As soon as everyone signs their zones with DNNSEC, we can implement DANE to use self-signed certificates safely, and all our problems will go away, world peace will be achieved, and food will taste better.

I’d like to think Lemmygrad’s operators keep their connection logs fairly well-protected, and store as little user data as possible.

I’d honestly be more concerned about opsec (operational security). For example, you might post in an apolitical thread about how you live outside of a city, you work at a local coffee shop, or maybe your username is “redcarowner69”. There’s three facts about you that someone with too much free time (or nation-state funding) can begin to arrange.

Thanks for the warning. I’ll keep my eyes open. Perhaps it’s time to start distro-hopping.

Making a website is cool, but don’t forget about the most important thing: content! You can start writing now, and save your work in Word/Writer/Notepad/whatever until you’ve found or built a place online to publish it.

Simple. Your users don’t care if it’s insecure. They click on fake password reset emails. You’re the bad guy here. They still haven’t forgiven you for requiring them to enter numbers when they want to log in.

Does this regulation require user-replaceable batteries, or just batteries users can replace with light tools? Are we talking a return to BlackBerry, or will iPhones without glue suffice? Can Tesla continue to sell cars in Europe, or will it have to be built like the Chevy Bolt with ten bolts and a few coolant lines separating skilled users from a thousand pounds of lithium-ion cells?

Like Lemmygrad, there’s enough federated beans to go around.

The last time this happened in America, we got reality TV. One such reality show involved an orange NYC landlord playing the lead character where he was depicted as a strong and unchallenged leader. Some can argue that it was enough PR for him to begin yet another run for the presidency, one that culminated in what Jello Biafra summed up with the sentence, “Are we fucking serious?”

Good for her. She finally grew up and saw reality.

We’re going to eat a ton of beans and then go sit in Twitter’s offices. Thanks for the gig, Google!

Police kill an unarmed teen in France, and the country revolts. Police kill an unarmed teen in America, and we’re told to thank the police.

Je suis France.

I changed banks during the pandemic. Maybe I'll just "forget" to put my bank account information back in, and see how long I can get away with "forgetting about" a $19K balance.