Someone repaint them as clown shoes, please

You’re right. At least 4.

I see McDonald’s, a&w, Carl’s jr, and whatever that cup in the left is (no idea, but I don’t recognize it as one of the other 3).

I see at least 3 different fast food chains in a single meal. Now that’s dedication

Outside of VPS firewalls settings and fail2ban, is there anything else you’d recommend to harden the VPS?

Idk about audio but they rate limit video pretty quickly. Audio might be low enough bandwidth for them to not care, but be cautious

Is there a reason not to use pangolin for the public stuff too?

I’m just about to make the switch from CloudFlare to pangolin on VPS, and I wanna make sure I’m not missing anything

They’re famous for making (or at least greatly improving) such comparability layers.

Steam os can run Windows apps.
There is talk of steam frame (with an arm processor) running x86 apps.

So I say there would be a fair chance that we’d get decent compatibility/ Although idk if they actually would want to get into that market.

If argue that American pop culture loves two girls kissing outside of marriage way more than inside marriage lol

American pop culture is fine with sex as long as it’s not two men:

✅ Woman kissing a woman
✅ Woman kissing a man
✅ Woman having sex with a woman
✅ Woman having sex with a man
✅ Woman having sex with herself
✅ Man kissing a woman (already covered)
❌ Man kissing a man
✅ Man having sex with a woman (already covered)
❌ Man having sex with a man
✅ Man having sex with himself

I think they mean that you can like both, you don’t have to choose only one to like

I like both, they each have their place

I don’t have time to observe the hotdog before it’s gone, anyways, so I always at least have mustard on my hotdog, even if I also don’t have mustard on my hotdog.

Fitting the entire width in your mouth at once must be a challenge, but I’ll accept it.

What do you mean “gone half way through”?

It’s simply there, and then it isn’t. There is no intermediary state.

Why is this so funny??? 🤣😭🤣😭

I gare noy???

What does that mean???

nobody dudes on Instagram: hand in pants while pointing gun at screen

They do basically what I’m describing, just not as well because they don’t have as much of an incentive. Are end users willing to pay for these more advanced models?

Well there you go. It could be authoritarian, except an authoritarian govt isn’t subsidizing it. Exactly like I described.

Governments, however, are willing to pay that amount. Why?

You keep walking straight into the points I’m making.

That, in itself, isn’t authoritarian

Wrong. Setting up a super invasive surveillance system is inherently authoritarian, even if they initially happen to use it for reasons that don’t typify authoritarianism. You have to bend over backwards so hard to keep it from becoming authoritarian, that it will just naturally corrupt any entity that deploys it, even making the monumental assumption that an entity that deploys this didn’t have the intention to use it for nefarious purposes from the start.

it’s only authoritarian of there’s some enforcement arm to enforce obedience or punish disobedience.

Is a rather clumsy piece of mental gymnastics. Not only have you said it before. You can use this argument, coupled with your earlier “it’s constituent parts aren’t authoritarian” to argue that nothing is authoritarian.

Again, I disagree. Something is only political when used for political ends.

And again this is just the pro-gun argument. Fine on paper, useless in reality.

I’m making the argument that it is possible for software to be political even if it wasn’t created as such. I only need to show that a single case is possible.
You are making the argument that it is impossible, and you keep trying to prove it by example.

Again, in theory in a vacuum, I agree. But I disagree that anything you describe could actually be both commercially viable and deployable without authoritarian involvement

In your example do you not see all the gymnastics and bending over backwards you need to do to avoid the inherent nature of the system? I’d go so far as to say that the people in your theoretical HOA are analogous to supporters of a authoritarian regime.

You’re making a pro-gun argument here, and it’s not convincing for similar reasons: products are more than the sum of their parts, and the actual application of a product matters more than the theoretical use. If it is nearly impossible to meaningfully use apolitically, then it is not apolitical.

Surveillance has a lot of use cases outside of government. Palantir could have sold its services to non-profits like the ACLU as a check on local, state, and law enforcement agencies.

In theory, yes. In practice no.

ALCU could not roll a system like that out; never mind securing the resources needed to deploy this meaningfully; using it would go against their ethos, because using it would make them authoritarian, or adjacent.
Similarly, even if HOAs could deploy a system like that, that’d make them authoritarian.

Mass surveillance products like these don’t have a lot of non-authoritarian uses. Even if you could find such a use (of which I’m skeptical), it’d almost certainly need to be subsidized by an authoritarian customer. We’re not talking about security cameras around you personal property, here.