[-] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can someone explain how Biden is supposed to do this?

He already has the authority to do this through the lend-lease act for Ukraine.

Republicans are tilting further and further toward Russia and away from Ukraine

So you're saying that Biden should carry out the Republican agenda out of fear for ... the Republicans?

Independents don’t understand why we should be “spending” millions on another country.

Nice attempt at concern trolling.

You are "spending" the equivalent of 3% of your military budget to take out one of your two major adversaries without spilling a drop of American blood. That is a bargain any day of the week. I put spending between quotes by the way, because the bulk of the equipment being sent to Ukraine is not manufactured new nor does it not come from active inventory but from old stocks that would have to be disposed of soon anyway. If "independents" don't understand that, perhaps we shouldn't pay too much attention to what those "independents" think.

But that's all besides the point. The article is not even about the amount of money or equipment, but about certain critical equipment that he has been witholding or been indecisive on against the judgment of military advisors, out of some misplaced fear of provoking Russia. Things like: longer range missiles, cluster munitions for HIMARS, tanks, permission for European partners to send fighter jets, ... We are asking Ukraine to fight in ways the US or NATO would never fight.

This indecisiveness, which isn't exclusive to Biden but to all Western politicians, has direct implications on the battlefield and is costing Ukrainian lives. Western politicians have this holy fear of making a wrong decision, so they tend to draw out the decision making process until they are confident about making the decision. This wait-and-see attitude may work well in peacetime, but in wartime not making a decision is also a decision and it is often the worst decision.

Take for example the issue of Western tanks and IFVs to help Ukraine's counteroffensive. There were already calls for this in late spring 2022. By autumn 2022 the Russian army was in ruins, but Ukraine lacked the means to push their advantage home. In the end, the decision was delayed until February 2023. This delay gave ample opportunity for the Russians to mobilize troops and build extensive fortified lines.

The same thing with the fighter jets, we all knew it would be a difficult and long process and not an immediate fix, but if the pilot and crew training had started a year ago, we would be in a much better position today.

[-] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago
[-] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Says the one who obviously has a stick up his ass about white people, and uses terms like "White People trash".

[-] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

What's a good usecase for TPM in Linux?

[-] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Perhaps. It's a legal grey area here, not strictly legal but tolerated in certain areas (red light districts), but it's certainly not a socially acceptable thing.

[-] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I was afraid it was going to come down to that. I have been looking into configuration options for the apps, but they're 3rd party nodejs apps and I know jack shit about nodejs so I've had no luck with it so far.

Going with vhosts anyway (despite the pains it will create on this setup) seems to be the preferred way forward then.

Thanks for the insight, and for confirming what I already suspected.

[-] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

No worries, your input was helpful and informative anyway, so thanks.

Going with vhosts anyway seems to be the least cumbersome route at this point.

[-] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

WEI is a proposed modification to Chrome/Chromium that doesn't even exist yet, and that would have the side effect of blocking adblockers on every site that implements WEI.

This here is an already existing change to the YouTube service that blocks adblockers on YouTube, across all browsers, Firefox included. It does not use or need WEI to do this.

[-] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hmm no, that's not really it... that's more so that you don't pass URLs starting with /app1/ onwards to the application, which would not be aware of that subpath.

I think I need something that intercepts the content being served to the client, and inserts /app1/ into all hardcoded absolute paths.

For example, let's say on app1's root I have an index.html that contains:

...
src="/static/image.jpg"
...

It should be dynamically served as:

...
src="/app1/static/image.jpg"
...
[-] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use deluge mainly because it can easily be run as a daemon inside of a docker container, so I can just let my torrents run unattended on my homeserver, and always protected by a VPN with killswitch.

On my desktop I use the GUI client to connect to the daemon and manage my torrents as if it were local.

[-] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah but kbin still has huge issues with properly replicating posts, comments and votes from Lemmy instances. It often doesn't match up with what I see on Lemmy itself.

[-] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Sure, but the point is not so much about which one to use but that the terminating point listening on 443 should sit outside of his network.

So he will either need a cloud service, or accept that he will have to add :12400 to his URLs.

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