I have been known to put high quality renders of my PDFs in word documents (image per page) to beat the file type validations.

Excellent plan if you ever need to apply to 2007.

The program that lifted millions of seniors out of poverty. That money.

You fucking wish.

Academic security research is constitutionally bad because academia as an environment selects people with a “hacker mentality” out at the freshman stage.

It’s inherently biased towards rule-followers. That’s not a bad thing, but it means it’s bad at some things. Such as computer security research.

I unironically love the theme song sequence in that show, but I know it’s a point of contention so I figured I’d poke the hornet’s nest a bit.

If you don’t specify it’s Enterprise of course! Who could resist that catchy theme song?

The Olympians are a bunch of whiny ass petty excuses for gods.

YB

Yoshua Bengio? Is that you?

Most operating systems these days are just micro-kernels to run the actual operating system, your browser. Most users will be perfectly happy using whatever in most cases as long as you can get one of the major browsers on it.

If they have special requirements, then you need to figure them out first.

Edgelord was the wrong word choice, sorry. I mean argumentative jerks that pick fights over absolutely anything.

Don’t sleep on the actual edgelords either. I got a guy in my replies right now screeching how women in politics are the real fascism because of identity politics.

But the jerks are the real issue.

Only up to a certain extent. The point of federation is that the shit gets spread around the instances.

Also, we have evolved “free speech” kind of ethos that only allows the most egregious of norm violations to be moderated.

This is place is forever lost to the edgelords.

If they want to learn how to run their own stuff, go ahead and teach them.

Do you think sister here wants to learn how to run nextcloud?

I definitely think they should help their families out. Helping them select an alternative service is helping out.

Being on the hook for endless tech support while getting blamed for everything is not helping out. It’s also not healthy for your relationship with your sibling, and it’s not a good use of family holiday time.

A partner is different. You already share a lot of infra, and since you presumably spend a lot more time together it’s not likely to impact your relationship as much unless you go full Pat & Mat do IT.

We’re a bunch of assholes in a more or less unmoderated space. Of course discussion sucks.

This is my most heartfelt advice: do not do hosting for family members. You will get no end of trouble.

Find her a commercial service she can trust. Or throw up your hands and go “big tech, what can you do”. But do not, under any circumstance, run her IT.

Remember kids, Jim Crow laws were not identity politics. Opposing them, that was identity politics.

This sounds like the kind of thing people say who can’t help themselves.

Like resolutions about never drinking again. Or how you really stopped smoking this time, pinky swear. Or how you’re definitely going to lose twenty pounds this year and hit the gym twice a week.

Duck typing ftw

Step one: Be really good at numerical methods for partial differential equations.

Step two: apply to HFT company

Step three: There is no step three.

MBA is a distraction.