Termux already does a lot of cool stuff without root. Makes due a decent ssh client in a pinch.

Hashtag Rule’34

And that’s been a very successful one. Not every component has such a model, however.

(with lasers): “How about now?”

This is a great perspective to voice. Sometimes those of us who are staunch FOSS advocates can lose sight of the big picture. If one’s goal is to be, for example, an eCommerce software vendor, it probably doesn’t make sense to build and maintain your own DB stack or Internet infrastructure even though it is technically feasible. The money and resources needed to maintain that stuff will take away from the ability to improve and maintain the eConmerce application.

And it has a pretty excellent stdlib.

Came here for this. Thank you to you and your fellow Canadians (assuming based on instance) for bringing this treasure to the world.

The Flat Earth Society is meeting here today /
Singing happy little lies /
And the bright ship Humana is well on its way /
With grave determination, /
And no destination

American megachurches are for-profit multimedia empires, doomsday cults, illegal political influence organizations, human trafficking rings, and shields for those who commit sex crimes, in an expensive, tailored trenchcoat.

Might be worth doing some file analysis. The big CO2 laser at my Makerspace has a “proprietary” format that is really just PostScript. Working around that stuff should be doable.

What FOSS alternatives exist? This is exactly the reason not to rely on closed-source for hardware support.

Congrats! And good job not giving up!

I’d love to see more on something like Envoy as the reverse proxy. I tend to think of reverse proxies in “generations”:

0. Apache and Friends
1. Nginx and Buddies
2. HAProxy and Pals
3. Envoy and Associates

I’m rather familiar with 0-2 from my previous work. It’s really a pity, to me, that nginx is favored so heavily over HAProxy as in all perf and HA testing that I’ve done has resulted in nginx being left in the dust. The benchmarks that I’ve seen for Envoy show similar standings. I just haven’t spent the time yet to get familiar with it.

Genie: There are 5 rules…

That’s just called Update Tuesday.

The likely issue there is less the size of the round and more the impact of the pressure wave on tissue. Body shots with a standard high-powered rifle round may not leave much useable meat on something the size of a rabbit.

Hmm… I’ve stopped watching Marvel after the endgame, I just felt oversaturated with superhero stories. Never recovered.

Yeah. Marvel killed Marvel all on their own, Disney just let them do it. Between Marvel Studios releasing far too many films and series to keep quality up and interest and DC not doing much about Hack Snyder and his astroturfing, the comics-based media have really gone downhill.

You’re absolutely right. My wording is that way intentionally as a bit of a “hook”/humor. Not humor making light of human suffering but to make it bearable to discuss and draw attention to it.

To me, “apartheid South African emerald mine owner” appears to mean that the mine was in South Africa. It does have a bit of ambiguity. I think that it’s important to provide enough detail to make the scope of exploitation involved clear. Sometimes it can be simple, like “sweatshop” but, in this case, Musk has invested a lot of energy into his myth of a “self-made” man, especially in suppression of the origins of his wealth that it behooves use of done specificity to demonstrate how rotten even his origins were.

I’ll keep correcting this when I see it. There was no Musk-owned, South African Apartheid emerald mine.

It was a mine in Zambia. A completely different exploited African nation. And Musk was only about to afford it because, as a wealthy white man in South Africa benefiting from Apartheid, he had a private plane that he traded for a share in the mine.

The “self-made” man got rich because of colonial exploitation in two African nations. Not just the one.