WarOnPrivacy

> Iran took the whole country offline, because their country barely functions

Iran took their whole country offline because they locked the country behind CGNAT - which is an ideal tech for offlining an entire nation.

> Good. Europe does not need Islam.

Equally true would be that Europe does not need religion.

But speaking to that point: Although I am no longer theist, I spent many days doing religion-funded community service (disaster rebuilding, food distribution, community service) that was nothing but filling in a bit of the holes that are continually left by society.

And to be clear, much of that religious sourced aid is done by Islamic outreach entities.

Once society's holes are reliably filled, we can responsibly discuss depreciating religion.

If the desire is to eradicate one religion (or all but one), the Crusades taught a lot about how that goes.

> You obviously don't care much about your children's lives

This obviously isn't true. But to be fair, given the

    massively incomplete dataset and the
    ignorance based fallacies (meathead level repairs)

upon which this (~worst possible) conclusion is based - it never really stood a chance.

Our 6 person FL household has 8 vehicles. 2012, 2011, 1996, 1992, 1989, 1969 (needs to go away), 1963, 1961. We all strongly prefer tactile controls and no screens. We're a bit divided on window cranks and more divided on A/C.

For a daily driver, son #3 wanted a car w/o seatbelts. He pulled a 1963 Dodge Dart out of the weeds upstate. Floors are whatever sheet metal we have lying around (ex tags) and he covered the seats & doors with denim that used to be my pants (doors have pockets). He can pull, rework and replace the engine in under 2 days.

Besides commuting, he drives it to RI every year.

> I wrote a small caffeine-like macOS command-line utility to keep your MacBook awake when you close the lid.

Small purposeful utilities like this are Glob's own gift to us. Your counterpart in my Windows world might be the guy who wrote AlwaysActiveHours - a util that prevents update-related reboots.

Windows has been surprisingly good about this (lid closed, laptop awake). I have a number of always-closed laptops deployed for customers (+ mother in law). Some are desktops that can be easily moved; others are on-prem devices that are left alone to handle certain tasks.

This isn't my first reading about the struggles MacBook users have here. It is bizarre to me that Apple doesn't natively and reliably support closed+awake devices; it feels like they've dug in their heels and I can't imagine why.

This article got my attention. A medical professional friend developed a life-long immune system disorder that is linked to her dental implants. She lives in chronic pain getting only a few hours sleep a night - while owning/running a local medical retail store (and it's mountains of paperwork, etc).

DHH's fondness for AfD arose

    following AfD's adoption of more hardline Islamophobic, 
    anti-immigration positions, and historical revisionist remarks 
    by leading AfD figures.
    The party resembled other populist radical right parties in Europe
    but was somewhat unusual in its choice to maintain visible ties to
    even more extreme groups. 
    The party has been described as more ideologically radical than
    many other European far-right and right-wing populist parties

which really seems to work for him.

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany#Ideolo...

Whatever we think about the entry-level job market, it's far worse and has been for decades.

I have 5 sons who become adults and tried to enter the job market. All of them were gatekept by portals that (by every indication) silently auto-discard applicants with no job history (100% of new job seekers).

My sons got zero replies, for countless jobs that they absolutely could have done well.

    I was unable to rent apartments in San Francisco. 
    I was unable to get a job directly after being released from prison. 
    It's funny because when you owe the state $17,000 in restitution and
    you can't get a job, people become extremely desperate. 
    And that desperation can easily put you right back into prison.

It is my experience that anti-human outcomes follow a perversion of focus - when intent shifts from actually safeguarding society (thru meaningful redemption), toward destructive (zero tolerance) or exploitive ends (credit, crim reports).

I suggest that serially denying paid-for redemption (fines, incarceration) forever (never ending punishment delivered via criminal records) is deeply evil.

In 1979, Ixtoc I released 3.3M barrels into the Bay of Campeche (DwH released 4.9M).

By the time DwH happened we had already learned that

    exposed, high-energy habitats bounce back; 
    sheltered and deep-sea habitats do not.

ref: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles...

ref: https://beneaththehorizon.org/ixtoc.html

This isn't alcohol with it's obvious deleterious effects. This is gambling, where the activity is hidden like cancer, until it grows into devastation to entire families.

> its much better to regulate vices then prohibition

And applied to gambling, this seems like an conjured argument, so oft repeated it has morphed into a platitude. I'm not aware of research that indicate that having the state safeguard gambling improves society in a quantifiable way - the lowest possible bar of "much better".

The gross proliferation of gambling ads certainly feels far removed from any notion of watching out for society's well being.

A FL county just north of Tampa has been dealing with GALS for a few years https://www.cityofnewportrichey.org/Departments/Public-Works...

For every genuinely helpful, medical remedy story on HN, I wish someone would compose the missing part.

It begins with "For the millions of uninsured Americans out there..."

Sharing stuff about him helps folks feel happy.

I just bought a used Extreme Networks AP that shipped with OpenWRT installed. I appreciated the convenience of something that was partly done before I got it.

It's currently serving as a wireless bridge client for a network of 10 IP cameras.

I appreciate this. I regularly catch hostility from TE when I visit; today it was the unsatisfiable captcha.

The marketing around shingles vaccine endlessly touts how it is free for [small voice] the usable-healthcare class.

The cost for the millions of us who also matter: Both does of ShingRix will cost us $500-$600.

The article is worth reading if you aren't familiar (I wasn't).

It's the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel in Whittier, Alaska. It was built during WWII and opened up Anchorage to overland travel. It seems almost primitive compared to interstate hwy tunnels.

There are plenty of good alternatives out there. I tend to not use Google's DNS but I do run into it. I'd' have to do an audit and switch over the stragglers.

https://evilbit.de/dns-resolver-guide.html

> - We choose fruits and vegetables increasingly for their taste

People choose from what they have to choose from. And even then, taste seems to be competing with other factors.

Pre Honeycrisp, peoples' choice of apples wasn't great. And among that disappointing selection, the flavorless, mushy, dismally awful stand out - Red Delicious - sold well.

> A dog will show you happy attention by wagging its tail, going all over you happily , roll around and be excited.

Along with their humany eyes, this makes me sad for dogs. I feel like they've lost their animalness because some other species had other plans for them.

I really like animals that are like animals - and that us and them have to work it out.

> You should check if your agent's claim is even legal.

Even if not legal, renters commonly don't have enough rights to make challenging these things practical/possible.

And when moving is difficult to impossible (given the pile of cash it takes) renters make do with that they have.

Win11 adds crapware; it also makes some of that crapware difficult to remove.

But once that crapware is exorcised, Windows can be useful.

> Why would you prefer WSL over native Linux?

I have a number of both. I like WSL for when I'm working in Windows and need to run some quick bash and handle the output in Windows file explorer.

Today I'm working on a project that runs bash scripts in WSL; it utilizes multiple unbound servers (that run in Ubuntu minimal and in pfsense).

> Windows has been rock solid for me for over a decade, including the latest versions.

I have many Windows, FreeBSD and Ubuntu instances in use. They're all pretty great but none are the best fit everywhere.