If you don’t need actually public DNS, something like Tailscale might be an option.

“Suicide”

I’m completely out of the loop here, what’s the point of testing in the first place? Maybe I’m too European for that, but this seems extremely intrusive for no reason.

Even bigger question: what then?

Say you deport a citizen of Mexican origin to Mexico. Can’t they just, you know, go back? They’re citizens, with a passport/id.

The only alternative is to strip them (at least de facto) of their citizenship, which is literally a Hitler move (https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesetz_über_den_Widerruf_von_Einbürgerungen_und_die_Aberkennung_der_deutschen_Staatsangehörigkeit, only a German source, unfortunately).

“Even deader internet theory”.

Wait, so some people just have a dangling piece of colon attached to nothing but their anus?

Problem is, though, that some of the hate fans have some valid points for the wrong reasons.

For example, it does feel a lot like the writers are ticking boxes. They have the usual Star Wars tropes, but also the “diversity” check boxes. It feels very obvious that there’s the orphan, here’s the misunderstood genius, here’s the queer character, here’s the obvious callback to casual fans, etc. etc.

You’ll have your haters for everything deemed woke, those are idiots, but having formulaic, not very organic stories isn’t exactly great.

I’m aware of that.

Replying to you in an obvious reference to your style is obviously intended to create a comedic moment.

Apparently, my joke died a quick and senseless death.

Honestly, it could be kind of cool.

If you’re doing it right, the juxtaposition of “profound” graphical appearance and nonsensical/banal text content can be funny.

Isn’t bacon a product of oppression by an ethnic group of mammals obtained by lethal violence?

That’s one of those statements that sound deep until you think about it for 2s.

Or at least not permanent.

I grew up in the early 2000s and while starting somewhere around 2005 cameras and the first social sites became a thing, nothing of that exists today. Myspace and SchülerVZ (German Facebook clone) were super popular, but don’t exist anymore. Camera phones didn’t have an easy way to export photos and most hard drives from back then just died at some point. There’s hardly anything left. And that’s a good thing.

They’re afraid to not get a chance to interview them again.

If you’re a political journalist and half the politicians won’t talk to you, you have a problem.

Now, a press with a backbone would of course retaliate by simply not showing anything of those politicians (just indirect statements, no pictures, no sound bites), but the press has no backbone, so…

No, we are not!

Why would we lie?

I have no local thrift store, and the speakers you can find here are often too big. I just wanted small cheap speakers to listen to YouTube videos and essentially an extension cord to plug my (proper) headphones into.

I mean, soundwise they’re fine. Not awesome, but for the price perfectly ok. It’s just that everything else is crap for no reason.

Shouldn’t that be standard everywhere? My flats here in Germany all had one central switch for that wired before the actual circuit breakers so that any outlet should be protected.

Is there a reason to only put that on select outlets?

I bought a cheap set of speakers for my workshop PC.

They have two buttons. One is the combined mode/on/off button. Short press turns it on, another short press cycles through different modes, which are not explained anywhere, but have different LED colors. One mode (line in) looks almost exactly like the red standby led, it just has a bit of a blue LED also lit. Pressing it long turns it off.

The second button switches between a regular and a “speech bubble” mode. I’m not sure what that’s supposed to do. However, longpressing that button switches between speakers and headphones.

Then there’s the volume knob. It’s extremely non-linear and has a delay of a second or two, so you have to be really precise. The volume knob is also not really synced to the headphone amp, so each time you put on headphones, you have to turn the volume like crazy, and then remember to turn it down again.

And the maximum fuck you: the speakers are so lightweight, that they slip around when trying to press the buttons, so you always need two hands.

Absolute garbage. Why are they going out of their way to create a worse product? It doesn’t make sense.

I get what you’re trying to say, but I’m not sure it makes sense.

I mean, that’s literally every field you’re not an expert in. And most of us are experts in less than one field.

You don’t know about medicine, car engines, electricity or tax laws, you have your guys for that. Even in our field, we have guys for databases, OSes, networking, because quite frankly nobody understands those really.

So I’m not sure what the point of your comment is. That having experts is good? Yeah, I guess? Did we need to have that reinforced?

I think you’re misrepresenting the comment.

Depression as a medical term only applies to people who have objectively nothing to be depressed about. Nobody would (to turn it up to 11) argue that a concentration camp inmate has depression when he’s feeling like everything’s fucked, because very objectively, everything is fucked in his environment.

The comment is instead about people who are thrown into a depressing, pointless situation they can’t escape, just like the prisoner, only much much milder. They see no future, because there truly is no future for them. Now, that would be horrible for society, because those people might start to question why exactly they’re in this situation. So as a bandaid, they get diagnosed. It’s not actually shit, you just see it like that, because you are sick. Here, take a pill. It’s gaslighting.

The rolling Stones had a song about mother’s little helper 50 years ago. It’s not exactly new.

Privacy is almost always a double edged sword here.

Making all medical records of everyone available to science would catapult us 200 years in the future…

… but it would also lead to extremely widespread discrimination against a whole bunch of people, throwing us back 200 years.