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Worse or better on policy, I think the next speaker won't publicly fellate Trump nearly as much, which is notable.

But, in that case there's a crime, there's a body. I don't think there's any underlying assertion of illegality here. If this becomes standard legal practice, that it's illegal to destroy data in general, all paper shredders would have to be thrown out.

I suggest framing the blog post this way. The way it reads now is like you're actually suggesting this to other small instance admins. I think it's OK to play around with new tools, but the article is not self aware in this respect.

EDIT: it's also comes off like, oh no one silly keystroke nuked my setup, but from an outside perspective, of course it did, it was a house of cards. I think a better framing would be that you dug a large hole for yourself by trying to force enterprise level complexity into a one-person project, and through sheer perseverance it somehow is still alive, but maybe some different architectural decisions early on could have avoided this.

Welcome to Monday Night SMASHBALL!!!

Don't donate cash to anyone, simple as. Make deliberate choices about who you donate to, do research, budget it, keep receipts, regardless of which organisation shows up at your grocery store. You should always give money to beggars, just not to predatory charities.

Noooo this is possibly the worst case I've seen of why the fuck did you complicate things this much?? I blame Claude/Cursor mostly for this one, it seems they steered a lot of the design decisions. Seriously though, if you think you need a bare bones kubernetes setup on 3 small hetzner vpses, only two of which being worker nodes, with a grand total 16gb of RAM, to support fedi instances with around about a single user... Stop. Just stop it already. I obviously feel bad that everything crashed down on them, but if they had taken the time to actually talk to other small instance maintainers, they could've spent more time doing proper backup and recovery than messing around with, and I shit you not, I counted 11 unique tools. Nobody needs 11 monitoring, containerization, volume management, dns tools, fucking cloudflare?? To run a single user instance.

Wtf are you talking about? They are carrying guns, they shot back. What they were doing was illegal, and it doesn't justify murder but let's not pretend these are morally upstanding people, walking around DC with guns loaded. They are there to instill fear.

You'll have to brew your own run conditions I think. For me, it's not a big deal, just a bunch of documents and pictures and not much gets added every day. But termux does have access to network state, and I'm pretty sure syncthing accepts stop and continue execution signals, so a shell script shouldn't be too difficult. Another possible option is to use termux:tasker.

I said this in another thread, but apparently it's not widely known: syncthing works fine on termux, there is no need to install any third party code. You do need to run termux-setup-storage to get access to the shared storage that other apps can access, and I found it worth it to set up the termux:boot app to run syncthing on phone boot. This way only uses the official syncthing repo.

The Toledo Strip is in the picture, but the reason this got fucked up in the first place is actually Indiana just demanding Congress give them access to Lake Michigan, a couple decades before the war. If Indiana didn't have access to the lake federally recognized, the Toledo Strip dispute would have extended all the way across Michigan's border, because it was based on competing surveys.

EDIT: I should clarify for everyone who isn't in the picture, Indiana is the lower left state that touches the lake in its northwest corner. Ohio, bottom right, actually 'won' the war and contains the Toledo Strip, and that actually made the jagged edge less fucked up, but Michigan got a giant mountain full of iron as a compromise, which is why all of America's early car manufacturers ended up in Detroit, making it a city.

Aristotle thought bugs and fish and birds are all animals. I literally don't know any classification system, or definition, that doesn't.

I don't think this is accurate. For one thing, whether a law prohibits or allows something is just a matter of perspective: a law allowing abortion nationally is also a law that prohibits state restrictions on abortion. Another key missing fact is the supremacy clause of the constitution, which says that federal laws are presumed to overrule state laws when they conflict. This is why a lot of 'blue' states had terrible abortion laws still on the books when Dobbs happened, because they were nullified by the Roe v Wade ruling in the 70s and they never got around to actually removing the defunct laws.

The supremacy clause is not absolute: the tenth amendment and others restricts how much the federal government can tell states what to do, but I think there are a number of legal arguments against that being the case for a federal abortion law.