That’s not an easy question to answer, since it depends on your use case. Of you’re running a mail server, you need SMTP; if you aren’t, you don’t. There is no one-size-fits-all.

However, I will suggest an approach that can guide you:

• Use the firewall, whatever you have installed, and bock off everything except ssh.
• One by one, expose the ports you need, conservatively.
• If you run web services, reverse proxy everything through a single server, preferablys one that’s only reverse proxying, is running as bare bones as possible, and is as simple as possible.
• Once you get things working, go through and shut down and remove any services that you aren’t exposing or using via 127.0.0.1.
• Once this is done, if you are technically capable, set up a Wireguard VPN with your home computer / laptop (preferable two), make sure the connections survive reboots, and then close and lock the door: firewall-block SSH except from your private VPN connections.

In the end, you may have only 3 ports open: https, SMTP, and IMAP. Assuming you’ve secured the web, smtp, and imap servers, this is about as secure as you’re going to get with a single server.

If you are able to, run each service on it’s own VPS: web server on one, IMAP and SMTP on another, and any web applications on their own servers. Connect them only via your VPN, and only through necessary ports, and close everything else. Shut down ssh between the servers, only allowing ssh connections from your laptop. Personally, I think it’s not too bad to run web apps in podman containers and expose those ports to the proxy server over there VPN, but ideally there’d be one VPS poet app, with servers not being able to talk to each other through the firewall.

TL;DR: secure your network before focusing on shutting down and removing programs. Lock down your firewall. Set up a private VPN, and restrict as much internal traffic to it as possible.

I think Kevin Spacey may be one of the best (most skilled) actors of his generation, and among the best across several generations. A true peer of Dustin Hoffman.

I was shocked by the allegations, and crushed when it became evident (to me) that it wasn’t a smear campaign.

In a way it’s crazy that I can be so emotionally engaged with someone I’ve never met, likely never will, and who has no idea I exist. OTOH, it’s not surprising when people we respect, or even idolize, turn out to be not only merely human, but morally flawed in particularly inexcusable ways.

I still feel sad and betrayed by Spacey, and it’ll forever taint my ability to enjoy his incredible performances.

How did you get your invite?

More proof. It’s called the “Bullring”, but i always thought it looked like a sperm whale.

This is exactly Why I’m conflicted about doxxing.

Social pressure picks up where the legal system stops; it’s the thing that encourages good manners and politeness, because those can’t (and shouldn’t be) be regulated. Shaming is a powerful force, and can be a force for good.

Shaming can also be a force for ill, and the downsides of doxxing probably outweigh the upsides. But still… I think we’re missing a mechanism that would normally moderate bad social and ethical behaviors like this.

I wish, I wish… I wish I was a fish.

I wish there was an instrument other than the stock market whereby private individuals could combine their funds to perform hostile take-overs, and then manage them by pre-agreed conditions.

Like: we’re going to buy Twitter, build an AP interface on it, federate it, and operate it like a non-profit. We’re going to have a set of these S core values, with yearly votes on changes proportional to investment. No single investor can own more than T percent of shares Investors can sell their shares, or buy shares. Stock will never spilt. Management salaries, combined, can never exceed more than M% of non-management combined salaries, and run it as a Holocracy. Or, maybe, shares can only be sold to employees, who have to sell to other employees when they leave.

You know; try to design a good operating model that avoids the pitfalls of other companies, and can adapt when the model demonstrates perverse incentives. Put more thought into it than my ramblings above.

But ten billion dollars is a lot of money to put together, and the rules I’d like to see necessarily exclude the sort of profit-only driven capitalists who’d be able to contribute heavy loads, and would limit the amount that could contribute.

I may as well wish I were a fish.

It has worth. It doesn’t have value.

Goodbye

In TFA

It doesn’t. It belongs in c/insanepeoplefacebook

candy asses

Cowards. Fucking incompetent cowards.

Well, in this case, it’s Vance, not Trump. So, yeah: different lies, same modus operandi.

Unfortunate outcome, sad cause. Sounds like he cared enough for the animal to put some effort into a noble funeral, but just fucked it up. Other people have caused conflagrations for worse reasons: intentional, carelessness, whatever.

Of all the people causing a fire like this, I have the most sympathy for this guy.

Related: a comedian once had a schtick about California road signs about it being illegal to throw burning objects out of your car; he joked that it was stupid, because what, was he driving down there road witha charcoal briquets in the passenger seat, just tossing coals out the window? While it was funny, I always thought, “Yeah. That’s almost exactly what it is.” Fucking idiots used to toss their cigarette butts out the window all the time.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s not CHS. From what I’ve read, CHS is similar to overdosing, and is mostly associated with habitual users. The very first time I got stoned, decades ago, I spent the entire night in my car parked outside of a friend’s house trying to not be violently ill. Since then, after legalization, I’ve gotten mildly stoned on edibles a couple of times to no ill effect, but the third time the nausea was back.

I’ve found no reference about it online. I’ve asked about it, online. I don’t know of it’s allergies in my case; if I mini-dose - amounts small enough that I can’t notice any effect, but more than homeopathic doses - I’m fine. But as soon as I take enough to geta even a mild high, bang: nausea.

It’s really frustrating, because I suffer from chronic lower back pain (thanks, Army!) and I’d even gotten a prescription (before it was recreationally legal in my state) in an attempt to achieve the pain relief associated with cannabis.

I’ve now chalked it up to a paradoxical effect. I suspect the anti-nause mechanism in THC is behaving differently in my biome and instead triggers nausea. Maybe that can be classified as an allergy? Although I expect if it were a traditional allergy, any amount would trigger nausea. And a little cannabis doesn’t make me a little sick; it’s either all or nothing.

My other theory is that it’s zero-G sickness. When I get high, I get a head-spinning effect, and that sort of thing over a long term induces nausea in me.

I don’t know what the fuck it is, but it’s gods-damned annoying.

Ah, a youngling.

My first programming language was Basic; my second, assembly; third, C. I didn’t get to new-fangled languages like Pascal until i was in college, long after I’d learned the only really useful fundamentals of programming and computer software.

Everything else is just gloss, convenience, and bloat.

I’m saying that I’m claustrophobic, and being in a submarine is a nightmare scenario, regardless of how safe it is.

Also: while I don’t know the selection process for US Navy submarines, my experience with the military is that you can have an opinion about how you want to be posted, but no actual decision-making ability. So I may hope to fly Navy jets, but the Navy can simply say: “fuck you, you’re going to be stationed on a submarine,” and there’s little I could do about it.

Also: accidents happen, subs sink, regardless of the country. It’s pretty high on my list of ways not to die, just below Nutty Putty cave and getting sucked into Bolton Strid.

Also: submarines are weapons of war, so there’s a non-zero chance someone, at some point, will be trying to make you sink.

Also: I was saying that were I a Chinese submarine crew, an incident like this would not fill me with confidence about my posting.

Absolutely. I mean, people drown in shallow water all the time; if it flooded, it wouldn’t matter if it were 20m or 200m; you’d still be dead.

But it was a best case for China, since recovery was about as easy as it could possibly be.

Also, in dock, there’s a better chance that it wasn’t fully manned, or that it didn’t flood and they could get folks out. I’m no submarineologist, but it’s difficult to imagine a case where a submarine sank at dock without flooding, though, so my guess is some people died.

Man, imagine being a kid seeing this happen. It’d either be a cool memory, or lifelong psychological trauma.

Bestiality, at least; the name doesn’t necessarily imply vore, though.

I haven’t been on Reddit in years; did they change the rules? Vote manipulation, or encouraging it, is still an account ban offense, right?