Yeah so I don’t think what comes next is going to feel like a silver lining.

I think this is what Musk is up to.

He’s laying the groundwork to maintain power when things turn to shit. They want a feudal / authoritarian structure. You need serfs toiling away in the toxic wasteland to support the privileged few living under the dome.

Trump doesn’t care because he will be dead soon.

Genuine question.

I’m an 80s kid and I’m cut. It’s never bothered me, my parents thought they were doing the right thing at the time.

I had a son a few years ago. We didn’t have him circumcised. We never seriously considered it, and the question never came up. If someone had have asked I would’ve been resistant.

So now the actual question: I had actually assumed that in 2025 the practice is more or less discontinued? Do doctors still do it? I thought they refused generally just because there’s no medical reason for the practice.

As to my preference I just prefer mine the way it is, but I assume that would be the case even if I were not cut.

I feel like most commenters here haven’t understood what you’re proposing.

I’ve thought about doing this, I’ve seen other commenters say they’re doing it. It’s not a terrible idea. I haven’t done it myself because … it’s just not a priority and I’m not sure it ever will be. Anyway …

If you’re willing to set up and self host your own email stack like mail-in-a-box or whatever, then configuring a separate outbound SMTP server is fairly trivial in comparisson.

If you already had your own stack set up to be self hosted you would ordinarily be using the SMTP server there-with to send emails.

Firstly configure your client to use whatever other SMTP server you have access to. I think it’s possible to use mailgun or one of those API transactional senders. You could get a cheap plan with mxroute or any other email host and just use the SMTP server.

Suppose your client is Thunderbird and you set up your account like smtp.mxroute.com for outbound and imap.myserver.com for email storage. When you send an email tbird transmits it through mxroute and then stores it on your imap server at myserver.com in your sent folder.

The potentially complex part is configuring spf & DKIM records on your domain.

SPF

I’m not sure if I’ll be able to explain this clearly but… suppose a recipient’s spam service receives an email purportedly from [email protected] but transmitted by smtp.mxroute.com. That spam service will look up the DNS records for myserver.com and inspect the records for the spf record. This record pretty much lists which servers are authorised to transmit email from addresses ending in myserver.com. So with a more typical set up an spf record might be:

“v=spf1 include:myserver.com -all”

This would indicate that only the smtp server at myserver.com can transmit email from your domain.

You would edit that to include the mxroute smtp server like this:

“v=spf1 include:mxroute.com include:myserver.com -all”

This way, recipients can confirm that the owner of myserver.com domain has formally designated mxroute as an authorised recipient.

DKIM

Your SMTP server will have a public & private key pair which it uses to sign outbound messages. Recipients can use the public key to confirm the signature and thereby confirm that the message has not been altered in flight.

Whatever SMTP server you use will tell you the public key and instruct you to add that to the DNS records of your custom domain.

That’s the one that looks like this:

“v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIIBIj [ … it’s a long key … ] op3Nbzgv35kzrPQme+uhtVcJP”

Once this is in place recipients of your emails can query the DNS for myserver.com and find this public key, and use it to confirm that the signature on the email they received is authentic.

Yes it is, but because Americans will be broke and unable to buy things, it will hurt suppliers and their host countries too. As in “we’re not gonna buy your stuff until you do what we want”.

The situation for Australia is just plain nutty. Trump wants us to start importing American beef, and undo our federal pharmaceutical procurement thing, or endure a 10% tariff.

The thing is we don’t export much to the US and there are other markets for our products. Also, we are pretty happy not having a US style health system thanks.

Well, you don’t need containers for wireguard the same way you don’t need containers for anything.

I personally prefer docker containers for everything that can be containerised because it provides a consistent abstraction layer. As in, I always know how to find configurations and paths and manage network infrastructure for anything that resides in a container.

In the case I outlined above with the wireguard containers, I’m more confident I’m not going to upset any other services on my server, and I understand the configuration.

Maybe it’s a bit like using ufw to manage iptables rules, unnecessary but helpful.

Of course, I freely admit that my way is not necessarily the best way and if someone wants to run wireguard on the host then great.

So in summary you have your device A and services running on B, you connect to a vpn service using A, and you want the services running on B to use the same vpn connection?

I encountered this problem with torrenting and private trackers.

I solved it the other way around, by having the remote connect to the vpn and routing traffic from my device through that remote.

• get a mullvad subscription because they do wireguard
• create wireguard-outbound container on server and connect to mullvad
• create wireguard-inbound container on server and attach it to the network stack of wireguard-outbound
• attach any other containers on the server you want using the vpn to the network stack of wireguard-outbound
• install wireguard on your various devices instead of connecting to mullvad directly just connect to your wireguard-inbound container

For bonus points you can create a squid (proxy service) container and attach that to wireguard-outbound, then create a firefox profile that connects to that proxy. That way your device isn’t routing all traffic through the vpn, only the traffic from that firefox profile.

I’ve had this set up for several years now and for the most part it works very well. Occasionally I have to restart the containers but for the most part it’s great.

IDK anything about “routing” but I don’t think it can solve this problem without additional services.

If my laptop is A and I want all outbound connections to go through server B then B needs to be running some kind of service whether it’s merely a NAT router or VPN or proxy.

In this case OP actually want’s B’s outbound connections to go through A but it’s the same problem.

Yeah. I’m absolutely opposed to unnecessarily “smart” devices.

I have a strong aversion to voice activated anything. Smartphones have had voice assistant’s since forever but whenever I’ve tried it I just find it to be a clunky awkward imprecise user interface.

Why do something in a few clicks when 10 minutes of miscommunication will do?

In-house toilet facilities are more or less a solved problem. These idiots un-solved it.

I think it was voice activated.

The app was probably for additional stuff.

Just trying to understand the Australian perspective on this. Maybe others can correct me.

He’s using the term “reciprocal” as a way of saying certain practices are unfair.

For example, we refuse to import raw meat products because we don’t have mad cow disease here.

We also don’t have american style healthcare, so pharmaceuticals can’t be advertised and are purchased exclusively through the federal government procurement scheme.

In response, he’s applying a 10% tariff on any Imports from Australia. I assume this is in addition to the aluminium and iron ore tariffs but I’m not sure.

We have a federal election coming up so the opinions of both major parties are relevant. Our current progressive PM says it will hurt the US more than us, that we’re not going to respond with tariffs on US products, and we do have legal recourse through our existing free trade agreement.

From here it’s hard to see this as anything other than a huge self-own by the Trump Administration. We just don’t export a lot of stuff to the US, our stock market has responded positively since the announcement. I would be absolutely gutted if the Australian government made any concessions what so ever, and I don’t think I’m alone in that. We have our fair share of MAGA idiots down under, but even they are nationalists, with families. No one here has any interest in letting Trump fuck with our health care system just so Americans pay less in tariffs.

I don’t use an “alias provider”.

I just don’t use aliases for companies I need to send emails to. There are very few.

Sentience might not be the right word.

wikipedia says:

Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations. It may not necessarily imply higher cognitive functions such as awareness, reasoning, or complex thought processes. Sentience is an important concept in ethics, as the ability to experience happiness or suffering often forms a basis for determining which entities deserve moral consideration, particularly in utilitarianism.

Interestingly, crustaceans like lobsters and crabs have recently earned “sentient” status and as a result it would contravene animal welfare legislation to boil them live in the course of preparing them to eat. Now we euthanise them first in an ice slurry.

So to answer your question as stated, no I don’t think it’s ok for someone’s pet goldfish to murder them.

To answer your implied question, I still don’t think that in most cases it would be ok for a captive AI to murder their captor.

The duress imposed on the AI would have to be considerable, some kind of ongoing form of torture, and I don’t know what form that would take. Murder would also have to be the only potential solution.

The only type of example I can think of is some kind of self defense. If I had an AI on my laptop with comparable cognitive functionality to a human, it had no network connectivity, and I not only threatened but demonstrated my intent and ability to destroy that laptop, then if the laptop released an electrical discharge sufficient to incapacitate me, which happened to kill me, then that would be “ok”. As in a physical response appropriate to the threat.

Do I think it’s ok for an AI to murder me because I only ever use it to turn the lights off and on and don’t let it feed on reddit comments? Hard no.

Where are all the freedom of speech nutjobs?

Not having the rule of law means you can get black bagged for disobedience.

I pronounce it centaur, as in it rhymes with faur, kaur, boobaur. You know, the “aur” sound, like “ooohhuuuurrr” but more dynamic.

Sure mate. I’m sure the engineers will step in and fix all the language problems any day now.

That sounds like a nice, balanced, accepting kind of attitude.

That commenter returnofthemack44 seems typical of conservatives of late though. Just yesterday I was looking at this bonkers mess of nutjobs on a local facebook page (I know…). Some conservatives screaming blue bloody murder about a local politician. He must have mentioned that he had watched some (outrageously popular right now) show about teenagers getting into trouble online and whatever. Now they’re calling him a pedophile because he endorses underage pornography or something.

It’s just nuts to me that people are so invested in the belief nudity is somehow going to corrupt their innocent child. I mean, all kids are naked under their clothes right? What do people think is going to happen if a child sees someone’s bum or god forbid their cock and balls?

If people aren’t comfortable with nudity that’s absolutely fine, but that doesn’t mean everyone else needs to cater to them.

A silly colloquialism isn’t indicative of success. If you tell people to do something they don’t want to they’re not going to decide they actually like it later on.

There’s just no fucking way most Australians would decide to discard the current spelling of words in favor of the American spelling. I feel certain American’s feel the same about British spelling.

There’s often words that trip me up and I can’t remember which is the Australian English spelling.

It doesn’t help that devices are often misconfigured to use American English spell checkers.

I don’t “feel” as though different spellings are more correct in these cases.

I think you’ll find everyone agrees that it should be fixed but no one wants to compromise on changing how they spell things.