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Use https://news.ycombinator.com/active as your starting point. It's not linked from the front page.

Or use https://news.ycombinator.com/active

It's not linked from the homepage though.

I got access to a NextCloud instance as part of my Hetzner storage.

Setting up access for my wife was easy. Adding "apps" to my nextcloud instance was easy. Sharing storage, playing with a Kanban board, editing documents, it all just works.

I'm very impressed with nextcloud, I had no idea it was so good!

what about my comment led you to state that I pretend "every issue is russian propaganda"?

Make sure you have as much documentation as possible printed in triplicate.

Where you're staying, for how long, receipts and booking confirmation. Be very careful with any text messages that might sound "shady" to the very paranoid customs people.

Have an exact itinerary showing step by step where, when, who.

Bad actors like to suppress discussion uncomfortable to them. They use ambiguity in rules to cover their actions as "just following the rules!" They know full well what they're doing and why.

People weren't supporting hamas, they were condemning the indiscriminate bombing of civilians.

That message was picked up by the russians etc and turned into a wedge issue on social media.

I'm not sure what customs and border patrol would do if you refused to unlock your phone for them. I doubt they would just let you go.

As a lawful permanent resident, I'm terrified of the country I've called home for a quarter century.

I don't think I would have survived what the Canadian woman went through.

EDIT: please call your congressperson and your senators. Tell them to stop this cruelty.

Fantastic article, well explained and beautiful diagrams. Thank you bddicken for writing this!

The call is coming from inside the house.

This is self inflicted, either through incompetence or a fake attack to distract from TSLA stock news.

Ukraine remembers this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

For Ukraine to continue existing, the russians have to be driven out. Otherwise the genocide will continue. The genocide caused by russians, caused by russians invading Ukraine, caused by russians stealing Ukraine's children.

In america's right wing trump followers, there is utter, sociopathic, monstrous indifference to Ukraine's suffering.

So I'll ask you, personally: If the neighbouring state or country decided to invade and take over an area of your state, and you were told "you've been resisting too long, give in already and give up your fight", would you lay down and welcome the invaders you've been fighting? If you knew that the invaders were stealing children, and murdering whole towns?

What would trump do differently if he had been told explicitly by putin to destroy the usa?

holy crap, their doors won't open without power?!?

How does that ever get past safety standards?

He's lying. He's angling for a pardon by playing up to republicans' hatred of democrats/"woke".

The Clacks, the Disorganiser, Dwarf-discovered Devices, and L-Space are all wonderful ideas. I'm a huge fan of the City Watch series, with Thud! being my absolute favourite.

I envy those reading the series for the first time!

Certainly people have died because their electric windows wouldn't work when the car was submerged in water. If I were world dictator, I'd mandate manual override levers for electric windows.

Everyone should own a car window breaking tool, like a resqme. https://resqme.com/

Tesla arrogance was shown with their semi truck design with the drivers seat in the middle of the cab.

Hallucinating while driving, seeing people or animals that weren't there. That happened multiple times over several years before the diagnosis.

Unfortunately she didn't share what other incidents she had, I really wish she had.

My mother in law did many mind puzzles every day.

She still got Alzheimer's and died a couple of years later.

She had multiple incidents that she hid because she was too scared to find out, and too stubborn to lose her ability to drive. She could have had some treatment if she'd approached a doctor earlier.

Alzheimer's is utterly evil. Robbing people of their unique spark, killing the person before the body dies.

Sorry for the rant

Ideally we'd get the Earthseed commune without the huge suffering that came before it!

I don't think the collapse is inevitable. I lean towards doomerism but I know I can't predict what's going to happen next week, let alone next decade.

They'll be living in the Parable of the Sower type dystopia before they realise they should have done something years ago.

I've known quite a few software engineers who just don't bother to learn anything about the tooling they use to create and deploy code. For younger, new developers, I can understand it when everything is presented as an app with minimal customization, but for mid-levels and senior engineers I am baffled by the lack of curiosity.

Sometimes just a couple of simple howto sessions can be incredibly useful, especially for teams just starting on a new project. I've given tutorials on Git basics, command line basics, workflow basics, and AWS terminology. Each time I've had engineers say it was like learning computing for the first time, because apparently newer engineers just don't get taught this stuff.

This is partly why I enjoy improving the developer "experience" (DevEx) alongside my normal DevOps duties.

russian propagandists and useful idiots try to hide or dismiss discussions about it.

russia owns trump. elon talks to putin regularly, and he was promised access to Ukrainian mineral wealth. The whole Panama canal, Canada, and Greenland sabre-rattling is so eventually russian oil tankers can traverse the world with impunity.

russia is dividing and conquering. They still dream of being a superpower, instead of a failed mafia state with nuclear weapons.

That's already planned. The republicans want to pass another 4.5 trillion of tax cuts for the richest 0.1%

They simply lie to their supporters, and are believed because republicans are indoctrinated throughout life to believe that "government bad, corporations good, taxes bad, money good, collective power bad, individual power good"

trump said before the election he didn't know what project 2025 was. He lied, pure and simple.

They are being directed by putin to destroy the USA's influence and power in the world.

trump, thiel, and musk also see how rich russia's oligarchs are, and want to replicate russia in the USA.

It's coming from elon, who has courted russia for Ukraine's metals and minerals since at least the 2022 invasion.

Let's hope the EU countries fully support Ukraine.

Too angry to type more.

Hacker culture is still around, not so sure about startups though.

We still have TCP. We still have Linux. We still have gcc, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and more. Now, that last mile connection is still looking dicey; if a lockdown is applied, it will be applied there.

oh absolutely, I agree. I don't think $150 is adequate to fund development of a browser.

Unfortunately I'm in the middle of moving, but once I'm done with that, I'll give this a try :)