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I don’t think the money is the point, it’s the power and influence that the money can afford you that is the really important thing. Sometimes that will involve straightforward bribery, but most of the time it is ‘soft power’, i.e. a way of persuading others to do what you want. Sometimes that’ll be wining and dining them, sometimes it’ll involve a million or two donated to their favourite charity, sometimes it’ll involve a private island and lots of discretion. Often, I would imagine, one would not even need to spend the money, just the fact you could do these things in a way that would cause your target difficulty would be enough to have them do what you want.

Buy two more, or possibly one more, and a jet to move between the ports they opperate out of.

Passwords, usernames and access keys are all important, but what about technical knowledge? If you’re the one hosting all of that, it’s presumably because you’re the most knowledgeable about that in your group. Without you, even if they have access, will they know how to keep things running, especially when things go wrong?

You can buy repair kits to fix those little bullseye chips from getting hit by rocks. They basically force a clear resin in, binding it together and making it clear again. It’s worth keeping one around just in case.

Most of them are multi billionaires, their children will inherit their estates when they pass, and most have more than one child. Which means that, when they do pass, we’ll actually have more billionaires than we do now.

I like the idea of those pieces, it would have made teaching the kids a little easier, although they picked up standard western chess moves fairly easily anyway. I think you could make pieces like this fairly easily, though the Knight in particular, would need a bit of thinking about to find a clear symbol for its moves.

Due to the way federation works those stats are public information, and @[email protected] appears to be an admin of their instance, so the data is even more easily to hand.

…Wait, if we can’t take anything you say seriously because you say you’re lieing, then you’re lieing about lieing, which means you actually telling the truth about lieing, which means…

SEGFAULT

The general process would look something like:

1. Find all of the SSH keys you want to replace.
2. For each of thise keys, identify everywhere you use it to authenticate, and write this down! This list will form the basis of the rest of the plan. Make sure you list all of the accounts/servers you log in to, and don’t forget things like github or other external systems if you use them.

You’ll need to perform the following steps for each SSH key you are replacing:

1. Rename the public and private keys to something like old_id_rsa and old_id_rsa.pub (obviously use the same type name as your key, just prefix old_)
2. In your ~/.ssh/config, add a line telling SSH to use the old key as well as the new ones: IdentityFile ~/.ssh/old_id_rsa (change the key filename as aporopriate)
3. Check you can still log in to the servers you could log in to before. It should still be using the old key, just with a different filename, so it should still work.
4. Generate your new SSH keys ssh-keygen -t ed25519
5. Log in to each server and ADD the new ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub key to the authorized_keys file or equivalent mechanism. Do not remove the old public key yet.
6. Remove the IdentityFile line from your ~/.ssh/config
7. Check you can log in to all your systems. This will validate that your new key is working.
8. Remove your old public key from the authorized_keys file on each server you log in to.

Depending on your threat model you’re going to want to do this more or less often, and so you may want to consider automating it with sonething like ansible if it’ll be a regular job.

The best documents would be birth certificates for each generation, but there was a massive fire at the Dublin records office in 1922, which destroyed a lot of genological records from before then. If you have any information about where in Ireland your great grandparents were from, you may be able to find local records however. Things like parish registers and birth records for sone denominations were stored outside Dublin, so you may be able to find them, although it’ll probably mean going there, or hireing to go there, as most of those records haven’t been digitised.

I did notice your username, so I suspected this might not apply to you, but maybe it’ll be helpful to someone.

All I can really offer you is ‘good luck, hang in there and this too shall pass’, which is probably not a lot of comfort.

Not everyone will be able to move, it’s true, but a lot of countries have provisions for reclaiming citizenship if you can show that an ancestor (usually only in the last couple of generations, but not always) was a citizen.

For instance, Ireland: if one of your parents was an Irish citizen, born on the island of Ireland, you can claim citizenship and a passport with minimal paperwork. If your parents weren’t born there, but a grandparent was, there’s more paperwork involved, but you can still get citizenship and a passport.

Once you have a passport for an EU country, you have a lot more freedom to travel, and settle, anywhere in the EU.

Many other countries have similar systems, so, if you do want to leave, it can be worth studying your family tree to see if there are any recent immigrants.

Why do you think siblings would hate each other? Giving them the mental and emotional tools to interact kindly and calmly with others will also ensure their reltionship is positive.

I just checked with my local school, and they’re not just making them learn these arabic numbers, they’re forcing them to learn AL GEBRA!!! Sounds like foreign nonsense to me, so I’m starting a petition to have the head fired, and possibly flogged.

You should check with your local schools too. Keep this policically correct woke DEI rubbish away from our kids!

You can’t use anything but maximum super strength, all the time.

For x accounts you can use xcancel.com, or another nitter instance to view posts by an account, and get an RSS feed of them.

For liessocial, I have no idea, but I think it was based off of an OSS implementation, so it might have some sort of RSS functionality.

I like what you’ve done so far. It’s quick and simple to use. The one bugbear I’ve come across so far is it converting tables to html, rather than storing them as proper markdown.

I read the reasoning in the documentation, and certainly for my usecases, maintaining it as markdown is more important than trying to perfectly preserve the visual formating, especially as I use multiple devices with different sized screens, so I need different fornatting on each! That’s one of markdowns main strengths, it doesn’t preserve formatting so you don’t need to think about it and it’ll be displayed in a reasonable manner anywhere.

Is there any reasonable chance that there could be an option, at the server level rather than per page, to store tables as markdown?

Community block lists or bans are handled at the protocol level (I think this is task that did that), and are pretty simple, in that they just tell a server not to let a particular user comment or post on a particular community. Thats straightforward enough, and as long as the user’s server obeys that, the user doesn’t get to post.

Trying to do something similar for every user becomes much more complex as it requires coordinating each user’s settings to all the relevant servers every time they change. It also leaves open the issue of what happens if a user you’ce blocked simply posts a sibling comment to yours, as you won’t see it, but the rest of the community will.

Personally, I would like to see invite only communities where posts and comments are public (it’s activitypub, so there’s no huding them), but only whitelisted users can post. I know there’s a WomensOnly community here that has a hard time stopping men wading in (I’m guilty if that, I saw an interesting postvand didn’t notice the community name, but the mods were very nice about it). I’m sure they’d like a way of vetting first time posters and commenters.

All credit to you for advocating for needs of marginalized groups for protected spaces to communicate, but the fediverse simply isn’t the right tool for that. It’s entire philosophy, design and implementation is centered around making everything public, from posts and comments to votes and moderation actions.

Asking the fediverse, or the activitypub protocol to allow blocking a user from responding at all is rather like asking a car to be a bike. It’s just not what it is. I can’t really concieve any way of making a decentralized public forum work like that as there is no central point that can control permissions. It might be possible to design a system where communities can control membership and posting priviledges, but even then, if it’s distributed, it would take very little for a hostile instance to simply ignore any central control and display its users posts locally, leading to the same effect as if you just mute them, leaving them visible to others, albiet only on their instance or others that cooperate with it.

I think that those who are in need of a controlled system should probably be looking at a centralized system that is run and controlled by someone, or a group, that they trust. That would give them the best chance to keep discussions private, and access to read or post controlled. Read access would need to be controlled too, or their discussions can just be mirrored to a hostile server and harassment can occur there where the poster is unaware, just as if they’d muted them.

Bear in mind that evrrything you do or say on the fediverse is public, so there is no possible way to stop someone seeing it. Likewise, because the entire system is federated, there is no way to stop an individual from replying to you. Even if the community server rejected their message their own server would be able to display it.

This works well for general discussions, but I can see where it isn’t ideal for more sensitive topics. People having those sorts of discussions should probably be using a system that is better suited to their needs.