Self-hosting email sucks. Setting up an email server is the easy part, and you’d be able to receive email alright. Sending is a different can of worms and not a fun dinner. Because other email providers will not trust your server and tend to send your messages straight to spam.

I haven’t used Tuta, but it looks alright. I’ve got Proton which works very well for email and VPN, but it is a bit expensive to be honest. But I like ending my address with @pm.me

For real, any normal person would suggest Firefox and nothing else. People who have problems with Firefox are savvy enough to find the forks on their own.

Agreed, the syncing issue is what turned me off Nextcloud eventually. Now I have Proton Drive which also stalls and skips file synchronization. The only service that I feel did sync well (better than Google Drive) was MEGA which was super clean, but that was years ago so it might not be true anymore.

My first thought was “what app is that?”

I actually despise cash, but I might go back to it just for privacy.

Sounds like you and me should hold some people to account.

Fair enough, to a point. But I’d diverge on a few things.

First, America has essentially all resources on its own soil. There’s no need to fight for them overseas. And yet, America is fighting over resources. The point isn’t to consume these resources domestically, it is to control what’s available to others. You can write that up as normal behavior for a superpower that just has got to do what it’s got to do, but I really don’t think it is. The United States would be safer and more prosperous if it had played its soft power cards for the past 25 years instead of throwing them out and playing cowboy.

I’d also push back against the idea that America is a good place to live, especially as a consequence of military doctrine. It is true that America’s military doctrine has made it absurdly rich, but honestly, what good is that when it’s almost entirely fiat and nominal? Yes you’re getting some essentially free stuff in exchange for – let’s just call it “patrolling the seas” – from manufacturing countries like Germany and China, but you could manufacture all of that if you had a real economy instead of an economy based on coercion and an inflated military industrial complex.

Don’t get me wrong, the USA has a lot of wonderful and unique aspects, and it is genuinely the best in several regards. However, would any sane person choose to live in Seattle over Copenhagen? The wealth you have translates to cinderblock and plaster make-believe castles, endless roads so your kids need to wake up early to catch the bus because they can’t walk to school, 300 types of bread at Walmart and nothing is actually edible, lonely dinners at the drive-thru, no access to nature, can’t even collect rainwater on your property in many states.

My point is that Belgium doesn’t run around bullying the world and it’s a better place to live than the USA. Malaysia doesn’t bully the world, doesn’t have every resource imaginable, and it still has a ton to offer to its citizens. The USA has had a hand in providing security to these places, and that’s a whole different discussion, but you’ve got payment for services rendered and then some, and somehow you’ve squandered that wealth on promoting a few to acquire their own fiefdoms, fucking Natural Teeth Implants and normalizing trucks for daily use.

Regardless. Hosting the World Cup is not what’s causing your dilapidated infrastructure. It’s a badly optimized system that picks the least efficient way to do things in the name of freedom, all while imposing laws and requirements on citizens that are the opposite of freedom. Now the Iran team is going to the US to play football with “165” written on their jerseys, in memory of the kids that fucking ChatGPT murdered on the orders of Pete Hegseth. The world is never going back to Pax Americana, which means that the tap is closing on free manufactured goods from Germany and China, and I don’t see how building data centers in the desert is going to help you produce your own.

Sounds awesome! I remember being blown away when my friend showed me the IR camera on his Cat phone, which could see footprints. (He had a Cat phone because he’s very clumsy and drops his phone every single time that he ties his shoes.)

Beyond cool hardware, I had a Huawei P30 which came with a really good “augmented reality” ruler. It was quite accurate. And it had a nice IR transmitter that could act as a legacy remote (Xiaomi also does this but their software is not as good).

Now I have a Pixel and holy hell is it too large for its own good. Supposedly a compact phone.

Same story with fracking.

You’re not at war, eventhough you bombed Iran 13000 times and killed thousands of civilians. Just a little excursion as your Führer put it? And you’re one of the more intellectual and reasonable specimens of your nation, I take it?

Didn’t you just claim that it is not a war? Fucking clown.

Regardless, this isn’t how any of this works. Sports have always been detached from politics. If your country can’t comprehend that, then you’re not fit to host a major sporting event.

Yankee logic: thirteen thousand air strikes is not a war because of some legalist mumbo jumbo. How dare they call it a war! If they do, they shouldn’t play sports.

I mean it’s not very hard to use up your Claude Max plan, but I find it hard to believe a majority of users do so consistently.

Epstein was an employee. He didn’t exactly buy a private island in the world’s most expensive area with his teaching salary.

Being gay is unnatural, that’s why you never saw a gay goat!

Actually, goats are unnatural. But you never saw a gay frog!

Actually, that’s Big Pharma making the frogs gay. But you never saw a gay bird!

Yeah, he’s reeling. He wants to do a 1-2 day massive bombing campaign, declare victory, and then leave. The problem is Iran says they will make the Gulf uninhabitable if he does that, and the grown-ups know that Iran isn’t bluffing.

The USA has been bombing Iran regularly over the past week. Iran has retaliated by bombing a US base in Kuwait. Since it’s obvious that the US thinks it can keep bombing on a slow-burn schedule, Iran is escalating.

Meanwhile, Israel has been bombing world heritage sites in Tyre and moving across the Litani river.

Also, from Iran’s perspective, now isn’t a bad time to finally block Bab el-Mandeb. The United States can’t really withdraw that much more from their SPRs, so the effect will be maximized. Meanwhile Europe is growing more hawkish on Russia, so upping the ante is the right move.

Of course, this will cause incredible suffering in Asia with trickle-down effects hitting the poor of the world the hardest.

Consumption: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/use-of-oil.php

Production: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=WCRFPUS2&f=W

Gasoline/Petroleum is rarely imported. The common method is to import the crude and refine on shore, which is what the USA is doing.

Involving LLMs is not the problematic part, it’s having them write code that the maintainer doesn’t understand. Finding issues, suggesting optimizations, helping to write comments or commit messages are all perfect uses of LLMs for critical tools like rsync.

Sounds like the real issue is funding for the maintainers though.

Or, you know, maintainers reject it.

Debian ftw