I mean the US in general is losing support for the Israeli state, but it has little to do with the Israeli people in general. The Israeli and US governments keep trying to say that people being against the actions of the Israeli government is antisemitic and using that as an excuse to crack down on protests. It is not antisemitic because the Israeli government is not the equivalent to the entirety of the Jewish peoples, they’re just another authoritarian government.

I wouldn’t say the majority of us are in any kind of “labor aristocracy” unless they got lucky and cashed in early in the tech boom or moved to management and executive positions. Most of us are seriously underpaid or laid off. Without labor unions and with corporations pretending that LLMs can replace any experienced, well paid engineers, many companies have purged all of the experienced engineers and hired low paid contractors and handed them “AI” and told them to do all the work. Not saying all, but the vast majority, in the US at least, has been decimated in the last fee years.

It still existed, just not used by many people for a long time. Probably mostly just bots talking to each other. 🤣

The state, yes, the people, no.

If they need to do stiff to make money to stay afloat, that’s mostly capitalism’s fault. As log as it can be turned off, unlike things in Chrome or Edge or some others, then it’s not huge. And as long as they keep it open sourced, then forks can be made. Chromium based browsers still have too much reliance on Google stuff and use way too many resources. Gecko based browsers have been my preference for ages.

I usually use my phone with WiFi off or set up my phone as a hotspot while not connected to WiFi so my laptop can connect through my cell carrier’s network. Always helps for testing external connections quickly and easily.

It’s their safety, not ours. Safety of their wallet and their unpopular ideals. Privacy is the antithesis of control since revolutions require privacy to organize whether those are social revolutions like women getting the right to show their hair in public or to vote or more aggressive revolutions.

Yeah I’d rent things and copy. But blank VHS tapes or DVD-R discs were definitely not free.

With VHS, you had to own two VHS players, one to play and one to record and they were kind of semi luxury items, at least early on, and analog copying significantly reduced quality so it often wasn’t worth it.

With DVD, one DVD player can be just a player and one a read/writer. And writers and discs were very expensive and until later, the discs were write once. So, of it fails part way, you waste a disc. Also, the encryption on DVDs was an issue for a while, but the key was cracked and eventually software became common. Though the DMCA made it illegal to bypass the encryption with pretty significant penalties even for a single one whereas VHS there were just laws relayed to copying that have less possible penalties than bypassing encryption, despite those FBI warnings.

But, yeah, every time I rented something I liked I would try to copy it when I had the hardware to do it. And when Netflix started, I copied a lot of those DVDs before returning them.

It depends greatly on the queer space. Some are reserved for queer people for safety reasons just like any minority group safe space. So ask. Many do welcome allies.

As for drag, there is no direct connection between sexuality and gender presentation, especially in a performative role. As log as the intent is not to harm other drag performers, then there’s no requirement that you have a particular sexual or relationship preference to perform or to enjoy performances. Now certain venues may also be queer safe spaces, so ask before joining in drag, but otherwise drag itself is not sexual.

As for the word cunt, it depends on where you’re located. In many English dialects it’s used pretty widely to mean something like “friend”, but if you live in a place where it’s still used as an attack on women, such as the US, then I’d say no. Don’t use it. Only people in a community can reclaim words meant to attack their community. You can not do it for them just like white people can’t use the n-word pretending to be reclaiming it as an excuse.

Yeah, and those people with those fancy wheelchairs should just learn to stand up when talking, so I don’t have to bend my head so far down every time. It gets sore looking down like that. Learn to work with the normal rather than thinking you’re somehow special because you bought a wheelchair. /s

GrayJay is what I usually use. It’s working currently.

With a reverse proxy there’s no need for hoops unless you add some authentication mechanism on top of that. I use reverse proxies for several things so that they flow through filtering like crowdsec or fail2ban. It just routes the single port to the device on question as is. The idea is to make it indistinguishable from a fully exposed port to the user. Just have to make sure whatever system runs the reverse proxy is secured. I always make sure that nothing significant is on the system that is exposed to the internet other than the reverse proxy server and all other ports are closed internally and externally. Ideally a device that has multiple Ethernet ports works well so you can keep an ssh port open on the internally facing ethernet port for troubleshooting. Nice if they are 2.5Gbit or 10Gbit ports, too, since they route a lot of traffic. But not needed.

Yubikeys work great for me for 2FA or passwordless auth. NFC and USB interfaces. Very secure. Pretty durable, though USB-C is inherently less durable due to the size and complexity than the USB-A footprint. But I’ve never had an issue with mine in my pocket or purse right with my keys. But if you bend it while it’s inserted in something it can be an issue.

I avoid relying on it too much and don’t make any especially custom configurations. I honestly don’t like it. But the alternatives just never really seemed much better, so I use it by default. If there were a truly good replacement with good documentation and examples, I’d adopt it.

Copyright hasn’t benefitted creators in centuries, it’s for publishers who then gatekeep the money from the vast majority of creators.

But even then it was never really meant to be a “welfare system” for creators, but a way to incentivize creators to keep creating by allowing them a short term boost in income while they create the next thing. Create one popular thing and never have to create again as well as your kids and grandkids never having to contribute to society was never meant to be the point.

I mentioned in the other reply that I was thinking more on military grade fuels since that’s where my knowledge is from, but even those aren’t really good examples. Better would have been pure hydrogen or “rocket” fuels used in the space industry or similar. But that’s wasn’t meant to be the point.

I don’t want to get into guns, that’s a special case in the US due to money in politics.

But, ok, yeah “jet fuel” I was thinking more of military jet fuels, I was in the Navy for a while and never in the aviation industry. Though even they don’t approach the energy density and instability a reactor would have. Maybe I should have said “rocket fuel” or even pure hydrogen. Anyway, point is cars could use fuels that are more energy dense, but even missiles don’t use the most energy dense fuel available because there’s a need to balance stability and potential for explosions with energy density.

A miniaturized fission reactor like I mentioned or even more, a miniaturized fusion reactor like in Ironman, would have problems if sold unregulated, both in accidents as well as malicious use as a weapon.

Also, it’s good to note, that producing that much power in a small device would mean that device is very, very volatile. There was some research I read about a long time ago to design a small nuclear fission device that would ideally replace batteries with a much more long lasting energy cell that also would greatly increase output wattage. Besides the obvious miniaturization issues, the other problem was that if that much energy is release all at once, such as from a drop or being in a fire or something else catastrophic, the explosion it would create would be significant and do a lot more damage than any battery not to mention the heavy shielding itself as shrapnel would be way more destructive than the explosion alone.

Take that and then think about people who are likely to use these things as weapons and you can’t really sell that kind of thing commercially. This is one reason that for example, gasoline is not more energy dense which would make it way more efficient. Imagine if gasoline was as energy dense as jet fuel. It would mean way smaller fuel tanks and thus significantly less weight both of the tank and the fuel and thus more efficient cars. But the danger in widely selling jet fuel to consumers is significant.

The more confusing thing I’ve had to explain to too many developers is that it’s not a directory regardless of what it looks like on the AWS website view. It’s a “prefix” meaning the entire thing, including the slashes, is just part of the filename, there is no real structure inside a bucket. So there’s no such thing as relative paths to search for things. When you call the list objects function with a prefix it’s the same as doing a “starts with” on a string. You can’t give it a partial “path” relative to another object that appears to be in another “folder”.

This would be the 3rd time since I’ve been using it that it has broken compatibility with Vaultwarden, but Vaultwarden always fixes it pretty quickly. But usually browser plugins end up updating before I get around to updating Vaultwarden.