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Edit: ah, more Cloudflare malware-like MiTM shenanigans. Typical evil-empire shit, I suppose.

If you’re tiny and no-one directly relies on your code except you yourself, especially if it’s all personal projects that don’t produce an income of any kind, a large CVS like GitHub is perfectly fine.

If you’re a large corporation whose size and visibility makes any shutdown a Very Big Problem for GitHub, you are insulated by sheer size and legal/economic threat.

But anyone in between? JFC, do honest risk assessments on something approaching a regular cadence. Figure out what happens to service users on a frequent basis, and start covering your arse against those risks.

In OP’s case, even something as simple as scripted backups to a destination outside of GitHub could have massively reduced all sorts of risks. While it would have taken some effort, a very recent backup could have allowed him to jump to something self-hosted (ForgeJo, etc.) over a day or three, letting him give a big middle finger to GitHub without having to wait most of a month.

Learn from other people’s mistakes. OP was very brave to provide this as a learning experience for everyone to benefit from -- don’t let it go to waste.

Honestly, I don’t know where the downvotes are coming from. Do people have no clue about service resiliency? I can understand if it’s a personal project or you haven’t yet scaled to paying customers, but anything at scale with serious money involved needs to be completely independent of the underlying hosting. It should remain up even if an entire provider goes titsup.

And I’m talking about having disparate failovers that don’t rely on a single hosting provider. At that point, who cares what Google does to your cloud account… work with the hot failover and spin up another hot failover somewhere else.

For example, if I wanted to wake up at 0600hrs without an alarm, I would look at the clock (to mark the current time for my subconscious, which is apparently a required step), close my eyes, intensely visualize the clock turning from 0559hrs to 0600hrs, and right as the numbers change I visualize the action of physically throwing the covers off, getting out of bed and standing up beside it.

It allows me to fully wake up within 30-60 seconds of the objective.

Although I have always had another superpower of being able to instantly wake up to full wakefulness, the kind where you can figuratively pop out of bed like a piece of toast. Which irritates my wife, who loves to hurkle-durkle, to no end. So maybe that helps.

From what I recall (it was about 30 years ago, now), sleeping on my side was much the same. When going to bed I envisioned myself sleeping on my left side (stomach positioning to reduce chances of acid reflux) and just kept doing that night after night. It didn’t take long before I could stop it and consistently sleep on my side.

I still flip, but I’ve noticed that I come fully awake to do most of my flips from one side to the other.

And because of the positioning, I have also recently changed to a very unique configuration of pillows that makes sleeping on my front or my back almost impossible. They’re extra tall (and stacked pair of them, too) so I keep my spine straight when on my side. This is a recent change, tho, which only happened because I’m getting old and can’t bounce back from a morning crick in the neck as easily as when I was younger.

It took me a week of bedtime mental biofeedback to train myself to sleep exclusively on my side, which brought my sleep apnea down from several severe incidents a night to maybe a threshold incident a week or less.

This biofeedback - intense visualization of the objective right before falling asleep - is also what I use to consistently wake up at specific times with no need for an alarm. The only nerf to this technique is extreme lack of sleep previously, and lack of sleep on the night of. So if I try to wake up after only four hours of sleep while also suffering from an existing sleep deficit, imma gonna still wake up far enough to form memories of waking up, but then immediately fall back asleep.

Yeah, it’s not perfect, but as something that never needed much effort it’s actually quite a nifty superpower.

That, and the ability to pop out of bed like a piece of toast with full and instant wakefulness at any level shy of severe sleep deprivation. That alone is deeply annoying to my wife.

Not seeing anything on my end. Mobile is still 100% functional. Even /r/all is functional.

And the microservice could easily be crafted to only accept assignment requests from other known endpoints.

I am getting fucking sick and tired of a “service” that behaves so much like hostile malware and spyware that it gratuitously trips the protections I have added to my browsers and refuses to let me proceed.

Cloudflare is the CP of the Internet: almost no-one wants it, yet it persists like maggots eating the eyes of children.

Clingstones are best for mechanized processing, which needs the peach to physically hold itself together while the machine does its thing.

Consumers overwhelmingly prefer freestone peaches due to the ease at which they can be quartered and de-stoned by hand without making a total mess.

So on a personal level, my calm was greatly enhanced once I came across the full description of the crop type. There isn’t much use for clingstone outside of mechanized processing, as consumers just don’t want clingstone peaches due to how difficult they are to cut apart cleanly.

Source: orchardist in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley, Canada’s western-end orchard region. I grow apples, but I know many other orchardists, including peach growers.

Now granted, my ability to pump out 8 pages of content is directly related to how well I know the subject, but I can create content just as well in my sixth decade as I could in my late twenties. Planning, research, strategizing, composition, storytelling… it’s all still (mostly) there.

And part of that skill is engaging in lots of short-form debates, where you need to have maximum impact with minimal content. It teaches you to ruthlessly prune your content to the absolute essentials, but also to rigorously compose said content until it eliminates almost all alternate interpretations such that the meaning you want is imparted upon the most possible readers.

Now granted, I also have an exceedingly dim view of AI, and generally don’t touch that wildly hallucinating herd of cats. So maybe that’s where OP’s issue has crept in… his writing skills have atrophied due to disuse. Classic outcome of AI overuse. And it’s a difficult position to claw your way back from.

And some of us literally have no choice. I need my home office to be under 18℃ in order to not imitate a drowned rat. Anything over 28℃ and I am dripping with sweat even completely naked. And no, I am not obese.

Maybe your dad is the same?

Even if we talk about mere separation, this can and will absolutely destroy Alberta even if it is “successful” - the lack of credit history as a country will by itself cause epic hyperinflation and a near-complete collapse in government spending of any kind for the two or three decades it needs to build that credit history.

Businesses - especially small and medium ones - will flee the new country, as they require stable political and financial environments in order to flourish. Only large corporations will flourish as they capture and control the entire political process to benefit only themselves via kleptocracy.

Plus, all resources will auto-revert back to the Canadian government, forcing Alberta to buy everything at current market values in order to do anything beyond the top 12 inches of topsoil.

Additionally, native treaties can and will tie everything up in the courts for decades, causing Alberta to spend untold millions to sort it out… if it even ends up being successful at doing so.

Finally, it can no longer bully the rest of Canada into allowing it to have environmentally risky oil pipes across our land. BC could shut down all such pipes at a moment’s notice for whatever reason, and Alberta would be at our mercy unless it could airlift the oil out.

Any kind of a split is just a financial bait-and-switch by the hyper wealthy to disenfranchise the working class. They want to put trickle-up-economics on steroids.

And hopefully kill Electron.

I have never seen the point of spinning up a 300+Mb app just to display something that ought to need only 500Kb to paint onto the screen.

I mean, yes, I have backups. But that isn’t the point.

But what about an iCloud-wide alert? As in, I’ll get an alert on my iPhone about an access on my Mac even if I’m across town.

Now that would be interesting and handy.

“The early bird might get the worm, but it’s the second mouse that gets the cheese.”

Apple is hanging back, waiting for mousetraps to be triggered as AI companies make mistakes that could not have been reliably foreseen. Then it’ll swoop in, adopt the best bits, and put out a product that is immensely polished and easy to use.

That has been, after all, one of its most important strategies over the years. They realized that early adopters only became industry leaders if their error rate remained low enough to keep ahead of those who let others make mistakes for them.

Conservatives.

They require an uneducated and ignorant electorate. It’s the only way they can hoodwink voters into voting against their own best interests.

>The implication being when gov and big business get together bad things do happen. My point is they can happen yes, but also same players can make good things happen - it depends on the players (and regulatory and reporting and voting and and and )

I think you need to go back and take some elementary courses on economics and how governments operate.

Public works are not “government and corporations in the same cart”. If that’s what you are coming to, that only demonstrates your ignorance bleeding out all over the place.

And here is your argument’s fatal flaw: mistaking public works, that benefits the commons and society as a whole, with government tracking.

The two are NOT the same.

Are these the government? Is the bank the government? Is the rail company the government?

No? Then you have answered your own question.

A silo of identification between you and a service provider that uses the provider’s own tooling is still anonymity from government authoritarianism.

The fact that nearly all of these silos are leaky IRL - with the government eager to punch howitzer-sized holes through them for even more access - is not the point. It is a citizen-hostile flaw that needs patching through loophole-proof legislation, not an ID system that would violently eradicate any remaining separation of government from capitalism.

Remember: when government and capitalism rides in the same cart, it is called corporatism, and is the basis of Fascism. Which is what is happening to America.

People have a right to complete anonymity, and should be able to go across the majority of the Internet just as they can go across most of the country.

That’s what you are missing.

Don’t get me wrong, I am also in favour of a single government ID, but in terms of combatting identity fraud, accessing public resources like single-payer healthcare, and making it easier for a person to prove their identity to authorities or employers.

It should not be used as a pass card for fundamental rights that normally would have zero government involvement.

That’s how fast the landscape is changing.

And remember: while the report might have been released in 2024, it takes time to conduct research and publish. A good chunk of its data was likely from 2023 and earlier.

Sorry, but faxes don’t work like this.

A fax takes in the entire transmission over the phone line, ends the call, and then - IF it has been set up to do so, instead of just storing the fax - it prints it out.

Which means that Karen had every ability to tell her fax to stop the print job herself. A fax is not like a printer, where the sender has the ability to tell the printer to pause or cancel the job. Once the fax starts printing, that original communication - the phone call with the fax transmission - has long since ended.

And if this fax machine can retrieve faxes from a fax server elsewhere on the network or on the Internet, that communications disconnect is even more severe.

Which makes me very suspicious of the entire story.