Not for soups, but a tip for frying mushrooms and getting rid of the mushrooms texture that a lot of people hate is parboiling it in salt water for 3-5 minutes before going in a very hot pan.

Of if there is no time for that, salting it at the end of the cooking process helps it now reabsorb the moisture it sweats out!

We also have a game called Anti-Monopoly

Meanwhile the EU probably pushes for the 100th time to backdoor all communication encryption backed by fascists and Spain trying to put down the Catalans…

And the UK doing the same thing and also a big surveillance state…

Sadly nowhere is great right now.

This is absolutely so true. All of the “hunting” survivalists don’t realize that you would essentially have 1000 people hunting every 1 deer if you live in the suburbs and not that much better rurally. This isn’t 1800 anymore.

The best thing you can do is have enough land to farm, learn how to farm, and stock the hell up on base ingredients (wheat, rice, dry beans, lentils) and stock up on as many seeds as you know how to grow. Even then; one bad harvest and you starve.

But seriously, I can’t stress dry beans and lentils enough. They last forever, they can be sprouted and replanted, and they have many many times more protein than corn or rice which is very important when you go vegan.

Also getting ducks will give eggs for additional protein and B12 vitamins that you would miss out on otherwise.

Dropping instead of blocking might technically be better because it wastes a bit more bot time and they see it as “it doesn’t exist” rather than an obsticle to try exploits on. Not sure if that is true though.

For me:

• ssh server only with keys

• absolutely no ssh forwarding, only available to local network via firewall rules

• docker socket proxy for everything that needs socket access

• drop non-used ports, limit IPs for local-only services (e.g. paperless)

• crowdsec on traefik for the rest (sadly it blocks my VPN IPs also)

• Authelia over everything that doesn’t break the native apps (jellyfin and home assistant are the two that it breaks so far, and HA was very intermittent so I made a separate authelia rule and mobile DNS entry for slightly reduced rules)

• proper umask rules on all docker directories (or as much as possible)

• main drive FDE with a separate boot drive with FDE keyfile on a dongle that is removed except for updates and booting to make snatch-and-grabs useless and compromising bootloader impractical

• full disk encryption with passworded data drives, so even if a smash and grab happens when I leave the dongle in, the sensitive data is still encrypted and the keys aren’t in memory (makes a startup script with a password needed, so no automated startups for me)

For more info, I followed a lot of stuff on: https://github.com/imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server

No, the most brain dead feature is on my fucking volkawagen ID4.

It automatically unlocks when you approach with the fob. Then if you just pass by to go for a walk and don’t interact with it at all, it doesn’t re-lock again and you can see the lock status remotely, but can’t lock it…

Absolute garbage design by VW.

Isn’t that sources available, not open source since they aren’t allowing community contributions, or am I misunderstanding that?

Kind of like how greyjay is source available but not open source?

Belgium is moving more and more to a much better place just because of regulations anyeay

Solar panels and batteries in a shit ton of homes because of energy prices and older government incentives

10000L rain water tanks because government regulations now require rainwater hookups for future toilers and washing machines plus water is expensive here

Induction stoves to not have to put extraction fans in the kitchen to the outside to boost energy EPC ratings (resale value)

We always have a bunch of potatoes and cans of tomatoes and pasta for fries, mashed potatoes, or different pastas (but maybe that is just my family)

A ton of people would be quite OK for a while here I think.

Or who’s eyesight it gives.

Each blind person gets horrifying deep sea fish eyesight or the eyesight of someone committing murder and now they all are thought to be hallucinating.

I have been happy with PrivateVPN, but I can’t get a read on them.

They say no-log, but many VPNs probably lie about that. Small, based in Sweden.

I just saw on the kumo app literally just now that they got bought out by Miss Group and are no longer independent like when I started with them in 2019.

They have no strikes against them besides the not-disclosed buyout. No idea if I should switch, but they have good prices and port forwarding.

Our fucking corporate HP printer requires every single employee to make a separate fucking HP account in order to scan anything on the stupid piece of shit.

Not to mention in CONSTANTLY freezes and crashes.

We are replacing it. Fuck HP.

That is true.

I am also looking at history too. The last time of a similar thing happened in the states was the end of prohibition in 1933, right when open fascist movements started to gain steam (and especially among the ruling class) as opposed to the right wing lead up to fascism during the prohibition era.

Not saying that there is causation, but it is definitely a pretty weird coincidence that the only two massive recreational drug legalizations in america happened right during the fascist movements early stages.

Very true, and weed is much much less dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes.

However, I think it is a coincidence how as everything in the US is reaching peak shittiness, a ton of states are legalizing it.

Weed, while not harmful, absolutely keeps people entertained, distracted, and lets us use it as an escape from the shitty world. That is not bad, but I have a suspicion that it is actually useful to the people in power to keep people from revolting or disrupting power. Who would rather go protest after a hard day of labor vs chilling and having a gummy?

Kind of like how there are a ton of efforts to keep people addicted to phone and TV instead of taking action.

They are a massive megacorp though. It always leaves me to wonder “how much”.

Tons of capitalist companies do stock options where “technically” the employees own a share of the company, though that percentage is usually extremely small, even collectively such that they have no decision power. I can’t help but think that it is similar with huawei, but with better marketing.

That is very fair!!

But on the other hand, 99.9% of users don’t read all of the change notes for their packages and don’t have notifications for CVEs. In that case, in my opinion just doing updates as they come would be easier and safer.

Doesn’t ucore also have to restart to apply updates?

Not super ideal for a server as far as maintenance and uptime to have unexpected, frequent restarts as opposed to in-place updates, unless one’s startup is completely automated and drives are on-device keyfile decrypted, but that probably fits some threat models for security.

The desktop versions are great!

This just makes me think that CEOs will just stick an LLM on a vibrator and call it a “sex robot” 😂

Well, I didn’t think anyone would be dumb enough to do that, but you might be right…

I am also very low. I just pretty much let someone else take credit for it so that it would actually be taken to management.

I got my company to start using bitwarden. That was a huge step and 1/4 of the company forgot their password in the first 60 days. I sent a big email detailing how to make a mnemonic device with a passphrase that bitwarden generates 😂 complete with photoshop drawings on one i generated. no forgotten passwords since

Hey, I have done something similar to this.

I turn the VPN on every time I connect to a WiFi without the SSID of my trusted places.

Super easy with tasker.

Here is the XML to import and experiment with OP:

<TaskerData sr="" dvi="1" tv="6.4.15">
	<Profile sr="prof7" ve="2">
		<cdate>1693206728189</cdate>
		<edate>1742652330550</edate>
		<flags>8</flags>
		<id>7</id>
		<mid0>8</mid0>
		<mid1>9</mid1>
		<nme>VPN Automation</nme>
		<State sr="con0" ve="2">
			<code>160</code>
			<pin>true</pin>
			<Str sr="arg0" ve="3">HomeWifi/telenet-C6DE3/My VW 4685</Str>
			<Str sr="arg1" ve="3"/>
			<Str sr="arg2" ve="3"/>
			<Int sr="arg3" val="2"/>
		</State>
		<State sr="con1" ve="2">
			<code>110</code>
			<pin>true</pin>
			<Int sr="arg0" val="1"/>
			<Int sr="arg1" val="1"/>
			<Int sr="arg2" val="1"/>
			<Int sr="arg3" val="1"/>
			<Int sr="arg4" val="1"/>
			<Int sr="arg5" val="0"/>
		</State>
		<State sr="con2" ve="2">
			<code>160</code>
			<Str sr="arg0" ve="3"/>
			<Str sr="arg1" ve="3"/>
			<Str sr="arg2" ve="3"/>
			<Int sr="arg3" val="2"/>
		</State>
	</Profile>
	<Task sr="task8">
		<cdate>1693214693841</cdate>
		<edate>1694095080534</edate>
		<id>8</id>
		<nme>Turn On VPN</nme>
		<pri>100</pri>
		<Action sr="act0" ve="7">
			<code>365</code>
			<Bundle sr="arg0">
				<Vals sr="val">
					<net.dinglisch.android.tasker.RELEVANT_VARIABLES>&lt;StringArray sr=""/&gt;</net.dinglisch.android.tasker.RELEVANT_VARIABLES>
					<net.dinglisch.android.tasker.RELEVANT_VARIABLES-type>[Ljava.lang.String;</net.dinglisch.android.tasker.RELEVANT_VARIABLES-type>
				</Vals>
			</Bundle>
			<Str sr="arg1" ve="3">WireGuardSetTunnel(true,BE-wg)</Str>
		</Action>
	</Task>
	<Task sr="task9">
		<cdate>1693214759029</cdate>
		<edate>1693374826981</edate>
		<id>9</id>
		<nme>Turn Off VPN</nme>
		<pri>100</pri>
		<Action sr="act0" ve="7">
			<code>365</code>
			<Bundle sr="arg0">
				<Vals sr="val">
					<net.dinglisch.android.tasker.RELEVANT_VARIABLES>&lt;StringArray sr=""/&gt;</net.dinglisch.android.tasker.RELEVANT_VARIABLES>
					<net.dinglisch.android.tasker.RELEVANT_VARIABLES-type>[Ljava.lang.String;</net.dinglisch.android.tasker.RELEVANT_VARIABLES-type>
				</Vals>
			</Bundle>
			<Str sr="arg1" ve="3">WireGuardSetTunnel(false,BE-wg)</Str>
		</Action>
	</Task>
</TaskerData>