I still remember playing around in autoexec.bat, config.sys and command.com but don’t remember what the hell i was doing there and probably shouldn’t have touched those files. I guess i learned something as i haven’t bricked anything this side of the milennia.

While passing on american products in general is a good thing, not all products are equal. Signal is far better for privacy than anything in europe currently. Until there is a good option, supporting an open source non-profit company won’t give the US any profits from your usage. And that’s what really counts. To be honest, signal is the only safe system currently. What makes it unsafe is proprietary software on the clients it’s being used on like IOS or whatever android branch it’s used on.

We really should have something, especially as privacy in europe is really in danger with the chatcontrol agenda. We need both an operating system, and safe communication made in europe, and even more importantly, EU legislation that prevents things like chatcontrol even to be considered.

Its formally considered a flawed democracy. I do the same thing with my kids. If i want them to clean their room i’ll just ask them “do you want to clean your room, or you want to do the dishes and take out the trash?” and they’ll always go for cleaning their room because it feels like they are getting something out of the deal, it’s less “nasty” and they have a sense of choice but realistically i win in both scenarios.

I’ve been there twice, first time during 2008 and the security was crazy. Had homeland security already doing background check in the airport at the checkin counter, and while there i had two “VIP” searches due to connecting flights. Next time was just a few months ago, was scared they’d do some nasty searches and checks again but this time it was far more pleasant, signed a form on the internet, although it cost a bit, everything went smootly. I was suprised that the traveling was like going to all other places. The people are great, the food is great and really an overall great experience.

I will NOT set my foot there again as long as Trump is in power and really, i was scared to say anything on the internet before going because he’d already won the election which is quite telling but since biden was still running things i felt safe taking my electronics. Now i doubt they’ll ever let me back in 😂

Thanks! I initially considered going the wildcard route until i saw the workload involved for my host! There does seem to exist autorenewal programs for the largest hosts out there but i’m trying to support my local businesses so it’s unfortunately out of of my scope at the moment, but i’ll checkout your suggestion and see what tailscale has to offer!

I’ve set up a reverse proxy to try out hosting a few APIs but i’m curious about best practice and haven’t found any good way to do it. Anyway, i have them running dotnet 9 on debian, and hosting them on http ports and then reverse proxying to apache that serves them externally with certbot on 443 to some real hostnames. I would really want to host them on https internally as well, but is there a neat way to “cert” them without an internal CA-service? My experience with self-signed certs are mostly that they always force me to trust the server cert in my connection strings, which is also unsafe so i just don’t bother. Is it worth working on and which is the best approach here?

The conspiracy on this has been for several years that the chinese made machines that are used in the plant was deliberately configured wrong so that when northvolt finally goes in the drain, the chinese that made those machines will just buy everything and start usung them as they are already doing in their domestic market. So far, this theory is now on step 2. Lets see if they start buying it up as well.

Apparently they have brought back some of their production to sweden as of 2020 but don’t ask me which models, because i don’t know. I know production moved to china 2006 after not having any at all since the 80ies and they probably still make a lot of their new guitars there. Ive only played on a 70-80ies something superswede.

Hagström is great, especially the Super Swede is on my favourite list.

I disagree with the notion that moderation is done when the recipient doesnt want to see it. Moderation is the tools of censorship.

I respect your ideal and i think its a good basic value to have, but lets be honest. Reddit has always had content moderation in one way or another but had very high level of tolerance. I remember when every second post on reddit was a huge ascii of pedobear and they had subreddits with legal yet very untasteful pictures of underage girls and bullying fat people had their own subreddit. At some point it became large enough to get large investors that doesn’t want their name next to a barely dressed 14 year old. Then TheDonald and other right wing subs was banned, so it has mostly upheld free speach for what is popular among its users for the longest of time but has never been a free speach platform. Even 4chan today is nowhere near what it used to be, for good reasons i think because i think no sane person would look at it and think, this is free speach in its prime.

I agree with your point in general but free speech is a right that is only a protection from consequences from the government and does not include private coorporations or citizens. If someone start spewing racist remarks in my house, i’ll ask them to leave. The same applies for reddit and other platforms. We can freely move to a place where our speech is allowed. We can’t just force every single platform or every gathering allowing all speech at all times.