Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

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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.

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

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.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/quarantine-officer-sex-assault-extortion-1.5926118

"Quarantine officer charged with extortion, sexual assault after demanding cash fine from Ont. resident"

Note that quarantine officers are _not_ a police officers and have _no_ authority to issue fines in the first place. That's why he is being charged with extortion.

I wonder how many private security guards they've hired for this? Probably not that many, which tells you right away that awful people are attracted to that job.

https://thecritic.co.uk/mutant-variations-and-the-danger-of-lockdowns/

Good writeup on how universal lockdown is probably breeding resistance to lockdown in the same way that antibiotic overuse breeds antibiotic resistant diseases.

"If I stand down from my position ... because of an allegation about something that simply did not happen, then any person in Australia can lose their career, their job, their life's work, based on nothing more than an accusation"

"Attorney General Christian Porter has outed himself as the Australian cabinet minister at the center of a historical rape allegation that has caused a storm of speculation in the nation's Parliament."

Brave to come forward.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/02/australia/christian-porter-australia-rape-allegation-intl-hnk/index.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20210302011452/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/nyregion/cuomo-harassment-anna-ruch.html

"Isn't he intentionally bleeding this out to distract from the nursing home deaths?"

https://davidokwii.com/linux-virtualization-and-containers-virtualbox-kvm-xen-lxc-and-docker/

"The other reason I have really not used Docker to for my development workflow is because of slow internet links we have in Uganda. A basic docker Image can roughly be 300-500MB and pulling that over the internet can be very painstakingly slow process on ~ 1Mbps link. So expensive data plans and slow internet connectivity keeps most African devs away from tools like Docker."

Nice reminder running into this randomly. :)

https://www.ft.com/content/56ba5a61-367e-4b10-abc8-4f79bab4144d

"Update 13:20pm: Craig Wright’s team has been in touch to clarify he is not asking for the network to be rendered mutable, but rather to have the stolen tokens replaced with new ones, all with a full train and under court order.

The idea, it seems, is to ensure both the thief and the victim can keep the money."

lol

Achievement unlocked: my Mastodon VM ran out of disk space. 😂

I really should get around to getting a colo box...