The joint company was formed to redevelop the site of the Serbian armed forces headquarters in Belgrade, which was bombed by Nato in 1999. The plan provoked protests in the city centre.

Serbian national pride has entered the chat.

People are lead to believe that the FA extends to all facets of their lives. I think that’s one of the reasons why they let corporations get away with so much deregulation. People often don’t realize how much less responsibility corporations have than them for the same actions. I still get shocked pikachu faces when I tell people what limited liability is and they ask how is this shit legal.

Corporations aren’t people and they don’t act in ethical manner you might expect. Any corporate action that isn’t furthering its profits one way or another should be considered a coincidence or a mistake. Very few firms, typically smaller, private, and or with special ideological predisposition fall outside.

He is already elected.

This is the risk I see when people say we should increase our (Canada’s) reliance on the EU. Yes we should increase cooperation but as things stand, the US is EU’s future and we know all about the US present. As the author says, the EU has to start faithfully addressing people’s material concerns (as should we), but that’s not happening under the current neoliberal regimes. I don’t expect significant shift in direction until that’s defeated.

Err, that’s not true on the last fee devices I’ve used, Pixels and a Fairphone. Installing apps from APK files doesn’t require me to enable dev options. In fact trying to install an APK from say Files brings me straight to the permission setting. It’s also per-app. It can be accessed under Settings > Apps > Special app access > Install unknown apps.

Countdown to invading Venezuela has started.

Good point. Context

Gotta complete the argument:

“And the falling profits would tank your 401k so you’ll have to work till you croak.”

I did a back-of-the-napkin calculation some time ago, dividing the net profit of a a well known American company amongst its workers, equally, instead of distributing it to its shareholders. It appeared that the workers would have been able to save for quite the pension. Mind you that wasn’t a high-margin tech company.

Yes, but self-hosting does whatever the HOWTO, YouTube vid or AI slop the user follows tells them to do. If the user doesn’t know the basics, how could they know what an instruction for activating UPnP does or opening a NAT port does and why that might expose their data? Laymen don’t even understand what making theie stuff publicly accessible means. It might simply mean “Yay I can access my stuff on the go.” 😄

If on the other had the user learns the basics, they can tell when a doc instructs them to do something dangerous and they can do something about it to avoid disaster.

high-performance

You bury your lede by mentioning “your project” at the end.

Basically means the user has to trust that project to do the right thing and be maintained to keep their setup secure.

Same. No WAN ingress without VPN.

“If you can’t configure Docker, reverse proxies, and Yaml files, you shouldn’t be self-hosting.”

If this is an example of gatekeeping, I think you are misjudging.

Whenever self-hosting there’s a very real risk of exposing your private data to the internet. Potentially a lot more private data than you’d otherwise expose via cloud providers. This risk necessitates a basic understanding of some of the importand bits and how to operate them securely. If not for that, then anything would go.

Understanding docker, reverse proxy, and YAML which is used to configure those is part of probably the simplest way to get to secure self-hosting. I’d add a self-hosted VPN to access local resources. I’m not aware of a magic UI solution that does it all and securely. Docker compose files are very accessible. A couple of those followed by docker compose up -d and you have a basic env up and running.

Generally the lack of knowledge in X or Y doesn’t mean there’s necessarily an easier path than learning X and Y and that you’re being gatekept by being told you have to learn X and Y. Some things are harder than others. Buying Apple Cloud and setting it up is easier than self-hosting Nextcloud. I don’t think that should be the case, but today it is as far as I’m aware.

It works fine in Canada except for the nasty restart loop bug they shipped in the last month’s update.

Same boat. I guess brother in law is gonna have some GN coasters too. 😆

Seriously. Russia was supposed to collapse in 2023. Then in 2024. Then in 2025. Putin was sick and he was about to die. Endless supply of hopium. At this point I consider it all fake news until proven otherwise. Also there was the recent Money & Macro economic analysis that contradicts a lot of the hopium theories. And there’s the whole contradiction between impending economic collapse and lauching war on NATO countries. The two are mutually exclusive.

“It was in that transformation that people with disabilities were [beginning] to be regarded as inefficient workers and ultimately unproductive members of society because their bodies were not conformed to the tasks of an industrial capitalist society,” he said.

It’s almost like most countries have lost the ability to control capitalism.

Also the new retro coasters are fabulous: