Mullvad Browser is likely better, since it’s basically Tor browser without Tor.

You can do both (not sure how wildcard works through Caddy though), I did it per domain. I prefer doing TLS trunking per device, hence no wildcard.

I set up DNS challenge with Let’s Encrypt with Caddy, and now I don’t need to forward anything to it if I don’t want to.

Yeah, I agree with the Founding Fathers that parties are bad, but people like organizing under labels, so it’s inevitable. Parties are a necessary evil IMO, so we should acknowledge that and design our system to support competition between many parties, not just two.

I’m setting up Seafile and trying to swap everything from docker to podman. The longer term goal is that once everything is on podman, I’ll get a new NVME drive and install MicroOS so I can retire my old SATA SSD (I’ve had it for 10 years or so, across 3 PCs).

I’m also considering setting up Forgejo and getting a worker to build my Rust projects.

Let them come.

I don’t have enough middle fingers. Can we just not do this crap?

I’m not sure, but the best option I can think of is ending the two party system. Both parties are broken, and this should at least force each to do better. Ideally, we end up in a situation where neither party controls Congress, because there are enough independents and third parties to force coalitions.

But I’m not sure how to get there. So the natural approach is to do nothing.

2020-09-23 This is a pretty dire assessment of Mozilla

I don’t really care about DRM, users can disable it if they want.

I have serious issues with Mozilla over the highlighted comment, and it goes way past 2020. I have only really cared about Mozilla as a web browser and web standards org, and they seem to want the organization to go beyond that. That’s why I don’t fund them, they’re not focused, so my money would go to random things I care little about.

I think a lot of people feel this way. And it really seems like Mozilla is pushing hard on this “we’re not just a web browser” thing, yet most users just want them to be a web browser. So Mozilla will continue justifying things users don’t want (e.g. Pocket, AI nonsense, etc) because it helps with some other initiative unrelated to the browser.

That’s probably ultimately what’s going to drive me away, and I think it’ll ultimately lead to Mozilla failing its other missions. Once LadyBird is usable, I’ll probably switch, because they don’t have the same lack of focus that Mozilla does.

Exactly. DRM is up to the user, whereas Manifest v3… isn’t.

I’m also close to 2m tall and have large-ish hands, but I still prefer smaller phones. They just… don’t really exist.

You overestimate the resolution of porn back then. 90s kids needed some imagination to fill in the gaps…

Diablo Canyon is spending $5B for 5 year extension. That could buy 5 times the solar power (at least more total power output over 5 years) for 30+ years instead.

Is that 5x including battery storage? And is that 5x including degradation over 30 years?

I’m down for whatever is the cheapest way to get us off of fossil fuels over the long term. My understanding is that generally means a mix of baseload supply (nuclear, geothermal, hydro), “bursty” reveals renewables (solar, wind), and storage.

Dollar value: zilch

For me, yeah, I agree. For someone else, maybe they do have value. Achievements are a particularly stupid example because you can automate getting them, but my point is that digital things can have value. Maybe they’re sentimental (I did a hard thing and this proves it), or maybe they’re resellable (rare item in a game, which can be traded).

Something physical that you value could have no value to someone else. Value is subjective.

Kinda weird to frame it with the non-aggression principle

As a libertarian, that’s generally how I frame things, because if I can’t justify it under the NAP, it’s probably me forcing my values on others.

Finding novel ways to manipulate customers is their job

True, but isn’t that true of pretty much everything if we zoom out enough? Politicians want to manipulate voters to get (re)elected, restaurants want to manipulate patrons to return, etc. We all have a selfish interest in getting others to do what we want.

There has to be a line at which point self-interest is “wrong” to the extent that we should use government to regulate it. I use the NAP to reason about that point, others use some other (often subjective) metric. This same line of reasoning could be used to ban porn games, games with self-harm, or games critical of a government.

Banning things is generally not what governments should be doing, they should practice restraint and only step in when someone’s rights are violated or at risk of being violated.

Yup, but it’s possible if you get them one by one. They can keep their old stuff, just use the new one with you.

Cool. I’d use very little bandwidth, and my other resource usage would be quite bursty, but almost zero most of the time.

I got all my media ripped, so I’m good for now, and incremental updates are pretty easy.

But I can forsee a time when my bluray drive dies or something and torrenting is easier.