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Just because something is natural doesn't mean it isn't barbaric. Male lions will regularly kill cubs to make the mother ready for sex - that's natural but we'd never accept (correctly) a human doing that.

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Imagine you're playing Skyrim and while reading one of the books your TV covers up the content with an ad! That would be infuriating!

Are you talking about Biden's efforts specifically or more generally? Because Biden is constrained by:

1. Having to act in the framework of what existing laws let him do as Congress won't pass anything.
2. Most colleges are regulated by individual states and the federal government's power to regulate them is very limited.

They also believe we (Arch users) are unaffected because this backdoor targeted Debian and Redhat type packaging specifically and also relied on a certain SSH configuration Arch doesn't use. To be honest while it's nice to know we're unaffected, it's not at all comforting that had the exploiter targeted Arch they would have succeeded. Just yesterday I was talking to someone about how much I love rolling release distros and now I'm feeling insecure about it.

More details here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/xz/-/issues/2

Some of these people have been with Reddit since the very beginning and this is basically their first practical chance to sell any of their shares - I wouldn't read too much into their activity this week. For a company valued at $9B, having the founder & other executives only sell $41M in the week of the IPO if anything feels like the opposite of dumping.

C# and C++ are very different languages, as C++ expects you to handle memory management while C# has a garbage collector. Just because Microsoft has their own version (Visual C++) does not mean that much of that knowledge is transferrable.

I think your biggest challenge is that you only have 3 years of experience. When tech was encroaching into people's lives (desktop computers, smartphones, social media, video games) more demand for tech jobs was created than could be filled. Thus you'd hear stories of new graduates getting jobs easily with high salaries. Tech growth has stagnated though - there aren't enough hours left for tech to create new business. With so many new people getting into tech there aren't enough jobs for all the new entrants, that it's created almost two job markets. People who are seniors with loads of experience are still in high demand as there's just few of them relative to the current size of the industry, but there aren't enough junior jobs for those who are new.

Part of the problem is that many of the states where insurance companies are leaving have rules that limit what they can charge. That sounds good in principle, but with climate change causing these disasters to happen more often the insurance companies are bleeding money. Ultimately insurance as an industry can't work if you keep having losses, and if you can't increase prices to cope then you have no choice but to withdraw.

I've sure State Farm is happy to cover catastrophe-prone areas, but only if they won't lose money on average.

I think they are house rules, but a majority of Congress can changes those rules at any time. So if Democrats take the house they can just reverse it as part of installing a new speaker.

I started self-hosting a bit prior to when Docker took off, and getting multiple services running was much harder. Service A wants a certain version of PHP installed with certain plugins while Service B wants a different version. You'd follow a tutorial for installing Service C and desperately hope that it wouldn't somehow break Service A or B. You installed Service D for a bit despite all the installation pain and now want to uninstall it - I hope you tracked exactly what config changes you made throughout the system so you can undo it.

Docker fixed all of this by making each service independent through containers which made self-hosting 10x easier. I'd also add that I love how easy it is to transfer my setup to a new server - I keep all of my container volumes in a specific directory and my docker-compose files in another and that's all I need to backup / transfer. Without Docker you'd have to specifically handle each & every configuration file and database location, and if you later upgrade to a newer version of the OS or a different distro you'd have to handle possible conflicts between your versions and what the distro expects.

I've seen a fair number of people on Lemmy claim that Hamas didn't rape women or even kill civilians, that's it all lies, etc.

Worth noting that (at least for Red Alert 2) , they aren't requiring you install whatever their launcher is.