Imagine a tool that gives you a language in which you can describe the hardware resources you want from a cloud provider. Say you want multiple different classes of servers with different sets of firewall rules. Something like Terraform allows you to put that into a text-based form, make changes to it, re-run the tool and expect resources to be created, changed and destroyed to match what you wrote down.

I agree with your recommendation. As for free/freemium email providers, there’s Tuta for one. I’m hoping that there are others.

On the other hand, GMX (and web.de) is a notoriously bad influence on email communication and will randomly block mailservers if they feel like it while flooding all of their own users with spam. The world would be a better place without 1&1 / united internet.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/06/prism-j-edgar-hoover-would-have-loved-the-nsas-surveillance-program-topic-government-surveillance.html

This is a decent read concerning the effectiveness of the systems designed to prevent abuse.

A steno machine is just a kind of chorded keyboard.

I think you’re just being contrarian for no reason. The market for specialty input devices is much smaller compared to “normal” keyboards but it still exists and has become much more diverse over the past decade, with many new niche products being launched. This isn’t even the first commercially available chorded keyboard. From the video, this particular iteration seems to be marketed towards mute people and I’m sure that they or people with other kinds of disabilities are probably glad to have any products at all available to aid them in daily tasks. Not every product or company needs to participate in a high volume market. Apparently, the chorded inputs can also be reprogrammed and it can work in a normal keyboard mode, which should make it more flexible than something designed purely for stenography.

Yes, the most important concern with accessibility devices: “Does it make me look attractive?”

Robocraft 2 looked like a belated attempt to rekindle the spirit of the original before that one took a nosedive after major monetization, gameplay and matchmaking changes. Not unexpected, but still a shame.

If I may ask: how practical is monitoring / administering rootless quadlets? I’m running rootless podman containers via systemd for home use, but splitting the single rootless user into multiple has proven to be quite the pain.

Do we really need to grow our energy consumption as a society by such a disproportionate amount?

Is there a source for these haughty, cackling archeologists making fun of hairdressers or is that just to manufacture some kind of underdog victory scenario?