Lol, awesome.

Annoyingly I noticed that the status page only shows the past 22 minutes to 1 hour for the primary services. I have no idea why, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to look further back. But the badge says 99.45% uptime over the last 14 days, so that’s probably right.

Meanwhile, over at Codeberg: https://status.codeberg.org/

They achieve all of this using 100% open-source infrastructure. If I remember correctly, it’s all running on Codeberg-owned hardware as well, not some rented servers.

https://codeberg.org/about

A lot of people don’t realize how much of a lifestyle change and commitment it takes to even begin to look kind of like a bodybuilder. A lot of genuinely smart people think going to the gym twice a week would give them more muscle than they know what to do with. Yeah it’s stupid, but it’s a common misconception.

Edit: here’s a post I found about it: https://www.girlsgonestrong.com/blog/articles/big-and-bulky/ it’s about women, who worry about this a lot more than men, but I’ll bet a lot of it applies to both genders.

Yeah, perhaps they did. As it happens, I wasn’t using a VPN, but I do pay for one so I tried it. VPN to Germany -> site loaded. VPN to Israel -> same error. They literally just blocked the whole country using cloudflare… The country where most of the people they claim to have solidarity with live, and where presumably they’d want their message to be heard the most. Unless, maybe, it’s just a propaganda site that doesn’t actually care about Palestinians and instead has some other agenda? Hmmm…

Seems like the so called “Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign” blocks all IPs from Israel. Hilarious considering the number of Palestinians whose only way to connect to the internet is through Israeli ISPs… Which is either most of them or a very significant number of them. Solidarity, eh?

Yeah, if I use one it might work, but why would a site block me in the first place? It’s not something a legitimate news site usually does…

Link won’t open for me :/

Sorry, you have been blocked

You are unable to access ipsc.ie

Most large tech companies have offices in Israel. Israel positioned itself as a “high-tech nation” to a huge degree, and there’s tons of engineering talent here that companies rightly want to hire and capitalize on.

Whether that makes these companies “supporters” of Israel is up to your interpretation, I guess, but it’s more likely to just be the smart move without any political agenda. Not to mention that they’ve had offices here for years and years, well before Israel’s recent wars and plummeting of their international image. At that point the company already had lots of its workforce here and closing down offices would have been a shot in the leg.

Interesting questions. It would also remove eyebrows and eyelashes, which serve to protect eyes from dust and things like that. Armpit and pubic hair serve to reduce friction in those areas and prevent chafing. Nostril hair, assuming it would also be gone, is part of the filtering system of the air we breathe. Considering all those health implications, being fully informed before doing it would be really important.

But if someone still wants to do that to themselves, and is an adult capable of making their own decisions, I say let them!

Whether it’s possible or not (the core of your question), I have no idea but the other comments seem to have some theories about that.

Where does Bazzite fit into this? (Sincerely, someone who wants to switch to either Bazzite or CachyOS and can’t decide between them)

For aesthetic reasons the chart only allows one OS per square, and any other arrangement would put Windows dangerously low. At least Android is mostly open-source.

boring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HaPijamot

I’ll also point out that in the first 3 seasons, it also stars Alona Tal, who later moved to the US and there’s a chance you’ve seen her in some of her roles.

Israel: HaPijamot (literally: The Pajamas). It’s a sitcom for kids (but really more for their parents IMO) about a mediocre band that’s trying to make it big in Tel Aviv. The show often breaks the fourth wall in a way that’s really hard for me to explain. It’s kind of like a mockumentary, but it plays with it a lot. For example, there’s a “white screen” sometimes where the cast pauses the show to explain something to the audience. It’s clearly an abstract place that doesn’t canonically exist in the world. But occasionally it plays a role in the plot, e.g. a character goes there to hide from everyone else, or someone would abuse the system and activate the white screen to get out of a sticky situation.

The original premise of the band quickly becomes secondary, it’s just a great show with excellent writing and a great cast. It even has a few spin-offs, including a great one where the fast food shop owner becomes a detective.

I think you may have triggered a rewatch for me, it’s been years since I last saw it!

I’m not from the US. And I think the way they’re trying to tackle it is stupid, roughly for the reasons you say. But on a surface level it’s good that there is some action taken on this matter.

The country does matter. It allows oversight and regulation to a greater extent. And if it turns out that there’s a backdoor in a router, if it’s made locally there will be someone to criminally charge, whereas if it’s made in China or wherever, that would be impossible.

Then again, it’s the US, so they’d probably charge some random worker instead of the CEO who demanded the back door be implemented.

To be honest, this is probably justified. My knee-jerk reaction was “oh look, USA in antagonizing everyone else again”, but consumer routers are a really significant security junction which historically has always been somewhat neglected. I only read a few sentences before the paywall stopped me, but sounds like they’ll whitelist any foreign manufacturers that are legitimate.

Yes, it’s gonna have corruption and bribes all over it… But on paper, it’s justified.

Excellent Map Men video about this: https://youtu.be/hrsxRJdwfM0

Israel

Running… For now.

I think what you’re seeing is that the OP of the post is rendered differently from everyone else. But what OP is referring to is how that one specific user that they replied to has his username in purple, instead of the white everyone else has.