I do live in the USA at the moment, but in a state that pays waitstaff well (California).

There’s too many American people online that just assume everything is about the USA though. It gets to me sometimes :)

Does it use http or MQTT?

Home Assistant uses HTTP for this. Realistically, you won’t see much difference between HTTP and MQTT for this use case.

MQTT is harder to secure than HTTP, and has some limitations (eg it normally only supports username and password auth - no SSO, no 2FA) so I’d avoid it for anything public-facing unless you have a specific reason to use it. Using it via a VPN is fine, but you’d still need to configure a separate MQTT username and password per user.

iptables should still work, but these days it gets converted to nftables so you may as well just learn nftables.

Having said that, I find it a pain to manually configure iptables or nftables. There might be a better way to do what you want.

I assume this is for basic economy only, where you can’t select a seat? If I choose a seat when booking, I can’t imagine the airline allows someone else to choose the same seat?

Residential ISPs usually have a contention ratio somewhere around 30:1 to 50:1. That means that 30 to 50 customers that each have a 1Gbps connection all share 1Gbps of upstream bandwidth.

Business connections are closer to 10:1, and a leased line (dedicated circuit) is 1:1.

An interesting side effect is that the models coming out of China are very efficient. They don’t have access to all the high-end hardware the US has, so they have to make do with what they’ve got.

They no longer sell or include AP

That’s true only in the USA and Canada. You can still get autopilot in most of the world, especially in countries where FSD isn’t approved.

How does storing transactions in a public ledger obfuscate its origins though? If anything, it makes it more easily traceable.

The end goal is to have no reliance on tailscale as i am preparing for the eventual enshitification.

Tailscale is mostly open-source. If they do anything bad then someone could fork the project. The coordination server isn’t open-source, but you could self-host Headscale as a replacement.

If it still doesn’t suit your use cases, there’s some alternatives.

I personally wouldn’t directly deal with iptables or nftables rules, and instead use some other software to deal with that.

iptables is deprecated… If you really do want to do your own custom thing you should learn nftables.

Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington state all have the same minimum wage for both tipped and non-tipped jobs.

A few other states have a tipped minimum wage that’s lower than their regular minimum wage, but still higher than the $2.13/hr federal minimum.

I’m from Australia and we very rarely tip. It’s just not part of the culture. It was one of the biggest changes when I moved to the USA.

businesses not paying their employees enough to make a living.

The thing I don’t understand is that even in states that have better minimum wages, the same tips are still expected.

California has the same minimum wage for both tipped and non-tipped jobs, yet one person working a minimum wage job can be paid significantly more than someone else also working a minimum wage job, just because they work in a position that’s customarily tipped.

Only 5.5% of internet users are American. Don’t assume everyone follows US customs. Some countries actually pay waitstaff well.

npm is finally going to disable postinstall scripts by default in the next major version at least, copying what other JS package managers like pnpm do. They also added a setting for minimum age (only install package versions that are at least X days old) which is meant to help too - the idea being that malware will have been detected and removed before anyone installs it.

People use third-party Linux package repos all the time though, and they have similar attack vectors. If I can convince you to add my Debian/RPM/whatever repo, I can create a package with the same name as a common one but with a newer version number, and apt upgrade will happily replace the official package with my malicious one.

This is intentional for several reasons (e.g. deb.sury.org has PHP packages that replace the official Debian ones) but I’m really surprised we don’t see more supply chain attacks via third party deb/rpm repos.

Maybe it’s because the barrier to entry is higher? With a custom deb repo (either self-hosted or using something like Packagecloud or Ubuntu PPA), you need to create the repo, create Debian packages, add them to the repo (eg using Aptly), GPG sign the repo, and convince people to add the repo. npm is just one repo with everything in it.

$10/mo to use my own modem

lolwut

Sounds like a way to hide the full price of the internet plan. Restaurants do this in some big cities like in San Francisco… They add junk fees like “5% employee health care mandate” rather than just increasing the menu prices.

Oh no. Not sure I want to look up what he did.

Rent-to-own isn’t that common, even though maybe it should be. With most rentals (of anything) you have to keep paying indefinitely. That’s why there’s usually a cost/benefit analysis of renting vs owning.

Renting can sometimes be better for less tech-savvy people, since the company owns the equipment and is familiar with it, and will replace it at any point if it has issues

The article says you can still buy it at a retail store like Best Buy though.

All the data gathered by Cambridge Analytica was gathered through the public API though, after users had consented to share it (by logging into a quiz app that requested the permissions). That’s why the API is very locked down now, and the approval process to get any sort of data access is very strict.

The main issue was that they gathered data from people whose profiles were set to be visible only to friends. If someone logged into the quiz and granted permissions, their friends’ data was also accessible via the API.