalistic corruption.

That’s something we are all used to.

Either is good, latter is better. Might be my calling back to Motorola.

What am I missing about Israel? Why have they been, not even enabled by most of the globe, but emboldened, to obliterate Gaza, and now start to do the same to Iran?

It’s one thing to do all this in the name if religion, self-defence, money, etc. But not one thing I have read seems to even give a solid reason as to why the western world has been largely supportive of them seemingly using every dirty trick in the book, and even inventing new ways, to bypass or flagrantly ignore international laws on war.

The amount of information pointing to complete and total annihilation of large swaths of civilized areas in Gaza seems staggering. Couple that with forced starvation, aid blocking, torture and execution of civilians, and we’ve got war crimes on steroids.

Now, they are seemingly encouraged to do the same to Iran?

Like I said, the reasoning is mind-boggling, but articles about active suppression of any entity that speaks out about this is just downright scary. In what were considered more civilized societies, with free speech and democratic core values, I’ve read chilling pieces on crackdowns on anyone not siding with Israel. Others pointing fingers at public figures for a remark against them. Some even loosing their jobs. Why?

Is the information I am reading just propaganda?

Can someone please explain what I am missing here?

Somebody ‘bout to get pwned!

No. They are there for a reason.

Will some people grift the system for free money? Maybe, but the benefits to those who really need it outweighs the people misusing it, in my opinion anyways.

How hard is this type of service, as a self hosted docker app, to develop?

Wouldn’t most of the underlying codec and streaming technologies be more or less extendable into a platform?

The fact that I might actually agree with Putin on anything is not an expected turn of events, but here we are.

I misread the title and thought ICE messed with some Italian mafia connected journalists. Honestly, I think that would be better at this point.

Unity amongst gangs in the US vs. one common enemy.

Maybe licking the orange butthole will work if they try it one more time?

That’s some medieval shit if they just stood around while she died.

I’m not sure what laws can be thrown at this, though I expect whatever they are, they won’t be nearly enough to truly have a fraction of the appropriate justice served to all involved in her death.

I struggled with this a while ago. The advent of ai and more capitalist strangulation just seem to have made that same feeling worse.

So, what did I do? I stepped out of IT as profession completely, first of all. I’m just a worker bee now. I still have to use some tech for work, but minimal. I realize I am lucky to have been able to do this, but it helped me immensely having corporate tech be more of a choice.

At home tech is a hobby. I self host what I need, and use what I must to get by and screw the rest. If an open source project even hints at corporate influence, I immediately start looking for something else. It’s a pain sometimes, but it’s part of the hobby.

Couple this with trying my best to spend more time outdoors, learning new tangible skills, and just leaning more towards offline time in general really quiets my mind. And stay away from national and international news as much as you can. That stuff is poison.

Best of luck! In my own experience, finding a balance is not an easy thing to do.

Bold of you to assume voting will be an option at all.

What happens if somehow the trump clan gets kidnapped while golfing?

Edit: I feel like I should point out that I am in no way suggesting or encouraging anyone to try this. I’m just genuinely curious.

I’m more relieved than surprised by this.

It’s the never ending battle between what’s secure and what’s practical. In order to have widespread adoption, it has to be easy. In order to be secure it requires layers of complication.

It’s a yin/yang battle.

A bank vault with walls 2 feet thick, 24/7 surveillance and requiring a two key unlock mechanism is secure compared to a house door lock on a regular suburban bungalow, but is it very practical?

The level of digital security generally attainable is limited by how likely someone is to use it.

2FA using keys is the closest I’ve seen to a happy medium, but it has to be implemented correctly. If the private keys are sitting on a cloud server somewhere and it gets hacked, is it more secure? Maybe not.

Just like real defence, the walls are only as good as the foundation or weakest point.

My self hosting journey is limited mostly by time. When I have it, I try out new setups or tweak my current one. Otherwise it’s just lower end maintenance and updates.

The last time I had ample time I managed to get a double WireGuard (both in and out) working, so that’s something I suppose.

I can’t see anything disagreeable in this summary from my own experience so far though. Great stuff!

I read the excerpt on Wikipedia and it didn’t seem to fully describe my own experiences, though I expect it doesn’t hold a candle to the depths of the topic. I will have to read more to see if it helps verbalize the feeling I get towards organized religion.

Thank you for this.

I got really stoned one time as teenager and thought I had come to the very real and imminent discovery that Christianity is and was always the work of deep evil to silence and quell all other true religions. The crusades, the burning of the library at Alexandria, Pope John Paul III sitting on his throne of pure gold, It all made perfect sense. Don’t question it, just have faith.

I more or less fell headlong into atheism of a sort shortly thereafter, so part of me must really believe that on some level I guess?

So, what happens if I use pi-hole or adguard to block DNS for the advertisement TLDs, like I do for all the other gizmos in the house trying to show me ads or obtain telemetry data?

That sounds a bit ambiguous, though I should have prefaced my previous comment with the fact that I am still very much learning about this stuff myself.

More recently, I am trying to wrap my head around containerized VPN connections through WireGuard using gluetun. The idea sounds great, in theory. Figuring out how to make it work will probably be less so.

If you mean just accessing a service through VPN from the outside world, then I might be able to help.

I’ve done it successfully a few times. Most of the issues I have ever had were usually with misconfigured firewall rules around NAT.