Just because someone does something instead of fighting a war doesn't make whatever they actually did do right. They could also do neither thing. Especially if the alternative to war turns out to not actually achieve the goal the war would have achieved, leaving them in the same position of deciding whether to do a bad thing or not, after having already done another different bad thing.

I didn't ask whether it was better or worse than declaring a war; it's clearly less bad than starting a war.

But that doesn't mean it's right. Maybe doing neither a war nor sanctions, but something else, or nothing, is the right thing to do.

Does that work?

Is it right to tell random people "hey you, it's your job to break local laws and topple your dictator, we could invade you with actual trained military people but that would be inconvenient for us"?

It works on some devices; they do sign the builds as far as I can tell. But the bootloader itself needs to be convinceable to trust the LOS signatures, and needs to understand the secure boot implementation used in the Android that the current LOS is built from (since Android has re-done it all a few times). Nobody knows anything about bootloaders to figure out which of them can do this or how they would be induced to do it.

qsnc is a gentleperson and a scholar

You don't need an Invidious instance to back FreeTube. You can set it to local mode to just talk to YouTube from your IP, or to operate through a proxy.

You can print out QR codes to Rick Astley videos.

Thank you, I love to see these memes of production.

I wouldn't recommend linking to it because IIRC it's one of those web sites that can't actually be relied on to serve the thing you linked to to the person who clicks the link. Instead it likes to serve complaints that they don't have an account, kind of like Instagram.

That's not allowed on Wikipedia, you have to use verifiable information from reliable secondary sources instead.

So you would have to pair this with a switch that not only does VLANs but also somehow does your NAT for you.

You're I guess looking at a feed of everything there is with no anchor to the correct side of politics? Try that with ActivityPub and just ingest the entire ecosystem with no home instance or blocklist and you'll get lots of this.

But I think you are right that the Bluesky PDS will not refuse to host you for saying things along the lines of "The US should continue to sell all kinds of weapons to Israel", whereas a lot of Mastodon instances might be expected to kick you off for expressing this stubbornly common opinion.

But I'm not sure it's quite fair to expect a public service to share exactly the correct Overton window that one has oneself. That sort of enforcement on Bluesky is meant to be at the level of the custom moderation service/labeler, not at the data storage layer, since users more or less are meant to control that themselves.

And if you pick a good labeler it will enforce that only the correct people are allowed in your view.

I dunno dude, it's super weird. Sarah Z has a video about this, IIRC the explanation there was something like, people have latched on to "narcissist" as a thing one doesn't need to worry that one is oneself but can be tacked on to anybody one dislikes. Also there are demons involved for some reason.

(Having killed ShortFatOtaku's Twitter guy, and taken all his stuff, how would "the narcissist" go about extracting the validation??? Sounds made up.)

(Also it's always "the narcissist" like there's just one extremely busy person out there.)

NPD might make people struggle with empathy, but nobody, who is out there thinking everyone they meet could be "the narcissist" who is out to get them and not worthy of respect or consideration, is themselves killing it on the empathy front.

The vector from one point to another in space has both a distance (magnitude) and a direction. Labeling the side with i only really makes sense if you say we're looking at a vector of "i units that way", and not at an assertion that these two points are a directionless i units apart. Then you'd have to break out the complex norms somebody mentioned.

Usually the routers you install OpenWRT on are really a CPU with one port to a VLAN-capable switch, and the port labeled WAN on the device is just VLAN'd separately by default. One cool thing OpenWRT lets you do on "normal" hardware is change the VLAN settings on the switch ports which are not accessible under stock firmware.

But if they are shipping "just" the router piece and making people go get their own VLAN-capable switch, I'm not sure what hardware exactly they expect people to use? And I'm not sure what being connected to the switch over one real 2.5G cable is going to do to LAN/WAN throughput, vs. how a "normal" router ties the CPU into the switch through means not known to mortal minds. Maybe it is just as good, maybe it is a huge bottleneck. It is definitely going to add cost over the $89 sticker price.

But if most people are just going to run fiber modem straight to WiFi, maybe this is the right config actually?

I don't think that's what accepting harmful interference means. It means more like, if there is noise in the channel, the device won't just up its own power to clobber the noise, even if not doing that will somehow break it or otherwise make it not work right. It doesn't mean you have to build the device so that some kinds of interference will cause it to break.

You don't necessarily have to tell all prospective employers about all experience. If you think your resume is getting bounced from some kinds of openings because they think it is odd they you have this degree, don't list the degree when you apply to those sorts of positions. Don't talk about having the degree. If asked point blank if you have a degree, say something about your personal philosophy on why degrees aren't important, or how your life's goal would be to get a Ph.D. in art history or some other discrete and personable non-answer.

Sounds like it's probably ID.me; a lot of government agencies contract with them but thay are not, actually, the government AFAIK

I mean, fundamentally you're not supposed to obtain income. The system that distributes money is not actually designed to give people money to live, and nobody is really steering it to make it do that. It just happens to sometimes do that. I'm not sure anyone has actually "designed" it to do anything, but it seems at least much better at concentrating money and power than it is at creating plausible jobs or job-housing-food combinations for humans.

I hope you find some good advice as to how you can get income to survive. I don't really have any, other than shake all your friends down for jobs (since hiring is usually done by knowing somebody rather than by weighing the merits of an unbiased stream of varyingly qualified applicants) and be prepared to search for employment for many months (a thing you might have had to have started doing before now for best results). But it's not hard because you are somehow not doing it "right" or the way you are "supposed to", it's hard because the problem you are facing it isn't actually constrained to be solvable. You can do it all right and still not succeed.

I think there are consumer-grade GPUs that can run this on a single card with enough quantization. Or if you want to run it on CPU you can buy and plug in enough DIMMs if you have an only somewhat large amount of money.