ISPs already do that here in the states. The court case is to decide whether they should shut off access.

These people are willing consumers of targeted propaganda.

Ftfy

Tbf …this is a common problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

The question I often ask clients who think this way is "How much would it cost if it did fail? Let’s say this happened today. What would be the cost to replace it NOW and not only that but make sure people who are working can still do so with the interruption?

Now how much would it cost to schedule the interruption and manage the fall out in a way that is controllable?

For some, the catastrophic failure points to “hey I fixed the thing!” And the incentives for that kind of person are different from the person whose job is to mitigate risk.

It sounds like your boss is the former. In which case it’s going to be fun when it fails.

I’m not in the autistic spectrum. They aren’t equals and they are barely tools.

One of the last posts I read on Reddit was a student in a CompSci class where the professor put a pair of googly eyes on a pencil and said, “I’m Petie the Pencil! I’m not sentient but you think I am because I can say full sentences.” The professor then snapped the pencil in half that made the students gasp.

The point was that humans anamorphize things that seem human, assigning them characteristics that make us bond to things that aren’t real.

Which, honestly, is the better way to go. Treat your compute resources like cattle, not pets.

I loved the cat subreddits that were originally jailbait or otherwise banned and turned into cat subreddits.

Pocketpussy, wetpussy…they were amazing.

I don’t think Lemmy would count as social media but that said, you can easily create a dummy account that just, for example, posts pictures of moths or beans or bread or whatever.

That sucks mate. I know we’re all facing existential threats on a regular basis so depression and anxiety are high among the population.

But that doesn’t mean you don’t matter. You matter.

Glad you’re getting the help you need!

It’s almost like old school Google front page.

My problem is the seed shells. I have to take a shop vac to the ground cover or it dies from lack of sun.

I think there is a feature request to allow communities to subscribe to other communities so that their posts and comments are synced.

DNSSEC always causes errors on my pihole set up and end up disabling it. The upstream is DoH though (via dnscrypt) so it’s technically DNSSEC but without the clients seeing the authentication. That’s enough for me.

At some point, I fully expect apps and websites to begin resolving DNS directly instead of relying on the OS to provide resolution services. At that point our options will be to wholesale block IP addresses at the router.

There is a point of diminishing returns. Like most things, you have to evaluate what you are willing to live with and let go.

I know someone who only browses incognito because they don’t want cookies tracking them. They log into everything every day. Which, imo, is worse because those cookies are still tracking you but you now have to log in everyday.

But for them they like the control.

I’ve moved most of my incidental link on my phone clicking to Firefox Focus (thanks to URL Checker) which has upped my privacy. I wouldn’t have made that change without the prompt that URL Checker provides though.

I use a VPN outside of my house and I use pihole at home. I am tempted to switch my DNS to unbound but the juice doesn’t seem to be worth the squeeze. We’ll see the next time I need to rebuild my pi.

They aren’t. In fact, many of the MAGA Republicans have been pushing their pastors to stop being so “woke” and to teach “real” Christian values, i.e. oppressing people.

The sad thing is that these pastors are giving up their values and acquiescing.

Best Buy will accept most electronics for recycling.

Yippie kayak other buckets!

Whatever you do, avoid instructables

Add that to your block list so you aren’t tempted.