If that is your opinion 🤷

No, if your boss has to tell you that it is a reminder that you should treat everyone equal and despite knowing that you dislike Americans you still need to treat them the same.

Those were locked because of the comments. If it were about the posts they would have not been locked but removed.

Please read the text again. All of that is included.

The meaning is the same. You are splitting hairs over a text written by a non-native speaker.

A one state solution can be many things, including a significantly reformed Israel. Sadly a two-state solution with the borders similar to the ones today is about as unrealistic as a one-state solution, as the Palestinian territories alone are not a viable state (and that doesn’t even touch the issue of the many Israeli settlers in those territories).

This sounds like your IP was listed on some automatic threat vector RTBL that we subscribe to at firewall level. This can sometimes happen with Tor exit nodes and some shady VPNs, and not really something we want to change, sorry.

In addition SLRPNK uses Anubis to block AI scrapers and that can sometimes cause problems with older or niche browsers, but this would be a problem regardless of the IP.

Yeah I wish there was a good answer to that. Floccus at least works ok for bookmarks.

A timing attack is extremely realistic when you control one of the end devices which is a common scenario if a person gets arrested or their device compromised. This way you can then identify who the contacts are and with the phone number you can easily get the real name and movement patterns.

This is like the ideal setup for law inforcement, and it is well documented that honeypot “encrypted” messengers have been set up for similar purposes before. Signal was probably not explicitly set up for that, but the FBI for sure has an internal informant that could run those timing attacts.

There are some mitigations in place, yes, but Sealed Sender on a centralized platform is snake-oil as someone with server access can easily do a timing attack and discover who communicated with whom.

If you are even remotely involved in any activist type of things, you certainly don’t want this US government honeypot have your phone-number and device id.

AFAIK the “wear” does not mainly come from the spinning, but from temperature changes that make parts slightly expand and contract in size. An always on HDD has pretty constant temperature.

Be careful with powering HDDs on and off. That is actually the operation that puts the most strain on them AFAIK. Sadly there is no good rule of thumb when it does more harm than good, but I would guess if you turn it on more than once a week, you are probably doing more harm than good compared to just letting in run. Many people even intentionally turn off sleep-mode in “green” drives so that they don’t shut down automatically.

This isn’t about a laptop, but a full desktop case with 5.25" slots. 3.5" fit fine into these with a different kind of adapter.

I find XMPP much more useful for day-to-day communication with people I know. Matrix has more IRC like public channels, but only a few are sufficiently active compared to Discord or even IRC.

But running an XMPP server is also extremely hassle free and uses little server resources, while running a Matrix server is quite involved and will likely need a beefy dedicated server just for it alone.

XMPP chat accounts on the same address as Email would be nice.

This AFAIK happens when the pollen of the plants they visit do not provide enough energy for them to do the collection. And yes, that is why you can sometimes find a lot of stunned or dead bumblebees under certain tree species. It is a kind of parasitism of these plants as they depend on other plants (and the bumblebees ofc.) to provide enough fuel and they are just freeloading.

Edit: but sudden cold spells can also have a similar effect as bumblebees use their wing muscles to generate some heat during cold spring days to allow them to operate when normal bees can not. This of course also takes a lot of energy.

An IRC server would work, but I think having to deal with 32bit ARM will be too annoying.

Apparently this is using face recognition technology from Russia 🤷