DontTakeMySky

If you’re hosting static content it’s a lot easier. If you’ve only opened ports 80/443 and don’t have any kind of user input or scripting you’re (probably) fine. Most likely you’d get DOS’d before someone would hack you. Assuming you’re keeping your software up to date.

In general though limit what is exposed to the Internet. In this case don’t open any extra ports.

If you want to be more secure (likely overkill for most threat models), treat your webserver like it’s always infected. Don’t do anything else important on it, and keep it segmented from your other computers with firewall rules.

Realistically no one is going to bother to hack you unless you’re posting shit that makes people angry. You’re mostly going to get prodded by bots looking for known vulnerabilities in Apache or the like, and you can stay protected with frequent updates.

If you’re hosting something dynamic or with code like PHP or something with user accounts and the like, then it’s slightly more complicated.

I have a Google container and a Facebook container to somewhat segment those accounts from everything else (obviously they’re both sophisticated enough that it doesn’t limit tracking much. But it’s something).

It does make Google login a bit awkward if I try to log in from a nom-google container though unfortunately. I usually have to reopen in the Google one.

And I have one for my work accounts when I need to check work email from my personal PC. I don’t want to accidentally log in to that account casually.

Yeah.

There’s always a chance they like/need you enough to give you a heads up on the test so you can have a chance to pass it.

Okay yeah that makes sense. So that rules out founding cults that use the information as their holy book. But it could allow for “keep it secret, keep it safe” cults where there’s a holy object that they know is important but don’t know contains the data. (But it can’t be SO interesting that people try to inspect and understand it and inadvertently discover the data).

I wonder if you could rely on your buddy in the future knowing what your favorite password is and encrypting the data somehow.

Does it need to be discovered ASAP in that 20 year gap or can it be later on in that period once they know that you specifically are selected for the mission?

Does it only need to be discovered by the people 100 years in the future, or can people before that be aware of it?

Because this reminds me of the nuclear waste protection research. You found a religion that fears glowing cats…

I use it to (semi) automate bit repetitive tasks. Like adding a bulk set of getters, generating string maps to my types, adding handlers for each enum type, etc. Basic stuff, but nice to save keystrokes (it’s all auto complete).

Anything more complex though and I spend more time debugging than I saved. It’s hallucinated believable API calls way too often and wasted too much of my time.

I run Debian on most of my systems and run all of my services in docker (with rare exceptions for node_exporter or stable core tools). My base systems get automatic security upgrades, and then I’ll manually check in every few weeks whenever I feel like it.

My services in docker are version locked to a specific major version (when there’s a tag available) so I can usually re-pull to get minor version updates freely without breaking issues. My few more finnickey services get manual upgrades from me every 6 months or so only.

I usually stick to an OS version for as long as I can, and to that aim I stick to LTS versions with long support windows.

4 major versions in 12mo is…a lot. Especially if those include breaking changes for you. Yikes

I’ve used this nightly for years and it’s been great for me. It takes some time to adjust the sensitivity to capture midnight ramblings properly, but the recordings are freely accessible and easily saved if you want to keep them.

There may be more caveats here :/

I don’t have tile in my bathroom and have a decent vent fan and dry air so I have never had any issues related to this.

Don’t add anything new to your calendar, just add them and they can see it’s useless for the purpose they want. When they complain, mention the checkin system and that you need to be called. Or just a generic “School Visits” event that isn’t specific to each location.

Make sure you have other evidence you’re actually working. Make sure people see you at each location so you have witnesses if your boss complains.

I never wear a condom…but I also never have sex.

Neuroflavor is a great word, I’m stealing that

Also add payment reminders (for everything if you don’t autopay, but even with autopay keep the big ones in there too so you can make sure they went through).

Also add travel time blocks for appointments that are far away so you don’t accidentally overbook yourself, especially if you have to leave work for a doctor or something.

Family considering dinner vaguely “next weekend”? add a 3 day event so you remember to confirm a time with them. Everything gets a calendar event.

My roommate doesn’t do this and the floor and bathmats are always SOAKED when he’s done.

Sticking to the shower theme, if you’re able and don’t have really hard water, spray the walls of your shower before getting out. It’ll get rid of the soap residue and keep it clean longer. Don’t do this with hard water unless you feel like squeegeeing it off or you’ll make it worse.

Most of the ones on Amazon aren’t trustworthy. Especially at high capacities. But apparently you can get up to 2TB now, at least in theory. I imagine the support for them is pretty limited though still.

https://americas.lexar.com/guide-to-microsd-card-sizes/

Check a sample ballot so you know what races are up for a vote. Don’t let the first time you see a candidate be at the voting location.

My government publishes a booklet of candidate statements and details of ballot measures that gets sent out to all voters. Candidates can lie in their statements so don’t trust the ones who sound agreeable, but I can usually rule out more than a few based on them strongly supporting issues I’m against. This lets me rule out the worst choices for me and focus my research on a smaller set of candidates/races where the choice isn’t as obvious. Check candidate websites for a similar statement. Focus on ruling out people you strongly disagree with. Bookmark the ones that need more digging.

Then I tend to check voter guides published by news organizations and charities with a similar lean as me. I don’t follow them directly, but they give me a sense of who people with similar leanings support. This has helped me discover some candidates who were directly misleading in their statements and didn’t have the support of the people they claim agree with them. If any names in the voting guide surprise you, dig deeper on them.

Party affiliation is unfortunately meaningful in federal elections, and many top level state elections as well, but avoid voting straight ticket based on party. There are often local elections where party affiliation isn’t as important. It may matter if my governer is Red or Blue ,but it probably matters less what my Coroner is (…I’ll admit though that my feelings on this are changing in recent years. I’m still against straight ticket voting because it’s important to check each race individually.) Try to find a basic 2 sentence or so description of each position that’s up for election so you know what kind of power that position has. That will help you judge if a candidate’s stances on certain issues matter for their position. It’s great that my Coroner supports X but that’s irrelevant to their job so I won’t factor it in.

Finally I make sure to read the long form of every ballot measure or amendment. The short version almost always sounds appealing but often the long form uncovers really important nuances. Never just vote based on the short form, it’s way too easy to sneak in really terrible policies by constructing an agreeable tagline.

Outside of the thought experiment, banning books is different than choosing to not preserve them or keep them in a collection.

Removing a book that would otherwise fit the criteria of preservation just because it covers a “politicized” topic is different than a book becoming low value, getting superseded by newer editions, or no longer being worth preserving by that particular institution.

If we’re just talking archival and my goal isn’t to increase access and availability to those books, then I’d also consider the availability of the book generally outside of my collection. My institution may not personally need to preserve some major holy books, new popular novels, classics, books still in print, because other institutions, people, and culture overall are doing that preservation work for us. I would focus instead on things that are more at risk (e.g.less popular but still important.)

With a watchful eye of course to notice when a book is losing popularity and needs an additional hand to preserve properly.

I’m not a librarian though and defer to them as experts here. They’re much better at this than anyone else.

A Windows VM running Windows terminal, SSH’d back into the host, obviously.

Honestly I stick with whatever the default is and never had a problem that led me to find anything else.