Monkey With A Shell

Blocked as in sites reject traffic, or blocked as in can’t connect to the VPN?

The former is on the far end and not uncommon. A lot of sites reject connections from known VPN endpoints because the same tunnels that provide privacy to you also provide privacy to attackers quit often. You just need to decide if the site is important enough to use without a cover.

If it’s the latter, that would be a near end issue and would likely be your ISP or someone nearby that is looking to control your traffic.

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For me a lot of it is in trying to maximize efficiencies. Setting up task duties and resources where you have plenty enough but not overloading your storage. Defensive position designs to counter any possible situation. Layouts to the base to allow free movement.

Lot of others try for specific artistic ideas or scenario goals, but I’m something of engineer minded player.

Rimworld, way too much Rimworld. A big part of it is that I’ll often have it one a second computer during the workday just on pause to pop in during downtime but I guess that still counts as playtime just being loaded.

Pretty simple simple ‘castle & moat’ setup. Lots of firewall, IPS, dynamic threat, etc around it with separate subnets and all the usual biz. My ISP doesn’t use CGNAT so I’m lucky that way, though they did question WTF I was doing last I made a service call to them based on the bandwidth usage.

That’s a big part of the appeal of the fediverse for me. Setting up a personal site used to be fairly easy, but was largely isolated and unidirectional. With the AP protocol, and frankly a lot of self-hostable apps in general these days, you can make something to converse with the whole globe and you don’t even need to make a big effort to help people find it.

Webrings still exist, but finding them is less than trivial when they get drowned out by the noise of corporate sites. I’ve used IRC within the last year, but had to look up the proper use of nicserve commands. The old web mentality is still out there, but for the major part people want simplicity. Few want to go through the learning curve to deal with some of the more esoteric parts of it when they can just auth into a site and do a thing.

I tend to find the R820 behind me to be a pretty reliable host so long as you don’t mind footing the power bill to run it.

They used to have this thing called the Ionic Breeze from the ‘as seen on TV’ brand Sharper Image. Pretty sure they went bankrupt, something about shoddy products and creating excessive indoor ozone as I recall.

There is a convenience vs privacy/security line to things that any given individual needs to decide where that lies for themselves. Plenty of people use Facebook and similar because there are a lot of people using it and there is a low bar to entry. Many of these big tech options will let you authenticate via a single click to share creds from another service, the ‘sign into Reddit with your Google account’ simplicity.

Then there are people like me who self host everything they can. I know exactly where my cloud files are, where my movies are, where my chat messages reside, heck where the Lemmy instance I’m posting this from is, all a few feet away from me. There is a cost to this, not only in actual hardware and electricity but in time and friction in that these systems are not going to have that ease of access that other do.

The bigger challenge is the bleed-over privacy risk. There’s no reasonable way for to ask the rest of the world not to post pictures or similar side channel disclosures. Short of becoming an outright hermit in the woods there’s always going to be some level of privacy leakage, that’s the part harder to manage.

So is sounds like effectively his donation was supposed to force them to stay open and develop tech on the cheap that he could then take to use in his commercial systems.

A bit niche, but has been a thing in my family for a long time.

I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas

But didn’t they already have a popup window asking if they’re old enough? That should have fixed it already.

Similar to why a recording of classic films are important. They serve as cultural touchpoints connecting individual experiences from a time and place long past. We retell stories from written literature for centuries and those are relatively difficult to preserve historically where video games are just a matter of storing a ROM on some file system

I didn’t mean that you where, but if the Latino population shifted their votes more R this year it seems an odd explanation that they where offended by the democrats shifting right on policies. If that was the case then why would they go in with people who are even more to the right?

I think this whole question needs another field to it for the turnout difference. It may be (not to keep picking on Latinos but) they made up 5% in 2020 and 6% in 2024, but is that of all eligible voters, or of those that actually showed up? If 1/2 showed up last time and 1/3 did this time, but the ones who showed up where the more conservative portion then it would look like they ‘shifted’ right, but it wouldn’t be real.

Ah yes, prolewiki and tankie.ml, truly the gold standards in rational unbiased sources of information

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China

The Uyghurs would like a word, and the only person threatening nuclear war is Putin

Says the one that quick glace at is persistently extolling the virtu and might of Russia/China… 🤨

So the solution to not liking the democrat shift right is to join in with the side off the scale right? I’m not following the logic there…

Do some rough math say there are 200,000,000 total eligible voters.

2024 would have 12,000,000 male Latino voters 2020 would have 10,000,000 based on the 3rd column

Even if 100% went left to right at most you have a 12M shift.

That shift though in absolute numbers was far less than that though based on the R/D split, so not a tremendous impact over all.

There was just a lot less people showing up over all for any reason.