ITT: lots of generic VPN advice by people who have no experience with the specific problem.

Conversely, as I just learned with surprise from an episode of The Ancients podcast, homo erectus seems to have been somewhat carnivorous for a period of a million or so years.

But sure, the primate family and related rodents and lagomorphs are generally herbivorous.

Just that photo I find hard to look at.

Synopsis:

This constant tinkering with the genetics and reproductive systems of farmed animals has enabled the livestock industry to squeeze more food out of each animal and make meat, milk, and eggs cheaper, thereby increasing consumption of these foods — a vicious cycle that has led to animal suffering on an unfathomable scale.

NB: Vox is the only big publication that covers this subject regularly. Consider subscribing if you can afford it.

This is the only answer you need to read. It’s a non-problem if you just do this, and there’s no reason not to do it.

Possibly it’s about personality types. I was only going on my own experience. Of always being told by a chorus of experts “Oh no you don’t want to do that!” and ending up being terrified to touch anything. When I now know that I usually had nothing to be afraid of, because dangerous things tend to be locked down by design, exactly as they should be.

it depends how secure you want your network to be. Personally I think UFW is easy so you may as well set it up

IMO this attitude is problematic. It encourages people (especially newbies) to think they can’t trust anything, that software is by nature unreliable. I was one of those people once.

Personally, now I understand better how these things work, there’s no way I’m wasting my time putting up multiple firewalls. The router already has a firewall. Next.

PS: Sure, people don’t like this take - you can never have enough security, right? But take account of who you’re talking to - OP didn’t understand that their server is not even on the public internet. That fact makes all the difference here.

Immutable distros like NixOS don’t stop you from tweaking stuff, they just record every tweak centrally, so that you can undo them and do rollbacks.

Others can confirm that I’ve got that right. Haven’t tried it but the idea sounds great.

I would like to have a system when I know what I did, what is opened/installed/activated and what is not

Story of my life after 20 years on Linux. Maybe we could call it “modification anxiety”.

I believe this is the case for an immutable OS.

Isn’t this like saying “What phone numbers do you have in your address book?”

Article is not very clear about the obvious weakness: this is a ban on factory farms themselves. Their products will continue coming across the nearest municipal boundaries and filling Berkeley’s supermarket shelves.

Quite easy to imagine a USA where all the liberal cities “ban factory farming” but everyone, including liberals in those cities, continues to eat factory-farmed meat.

Still, the symbolism is positive.

Seems we do not have the whole story. As the article says, this is clearly illegal. When the inevitable complaint is made, the police are not going to just stand by.

Well that puts the loss of my little VPS into perspective.

And terrible, archaic, chaotic practices such as activating your 2FA without permission and then locking you out of your account for weeks pending multiple signed paper letters. Oh, and sometimes their datacenters burn down and take your server with them. I’m sad to have to throw them under the bus like this. I want OVH to succeed but personally my patience with them definitively ran out.

Excellent news. Next up Italy, which passed a law banning lab-grown meat because culture or something. The shamelessness of the big-ag lobby is really something.

This diet can make them as “well” as they like, it will never be sustainable on a planet of 8 billion people. For beef-eating carnivores to be “well”, others will not be able to have that freedom. There just isn’t enough land to support it.

This is a delicate message to get across, but it has the benefit of being irrefutable.

Wikipedia has to update articles and maintain the server backend

Firstly, updating the articles is the one thing Wikipedia doesn’t do, the army of unpaid volunteers does that.

But as for “just maintaining the backend”, the Wikimedia Foundation does far more than that. It created and maintains and constantly iterates a huge pile of ever-complexifying frontend code - the wiki itself, discussion software, media tools etc - not just for Wikipedia but for a whole bunch of peer sites. Much of it is pretty cutting-edge, it’s used daily by many thousands of editors and there’s also the accessibility requirement. I know from personal experience that there’s nothing harder than front-end when you have to tick the accessibility box. No doubt Firefox’s technical challenge is greater but really the difference is not night and day.

Okay but you mean which is harder?? Both projects rely on a bunch of salaried professionals supervising an army of volunteers. Firefox is a web browser, i.e. notoriously the space shuttle of software. But the Wikipedia is doing some surprisingly innovative and cutting-edge stuff with its own codebase too, as I understand it. Whichever is costlier, I’m not sure we’re talking about an order of magnitude of difference.

While this analysis is somewhat convincing, let’s not forget that for now Firefox is all we have. Important not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

In my ideal scenario, Mozilla becomes like the Wikimedia Foundation. Which has somehow also accumulated “Scrooge McDuck amounts” of cash but seems to be on a firmer footing and better managed.

Absolutely fair.