https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

They mean political handcuffs, not the criminal kind. If trump wins but democrats control part of congress, then he will have a harder time pushing through legislation.

I was there, Gandalf, when we named hosts after your horse and didn’t pronounce the “dot” in “.com”

Came looking for zombo.com. Was not disappointed.

But then, zombo.com is the old Internet.

This feels like a First Follower problem.

He’s clearly on the right track, but the first steps have a lot of inertia holding them back. Also, is hard to act as a community when we’re looking for those first few leaders to do something on their own that we as individuals can get behind.

We need some frameworks for action. I don’t think we know what that looks like yet.

Careful. From all the B movies I’ve watched, I can tell that volcanoes have standards.

Look into Single Sign-On services (SSO) like Authelia, Authentik, or KeyCloak. Most SSO tools do the sorts of things you’re looking for. Some will talk to the native UNIX user store. I do agree with the others, though: if you’re this far along, then it’s time to spin up LDAP and SSO, but this might be the same tool in your case.

Amiga crew checking in. Now that was an amazing machine.

Tie minimum wage to GDP/GNP, inflation, etc.

Tie congressional salaries to be a fixed multiple of minimum wage.

If congress wants more money, they have to make everyone’s situation better.

A lot of things are unspeakable until suddenly they’re not.

Right up front. This is our problem. We’re so concerned about how “the message will test,” or whether it will give the other side (whoever that is) ammunition, that we’ve become afraid to face the truth head on.

If we’re to recover from this spiral that we’re stuck in, we have to address this.

I mean, seriously! Have you people not watched The Adventures of Baron Munchausen?!

Projects like Anna’s Archive, Z-Library, and the rest need volunteers to create mirrors. If you understand the risks and are able to keep a mirror running long term (not easy work), please do it.

I first worked on one in a summer thing between high school and college - before Jurassic Park. That experience is what originally got me interested in the Internet.

Right now, I’m using Obsidian. I think I’d like to transition to keeping docs in a wiki, but I worry that it’s part of the self-hosted infrastructure. In other words, if the wiki’s down, I no longer have the docs that I need to repair the wiki.

iWax on … iWax off

and a large orange drink

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy

The article is well worth reading, but here are Russell’s 10 commandments of liberalism, for clarity.

1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2. Do not think it worthwhile to produce belief by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
3. Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
9. Be scrupulously truthful, even when truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.

This is a great idea. How about this: After high school, you do 2 years of civil service. Then you go to college for free. After that, you do 2-4 more years of civil service, depending on how much school you do.

In the first 2 years, you grow up a bit, experience the real world, and earn a paycheck.

Next you go to college. Get a good liberal arts core and a major in your area of interest. Then spend a couple of years putting that learning to use and developing your skills.

Well, he is 66, and I hear average life expectancy is decreasing…

/s

These three are still the best bet.

I made the observation last week at work. As my teams starts to move from Slack to (ahem) Teams, it’s worth noting that the internal IRC still works.