Just use a sip phone app on your mobile. I use Linphone but there are lots of them.

If Holland can have Willem of Orange, we can have Donald. Stop hassling us.

Just pick up a little bit of French and then when you meet them, you can get by with a mixture of Frenglish, gesturing, cross-language dictionaries, and help from Domenic.

I use it to initialize new VPS with my usual setup, but it might be easier to use a container format. I think Ansible itself has become a bit unfashionable since I started using it. I don’t know what is cool instead now. It was Saltstack for a while but idk how long that lasted. Ansible is working mostly ok for me so I’ve stayed with it, til whenever.

I think the apt. building I live in is from the 1920s or so.

Worth mentioning, this book was written in 1954. Full text is online, find by web search.

Book was published in 1954. I hadn’t heard of it previously. Based on the video blurb, the longwinded but interesting article “Meditations on Moloch” by Scott Alexander might also be of interest. The video is 12 minutes long, I guess not too bad, but I’m still not up for watching it. Here’s a longer version of the blurb, I guess:

https://www.philosopheasy.com/p/jacques-elluls-the-technological

I thought that was only a problem if done for purposes of gambling.

Glad the phone call didn’t go like the joke about the two hunters.

Yes, that too. I hadn’t even thought about trying to send email from a home ISP. Everyone knows you basically can’t. I thought the idea was to receive email rather than send it, so you wouldn’t be relying on some bigtech company to store it for you.

I think there are still enough v4-only systems out there that you don’t really want to host a mail server on v6. You are right though that it would be nice to be able to get static v6 (or for that matter v4) addresses from home isp’s. Some do offer that of course.

Another issue can be that the average home internet user has no idea keep even a client system secure. So ISP’s might use NAT and default firewall configurations partly to stop incoming connections on the theory that they are likely to be malicious. On home routers you can usually open ports if you know what you’re doing. I don’t know if that’s even possible on mobile phones.

“In his new book, More Everything Forever, the science journalist Adam Becker offers a deep dive into the worldview of techno-utopians such as Musk—one that’s underpinned by promises of AI dominance, space colonization, boundless economic growth, and eventually, immortality. Becker’s premise is bracing: Tech oligarchs’ wildest visions of tomorrow amount to a modern secular theology that is both mesmerizing and, in his view, deeply misguided. The author’s central concern is that these grand ambitions are not benign eccentricities, but ideologies with real-world consequences​.”

This looks like some kind of weird AI slop, sorry.

Not sure what you’re asking, but can you use git hooks? What is the purpose of the mirror: for backup, for remote listening, or what? If the mirror is the permanent home for the files, you should keep the lossless version there. Is the lossy conversion just to reduce upload bandwidth? How did you get the lossless files onto the client to begin with?

If I imagine this setup, the lossless versions would live on the server, lossy compression would also be done on the server, and then the client could download either version.

I think version control isn’t really what you want, since you normally won’t have multiple revisions of the same file.

Maybe you could look at git-annex for handling the large binaries in your git repo.

That it’s a derelict shopping mall means that the property owner likely doesn’t care.

Reasonable guess is that Tesla is paying rent to the mall owner. Is it usual to store unsold cars out in the open for long periods? I know they sit in outdoor new car lots at dealerships, but I figured maybe it usually wasn’t for very long.

John, Paul, George, and Ringo.

Not that resilient. Mods and admins controlling discussion, defederation due to dislike of the messenger, etc. I think the federation model is flawed and it should be done at the client side instead of on servers.

Lichess

TEFL work often pays kind of badly, but it’s an ok thing to do if you don’t have better options, of ir you’re trying to spend some time travelling while bringing in enough cash to cover basic expenses. I wouldn’t want to think of it as a career.

The screen light will mess with your sleep cycle. Put on some quiet music and listen to it with the screen shut off and your eyes closed.