I can almost not wait to be a motorcycle!

I know that none of them use a VPN for general-purpose browsing.

Interesting. The most common setup I encounter is when the VPN is implemented in the home router - that’s the way it is in my house. If you’re connected to my WiFi, you’re going through my VPN.

I have a second VPN, which is how my private servers are connected; that’s a bespoke peer-to-peer subnet set up in each machine, but it handles almost no outbound traffic.

My phone detects when it isn’t connected to my home WiFi and automatically turns on the VPN service for all phone data; that’s probably less common. I used to just leave it on all the time, but VPN over VPN seemed a little excessive.

It sounds like you were a victim of a DOS attack - not distributed, though. It could have just been done directly; what about it being through a VPN made it worse?

You’re saying targeting people who are taking steps to improve their privacy and security is ethical? Out do you just believe that there’s no such thing as ethics in CIS?

None. I think that’s Why I find furries so baffling; it’s, like, bestiality.

Although, and a full grown man, I crushed hard on both Chel from EL Dorado and Ramirez from Atlantis. But those were both humans, and very conventionally attractive.

Oh! Wait! I do have a childhood, non-human example, although she’s hyper-conventionally attractive:

You’re seeing the result of a Reddit migration, bringing the Reddit culture and mindset with it.

When you hear graybeards taking about Eternal September, this is the sort of thing to which they’re referring. Now, you have your own “I remember the good old days, before the assholes took over Lemmy.”

You know how popular VPNs are, right? And how they improve privacy and security for people who is them? And you’re blocking anyone who’s exercising a basic privacy right?

It’s not an ethically sound position.

That’s not what I’m complaining about. I’m unable to access the site because they’re blocking anyone coming through a VPN. I would need to lower my security and turn off my VPN to read their blog. That’s my issue.

They block VPN exit nodes. Why bother hosting a web site if you don’t want anyone to read your content?

Fuck that noise. My privacy is more important to me than your blog.

This is a really strong argument for not depending on non-federated, centrally controlled services. It doesn’t matter which country or company is behind Your Favorite Service™, they can be legally mandated to by Oppressive Regime (“it could never happen in my country!”), or they could just be arbitrary assholes.

I don’t care why Microsoft did it. I moved off Github when MS acquired them, although in this case it probably wouldn’t have made a difference. Regardless, what it proves is that you can not rely on a monopoly.

Thank you! I’ve heard the quote a few times, but never known the source. And I’ve always been pretty sure I was misquoting it.

Can I adjust dimensions? Like, can I replicated a car, but a tiny one that will fit in a 1x1x1m cube?

If so, I’d replicate 1/8th of the replicator, but double sized. Repeat for all other parts, assemble, and now I have a 2m³ replicator. Repeat until I have one big enough to replicate a house.

Then, the whole point of the exercise: replicate a house-sized Funyun.

Bitches love cheese.

I can’t help with the psychopaths, but I know one thing that will help with your self-confidence, and your own perception of being “weak”: start going to a martial arts class. Any one, really, but it’ll do wonders for your self-confidence, you’ll interact with new people, probably make some friends. The self defense is almost secondary; fitness and training is the Big benefit. Boxing and wrestling count; it doesn’t have to be karate, MMA, king fu, or whatever. Just something with a structured class, forms you can practice at home, and convenient for you. Obviously if you have an interest in a particular art, that’s a big bonus.

Is been an hour and no one yet has quoted:

In theory, theory is the same as practice. In practice, it isn’t.

If Jekyll isn’t your jam, then Hugo probably won’t be, either.

I have a simple workflow based on a script on my desktop called “blog”. I Cask it with “blog Some blog title” and it looks in a directory for a file named some_blog_entry.md, and if it finds it, opens it in my editor; if it doesn’t, it creates it using a template.md that has some front matter filled in by the script. When I exit the editor, the script tests the modtime and updates the changed front matter and the rsyncs the whole blog directory to my server, where Hugo picks up and regenerates the site if anything changed.

My script is 133 lines of bash, mostly involving the file named sanitization and front matter rewriting; it’s just a big convenience function that could be three lines of typing a little thought, and a little more editing of the template.

There’s no federation, though. I’m not sure what a “federated blog” would look like, anyway; probably something like Lemmy, where you create a community called “YourName”. What’s the value of a federated blog?

Edit: Oh, I forgot until I just checked it: the script also does some markdown editing to create gem files for the Gemini mirror; that’s at least a third to a half of the script (yeah, 60 LOC without the Gemini stuff), which you don’t need if you’re not trying to support a network that never caught on and that no-one uses.

I found the opposite. I’m a programmer, too, and still found touch typing to be a huge advantage. However, as with QWERTY, Dvorak isn’t optimized for some of the most common keys in programming: (), [], {}. But that’s OK, because since I started using QMK keyboards, all of those keys are now in a layer and on the home row.

Amex makes sense if you (a) live in the US, and (b) can pay off your balance every month. Yes, there’s a yearly fee, but there are many benefits as well. I don’t know what Blue gets you, but you get things like Uber rebates, points that can be used in Amazon like money, airline benefits, and so on.

You do not want you carry a balance over and pay the interest. Amex is not competitive on their interest rates.

I use Amex almost exclusively, and only very rarely encounter a place that won’t accept it.

3 is a triangle; a love triangle. 2 is a line is you’re a religious but and don’t believe in sex before marriage. 1 is a point, of contention, if you’re a religious fanatic and don’t believe in masturbation.

You’re absolutely right about penta-amorous relationships.

Is it a polyamorous relationship? They didn’t say the guys had anything to do with each other, and doesn’t polymory involve everyone involved being, like, in a relationship all together?

Dating multiple people are the same time is just… dating, isn’t it? Hell, I’m older now, and married, but through my 20s, everyone was dating everyone, basically. Yes, occasionally there were times when a state of exclusivity was assumed by ask parties, but most of the time it was just a free-for-all. Hang out occasionally, maybe hook up; isn’t that dating?

I’m not very knowledgeable about polyamory, so it’s an honest question.

@Xanza’s suggestion is a good one. For me, it’s sufficient to fuse mount the backup and check a few files. It’s not comprehensive, but if a few files I know changed look good, I figure they all probably are.