The regular buyer (kids and their parents who don't know better) are often drawn by the exclusives specifically.

Good idea! Send them to prison, then add part of the sentence, they must go out and plant 250 thousand trees.

A few tips off the top of my head, in no particular order:

• do not allow public access to any of this. It's not trivial to set up a wireguard tunnel so that you can reach your home network from e.g. your phone or laptop when you're away, but it's also not highly complicated. Usually your home Internet router can already get you half way there.

• if you must have some service available from the public net, it's better to e.g. host it on a cheap VPS. That way if your things get hacked again (via no fault of your own), your home network is safe.

• set up automatics updates, at least for minor updates. If you're fine with waiting for a few days in case an update crashes one of your services, it's a good idea to just make it all auto update. Crash recovery from a backup is a simpler problem then setting up from scratch because your outdated service got hacked and now attackers own your home server, home router, TV, fridge, LEDs and whatever else is Internet capable at your home.

• use 2fa for any service you expose to public internet. Minor inconvenience, mitigates or avoids a whole series of errors.

• document what you're doing in a simple doc. Can be a simple doc on your next cloud instance, just at a little note/log entry every time you do something. "added robo vacuum cleaner integration to my home assistant. Had to use version 1.2.3 because my robot is an older gen. Password's on my phone." helps a lot when something goes wrong later and you forgot what you did.

• test backup recovery. Just delete everything and see if and how you can get it back. If you're afraid to do that, you don't have a backup.

• simple monitori

If the OP has it only reachable via a VPN, that might be good enough, it's not directly exposed. But otherwise yes.

Another, more important problem with publicly available home server: they lost their data when their setup was maintained by a professional hoster. According to the OPs words, they themselves "know just enough to be dangerous".

Exposing any of this to the public internet wouldn't be a good idea however you put it.

It's not really copyright that you want to go away. It's corporations exploiting the work of individuals. There are countries that have much saner, a lot more ethical laws around it.

The AI issue here is their theft, and since the theft is not addressed, it's going to get ugly, and the big game producers will just lock games behind networks , so unless you're online and likely paying a subscription, you ain't gonna be pLaying thaT game.

It's not Australia saying it, it's a specific person, though.

What was in the article, tldr?

Do you know how does it compare to stoat.chat? I was looking to self host something recently, and landed on stoat.chat.

What makes you think that? And what makes you think the next Congress is gonna be better? You guys keep electing idiots to all levels of your government. Think the next batch will not try to overreach?

Sorry that sounded like I'm attacking you. Bit my intent. I just wanna l wanted to say that I don't think your current or next Congress would act in a smart way, they mostly act in a convenient way.

Big Wood?

I mean, it looks like a fun project. How long have you been going to get to this place?

You don't need to hack the quantum sensor. You'll hack the regular computer around the sensor.

I wish they could do something like first offence, 10% of your annual revenue for the next 10 years goes to restitution efforts. Second offence, it's 30% plus the govt. gets to set a CEO and the top management for a year. Thrd strike and the company is shut down and liquidated and the board members or any big stockholders never get to work in that industry again.

If it's your own instance, make a bot account who can follow a few interesting accounts from other instances. That way the local timeline gets filled a bit, and it's not so lonely.

A few things around this, to gain traction, a person needs to have 5-6 accounts to interract with regularly, before they catch the addiction. But if those accounts are active, they'll quickly get out there, into a big bad world.

Depending on their age, have regular sessions with them. Go pick up an interest - a hashtag, a specific prolific creators' timeline, something like that. If you spend a bit of effort, this is easy to schedule. Point out the bad actors, point out the funny memes. Ask them how'd they respond. Teach them what a social network can be, and what they can do there.

Spamming the trade buttons seems to be a good strategy

It's not his tests. It's the ai writing tests.

Who wrote the tests?

Who will lose money?

You're right, I think most of the Western world politics is too dependent on the capital and that is dependent on the US markets. When the entire thing crashes, it's going to be bad. I'm pretty sure I'll be among those people affected, I'm in software, working (remotely) for an US firm. That was after recently losing my job due to failed investment. My wife's job just got "restructured" as well, and it's the second time in three years as well.

Not sure how we'll deal. I should be making plans on what to do when I lose the house and everything else. I kinda know it but I'm not sure what can I do.