I think I did. Let me rephrase mine, maybe my point of view is better illustrated this way:

(A) there’s not much love for dogs because we have a lot of stray dogs that are legit scary and dangerous.

(B) we have a lot of stray dogs that are legit scary and dangerous, because there’s not much love for dogs

How does one discern the causal relationship in these cases?

there’s not much love for dogs because we have a lot of stray dogs that are legit scary and dangerous.

Perhaps you’ve got cause and effect mixed up

I have but they weren’t orthodox

They turned religion into bookkeeping lol

What a bunch of weirdos

You can ping yourself

The manual copy is a bit annoying, but in the end it’s maybe 10 minutes of work. Start the transfer in the evening, it’s finished in the morning.

I’m wondering if there’s a program where anyone can upload files, but can only be viewed and downloaded from the server by authenticated users.

Email does that. Anyone can send it to your mailbox, only you can download it.

In uni we always had a verbal defense for our papers. That had 2 benefits: (1) verify that the student actually wrote the paper (plagiarism and ghost writers were a thing before LLMs too), and (2) the prof could test the boundaries of the student’s understanding with additional questioning.

The obvious caveat being the amount of time it takes for the teacher to have a 1-on-1 with each student.

I have 5 copies of all my files on 5 devices, synced using syncthing with staggered file versioning. 2 of those are with friends and family who let me put a thin client at their place.

To protect against me misconfiguring syncthing, or some bug deleting all copies, every 3 months I manually make a copy and put it on a hard drive into a fire resistant safe.

The downside is that it can take a long time to form these alliances. Belgium’s record is almost 2 years (out of a 5 year election cycle).

The government is the alliance that together gets >50% of the votes. That alliance falling through is the same as government (legislative and executive) disbanding.

Usually this means (1) hand over to a care taker government to have status quo continue (2) no more changes to law.

Then a few rounds of trying to find a new >50% alliance. After that, if necessary, new elections.

The reason it works differently in the US is because first-past-the-post voting always results in a 2 party dominance system. US alliances benefit from being formed before election, join blue team or red team. Here it’s after elections, with a lot of different combinations possible.

Classic Dave

Wifipassfinder? I’d guess you could sell the technique to a product like PDQ. Or even metasploit. But that’s just guessing, I know very little about that market.

Not gonna lie: my first customer was a place I interned at when I was a student. So I knew who to contact, and what the potential value of my product was, as it was tailor made.

After that I started with contacting other companies via linkedin. Here my “trick” is to contact managers with an engineering background, as they more than often speak my language. In other words: I look for people who (a) have a technical understanding of their production process and (b) are high up enough on the corporate ladder to have a say about spending. Weirdly enough: a rare combination.

I went the route of selling B2B because they have bigger budgets. And they are, in my opinion, easier to convince to pay (my first customers had a no gain, no pay contract).

Just to let you know that that’s an option, too.

Not really

Instead of, or in addition to, DNS filtering is also an easy technique (1)

A recent EU workgroup on this spend 50 minutes discussing the implications on the “metaverse”.

These people really have no idea how technology works. They just know the marketing of the big few social media companies.

Someone should tell them about IPFS.

Making laws with the intent they will be broken is different from having an understanding they will be broken.

The consequences are the same, even if intent differs: those breaking the rules, in this case not giving personal information to a 3rd party, in the other example speeding, are criminals.

If someone hits you because they love your, or they hit you because they hate you, either case you’ve been hit.