This is genuinely disappointing. I understand the need for punishment, but unless there is therapy, a path to recovery and reintegration into society, we’re just housing more and more people without a future.

If you needed additional proof that fines are just the cost of their business model, this is it.

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

The nostalgia is strong in this one, I love these discoveries.

Sweet, maybe I can roll back all the way to windows XP now /s

I used to use ansible and helm, but it is overkill for my case. Today I basically use a combo of markdown and bash scripts, the combination of them allows me to run the scripts straight from my IDE.

Really good writeup of a very interesting exploit.

I had the same idea a couple years back and even though I would love something that you download and just run and it would work, I realized that in order to get a decent adoption rate, you would need a whole ecosystem, similar to apple in order for it to work.

I still think you can develop something like a hub where you install services like apps, but I doubt it would attract anyone outside selfhosting circles.

There are several things you can and should do to harden your server, many of them can be found here.

To be fair, those kill bots had a kill limit, this is actually worse.

When you buy something you should have the right to repair it and modify it.

Currently, everything is basically a renters agreement, where you pay for something you have zero rights to modify or opt out of.

There’s no such thing as US specific on the Internet. Every law made concerning online presence anywhere will have at least a limited impact on the Internet as a whole.

You could look into apps like authelia, keycloak, authentic, etc.

Personally I just put my bank card inside my phone cover. Maybe not as fancy as NFC payment, but does the job.