Quitting Amazon to use AliExpress or Temu is like quitting drinking alcohol by switching to heroin instead.

Environmental issues aside, cheap disposable shit that you have to replace constantly actually costs you way more in the long run.

Well from personal experience with a small website the biggest things you have to deal with are web crawlers trying to vacuum up every last ounce of data they can find and web crawlers trying to find obvious backdoors like trying default WordPress logins (even if you're not running WordPress). Make sure your software is properly configured and up to date and you're safe. Some isolation is still a good idea but don't lose sleep on which one because they're all still overkill in this case.

On the other hand if you're running a service that would be actively targeted by a large government enforcement agency or some other very wealthy and highly motivated entity, then complete physical isolation would be the only acceptable answer but with even more protocols to prevent contamination or identification as there have been attacks demonstrated that could infiltrate even air-gapped environments and that's assuming you could hide it well enough for them not to just come physically compromise it (without you even knowing).

Keep in mind if you want to use any of these technologies because you want to learn them or just think they're neat, then please do! I suspect a lot of people with these types of home setups are doing it mostly for that reason and not because it is absolutely necessary for security purposes.

Except this move is likely less about promoting domestic solar production and more about protecting oil, gas, and coal by making green energy alternatives more expensive.

No, he did try it back in 2017:

"In late 2017, we and Elon decided the next step for the mission was to create a for-profit entity," OpenAI said. "Elon wanted majority equity, initial board control, and to be CEO. In the middle of these discussions, he withheld funding. Reid Hoffman bridged the gap to cover salaries and operations."

Elmo is just throwing a tantrum because he wanted to be the one to take them private and roll them into Tesla but the rest of the board said no.

It doesn't matter if there is a tariff on these materials or not when China refuses to sell them to the US.

A free trade agreement with orange guy who literally said his favourite word was tariff? Hahah! Oh wait they're serious? Let me laugh even harder.

When did people stop wanting to learn anything? Everything has to be dumbed down to the level of toddlers otherwise people can't be bothered.

To me the fediverse is great because you need higher than a room temperature IQ to use it so the posts are already far greater quality and the interactions are more meaningful than any other social network. Meta can keep all the screaming adult children in their platform.

Oh hey look, we have the real world Firecracker!

Republicans: Keep political statements out of my sports/TV/video games/etc!

Also Republicans: You can now make drinking water a political statement!

Kagi's FastGPT. It's handy for quick answers to questions I'd normally punch in a search engine with the same ability to vet the sources.

It's frustratingly hypocritical that the defense of the pronoun and name rule is justified by "parental rights" when the rules banning medical interventions like puberty blockers actually take away the rights of parents who want to support their child's gender identity.

They spelled "violate" wrong.