Years ago I heard this story about a company in India that held a fire drill. Once everybody was gathered outside, they made the announcement that for about a third of them their key cards wouldn’t work anymore because they were fired. My colleagues from India at the time said that sounded very real.

No, only for Wireguard. For torrents I use Mullvad from my home line.

Oracle has a Forever Free tier that I use to host my VPN gateway. It’s been running fine for years now.

No shit. Way back when, we traded VHS tapes of fan-subbed anime across continents. I subbed two episodes of a show someone brought from Japan on laserdisc for a convention. This was the only way to watch anime back then. As fun as it was, nobody in their right mind wants to go back to all that hassle, so just provide legal options. If you build it, they will come.

Yeah. 4 times the resolution, 10 times the size.

I am using Let’s Encrypt. Cloudflare is used for DNS validation.

It is that easy, like you said. And with Cloudflare and Caddy you can get TLS for your internal VPN hosts. I love that.

Russian Circles for the former, Frodus for the latter.

My Vaultwarden is behind a private VPN, but I’ll still update today. Thanks.

Double taxation treaties are very common. What I’ve been told by US coworkers makes the US stand out is that you still need to file your taxes with the IRS, even when living abroad. No idea if that’s actually the case.

I have lived outside my native country for a while and only had to file taxes in my country of residence (neither of which is the US), because there’s a DTAA in place between the two.

It’s very cyberpunk that police work would be outsourced to random mercs.

I have it on the PS5 and did four playthroughs already. No other game since the last two Deus Ex games has captured the spirit of cyberpunk so damn well. And with CP77 being open world, it is so easy and nice to immerse yourself in the world. One of my favorite games of all time.

True, but we do have the vaccine and the means to mass-produce and administer. That’s why I’m not worried about smallpox.

Really? I just used a passkey for the very first time with Google and Bitwarden and it worked quite nicely. What about passkeys is worse for you?

Why is this AI slop if it illustrates the point being made here?

True, but social media amplifies the dumb shit and creates new incentives and pressures to join the idiot herd. And while TikTok is definitely not the only problem, it is a problem.

Sounds fair to me. I keep reading every year that the super-rich get ever richer, so these CEOs have clearly done their job. Exploit everything and everyone to make their billionaire masters richer.

When it came out, I saw the trailer and decided that it’s not for me. Way too scary. Then recently I watched a commented speed run and thought “Yep, I was right”.

Oh, that’s cool. Now I just need €680 for a Steam Deck.

I already have a PS5, so the Steam Deck is much more tempting.