This isn’t leaving tech… it’s leaving corporate employment.

Still great options, but I was expecting something more like: pivot to a different role in your existing company and then find another non-corporate use for those skills, or get your apprenticeship in the trades, or become a bus driver.

This goes nicely with abortion bans, criminalization of life choices that don’t produce babies, and the disenfranchisement of women.

There are tools for converting Hyper-V drives to vmdks that everything can read. Then just fire up new kvm instances and load the disk images.

What differentiates a dating site from something like Lemmy? The secret matching algorithm?

If asked in a vacuum, there’d be no audible answer.

Unless non-verbal communication was used and the participants could hold their breath long enough.

Or maybe Putin.

May??? They’ve been targeting them for years!

If it didn’t repel Orban out of office, it still needs some improvement.

“This is ICE! Round up all your undocumented day laborers”

“Sir, I’m too busy for that right now. If you and your men can help me pick all these tomatoes, I’ll have time to tell you where they’re all hiding.”

— 8 hours later —

“Thanks for helping get all the produce in. As you can see, we no longer have any undocumented day laborers, so now we depend on regular ICE raids to keep the farm going. Have a nice day!”

Isn’t that headline backwards? Isn’t it Moscow saying Russia has occupied the region?

All religions, or just officially recognized ones?

Because there’s plenty of modern religions out there that claim to be anti-religion. Groupthink hiding behind ideologies that are fine in and of themselves, but twisted to keep people in line.

The problem isn’t religion; it’s people.

Bridge mode disables the router in the modem; if you have an admin account on the modem you should be able to enable it yourself; otherwise you need to get your ISP to enable it. It will turn off all the firewall and WiFi features on the modem.

You need to use their modem quite often, but you don’t need to use their router. They’re usually “all in one” modem/router things these days, but they’re legally required to provide you with a modem in bridge mode if you ask — at that point, an Ethernet cable attached to their modem is effectively attached to the Internet, and you can put your own hardware inside (firewall, Wifi router, etc.).

While you need to connect to their IP gateway, you don’t need to use their DNS services or anything but their IP gateway service.

It doesn’t really matter… the data is managed by a third party in another country. I have no real control over who gets access to it, intentionally or otherwise. Better that the data just doesn’t exist in the first place.

Well yeah. That’s what their tech does. And it’s why I have my ISP’s WiFi offering disabled and the antennas removed and run their router in bridged mode, hooked up to equipment I own that doesn’t call out to the Internet.

Can’t say I’ve ever seen that “transition or death” argument where I live; it’s been “transition or life of misery.” I can see how in places that have been pushing transition as soon as puberty hits this could be a thing… but most people are compassionate enough that they just want to help mitigate unneeded suffering.

Classic case of crossed signals; that type of misinterpretation doesn’t really care about your political leanings; everyone is susceptible.

“This guy” is likely going to be mayor of New York, joining the likes of Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg and Eric Adams.

As such, he’s making headlines everywhere, although the spin is all over the map.

I figure this is why Musk had so many kids; he can divide up his wealth “in trust” between all of them, with himself as the eternal executor.

Just remember to keep stuff cycling; batteries need charging, iodine tablets need replacing, and even the food and water need regular refreshing.

There are very few goods that don’t go bad if left unattended for over 3 years, for instance.

Remember that fingerprinting can be your friend… because it’s much easier to fake an online fingerprint than a real one.

You can generate a unique fingerprint with each online interaction; this means that you will always have a unique identity.

Or, you can ensure you always have the same fingerprint as a large number of other people.

Think of it as the difference between using a different valid loyalty card each time you shop vs using one of the famous numbers that millions of other people are also using.

Of course, in both circumstances, you do give up the benefits of being uniquely identifiable.