the threat was more effective than the trigger pull. trust the orange idiot to show the world our bare ass.

global cooperation is the answer, but no… assuming a zero sum game (a game america is ill prepared to “win”) is the mantra of decades of psychotic us leadership. so tired of this planet sized madhouse.

Hell yeah, I fucking nailed it

big oooof on the j-dawg and his tree.

but seriously, nice bit of ackchyually here.

seize the means of tariffication!

not only is noscript your general browsing prophylactic, but it will often render js paywalls climbable. I have no other plugin as loved and as useful as noscript - immediate install on any firefox instance.

anyone who has never experienced the joy of destroying hardware with a misplaced address access is, at best, translucent. magic blue smoke or bust.

ouch.

fantastic!

c-band satellite dishes and videocipher II’s. fun times.

it was hilarious! a highlight of my day so far.

would love to poke at it, but does not seem to work via Tor with JS disabled. :´(

however, thumbs up to the idea of new, “interesting” frontends!

dammit! where can I send you my “spat coffee on keyboard” cleaning bill, huh?!

an expanded explanation of your first paragraph would have been useful for general discussion.

your el salvador paragraph absolutely killed the mojo.

December, 2024, El Salvador, in an agreement for a $1.4 billion loan from the IMF, agreed to reduce bitcoin purchases, removed the mandatory acceptance of Bitcoin requirement on merchants, will no longer accept tax payments with the asset, and will wind-down its involvement in the Chivo wallet.

Based on the available data from the Instituto Universitario de Opinión Pública (Iudop) of the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA), here is the percentage of Salvadorans who reported using Bitcoin for transactions from 2021 to 2024: 2021: 25.7%, 2022: 21%, 2023: 12%, 2024: 8.1%.

el salvador was always going to be an example of the very worst tendencies of hard-currency (anti-inflationary, proof of work, etc) crypto, specifically because the very worst of the cryptobro “community” was involved in it.

as of now, some of the worst people on earth are the face of cryptocurrency. major “L”, even for the arguably useful chains.

edit: bunny ears for community

depending on specs it will be a little power hungry, but a good virtualization platform.

yes, the power supplies are likely redundant and the server will complain if they are not both powered.

it will use a VGA connection, but you should be ale to find cheap VGA monitors or cheap adapters.

RAID controllerfor those drives? how many processors and cores? how much RAM? what OS are you planning on running on it? iDRAC included? (if so, likely idrac6, but still usable)

this hardware is very well supported by linux - I have used these older servers extensively. your boss was right to be excited for you. its a great exploration platform that you will be able to do lots of things with.

fire up a live linux distro and get detailed specs on the box - that will guide what you can play with right away.

self signed is an option if strict checking is not enforced by the client… or perhaps certbot to the rescue? if you run a public facing DNS server, certbot-dns-rfc2136 requests would allow you to create certs for any host you want (even internal ones)

still slightly less painful than listening to vogon poetry.

look, the hyperspace bypass is upon us. if you happen upon the literary equivalent of a subether sense-o-matic and a digital thumb, I will have my bathrobe and towel at the ready.

but we gotta try and take everyone.

I hear ya. just not sure there is going to be a single buffet of easy, bitesized solutions :-(

short but dense article. a very useful read.

another security site that pretends to “require” JS to view. are you kidding me?! seriously?!

anyway Firefox reader view to the rescue. and dont frequent or trust “security” focused sites that require JS. just dont.

should have left the context out. ruins the enlightenment of discovery as you consider - also, to enjoy the comments battle over it.

but punchy nonetheless.

I imagine, sometimes, its the only way to cope with them. some people get paranoid, some do not. setting and grounding play important roles in this.