The cruelty is the point. Just keep repeating that and you’ll understand most of the decisions.

And now I remembered we’ve got over 3 more years of this garbage to fight through.

Not even close to that third comma, amateur.

Not already fascist enough

Video generation, copyright matching, CSAM detection, those are just the first few that pop into my head.

They’re likely imitating his posture. It serves the dual purpose of signaling their sycophantic loyalty and normalizes the absurd stance to the rest of the world.

Rheeme Econet devices do this. They have an app to control them, but there’s also a diagnostic port that exposes everything in the app and a lot more. There’s an esp32 project that connects to the port and brings all of that into Home Assistant, no app or wifi needed.

A layered defense is always best. Nothing is 100%, but knowing your threat model will help define how far you have to go and how many layers you want in the way. Defending against State level actors looks different than swatting the constant low effort bot traffic. You’re right, if a bad actor gets root on your machine, all security is forfeit. The goal is to minimize that possibility by keeping applications and packages updated and only allowing necessary connections to the machine. You mentioned wireguard or tail scale. Set that up first. Then set up the host firewall to only allow outbound traffic onto the VPN to the required ports and endpoints on the LAN. If the VPS isn’t hosting any public facing services, disable all traffic except the VPN connection from and to the public Internet both on the cloud provider’s firewall and the host firewall. If it is hosting publicly accessible services then use tools like fail2ban and crowdsec to identify and block problem IPs.

Firewall rules on outbound traffic from the VPS to the LAN would do it. Allow traffic to the hosts and ports that the VPS needs to reach and block everything else.

I feel like you’re wrong here. Moses and Joshua were pretty big into the whole genocide thing. Deuteronomy 20:16 for example is pretty clear about that, among many other examples.

Except for the weapons we sold them, the intel reports we provided, etc, etc.

Before he was sworn in even. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-promises-to-settle-war-in-ukraine-if-elected

I’ve had way too many conversations with people that simply can’t comprehend how that works. “But then we’d have to do everything so much earlier, it would be dark all the time.” I try to explain that we’d still do everything at the same time of day, just call it something different, but they just can’t wrap their minds around that.

Same as it ever is. Their Russian handlers and their mouth breathing, Nazi loving supporters.

You might even say he’s extra manly; so manly he wants to spend all his time with men and as little time as possible with women.

I like my Denon Heos setup: 2 TVs, home theater, receiver in my office connected to my computer and speakers in 7 other locations. Works great with Music Assistant, and doesn’t require a cloud connection. It can pull firmware updates if you want but I’ve blocked all Internet access for those devices with no loss of functionality.

Accession to NATO usually requires border disputes to be resolved. Last I knew Canada, the US and Turkey were also standing in the way.

You get a proxy war, and you get a proxy war…

The Disney Vault!

It’s almost like the views of the population of an entire country can’t be distilled down to a single binary statement. 🤷‍♂️