What’s so nice about it? Have you tried quadlets or docker compose? Could you give a quick comparison to show what you one like about it?

My main complaint about Quadlet is that resources for it are fairly limited, so thanks for linking this post!

And yes, quadlet would definitely make managing Plex easier. That post seems to hit all the gotchas I’ve run into, so definitely consult it as you run into issues.

Agreed. But if you’re going to fixate on one era, you could do a lot worse than Roman history.

Other cool eras to fixate on:

• Joseon Dynasty and Sejong the Great in Korea
• Chola Empire - naval empire before navies were really a thing
• Ethiopian Empire - somehow survived with strong empire neighbors

There’s a lot of really cool history, Roman history is extra cool though since you can see so much of it in Europe.

That depends. If you have exposed services, you could use some features of the firewall to geoip restrict incoming requests to prevent spam from China and Russia and whatnot.

If you don’t have any services running on a publicly accessible port, then what would the firewall protect?

To be fair, Roman history is really cool.

You would advocate for and even donate to political reform for something you don’t personally believe in?

Yes. I believe in personal freedom, so I’ll support the freedom to do things that I believe are harmful like drug use, gambling, or prostitution. You doing those things doesn’t impact me or anyone else so it should 100% be your right to do it. In short, I believe principles should carry the day.

I may not agree with you doing something I believe to be bad, but I’ll defend your right to do it.

In the same vein, I believe governments should be as small as possible, and no smaller. The role of government is to protect me from you, and vice versa. It’s not to ensure I’m making good choices, in fact it shouldn’t be in the business of deciding what’s “good” or “bad,” it should merely enforce laws that protect people from eachother.

Does the government deciding which marriages are valid protect me from you? Not really, all it does is determine who can take advantage of certain benefits. That sounds exclusionary with no particular purpose, so the government shouldn’t decide that.

So I really can’t speak to why Eich donated to the prop 8 fund (or whatever it was). Was it because he hates gay people? Or because he thinks same sex marriage goes counter to the reason marriage exists as a government institution? Or something else? I don’t know, nor do I really care, provided it doesn’t get in the way of doing his job.

Got it, so being gay isn’t “wrong” or “invalid”, it’s just “bad”?

I didn’t say that.

My point here is that personal views can differ from political policy views.

Yes, that’s what I was referring to. You might call it a “contract”.

The issue is that it’s opt-out. Instead of that, people should opt-in only to the parts they want.

If you’re talking about injecting Axate ads where Google and other ads already are

No, I’m talking about creating a protocol where browser clients can inform website owners that the customer is using this separate method of payment. It could happen separate from the browser (e.g. as an extension), but the browser gives it a lot more visibility.

The UX here would be pretty simple: if the user has enabled this feature, websites would prompt users for payment or to show ads.

Browsers win because they get a revenue stream, Axate wins by having more customers, and websites win because they’re getting paid instead of customers blocking ads.

The problem with doing that with fiat is that there are transfer fees. You’d essential be paying a $3 to transfer 5 cents. That’s why everyone uses crypto for this.

That’s why you batch up transfers. General flow:

1. users load up a balance (say, $20)
2. service (e.g. Axate) tracks which payments have been made and bulk pays website owners monthly or whatever

Boom, total number of transfers are pretty low, no need for cryptocurrencies.

Both are responsible.

Sure, but the browser vendor has very little at stake, whereas the user has everything at stake. At the end of the day, it’s on the user.

Not good enough.

You’re welcome to your opinion. I personally don’t have an issue with how people spend their money, I only have an issue with how they treat their employees and choices they make about their product.

For those too lazy to click through:

However, on June 13, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc, that human genes cannot be patented because DNA is a “product of nature.” All gene patents were invalidated with this ruling. However, the ruling did not prohibit the patenting of DNA that is manipulated (i.e., no longer a product of nature) or processes for identifying DNA sequences.

Absolutely agree. This is one of my favorites.

Or if you’re a minority who could be framed for a crime.

They patented your DNA.

You can’t patent DNA… They can sell it though, with a simple TOS update (if they even need to).

That’s pretty awesome of Tony Hawk.

Believing that same-sex marriage shouldn’t be a government-supported institution isn’t the same as believing LGBT people are “invalid” or “wrong” or whatever.

How is it not?

It seems incredibly obvious to me. For example, here are some things I believe:

• gambling is bad - yet I support legalization of gambling; why? Personal freedom comes first.
• prostitution is bad - yet I support legalization of prostitution; why? Sex work will happen, so it’s better for it to be properly regulated than happen on the black market
• drug use is bad - yet I support legalization of recreational drugs; why? Illegal drugs laced w/ fentanyl are a big problem, and most drug users would be better off w/ a regulated service.

Personal beliefs about what government policy should be can be very different than personal beliefs about what is “good” and “bad.”

To be clear, I support same-sex marriage because it’s on the table and my preferred alternative has almost no shot of being considered. So I support it as a harm-reduction policy, not because I actually believe the government should actually regulate marriage.

I mean, legally, that’s what marriage is.

Marriage is a basket of contracts (power of attorney, joint custody, financial obligations, etc), and it’s limited to two people, which is odd. The original intent seems to be to encourage procreation, but it’s hardly enforced at all, nor is that particularly important in most countries (except maybe Japan).

We should treat marriage similarly to corporations. If you want to call your civil partnership “marriage,” more power to you. If you want to call it being BF/GF, life partners, or whatever else, more power to you. The government should only care that you meet the requirements for whatever the benefit is.

You don’t have to do either of those things just because you’re married. Marriage just gives you the option.

In many (most?) states, it is enforced unless you specifically opt-out (e.g. a pre-nup). Laws certainly vary by state, but generally speaking, if you’re legally married, anything you earn in the marriage is considered joint assets, even if you keep them in separate accounts. In some areas, things you bring into the marriage are also jointly owned, unless they are never interacted with.

That’s why divorces are so messy, the couple could have agreed to keep things separate at the start, but without any evidence of that, it’s up to the courts to decide what’s fair. And pretty frequently, they’ll lean on the side of 50/50 for all assets, regardless of when it was acquired or what the understanding was.

And what would they bring to this partnership?

Integration into the browser product, users, and marketing.

I’ve been wanting Firefox to do something like this so get more visibility w/ online services. I’d love to be able to load up an account balance and click “view article” and the website owner sucks a few pennies from that balance or whatever. But my only options are:

• find a workaround w/ my ad-blocker - reader mode, archive, etc
• make yet another account and maybe pay for a monthly subscription (why do that when I only want the one article?)
• not read the article

Axate provides more than that, but so few online services work w/ it. A browser could bring them a ton of visibility.

But companies also should not be creating tools that propose to give you those protections when they’re not smart enough to. Just leave it to the professionals.

Agreed. But like I said, users request features, bugs happen, etc. At the end of the day, the responsibility is on the user to pick the right product for their needs. Brave isn’t that product for at-risk individuals until it has been vetted by actual security experts.

As long as he keeps his mouth shut about them and doesn’t financially support them, he’s doing worlds better than Mr. Eich.

Eich did the first half of that, his only “sin” was that someone found out about his donation. That’s it. My understanding is that nobody was aware of it until someone dug into the donation records.

So it’s ok to buy a Tesla nowadays in your opinion? Genuinely curious.

Yes, if it’s the vehicle that fits your needs the best. Elon doesn’t need your money, and with Tesla getting roasted in the media, you can probably pick up a good deal.

That said, I wouldn’t buy a Tesla for other reasons, such as:

• poor manufacturing quality
• poor reliability (the Model 3 is the “best” and it’s just average)
• poor repairability

I do boycott certain products though, first among them is Wal-Mart, but that’s because I find Wal-Mart to be anti-competitive (drives smaller stores out of business) and they contribute to poor working conditions either directly (i.e. their own products) or indirectly (i.e. forcing suppliers to cut costs). I’ve been boycotting them for ~20 years, and honestly haven’t bothered checking if they’ve improved. I also try to avoid buying from Amazon for similar reasons.

Maybe Tesla is similar to those, idk. I personally don’t buy Musk’s products because I find them lacking, and I haven’t needed any more reasons to avoid his products than that.

I literally don’t care about the political views of the CEO/owner of a company. I dislike Chik-Fil-A’s founder, for example, but I like the food there and the workers seem to be treated well, so I shop there. I especially like that they’re closed on Sundays, which guarantees workers get at least one day off. Whether some idiot gets rich from a fraction of the money I spend on a certain product doesn’t bother me, I mostly care that the business is run well and the product is good.

If we can at least plug in an SD card or something w/ music files, I think the Gripen 2 could be workable.

Exactly. If you’re even unsure if you can’t pay for delivery, you should be cooking almost every meal yourself. It’s not that hard to make healthy meals in a relatively small amount of time, find some meals you can make in bulk and have a meal-prep day.

Don’t go into debt for delivery, it’s not worth it.

It’s everyone’s business that cares about those people.

But is it though?

Believing that same-sex marriage shouldn’t be a government-supported institution isn’t the same as believing LGBT people are “invalid” or “wrong” or whatever.

For example, I personally oppose government-supported marriage entirely (despite being married myself) because I think marriage should be a religious/personal thing instead of an official government institution, and that we should replace it with a series of contracts that grant certain legal privileges (e.g. joint tax filing, power of attorney, etc) in an a la carte type setup (i.e. you may want to join finances w/ someone, but not give them hospital visitation rights). I think we should also allow more than two parties to enter into these agreements to cover a wide variety of unique living situations (e.g. you may want to joint file with a parent that you care for).

I don’t know Eich’s personal political views, and I honestly don’t care, as long as they don’t interfere with his role.

That’s a monumental task. They would have had to create their own ad network similar to Google and then solicit every site on the web to participate.

Not necessarily. For example, they could partner w/ someone like Axate, which basically does just this.

Only because they got caught, and they didn’t refund any of the crypto they earned in the interim.

My understanding is that they can’t really do that, because the payments are anonymous. I could be mistaken though.

When it comes to TOR, mistakes can be a matter of life and death. People only use TOR when they need complete anonymity.

And if that applies to you, you should be very careful about the tools you use. Brave is a new thing and is relatively unproven. Use established, proven tools like Tor Browser.

Not true. I like Our Lord Gaben. I like Meredith Whitaker. I like lots of CEOs.

Eh, I don’t really like Gabe Newell, but I certainly appreciate the investment into Linux. It just so happens our interests align more than they don’t. I wouldn’t be surprised if GabeN’s personal politics were quite conservative, because conservative policies generally benefit rich people like him (the closest I can see is maybe libertarian).

Meredith Whitaker is an absolute treasure, we don’t deserve her.

Like a lot of things, it’s very context dependent…

Sure, but general rules do exist. When I read something online (e.g. save X% toward retirement), that’s obviously not going to cover everyone’s use case, because everyone’s situation is different. However, that doesn’t make the advice bad, it just means it’s not applicable to those who fall outside the average. For example, maybe you need to plan to take care of a special needs child, so you’ll need to save a larger amount of money so they are cared for after you pass. Or maybe you got a big inheritance and therefore already have a head start on retirement, you’ll need a smaller amount of savings going forward.

If a given bit of advice doesn’t apply, either correct it with relevant details (helps other in a similar situation), or ignore it and move on.

So yeah, what I stated absolutely is a response, but it’s not a judgment. I don’t know you personally, I only know what you’re posted (which may or may not be factual). So that’s the context for opinion/advice I provide. I tend to write in a matter-of-fact way because that tends to be more concise and I already get wordy enough.