Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

Are there any examples of genuinely self-sufficient off-the-grid/homested _vegan_ YouTubers out there?

It's easy to be self-sufficient with animals. But actually getting enough protein and other nutrients without modern tech is impossible without animals in many ecosystems.

Like solar and generators, this feels like a schism between reality and the modern left.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A7MMN7Gzw4

There's a _lot_ of conservative-ish Texas YouTuber's doing vids about their self-sufficient solar and generator setups... I don't think the left-wing environmentalists really thought this through. They're accidentally promoting self-sufficiency, which is both unobtainable if you're lower income, and quickly teaches you about the pragmatic realities of power production.

@mir_btc Some of those people might be thinking of transaction fees. I've noticed on Hacker News people seem to have wildly off ideas about how expensive tx fees are - lots of people claiming they start at $20, or even $50.

@hideki Look at the details of what accounts they're actually warning you about. But yeah, good chance you have nothing to worry about. I didn't.

@alex Doesn't surprise me. Likely to be lots of situations where "elsewhere" isn't better enough to be worth the travel costs. Would often be better to just sit tight and hope.

Remember that their baseline metabolism is _much_ lower than us, and even lower than usual for insects, so they can sit around waiting for far longer than we ever could.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0010406X70904834

So if I buy Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet, can I delete it?

@hideki That's probably from Google Chrome's password manager. I got the same email the other day as well for some passwords I have saved from about a decade ago.

These days I use the pass password manage: https://www.passwordstore.org/

@drgo Lol, I remember 100BaseT feeling pretty fast when I upgraded my LAN from 10BaseT.

@adderstone 15 seconds of this magic is far too little.

@drgo For passwordless ssh there's basically three things you need to learn:

ssh-keygen
authorized_keys

...and possibly you'll need to much about in /etc/ssh/sshd_config Though most distros have sane defaults re: that. Actually, if anything, these days sshd tends to ship with password logins disabled in the default configs.

@drgo One of the less obviously useful things about Qubes is how easy it makes doing dangerous disk operations in separate VM's.

...as for the confusion factor, I've setup the terminals for my VM's to have different background colors to distinguish important ones from unimportant.

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2021/03/04/qubes-4-0-4/

New Qubes release!

tl;dr: Qubes compartmentalizes your machine into a bunch of VM's, so a web browser exploit can't steal your bitcoins or backdoor the software you maintain. I _highly_ recommend it, and have been running it on all my non-server machines for years.

I actually just installed the release candidate for this release a week ago on my main desktop, and it got my new NVME drive working reliably finally. Probably due to the upgraded Linux kernel in dom0. 😂

...because launching government payloads into orbit at a fraction of the cost of the competition is a "subsidy".

Or did you mean the money for electric cars? Because that kinda sounds like fair payment for fixing an externality more effectively than any other American car company by far.

Bernie Sanders is a morally bankrupt parasite on society.