It depends on your threat model. The actual crypto portion of it holds up, at least until we have crypto-relevant quantum computers.

If you want anonymization and PFS for basic messaging, yeah PGP + email isn’t going to cut it. But if you’re sending documents, for example, with financial or health data tied to my identity anyway, I’d take PGP with my own email provider over TLS to some tech company servers where it sits unencrypted any day.

It very much seems to be a response to those regulations.

You a real one, much appreciated

Would you be willing to share that Quadlet? I also run rootless Podman on my main VPS and I’m approaching that point where I have enough services to justify a dedicated IDM solution.

It also looks like the Chat Control 1.0 has a carve out for E2E encrypted communications. So I’m not saying don’t worry about it, but seems more like a procedural measure than the more ominous and technology-destroying second version.

Referencing this

Something much better like eufy? Or roomba?

I think it’s a law that robot vacuums must be named something silly.

Daily reminder that not everything you feel needs to be put into messages or posted on the internet. Practice good OPSEC if you’re participating in any sort of lawful gathering. Your freedom of speech extends to what you choose not to say.

The first time I saw it, it was from these fine folks - https://www.raygunsite.com/products/punisher-pride

I’ve recommended before and I will again. Locally produced, union led, and they support a lot of good causes in the otherwise shit state of Iowa (apologies to any Iowans who aren’t of the Chuck Grassley ilk).

Literally the Hock Tan playbook. Buy a foundational technology and jack the price way up assuming the whales will keep paying while mid and small customers fall away. Did it with Symantec, started to do it with Bitnami but backed off a bit due to massive backlash.

They bank on the asspain of switching tech tooling being greater than the financial pain of the price gouging. But hey, that’s capitalism for ya.

I get your point but look at any harbor in the Mediterranean when an event comes to town, it’s full of super-yatchs. The rich will always be fine peacocking for each other, and yatch builders manage to stay in business just fine. I realize it’s a bit different since there’s a whole social aspect of the game, arguably the whole point is to play with others. I just don’t see the bean counters having that foresight.

I’d put more weight behind IP law, where if a company chooses to shut down an online game then it gets treated like abandonware and they cannot pursue fans who run their own servers. That does put the onus on the fans at the end of the day, but I think in the long run it would make companies more willing to appeal to a wider audience if we always had an open model to fall back to.

Wait 'til you hear who invented it…

That said, considering how many illegal services continue to run on it, I don’t think it’s as porous as some make it out. Definitely has well-documented weaknesses but the project maintainers tend to address them fairly straightforward.

Of course, you’re also just as likely to be buying drugs off an Onion market that the FBI seized and kept running just to catch more bad guys, despite it also hosting illegal content itself.

Spot on. Anything based on the AR-18 design, which begat the AR-180 semi auto civilian version (which was promptly banned), gets rid of the buffer tube function on the AR-15 to balance the BCG. It uses the dual captive recoil springs, a design that migrated to a bunch of other modern firearms.

I’ve been interested in the Aly & Kaufman AKB-23, basically a L85/SA80 replica lower that you throw a BRN-180 on and add some furniture to complete the look. So short version, yeah I think you could whittle a wooden lower for AR-18 style uppers. Probably only get a few shots off before it cracked though, wood can be quite brittle like that.

I know this is a joke but I still do this when wearing a suit with creased pants. Let’s you do up your laces and if you’re tucking the shirt you need to undo the trousers anyway. Keeps them looking crisp, at least when it’s an event you change into the suit right before.

“Ah yes, but think about how much faster they shipped that code with Copilot doing all the heavy lifting.”

• Some Microsoft exec, probably

It’s intended to be a successor to the current reCAPTCHA, sold as harder to spoof than current picture-based versions. Now, almost from its start, CAPTCHA existed to train AI vision models. So Google basically painted themselves into a corner using free labor to train models good enough to recognize images, now they are switching to device signals.

That said, they’re going to have to provide a compatibility layer for iOS which AFAIK doesn’t come with Google Play Services right now. So I have some faith in the smart folks who make these de-shittified OSes working something out via microG or the like.

There’s https://imginn.com/

Not sure if it lets you go to direct reels or just view stories though.

Same with Nolan’s Batman

I’ll go in a slightly different direction but one that any CISO will tell you is just as important as locking down SSH, etc. Have a good backup plan

Especially for a home server, is your biggest threat vector someone launching 0-days against it or the SD card it boots off of crapping out? Even production servers, when someone misconfigures sshd_config and locks everyone out (ask me how I know) or you get a crypto-locker run because all the configs in the world can’t save you from a supply chain attack. You’ll be glad you have backups on-site, off-site, a general DR strategy, etc.

This is reasonable for a hobbyist publication, it would make sense to buy ad space for a new fishing rod in Bass Fishing Quarterly or whatever. Harder when it’s something more generic as “the news”, but as a poster above said this is where quality journalism comes in. If millions of people want to read well-written pieces, advertisers are paying to get their products in front of millions of people.

But advertisers want the most bang for the littlest buck and it’s easier to buy targeted ads in the attention economy so here we are. I have no issue with the existence of ads in certain places, moreso the whole system built to track every aspect of your waking attention.

Short version, add this to your Quadlet file (with whatever your service your gluetun Quadlet starts):

[Unit]
Requires=gluetun.service
After=gluetun.service

An article I found helpful when starting with Quadlets, which can even replace Docker compose. https://mo8it.com/blog/quadlet/