Does quiche need to rise? Aren’t the egg whites in the filling and you only need them to set into a delicious binder for the cheese etc?

It’s easier

Still an improvement

Giving Musk lots of money is what elevated him to power. Covering his antics seems to hurt his brands and put pressure on various news media and governments to do something about his misinformation network.

The nazi salute alone and the resulting coverage has gotten several organisations to drop twitter

As usual, he’s not even funny.

Sounds awful, sorry to hear that

Hopefully never. Just stop using whatsapp. Be the change.

When facebook bought whatsapp, I walked through the list of chats I had on whatsapp and asked them what other apps they already used. Most people already used something other than a facebook owned thing or were willing to start.

It’s cheaper to incite racism than to deliver government services

I guess Robert E Lee losing was helpful, but I suspect they’re just racists and not honoring him for being such a loser

Reminded me of this… People will support a lot of bad things if the alternative is a minor inconvenience

Just start a new chat

You can stop using WhatsApp without everyone agreeing with you. If they want to talk to you they’ll find a way

Zuckerberg reportedly decided to do away with censorship mechanisms at Meta after a seemingly innocuous photo that he posted on Facebook in November 2023 about the surgery that was performed on his left anterior cruciate ligament failed to go viral,

pathetic

Have you considered a life of crime?

You can acknowledge feelings while also managing them.

If you’re in a bad situation and you could do something about it, you should of course, but that often requires you to manage your feelings.

Even suppressing your feelings might be ok for a bit, if it’s what you need to fix the problem causing those feelings

Gives it a fallback to send surveillance data to samsung, even if you don’t connect it to a network

It sounds like your job might be needlessly hard.

Coming up with a design for a new process that will fix all issues at once is very hard; you’re very likely to miss something important. Making such a process change in one go is also hard, even if you somehow happened to end up with a improbably good spec. Doing it by interviewing people sounds kinda doomed.

An easier path might be to take whatever holistic understanding you have right now and start in some corner of the problem where there are clear issues. Bring engineers and people who use the system together. Have the people who use the system walk through their common workflow together with the engineers, noting what parts are usually hard or slow them down. Keep people focused on improving things rather than arguing about how you got here.

Together come up with small achievable process or software fixes you can implement and evaluate quickly (like in a week or two). If it works out, you have now made a real improvement. If it didn’t work out, you understand the limitations a bit better and can try again, as it was pretty quick.

Helping to deliver real improvements in a way that’s visible both to the involved engineers and the people using the system will buy you a lot of credibility for the next step.

Tailscale is very popular among people I know who have similar problems. Supposedly it’s pretty transparent and easy to use.

If you want to do it yourself, setting up dyndns and a wireguard node on your network (with the wireguard udp port forwarded to it) is probably the easiest path. The official wireguard vpn app is pretty good at least for android and mac, and for a linux client you can just set up the wireguard thing directly. There are pretty good tutorials for this iirc.

Some dns name pointing to your home IP might in theory be an indication to potential hackers that there’s something there, but just having an alive IP on the internet will already get you malicious scans. Wireguard doesn’t respond unless the incoming packet is properly signed so it doesn’t show up in a regular scan.

Geo-restriction might just give a false sense of security. Fail2ban is probably overkill for a single udp port. Better to invest in having automatic security upgrades on and making your internal network more zero trust

I wonder if some client has support for regex-blocking of users… somehow I’ve blocked a lot of weird trolls with usernames similar to this one

Some of the people you share experiences with on instagram might be up for sharing an experience in real life. Pick someone who seems nice and suggest something that might be fun