Meanwhile down on earth, you’ve just caused an entirely new class of derrivatives traded on sketchy and unregulated markets, increasing the risk of fraud to all, including small individual investors.

Wealth is finite

The size of the observable universe is ~93 billion light-years. So, you’re technically right, but…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCfNxLjgsKk

Tough question. I don’t think the descendants of european, asian and african settlers are going back home any time soon.

That’s because they’re not going to actually do it.

Native? Isnt it a web app?

But there’s nobody to prepare the fries. The economy has transformed entirely to eating the rich…

Given the statistically significant results of fecal transplants… have we tried shoving the yoghurt into the the other end?

Communists and fascist are the conservatives on my side of the planet though. They both appeal on “the good old times, when the world was right”. Both equally glorify physical labor and fight against the intellectualism.

It’s the bullshit of hard work will result in success and money.

That’s funny, because it’s not the liberal leaning folks who glorify the hard labor.

Yes, reporting on a success of an individual is practically the same thing as openning the gas valve… Jesus F. Christ !

I was under the impression that attenuated live vaccines are only used in poor countries due to lower cost.

The Lust series is pretty good. It’s a horror game similar to Amnesia or Penumbra, except you’re infiltrating a sex cult.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1170820/Lust_from_Beyond_Prologue/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1401680/Lust_from_Beyond_Scarlet/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/523650/Lust_for_Darkness/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1035120/Lust_from_Beyond/

edit: … and yes, after I bought these, steam has bombarded me with the most ridiculous erotic game suggestions for months!

I actually like those, and started to watch the channel regularly after the house remodeling series.

What’s barely sufferable are the “we bought stuff from the internet and here it is. check out our sponsor…” videos that’s been published a lot lately.

That’s not a slow laptop. I’ve been daily driving worse for years.

To protect the data from random thief just browsing through the files I still use ecryptfs. It only encrypts the home directory, and the keys are derived from my accounts password, so no extra hassle.

The encryption is weak by the current standards, and wouldn’t stop a determined attacker, but it’s 100% better than nothing, and I’ve never noticed any performance problems.

If a communication software has terms of service, run away!

Gmail offers imap amd smtp access. You have to enable 2FA, and then it will allow you to create account for so called “less secure apps”.

In your place, I’d either continue using gmail directly, or finish the configuration of the self hosted mail server and just use that with any smtp/imap client. I suggest getting a separate domain for testing first, before moving your primary inbox there.

3d printer is subtracted from revenue for tax purposes

That makes sense. Since my profits always oscillated around zero, claiming any expenses had no practical effect.

legitimately running a business, or just trying to save money on their hobby

That’s actually how it started. We’ve installed linux on some old desktop machine with my classmate back in school, set up some services like webhosting, mail, jabber, and started to give access to people for free. No guarantees, no pressure. As we finished school, trying to turn it into a business was a logical next step. It never went big, but we just kept the thing around, bought newer hardware, moved it to a proper housing, did basic maintenance, and years later, here I am owing to the government thanks to my highschool hobby.

IRS will audit you, and could deem you a hobby

Are there any negative consequences? I’d prefer to be downgraded to a hobbyist. Instead, the government has increased my taxes to around 70% of my yearly revenue. Social democracy, fuck yeah!

When some internet stranger manage to enrage me more than usual, I sign up for a porn site with their email address.

Who did you piss off lately? :)

Of course security comes with layers, and if you’re not comfortable hosting services publically, use a VPN.

However, 3 simple rules go a long way:

1. Treat any machine or service on a local network as if they were publically accesible. That will prevent you from accidentally leaving the auth off, or leaving the weak/default passwords in place.

2. Install services in a way that they are easy to patch. For example, prefer phpmyadmin from debian repo instead of just copy pasting the latest official release in the www folder. If you absolutely need the latest release, try a container maintained by a reasonable adult. (No offense to the handful of kids I’ve known providing a solid code, knowledge and bugreports for the general public!)

3. Use unattended-upgrades, or an alternative auto update mechanism on rhel based distros, if you don’t want to become a fulltime sysadmin. The increased security is absolutely worth the very occasional breakage.

4. You and your hardware are your worst enemies. There are tons of giudes on what a proper backup should look like, but don’t let that discourage you. Some backup is always better than NO backup. Even if it’s just a copy of critical files on an external usb drive. You can always go crazy later, and use snapshotting abilities of your filesystem (btrfs, zfs), build a separate backupserver, move it to a different physical location… sky really is the limit here.