Proxmox is based on Debian, but its installer does not offer you as many options as the base Debian installer. People figured out you can just install debian with your prefered settings and then just slap the proxmox packages on top.

Oracle free tier is honestly not worth the hassle. Their portal is absolutely confusing, and those who figure it out will just get banned.

Someone already tried.

A television commercial for the loyalty program displayed the commercial’s protagonist flying to school in a McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II vertical take off jet aircraft, valued at $37.4 million at the time, which could be redeemed for 7,000,000 Pepsi Points. The plaintiff, John Leonard, discovered these could be directly purchased from Pepsi at 10¢ per point. Leonard delivered a check for $700,008.50 to PepsiCo, attempting to purchase the jet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico%2C_Inc.

like the desktop icons, the minimize button, the ability to adjust fonts, change themes, right click menu icons, systray…

From the promotional materials I’ve seen so far, the game seems to be a showcase for the SpacetimeDB backend so this move does actually make sense.

Nomophobia

There is a religious figure in the sacred texts of the AllatRa cult, called Nomo. In this context, nomophopbia would be a good thing. Especially once you find out whom in the real world he’s supposed to represent.

People believed the weirdest things, like walking with a twig would help you find water pipes

Not only they still do, it’s thought in schools and practiced by the water utility professionals in the field.

They’ve charged me a hundred bucks for their expertise, to which I’ve composed an angry email, asking whether the ministry of magic would be willing to cover the damage if we, somehow, despite their findings, manage to find the pipe where it’s not supposed to be, with the front part of the excavator. They advised us to dig carefully, not addressing the magic ritual part at all.

Question for the general public. Why not use the DNS server provided by your ISP?

They already know what websites you visit, because TLS1.2 still leaks the hostname. They might as well provide some useful service in return.

Each of them returns the correct answer.

Protective Resolution - IP address 86.54.11.1
Protective + Child Protection - IP address 86.54.11.12
Protective + Ad blocking - IP address 86.54.11.13
Protective + Child Protection + Ad blocking - IP address 86.54.11.11
Unfiltered Resolution-  IP address 86.54.11.100

;; ANSWER SECTION:
thepiratebay.org.       300     IN      A       162.159.137.6
thepiratebay.org.       300     IN      A       162.159.136.6

Clearly someone who has never seen the dedication of the flight sim community. Those guys would put all of us, hobby service providers, to shame.

Physical or digital does not really matter. Gving such a powerful tool to a central bank seems too dangerous. If implemented, it’s not really a question of IF it’s going to be abused, but WHEN it’s going to be abused.

The digital currencies were supposed to give more power to the people, but the Taler is working in the oposite direction.

You’ve pretty accurately described everything that’s wrong with it.

That’s my main problem. They had a chance to make it fully anonymous and fungible, yet decided to implement an intentional vulnerability to reveal the receiving party.

I rarely wish for an opensource project to fail, but Taler is an exception. Offering a digital currency system for the government to use is like sending an efficiency improvement proposal to Auschwitz.

Considering the raising popularity of authoritarianism, with a healthy dose of paranoia, it’s not the criminals I worry about.

Did unraid implemented a true raid already, or is it still periodical sync like snapraid? If not, this kind if solution would be great for the multimedia library that does not change often, but I’d go for the more traditional raid for critical data.

Just as “magic spells” use special rhymes and archaic terms to signal their power, the convoluted language of legalese acts to convey a sense of authority, they conclude.

In a study appearing in the journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers found that even non-lawyers use this type of language when asked to write laws.

“People seem to understand that there’s an implicit rule that this is how laws should sound, and they write them that way,” says Edward Gibson, an MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences and the senior author of the study.

https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-explains-laws-incomprehensible-writing-style-0819

They believe that the right amount of good spells recited in the correct order will grant them victory. Unfortunately they’ve studied a different magic book than most people, so their magic does not work on others.