First off:

Good luck! You’ll get through this ❤️

I’m not claiming I went through a situation like your sentence implies in that extreme, my advice comes from a bit less drastic situation - and I’ll assume no safety net.

The hard truth: you are broke. Not in the future, right now. Treat your money like it. If you can’t pay rent in a few months time you can’t now. Same for all other invoices.

Reason: shit has hit the fan already. Now you’re standing there and wondering which the biggest piece will be to hit you.

If you start with that today then you’ll stretch the time out overall.

Your job is threfold: priority one: reduce spending to near zero. Short term survival beats anything. Including and especially credit score and the likes. The details depend on your situation, laws and standards.

The second is even harder: What can you do to increase cash income? This is a shitty situation and your reaction most likely is “well, yes. Of course dumb fuck what do you think I’m doing??”.

I can fully emphasize if it is. That said: I’m not only talking about applications. Use your social circle to ask for help, both money and job. Reach out to former colleagues or school friends. Use everything and everyone you have in your environment.

The last part is the easiest but very annoying: read your local laws and statutes. What social security structures exist? What are eviction regulations? What about late payment terms? Re education sponsorship? And so on. Most countries have at least something but it’s often hidden in highly formal bullshit. Get your shovel and dig through legalese. And if you can’t do that: the second point automatically applies here as well.

Bambu was the one company I oped to be wrong about when first seeing them. But their communication smelled “we are your future” from the beginning. :(

What a shit “but both sides” article.

“Bambu said they didn’t do something wrong so we must take that into consideration”.

It’s one of the most transparent and plump “I want to hold my users hostage” in a long time.

I fundamentally disagree on your conclusion.

Codeberg is a non profit under German law. There won’t be openai “non profit but not really” bullshit.

And your point about CI Integration ins good example: There is no “free” CI. GitHub lets you pay with their vendor lock-in and your data.

If that’s okay with you, that’s okay with me - but as a programming community as a whole ,especially FOSS side, this needs to go away.

The best case for me is that GitHub dies and its death is a wake-up call to decouple collaboration layers in a way that keeps them modular enough to not again rub into “too big or integrated to fail”.

And yes, I’m aware that this is 2/3 day dreaming. But that’s my best case association anyway :D

Orwell is a child of his time though. If I recall correctly he went to Spain to report on the conflict (civil war) and was so shocked(?) that he volunteered to fight against the literal Nazis. Then getting told “put down your weapons” is the context I read into this quote.

Or to take your example: it’s about someone telling you to not fight back instead of helping safe others.

While I agree with you in times of peace and between individuals it’s more nuanced: when physically under attack your options shrink.

This is the part where this quote holds true in my opinion: When you’re confronted with a situation that already turned violent. Or, worse for me personally, I’d there is no shared common value system.

How do you mediate with someone who not only is willing to kill but has the conviction that it’s the only right thing to do?

And I don’t mean that as a rhetorical question, I have no idea … And my own moral compass is fucked up by now and spinning in circles.

Oh common it’s not like there’s an org for mountains of code. A codeberg.org basically.

Or a method to forge jo own code repos just like that, just for dev. A … forgejo.dev … No that would be crazy. Let’s rather stick with Microsoft - after all, nothing they ever touched was bad for their user base, ever.

Or is the quintessential immutability.

Yes.

It’s also a completely different way to handle … everything.

Do not think about nixos if you want to know what to try for gaming.

Do look at it id you want to learn the ins and outs of … Well, to be honest nixos. But I’ve learned a lot about standard paths that everyone expects to be there and hell’s loose if they aren’t.

Python runs amok if it can’t write into it’s beloved lib folders, nginx is utterly confused why it can’t generate certificates on startup (read only folders), deployment dependencies are absolutely visible - and if you fick up the whole system just goes “nah, take a step back and think about what you just did”.

I’m now pushing two years on my server and I’m still not sure if I’d recommend it - but I for sure enjoy it!

Though this is a severe exploit, note that you need already user access to the machine to use it.

Dor like … Everyone here who learns from it cis this need it’s likely a non issue. Still good practice to fix but if you didn’t share your user space this will not be the attack vector you will fall victim to - most likely.

Can’t tell you about the first half of your question as I’m not familiar with the American doctrine.

And before someone jumps into discussions: I’m relying knowledge, not conviction - if you have more insights, please add them. But if you try to convince me that it’s wrong or try to point out inherent inconsistencies: you’ll add nothing for me - preaching to the choir and so on …

the second part is actually straight forward: Jews in the Bible didn’t believe in JC either - by definition.

The reason why the Jewish faith has a special role for Christians lies in the old testament, not the new one: they are “God’s chosen people” and everything resolves around then bring pampered by God, both in the positive sense as the favorite but also in the negative sense as the one’s who receive the stick more.

Speculation part: This unique position is very present to all Christians, but especially the more fundamental ones. Combine this with a history of mistreatment, where jews were blamed for everything that went wrong in your neighborhood and you have a good mix of the enduring, suffering chosen ones.

Note: Israel as state is then a completely different discussion.

Thanks for the addition! Edited to make it more clear: there part also referred only to the time before you’ve connected.

(edit: all of below stuff is only for not being on the same network. After that it gets … messy)

Oh boy! First: Thank you - I thought to briefly validate my knowledge and understanding before answering and went down a rabbit hole :D this is my current grasp, happy to be corrected!

First: Most is actually not even distro agnostic but also OS agnostic:

Most modern wifi devices when you tell them to “connect to WiFi” radiates, literally, what it can do and what kind of connection it wants. E.g. im a wifi device with WPA3 capabilities and this is my Mac address to answer me.

OS specific is the question if your Mac address gets scrambled or not. For both iwd and networkmanager, which both support it, have it turned off by default. There is a big advantage to being able to be recognizable on friendly networks after all.

Now comes the part I wasn’t aware:

Even your hostname is often still broadcasted publicly! This happens during the DHCP handshake - and many devices don’t support apparently existing standards to address this gap. It’s all about securing the first frames where devices align on communication standards, encryption way, etc. This seems to still be quite public.

Android was easier (and iOS seems to be the same but I didn’t bother with that more): Same as Linux but more aggressive by default: Mac scrambling all the time while searching for networks ,DHCP uses obscure strings as hostnames, etc.

Fun fact: even those have stable max addresses once connected. Again, getting the same DHCP lease and being able to whitelist or recognized by the network seems to have more upsights than I was aware of.

That’s sich a Mac answer it’s unbelievable.

Describing “A project aimed to be agnostic of it’s environment” as a design mistake and not a inherent flaw of the OS is… Just wow.

Remember in this thread it’s about the pro and con of Macos as interference hardware. This is a major flaw which comes baked into the hardware. I tested it and find it an unacceptable limitation. It’s important for others to know.

To state “containerization is the issue” though… Just wow.

Depends what you want to do… For example I didn’t get python whisper in a container to run on Mac in any way that can be called “performance” and I don’t want my dev workflow to optimize for an OS I despise :D

The problem is the other side:

The seller has a huge interest to not deal with too much fiat exchange. There’s always fees and market risks associated.

The USD historically was very stable compared to the rest. That in combination with the huge purchasing and military power the US represented while being reliable as a trading partner pushed the US dollar into focus.

The USA then spent a lot of time, energy, money and lifes (mostly others) in ensuring this dominance.

Think of it like a language: a Spanish and a German work together in English - not because it’s impossible for them to learn each others language but because the overhead is too big.

Specifically to your example: no one wants to sell anything to Russia in rubles.

Imagine this scenario:

Hey, I’ll pay you 100 YC (your currency).

Oh since we agreed on the price a few days ago it’s only worth 80YC.

Oh now it’s 120 YC but no one else will take the currency I’m paying you in except me.

Oh now it’s worth 10 YC but we signed the contract, hurray!!

What you are describing is neoliberalism in its base form. If you want to dice deeper I to it I suggest Saez instead of some 16th hundred philosopher. (I’m not too familiar with Lockes work, this is more about time than profession or person).

The reason why taxation works different than contract agreements is basically:

Taxes are used as normalization tool, both in the fiscal as well as the social sense.

In general you have three categories of tax: based on purchase, based on possession and based on income.

Most modern countries use all three in a combination. The reason why it’s not purpose linked is simple: you can’t organize it.

To give an example: How much worth does a future tax payer? And who benefits?

Based on the answer to that question you’d either tax consumption (because future tax payers will keep cost low), income (because production facilities for future tax payers is taken from the workforce) or possession (because future tax payers are the foundation of generational transfer).

And on top of that comes the big question of social normalizing effects: even very conservative counties tax higher incomes higher than low incomes to improve the overall Gini coefficient, i.e. achieve a bit of wealth distribution. Now you’re fully in “opinion” country though: How much should society pay for its weakest or unluckiest?

And because it’s not yet complicated enough there’s one very simple element coming on top: “what can we get away with?”. Rules, especially if taxation, are only meaningful if they can be enforced.

German highways for example have a dedicated tax for heavy transports for using those roads exactly the model you’ve described. 50 years ago that would’ve been technologically impossible to realize there.

Now using a sidewalk as an exame and it becomes messy. Because the people directly using them would be the obvious choice. But what about the shops closeby which profit from foot traffic? What about the reduction in micro plastic pollution because those people don’t use cards (which produce about 1/3 of it). What about my body weight? I’m fat and will damage the ground a very tiny bit more than someone who’s half my weight. And what about paramedics using it? The rulebooks and exceptions will be either: broad and easy to abuse, broad and they will exclude many people from using the infrastructure or narrow which brings both at the same time.

To come back to your example: you pay for school because it’s the one institution that makes sure that our economy will work a few years down the road, having new consumers and taxable incomes which are needed for me to continue, well, existing. And you do have a verbal agreement: “I’m choosing to stay in the place I am”. This binds you to its laws, including taxation.

Now if you argue that you’d just want to keep what’s yours then usually just looking one generation back already makes that break apart: where did your parents income and education come from, what social structures did they benefit from, etc.

But: All of this is not intended as “taxes are good as-is”. A) I have no idea what your frame of reference is and B) it’s not in my opinion. But it’s complex. Really really complex because the whole system changes depending on reference timeframe, social norm and the societies past and present goals.

This got way longer than expected but the tldr is: foreign exchange is super complex and depends on a lot of factors which don’t matter to you as money user. I tried to give a few examples below.

Plus: You’re mixing up two very different concepts:

Fiat evaluation and purchasing power.

First, money;

“More worth” is a natural instinct but doesn’t reflect how the money market works: it’s a question of how much of that money is in circulation as well for example:

1107650 CHF Million 19396,90 USD Billion

(Source tradingeconomics.com ).

So while it’s the CHF is slightly over value when compared one to one the picture is different when you look at total money available. Then you look at production capacity, glue creation and supply and demand for those currencies. All of this will flow into the price.

The minimum wage discussion is a completely different one: here you need to compare minimum wage to the purchasing power of the area you are looking at and take into consideration how the tax and financial situation changes to be able to compare it.

There’s for example concept called big Mac index which is a crude way of showing the difference: how much does MacDonald’s charge for their bullshit? They are everywhere and quite good at finding a acceptable local price.

If you want to dive deeper a key word to look for is the Gini Index with which the wealth distribution is quantified. I’m not good enough to explain it well though.

Now for the colors: design of money is the job of the nations (or unions) main bank to decide usually. The US seem to have the creativity of a washed down rock while others are more creative.

The Euro money for example is designed with guardrails by each member country but color, size and form are fixed and optimized to be easily recognized even with various visual impediments, which I personally really like.

Same: but it DOES make a difference that’s why I answered it. Target group is not necessarily the poster but other readers - this foundation is cumbersome but awesome, I want to spread positivity where possible :)

Yes because a) they are the biggest authority on these licences in the world, b) have many lawyers at hand actually and c) are the ones who can significantly damage your brand.

Imagine someone with a lot of friends, lawyers and money telling you “be careful, pal”.

In case you wanna give it a shot: I gave writing samples of myself from chat and emails to a self hosted LLM, telling it to extract the writing style deviations, key elements, common phrases, symbols, patterns, etc. Then gave that as a “answer it this style” system prompt expansion - works like … Quite okay. Still need to go over it or course but it doesn’t sound like marketing bullshit but conveys what I want.

Completely agree with your general assessment though! They’re getting better but the marketing machinery is crazy in their claims.

Because physically speaking, chaotic and unpredictable are two different things - and why it works so well on this case: it’s becoming a stochastic problem, not a deterministic one.

It’s an awesome area for machine learning: you didn’t need to understand the result and how it got created, it just needs to be “close enough”.