All the cloud services I’ve used had virtual network firewalls for internal traffic. Security Groups for AWS, Cloud Firewall for GCP, etc. That’s typically how lateral traffic gets managed. Defense in depth is good, but as I said I haven’t used host firewalls in forever, and we get audited for security certificates every year, and no auditor has asked about them that I recall.
These firewall tools are interesting, but I honestly haven’t needed them in years. The premise is a little out of date. Who puts cloud servers on the open internet these days? Everything I see uses a public load balancer and a WAF service.
What’s the advantage of pretending McConnell isn’t dead or incapacitated? The Kentucky legislature already took the power to appoint vacancies from the Governor when a Democrat won. Who wants to delay or avoid a special election? I don’t get it.
What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Claw it back. It’s well established that Congress can un-spend money now.
You either put it in the DSL or people start writing generators for your DSL.
Ever tried doing a large installation of the blumat drippers? Like a 10’x20’ veggie plot. I’ve got the standard 1/4" vinyl drip lines buried under straw mulch currently. It’s a very dry climate.
This seems to be more about where a person is searching for the knowledge they need to improve the human condition. In the case of both the believers and the sceptics, the answer is external. Not just external to themselves, but external to humanity. For the believers, it’s the divine. For the sceptics, science. It appears that Tolstoy would rather they seek knowledge from humanity itself, and to apply that knowledge directly for the improvement of the human condition. A more introspective, human focused approach.
Brother Ali is also an excellent option in that genre, although his most directly political tracks are not his best IMHO.
Maybe. Are you a homicidal AI?
No fate but what we make. You can put in the effort to keep your mind and your ears open. Absolutely worth it IMHO.
The implication is that they are all good friends from the same social circles.
Honestly bad article. Author can’t even accurately describe the thing they claim doesn’t exist.
excludes droughts and heatwaves
Those seem important
I like people in theory
The above poster at least brought a reference. Here’s another covering the backfire effect in general https://psychotricks.com/backfire-effect/
People are a tricky problem. They don’t often work the way one would think, and certainly not the way we might wish. I think it’s a fair position to take that the social media environment, and the way people with opposing views interact there, has had a non-negligible impact on the rise in extreme views. That definitely includes trolling.
But here I am offering a differing opinion with a reference in support of the backfire effect, which is some next-level irony.
I tend to consider the two key characteristics of a state to be the claim to the right to demand tax, and the claim to the exclusive use of violence. The definition of statecraft as the act of managing capital is a formulation I have not heard before, and doesn’t strike me as persuasive. It seems to have strange implications, like that Goldman Sachs is a state.
Your arguments here seem more in support of institutions than states. Asking whether one can have capable municipal water service without a state is a different question than whether one can have capable municipal water service without institutions. The necessity of institutions in this case seems an easier argument.
The answers to these kinds of issues is never disclosures or ToS or admin vigilance. It’s always technical. Everything which is technically possible will become normal.
Lemmy is not popular because it is a well designed piece of technology. Frankly it’s a pretty naive implementation of activitypub. It’s popularity comes from being the biggest alternative around when Reddit pissed off a good chunk of its users.
The only way to control how data is used, is to make it technically or practically impossible to do so. Until then, expect all the data on the fediverse to be used in every way possible for any purpose, and act accordingly.
I guess if you wanna go off at people like that, I have to go through your links and point out that
Why is doing data analysis for unethical ends not enough?
Maybe that’s the context. All of my cloud hosting work is very large corporate systems in the big three clouds. You’re talking about Hostinger or Scalahosting type services, yes?