I’m more relieved than surprised by this.

Came here to say this. Had to read it twice because shooting a dead person didn’t seem right.

Would it be safe to assume their processor/gpu magic that brought us the deck has advanced enough since then to compensate?

I’m no hardware guru, but wouldn’t it be possible to use a swap file or other methods to simulate extra ram if optimized and efficient enough?

Spoiler: no it isn’t.

It’s the never ending battle between what’s secure and what’s practical. In order to have widespread adoption, it has to be easy. In order to be secure it requires layers of complication.

It’s a yin/yang battle.

A bank vault with walls 2 feet thick, 24/7 surveillance and requiring a two key unlock mechanism is secure compared to a house door lock on a regular suburban bungalow, but is it very practical?

The level of digital security generally attainable is limited by how likely someone is to use it.

2FA using keys is the closest I’ve seen to a happy medium, but it has to be implemented correctly. If the private keys are sitting on a cloud server somewhere and it gets hacked, is it more secure? Maybe not.

Just like real defence, the walls are only as good as the foundation or weakest point.

My self hosting journey is limited mostly by time. When I have it, I try out new setups or tweak my current one. Otherwise it’s just lower end maintenance and updates.

The last time I had ample time I managed to get a double WireGuard (both in and out) working, so that’s something I suppose.

I can’t see anything disagreeable in this summary from my own experience so far though. Great stuff!

So, you think we should cater to corporations in fear of them leaving?

I say good riddance. The companies in question cry all the time about open market and healthy competition when it suits them, all the while doing every shady thing they can in the background to monopolize, dominate and capitalize.

I’m not sure what altruism you are referring to, though posting on a lemmy forum, saying that all “Lemmings” are a specific way, while clearly demonstrating that you exemplify it, is interesting to me.

Edit. Ask != all

Still probably much better than the alternative.

Although, as long as the populace allows corporations to financially incentivize politics, corruption is going to be the default mode.

TIL Montana also has a population of face eating leopards.

I suggest they complain to the local Republican reps, maybe they’ll get lucky and get deported, but not to Canada. We already have too many right wing turboc*nts!

I read the excerpt on Wikipedia and it didn’t seem to fully describe my own experiences, though I expect it doesn’t hold a candle to the depths of the topic. I will have to read more to see if it helps verbalize the feeling I get towards organized religion.

Thank you for this.

I got really stoned one time as teenager and thought I had come to the very real and imminent discovery that Christianity is and was always the work of deep evil to silence and quell all other true religions. The crusades, the burning of the library at Alexandria, Pope John Paul III sitting on his throne of pure gold, It all made perfect sense. Don’t question it, just have faith.

I more or less fell headlong into atheism of a sort shortly thereafter, so part of me must really believe that on some level I guess?

IOT home devices using cell data? In Canada? It would either come with a hefty monthly fee, or the appliance company would lose their shirt.

Cell companies here put a lot of effort into keeping the prices up.

Might fly south of the border though.

So, what happens if I use pi-hole or adguard to block DNS for the advertisement TLDs, like I do for all the other gizmos in the house trying to show me ads or obtain telemetry data?

Canada post should not ever be a corporation of any kind.

It should be a service, like healthcare, without any requirement or expectation of ever turning a profit.

All revenue would do is help offset some of the cost.

That sounds a bit ambiguous, though I should have prefaced my previous comment with the fact that I am still very much learning about this stuff myself.

More recently, I am trying to wrap my head around containerized VPN connections through WireGuard using gluetun. The idea sounds great, in theory. Figuring out how to make it work will probably be less so.

If you mean just accessing a service through VPN from the outside world, then I might be able to help.

I’ve done it successfully a few times. Most of the issues I have ever had were usually with misconfigured firewall rules around NAT.

Bash scripting, firewall config, vpn tunnelling, and containerization ( rootless Podman ).

I’m into combining these in interesting ways.

While it could be argued that there are tons of communities for these, combining them to run secure apps or automate their setups don’t seem to be as popular.

It’s a hot topic at social events, as you can imagine.

It may seem like a small percentage loss when talking dollar for dollar subscription loss vs Disneys massive revenue, but the scarier thing for their board of directors is damage to their brand.

The thought that a situation like this could cause any long a lasting or irreparable harm to the iconic mouse ears in any way would make keep them awake at night.

Yeah, nope.

I’ve been noticing weird stuff with Microsoft online products since they have been leaning into ai.

I don’t really know how to describe it. My old windows pc had a virus back in the early 2000s that slowly ate away at .dll and .exe files. It basically caused very random errors and noticeable weirdness for a few days until core system services eventually started dying. That’s what Microsoft online products feel like to use for me now. Random loops of confirmations and links that go nowhere. Even the payment system rarely seems to work.

His concern seems valid to me.

Maybe. I can see them being popular for things like this, humorous thoughts.

I can’t really imagine them flying off the shelves, but you never know.