I mean, that’s true regardless of how it is running. If the service is externally available, it will be probed for vulnerabilities. At least with a container, you can ward off what files it has access to, so an attacker can’t just ransomware your entire NAS with a single vulnerable service.

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I mean, the Black Panthers started because people realized that peaceful unarmed protests would be violently busted, but peaceful heavily armed protests were politely watched from across the street. Blindfiring into crowds is a lot less appealing for cops when the entire crowd can return fire.

Forums are great for being forums. Real-time instant messaging, voice chat, video chat, and screen sharing are all a very different use-case. They’re two entirely separate products, and comparing them is apples and oranges. People are looking to replace Discord with Discord-like services, because forums don’t fucking do what Discord does.

The big problem (and the reason everyone seems to compare the two) is that Discord started eating forums, as companies realized it was easier to create a Discord server instead of creating (and hosting, and maintaining) a support forum. And that’s a perfectly valid complaint. But that doesn’t mean forums are a valid replacement for Discord.

Getting old is mandatory, but falling behind isn’t. My mom is pushing 70, and installed Linux Mint on her laptop last week by herself because Windows was nagging her to upgrade to 11 but her laptop didn’t have the damned Secure Boot chip. She asked me about it like two weeks ago, and I mentioned that I could help her through it once I had some time. Then a week later, she called to say she had already researched it herself and installed Linux instead of waiting on me. When I got a VR headset, she was the first in line to try it out. When I started experimenting with 3D printing, she started trying to find ways to integrate prints into her daily life instead of buying things. I set up a Home Assistant for her to be able to automate her lights.

She understands that tech is iterative, and that learning concepts is better than learning hard processes. Because processes will change from one system to the next, but concepts will largely remain the same. One microwave may have a different method to input 90 seconds, (dial to 1.5 mins, push buttons to input 90, Quick Minute button + 30 Second button, etc), but the concept of “open door, put food inside, select time” to warm something up remains the same. The actual “select time” concept isn’t a single specific process, because different microwaves will have different face panels with different ways to interact with the appliance. But all of them will allow for the same end result of running the microwave for 90 seconds.

Contrast that with my dad, who struggles to find his phone’s Settings app. He treats tech as hard processes. To stretch the same microwave example, he’s the type of person to throw up his hands in defeat and go “this is just too hard for me” the first time he encounters a microwave that has the numbers at the top of the panel instead of the bottom. Because in his mind, the concept doesn’t really exist; he just knows a “if I touch this specific area, I get {x} result” process. So as soon as anything about the process changes, it’s like he has to start re-learning things from scratch.

To bring it back to computers, he’s the type to panic when his browser’s desktop icon gets moved across the screen, because now he can’t check his email. His browser is still accessible, and if he understood the concept of a desktop icon, he would be able to intuit “oh hey it moved but it’s still there. I can probably still use it the same, and/or move it back to where I prefer having it.” But instead, his entire workflow grinds to a halt. Because he doesn’t understand the concept behind how a desktop icon works. He just knows “the specific button in the specific place is different, therefore the entire process is broken.”

Which is ironic, because you’re statistically most likely to roll over your own child. Kids are dumb and will do things like run in front of your vehicle as you’re pulling out of the driveway. And if you’re driving one of those massive trucks with gigantic blind spots, you won’t see them.

It’s sort of like having a pool. Statistically, someone from your household (like your kid) is the most likely person to drown in your pool. Simply because kids are fucking stupid and they’ll inevitably spend a lot of time around it.

He always looks like someone is slowly but steadily sliding hardboiled eggs into his ass, and he’s trying not to react.

Steam’s business model of “do nothing and watch every single competitor repeatedly shoot their own feet” seems to work really well.

Unfortunately not. Japan has been very far-right (bordering on jingoistic) for a long time now. The country’s external facade is all cute anime characters and zany fashion… But that was an intentional rebrand (heavily subsidized by the country’s propaganda department) in the wake of WW2 to distance itself from the atrocities they had committed. But internally, the country has remained extremely hardline conservative and xenophobic. And it has only shifted farther right with recent elections.

I’ve seen child eating speculation, largely because child fucking is the current threshold. Like Trump is fighting for his life to only be called a child fucker. So what is so bad that he’s trying to keep buried? Eating kids was mentioned a few times in the files already, so people have started speculating that Trump was involved in that.

I remember seeing a pretty convincing “pro wrestling is just drag for people who are afraid of cross-dressers” argument, but I can’t remember the finer points.

Yeah, my complaints about Apple all stem from the fact that my industry has a standard program that only runs on Macs… And every Mac I’ve used has inevitably ended up taking 4x as long to do basically anything else when compared to Windows or Linux. The only reason I ever use a Mac is because my job requires it, and even then it is only begrudgingly; if there was a way to run the program on anything else, I would have done so a long time ago.

And yeah, I agree 100% about the “different first, better second” design choices. Lots of the most frustrating things about Macs are due to intentional design choices that Apple makes. Not because it is better for the user, but simply because it is different.

I mean, it took starvation for them to start burning shit the first time. But at least they learned from that, and haven’t let it get as bad since then.

This is simply Americans’ first time experiencing the wrong side of the “let them eat cake” thing, so of course it’ll take a long time for America to start lighting things on fire.

America may be constantly battling racism and xenophobia internally, but we recognize it for what it is: a shit behavior that should should be excised. European and Eastern cultures like Japan are so casually racist and xenophobic that they don’t even recognize it in themselves.

The best way I’ve heard it described is that Americans consider racism something you do, while the rest of the world tends to view it as something you are.

To an American, if someone is a racist, it’s because they do racist things. So Americans are actually fairly good at recognizing and excising casual racism, because they recognize it as a behavior they can change. But this also means Americans are fairly quick to judge individual actions as racist, because they see it as something that should be improved upon in the future. To an American, a racist is racist because they have recognized their own racist behaviors and don’t see them as a problem.

Meanwhile, Europeans and Asians tend to think of racism as something you are. And that’s a big difference, because it makes them much less adept at identifying the more casual forms of racism. Because even if they’re casually racist, they’ll simply tell themselves “well I’m not a racist, therefore my actions weren’t racist.” Since that binary “is/is not a racist” flag hasn’t flipped in their brain, they’re able to tell themselves that their individual actions aren’t racist.

It’s like Europeans need to be at least 51% racist in order to be considered racist, so anything below that amount is excusable. Individual people will obviously have different thresholds for when that Boolean bit gets flipped from “not racist” to “racist”, but it still needs to hit that personal threshold before they’ll start calling out racism. And europeans will tend to judge their own actions much more leniently, like a zealot telling themselves that God is on their side so their bad deeds aren’t really bad.

But that causes interesting culture shocks whenever Americans interact with Europeans or Asians. Europeans are quick to jump on the “all Americans are racist” bandwagon, and the American will tend to nod along and agree because they recognize that everyone has the potential to be racist. Then the American will see the Europeans do/say some vile racist shit, and start to call it out. But then the European gets defensive and adamantly states that they’re not a racist… Because the European takes the “hey that was pretty fucked up and racist, don’tcha think” as a personal “you are a racist” attack, instead of a “that individual action was racist, and you should examine why you did it” behavioral check.

And the American will be confused on why the European immediately jumped all the way to “why are you calling me a racist? I’m not racist” argument. Because in their experience, the only people who immediately jump to that are the full blown reich-wing racists who don’t see their own racist actions as a problem, but want to continue existing in a civilized society. Labeling someone as a racist is a big deal for an American, because it means the person has refused to examine their own racist behaviors, or has done so and sees no problem with the racism. To an American, labeling someone a racist is basically the nuclear “I’ve exhausted all other possibilities, and can only conclude that they’re doing it on purpose” option.

So Americans will often walk away from the interactions thinking “holy fuck those Europeans were really goddamned racist” simply because the Europeans refused to acknowledge that their own individual actions had the potential to be racist. Meanwhile, the Europeans will think that Americans are really fucking racist because Americans are quick to call it out amongst themselves.

The original hamburger was more like a meatloaf. It was a hamburg steak, meant to be eaten with a fork and knife just like a modern meatloaf. The modern hamburger is 100% an American invention, because America was the place that first turned it into a sandwich.

I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?

It’s also about fusing different cuisines together, to make something new. America is the big melting pot, and that means you end up getting flavor palettes that otherwise wouldn’t have been brought together.

Traditional Mexican food isn’t anywhere near as spicy or as cheesy as Tex-mex, for instance. That’s because Texans took the traditional Mexican cuisine, combined it with American peppers and English+North American aged orange cheeses, and created Tex-mex. Tex-mex also tends to rely on flour instead of corn, because Mexico had red/yellow/white maize (and later, modern yellow corn) while American settlers had wheat.

And then California Mexican food is an entirely different third type of food.

Hell, my favorite local pizza joint sells a chicken tikka masala pizza that is fucking wonderful. We have a really big North Indian population in my area, so lots of the local restaurants have veggie options (India is largely vegetarian) and/or Indian spice blends incorporated into some of their menu items.

Peasant food, because peasants knew how to feed a family with cheap hearty ingredients, which keep you full. Whenever you imagine a cozy “I’m ready for a nap after eating” meal, it is almost always peasant food that you’re imagining.

“I’d rather go to solitary” is said by people who have never had to endure it. Anyone who has actually been in solitary will agree that it was literal torture. For the first day, you’re just bored. By the third day, you’re hallucinating, seeing things crawling around in your peripheral vision and hearing whispers through the walls. By the end of the week, you’re having full blown conversations with ghosts, and can’t tell if you’re awake or asleep. You’re lucky if you haven’t seriously injured yourself by the end of it, because at least pain is stimulating. Then when the guard slides your food through the door slot after a week, they hear you screaming at ghosts and see the blood smeared across the wall, and casually add another week of solitary because you’re being uncooperative.

The human brain desperately craves stimulation. It craves stimulation so badly that when it can’t find any, it makes its own.

Here’s a reminder that the 13th amendment didn’t abolish slavery. It simply added the “they must be a criminal before you can enslave them” qualifier…

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction

Emphasis mine. Why do you think the model for the modern police force started as slave catchers, and then pivoted hard towards “law enforcement” after the civil war? The US already had law enforcers. They were called sheriffs (county), troopers (state), and marshals (federal). The individual cities and towns didn’t have their own independent police forces until after the civil war… Instead, the county sheriff would deputize people to enforce laws in the individual cities on the sheriff’s behalf. And those brand new city-level police forces were manned by, you guessed it, former slave catchers. And they never really stopped catching slaves. They just changed what they called it.

The US thrives on slavery, even today, with private prisons as the modern slave owners.