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  • I don’t support mass deportations but I understand why people do. Id prefer amnesty (especially for children and families who have been here for years) followed by eased legal immigration processes to make it easier to come here legally.

    What bothers me recently though isn’t mass deportations themselves, it’s the way they are being done. Unmarked officers, no oversight, sketchy warrants that prey on people’s lack of knowledge of their rights, strong arming local organizations and governments to hand over info, punishing people who are trying to fix their status or lost it on a technicality, etc.


  • If you’re hosting static content it’s a lot easier. If you’ve only opened ports 80/443 and don’t have any kind of user input or scripting you’re (probably) fine. Most likely you’d get DOS’d before someone would hack you. Assuming you’re keeping your software up to date.

    In general though limit what is exposed to the Internet. In this case don’t open any extra ports.

    If you want to be more secure (likely overkill for most threat models), treat your webserver like it’s always infected. Don’t do anything else important on it, and keep it segmented from your other computers with firewall rules.

    Realistically no one is going to bother to hack you unless you’re posting shit that makes people angry. You’re mostly going to get prodded by bots looking for known vulnerabilities in Apache or the like, and you can stay protected with frequent updates.

    If you’re hosting something dynamic or with code like PHP or something with user accounts and the like, then it’s slightly more complicated.



  • On top of everything else people mentioned, it’s so profoundly stupid to me that AI is being pushed to take my summary of a message and turn it into an email, only for AI to then take those emails and spit out a summary again.

    At that point just let me ditch the formality and send over the summary in the first place.

    But more generally, I don’t have an issue with “AI” just generative AI. And I have a huge issue with it being touted as this Oracle of knowledge when it isn’t. It’s dangerous to view it that way. Right now we’re “okay” at differentiating real information from hallucinations, but so many people aren’t and it will just get worse as people get complacent and AI gets better at hiding.

    Part of this is the natural evolution of techology and I’m sure the situation will improve, but it’s being pushed so hard in the meantime and making the problem worse.

    The first Chat GPT models were kept private for being too dangerous, and they weren’t even as “good” as the modern ones. I wish we could go back to those days.




  • If you look at it very very loosely, many major religions are reaching toward the same general concepts and have enough similarities to suggest a consensus that there’s a “something” up there.

    We probably all have an imperfect idea of what that “something” is, but there are enough similarities (or echos of the same ideas) across many religions to suggest they’re looking at the same indivisible thing and interpreting it differently.




  • I run Debian on most of my systems and run all of my services in docker (with rare exceptions for node_exporter or stable core tools). My base systems get automatic security upgrades, and then I’ll manually check in every few weeks whenever I feel like it.

    My services in docker are version locked to a specific major version (when there’s a tag available) so I can usually re-pull to get minor version updates freely without breaking issues. My few more finnickey services get manual upgrades from me every 6 months or so only.

    I usually stick to an OS version for as long as I can, and to that aim I stick to LTS versions with long support windows.

    4 major versions in 12mo is…a lot. Especially if those include breaking changes for you. Yikes




  • There’s definitely incentive for that from both candidates. If they talk about how ahead they are in the pills, people will neglect to vote. If they talk about how they’re behind, then it’s a foregone conclusion and people won’t bother to vote.

    If they preach about how close the polls are then it gets people worried enough to actually turn out and vote.

    At this point I only seem to hear about polls directly from candidates or PACs so it’s hard to know what the biases are.




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    8 months ago

    If God created it in that state then they should be curious to understand that creation. They look at rainbows as the beauty of creation but not the fact that lead exists in these crystals. It’s all equally beautifully complex. So why not try to understand it.

    If God made the world look like it was created billions of years ago there must be something worth learning from that, even if you believe it was snapped into existence 6000 years ago.