You’re describing the Spanish-American War, when the US seized Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines from Spain.

And Hawaii?

Among other factors, I think humans have a certain instinctive drive: when there’s a broad sense of social malaise—when lots of people feel there’s something wrong with their social institutions, but there’s no consensus on how to remedy it—they gravitate toward whatever thing the social establishment seems most afraid of, because in our deep history that’s been an effective way to break out of dangerous institutional stasis.

Depending on the social establishment at the time, that anti-establishment movement could take many forms—religious, ideological, nationalistic, etc. So I think Trumpism is an inevitable reaction to the rise of the neoliberal establishment under Clinton and the Bushes: the underlying cause of the neoliberal malaise is economic, but the most visible social anxieties are over racism, sexism, and other social factors. So that creates a feedback loop of growing fear that attracts those feeling a general sense of discontent.

So some of the inner flesh toward the middle transforms into outer skin?

Every screw colony has a queen screw.

Eh, he can take care of that stuff while waiting for the prints to complete.

Does it need to be accessible via API (e.g. SQL) or just a spreadsheet-style web interface?

The Republican candidate didn’t have a medical degree? I’d have thought that was a requirement for coroner.

You can use any port for SSH—or you can use something like Cockpit with a browser-based terminal instead of SSH.

If you didn’t map a local config file into the container, it’s using the default version inside the container at /app/public/conf.yml (and any changes will get overwritten when you rebuild the container). If you want to make changes to the configuration for the widget, you’ll want to use the -v option with a local config file so the changes you make will persist.

That varies by subreddit, which might actually help in training LLMs to recognize the difference.

That will remove your account from public view, but will it remove it from the data they use for AI training?

If not, you’re just enhancing the value of their proprietary data.

At some point someone’s going to train an LLM on material from successful scams to autonomously generate new scams, then wire the money to server farms to run more copies of itself.

If the other services are exposed on local ports, you can have NPM forward to those.

TIL General Electric Appliances, Hoover, Fisher & Paykel, Aqua, Hotpoint, Leader, and Candy are all owned by the same company.

But how will we automate our trolley problems?

Would that make it a type of sapphire?

For anyone confused by “Nextcloud” in the title, it’s just the blog attribution—Nextcloud isn’t involved in the acquisition.

As a casual self-hoster for twenty years, I ran into a consistent pattern: I would install things to try them out and they’d work great at first; but after installing/uninstalling other services, updating libraries, etc, the conflicts would accumulate until I’d eventually give up and re-install the whole system from scratch. And by then I’d have lost track of how I installed things the first time, and have to reconfigure everything by trial and error.

Docker has eliminated that cycle—and once you learn the basics of Docker, most software is easier to install as a container than it is on a bare system. And Docker makes it more consistent to keep track of which ports, local directories, and other local resources each service is using, and of what steps are needed to install or reinstall.

The inverse stare law.