We're so back

Indeed.

I've lived in the same place for the last 30 years. And in those decades I have visited dozens of countries both for business and for fun. The comfort and familiarity of home is always nice to return to, yet I constantly seek out opportunities to visit unique destinations.

The most important thing I've learned from interacting with people from cultures different from my own is that sometimes those differences matter, very much so, but most often they do not.

It is the humanity we all have in common that matters the most.

Unless it fell out of the sky into your open hands, every good you value in life is the result of the efforts of some other person or group of persons collaborating to produce it from where it did not exist before, and has been offered to you in trade for some other thing of value.

It is this way that people can come together, voluntarily, to produce abundance greater than the sum of their individual abilities.

To claim you are *entitled* to the product of the labor of anyone else is to claim he or she is your slave, and you must act with deception or force to take what is not offered to you.

The difference between wealth and poverty in a society largely depends on the willingness of people to respect these boundaries, to learn how to collaborate and build, and to peacefully go separate ways when this is not possible.

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I've never seen Greg and Craig in the same room together...

Lol, it took me several seconds to realize you weren't talking about security options, and was wondering wtf a JSON option was 😆

This one seems particularly egregious.

This typo is hilarious!

Twitter has end stage cancer by algorithm--one that promotes rage and attention seeking. As people who are repelled by such things leave, the dynamic is reinforced by the self-selected people who remain and the bots that game them.

Other social media communities exist that, while differing in details, lack this influence and this outcome.

Personally I've found the Fediverse (usually called Mastodon for its most popular client), and of course Nostr, immensely satisfying for this reason. Very different communities with very different norms, but neither suffer (at least in my corner of each) from this kind of perpetual rage bait and "engagement" seeking.

Yes, there is much objectionable (to me) content on both, but it is much easier to ignore as it is not promoted in your face.

Agree, you'd be able to route between LAN, WiFi, cable modem, and LTE modem, in whatever path makes sense. I'd wipe it and put opnsense or pfsense on it though.

Ok, that makes more sense. It's a tough problem.

But that could make the overlay traffic easily distinguishable from conventional users, which might impact that overlay user, right?

The ability to render latex in notes would be awesome!

It's clear that humans will believe anything that allows them to fit in to their tribe, and spend a lot of effort both signaling tribal affiliation and defending those beliefs from any incursion of facts or reality.

And this is fine, whatever, to each his or her own--until it results in hate and violence.

I don't think we'll overcome tribal divisions anytime soon, but we *can* take steps to draw strict boundaries around aggressive behavior when one group or another decides to impose their beliefs on others.

You can't reason someone out of a belief they didn't reason themselves into--you can only peacefully live and let live, and defend yourself vigorously if they do not.

I often feel this as I cycle through parks and trails, seeing barbecues, family picnics, or young couples sharing a moment under a tree.

GM ☕

Never have twelve words been worth so much.

Man will use software that talks to a cloud server or a system in China, over the internet, instead of pressing a button to turn on and off a light instead of going to therapy.

Every time us-east-1 goes tits up half the US households go dark.

Removing cupsd on desktops has long been a part of many orgs security policy, and servers shouldn't have it installed in the first place.

Having packages installed that aren't being actively used is a big attack surface, as this exploit shows.

My newish Ford Explorer has the touch screen for non-driving stuff, and all analog controls and traditional (but electronic) displays for stuff you need to do while paying attention to the road.

No way am I going to drive my car by iPad.