I find it really weird that something as simple as the basic functionality of nextcloud seemingly can’t be implemented in a stable and lightweight manner.

Nextcloud always seems one update away from self destruction and it prepares for that by hoarding all the resources it can get. It never feels fast or responsive. I just want a way to share files between my machines.

There are other solutions, I know, but they’re all terrible in their own way.

On the other hand: most cars are not moved 23h a day. They just stand around.

A lightweight solar panel could be a worthwhile range extender in at least some climates.

I would suspect, hardly anyone who knows how to do that is stupid enough to do it.

Most modems/ISP routers are relatively secure by default.

Show me a single person that uses these tools exclusively and does not care about updating their machine.

And even then: ssh does have vulnerabilities. Email clients also usually render HTML, which means they have a browser engine under the hood.

• “How do lesbians have physical fun time?”

Ok, that one I don’t understand.

It takes line 10s of adult research to find a whole range of possibilities.

Many women seem to assume that penis and balls are attached actually between the legs, just like where their vaginas are. They are surprised, if they’re told, the whole assembly is actually more “at the front”.

The reverse is also true, BTW. A lot of boys struggle finding the vagina because from their perspective it’s waaay too low.

We barely understand our own bodies, it’s not surprising that we have problems with other sexes bodies.

Jet pee can’t melt steel bike frames!

Again, that’s not what obfuscation means.

Also, what exactly is the difference between cat and journalctl? You can’t read a text file without a program either.

Of course, raw text files are more common, but what you’re drawing up here is a mixture of old man yells at cloud and tin foil hat territory.

So literally every program on your machine is obfuscated. Linux kernel? Obfuscated. Wayland? Obfuscated. And even VIM: obfuscated.

You’re creating problems where there are none.

Are you really sure, you’re using “obfuscation” right? Because that implies that someone intentionally makes something harder to read to hide something. That’s not the case here. Nothing is hidden, it’s all there, the formats are well defined and easy to read.

I think you are either trolling or you fundamentally don’t understand, what you’re talking about.

Nothing is obfuscated. You can download each and every code file, audit it, and build the binaries from exactly that code. You can even compare the binaries to the ones provided by major distros thanks to reproducible builds.

Just because you don’t understand code, doesn’t mean it’s obfuscated. Following that logic, even a loaf of bread is “obfuscated” because you don’t understand sour dough.

Nah, it’s just not extreme enough and actually not that unpopular.

A frighteningly large percentage of the US population doesn’t “believe” in evolution, creationism is not that weird for them.

But for the rest: creationism is not that weird compared to flat earthers hunting down child sex trafficking pizza joints and Jewish Space Lasers.

You know, I have a hunch that neofascists and neonazis are not good people.

Seriously though, we’ve had the same discussion in the 80s about the Wehrmacht (“Wehrmachtsausstellung”) and “it wasn’t all bad!” is almost a meme at this point. And we will have the same discussion again very soon. Maybe some of the Jews actually were bad people and totally deserved their fate?

These are fascists. If there is any idea, person, historical period that reinforces their self-victimizing superiority complex, they will take it. And they will do what every conservative thinker does: stop thinking if the current result fits your ideology.

I have to say, patents are my only real concerns regarding GMOs.

Most of the other concerns can be tested/ruled out, but patents could absolutely fuck up entire continents and literally enslave millions of small farmers.

It’s 100% within the realm of possibilities that Monsanto puts a gene drive in their crops so suddenly every plant in a 20km radius produces “patented” seeds.

Thing is, these guys have a very narrow view on “environment”, but the conflict here is emblematic of basically everything regarding protection of nature.

Greenpeace is under the (not completely unfounded) impression, that every new technology is a wedge to slowly push the world towards doom. Just one more lane. Just one more gene changed. And so on. They are completely uncompromising, which is understandable to a certain degree.

However, the result is that perfect is the enemy of the good. Here in Germany we have conflicts between people who want to save the planet by installing wind turbines and people who want to save the local fauna by not installing wind turbines. The latter do have a point if you’re very myopic, but they don’t (want to) see that their actions will likely kill the entire species, not just a few individuals.

We’ve had the same recommendations in Germany for decades. Food and water for several days, ideally two weeks. When these recommendations were renewed a few years ago, people lost their shit, even though nothing changed.

It’s perfectly reasonable for a government to recommend keeping some food and water.

Absolute non-story.

Every sensible government has recommendations like this. Not because of some evil conspiracy or impending doom, but simply because natural disasters sometimes happen.

Sometimes, there’s a flood and supermarkets can’t be stocked. You don’t want food riots just because baked beans or out of stock for a week.

It’s astounding to me how many people (including op) lose their shit, just because their government reminds them, that sometimes bad things happen. A mandatory health insurance doesn’t mean government goons will go around and break your legs.

There’s barely any pressure to extinguish “bad” traits, though.

If you’re the idiot who eats every berry you can find, cavemen can’t save you and your genes disappear. Modern medicine can and will save you, so you can create offspring and the berryeaters keep their proud heritage alive.

Now, what is considered “good” or “bad” is of course highly debatable, but currently we have effectively no survival pressure, the only selection is how many children you get.

Taking jokes from a TV series about Aspis too seriously has to be meta humor.

Nothing can replace the blubbery taste of whale oil unfortunately.