Honestly, as acts of appeasement go, a fancy dress party seems about the least humiliating thing a country can agree to. Play king for a day, like Make-A-Wish for senile fascists. If that settles the tariff negotiations, then well done.

I’ve used a retired desktop for my home server since 1999. It doesn’t have the fancy web-UI management of commercial NAS, but I’m comfortable with command line and config files.

At some point, I realized I could use its wifi card and hostapd to replace my WAP. That was a bit of an adventure initially finding a card that really supports AP mode and setting up hostapd, but has now allowed me to migrate from 802.11g to n to ac much cheaper than buying whole new devices,

Recently converted to an N100 with 4x ethernet ports, which let me unplug my little 5-port switch.

Managing this doesn’t feel like a second job: it’s stable and just works. Automatic updates, with kernel blacklisted; periodically log in, update kernel & reboot. It does give me the opportunity, when I get inspired, for a weekend project, like adding hostapd or a new service, either via docker or bare metal. I like that I have one device doing “NAS,” WAP, and router jobs.

Probably edited by the Guardian. They don’t do as much sanewashing as US media, but I don’t think anyone but comedians quotes Trump verbatim.

That drive averages 900 hours between power cycles? In Windows?

I used to wonder how Lysenko pulled all of that off. Like, they were backward days in a backward country, and the whole world was still just kind of getting the hang of science. But now, here’s RFK Jr who doesn’t even believe in germs, filling our science administration with lackeys, half the country cheering him on, and I’m thinking that university grant departments are going to be getting Political Officers soon.

It’s time for America’s Great Leap Forward.

The firings will continue until the numbers look good.

This is one of my pet peeves with containerized services, like why would I want to run three or four instances of mariadb? I get it, from the perspective of the packagers, who want a ‘just works’ solution to distribute, but if I’m trying to run simple services on a 4 GB RPi or a 2 GB VPS, then replicating dbs makes a difference. It took a while, but I did, eventually, get those dockers configured to use a single db backend, but I feel like that completely negated the ‘easy to set up and maintain’ rationale for containers.

He may not be [legally] able to do whatever he wants, but SCOTUS has said he can’t be prosecuted, or even questioned, for anything he does, so what exactly stops him? Just that, sometime after the fact, if they get around to it, a court might reverse his action. (until SCOTUS gets it on the shadow docket)

Laws without penalties are just gentlemen’s agreements.

So, the same reason I have a dog and not a unicorn.

I mean, if I have to choose between a genocidal neoliberal and a genocidal fascist, I’ll take the neoliberal.

What I really want to know is why can’t we have a party with popular, mainstream, progressive policies? Just sitting here hoping that Mamdani can hammer some sense into those morons.

Lol. You think this court cares what happened in 2013?

Genocide is not a good solution to high food prices.

Sausage has the extra benefit that it’s already seasoned, so you don’t have to add extra.

While only ~10% of corn is human food (including corn syrup), the rest is about evenly split between ethanol production and animal feed (~45% each). https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/corn-and-other-feed-grains/feed-grains-sector-at-a-glance

I mean, ethanol for fuel isn’t great, and it represents most of the new corn consumption over the last 20 years, but an enormous amount of US corn goes to pigs and cattle.

Yeah, I would have thought student loan debt to be disqualifying for thugs. Maybe they’re focused on dropouts.

The services you’ve mentioned are all pretty low compute impact, just bandwidth, so I’d expect your MBP to be fine. Transcoding for jellyfin is the only real wildcard, and that depends on your media and client setups. I run pihole, homeassistant, immich, and kodi on a raspberry pi 4 with plenty of overhead for more services. NAS is nice if your library outgrows a single disk and your storage bandwidth gets choked by USB multiplexing.

My suggestion is to consider a cheap VPS and vanity domain for external access. Domains cheap as $5/year; fair VPSs cheap as $30/year. Use SSH to forward localhost ports on the VPS to container ports on the MBP, then nginx on thee VPS to reverse-proxy to those forwarded ports. You get unique names for every service, LetsEncrypt certificates, and an offsite location for critical backups. Make sure you are the one paying for VPS & DNS so they don’t get surprise-cancelled.

These data are released on the first of each month. That’s not a lot of time to tabulate, across all employers across the whole country, all the people hired and fired during the month. That’s why they call the 2 previous months ‘preliminary.’ They’re usually pretty good at estimating, and adjusting their estimates for the usual sources of error, but when conditions change dramatically, those fudge factors aren’t so good.

So, if you’ve got a President out there making wild, often contradictory claims three times a week, market traders and corporate execs trying to plan based on those announcements, or just put off by the uncertainty, then you should expect ‘preliminary’ statistics to be worse guesses than usual.

My impression is that the reason team Biden went after Maxwell first is that Epstein’s documents are not super-compelling evidence on their own. They really wanted to flip Maxwell to explain the documents, but weren’t willing to give her whatever deal she was asking for. I feel like she’s just trying the same plan with the new administration, now that they’re under higher pressure (and possibly interested in more selective prosecutions).

They will say that Biden had those files for 4 years. Anything could have happened.