And John Oliver as Chief of Staff

Well, there are checks being written behind closed doors and vast changes to financial balances

The hentai server I’m on told me to switch to libreoffice instead of helping 🙁

Yeah but imagine voting for a black woman. The dem candidate could have promised them wild subsidies the likes the they never dreamed, but if it was “sleepy joe” or any other minority they disliked they still would have chosen Trump

But of course not Twitter or Facebook, where Russia pays money to radicalize people

Sure, but to someone running a website out of their house, 100,000 bots trying to hit the site at the same time to scrape it is going to have the same effect. So yes, you’re correct, Anubis has nothing to do with stopping a literal DDoS attack, but it does help smaller websites stay alive by avoiding responding to requests from scrapers or one-off malicious agents.

A cheap VPS hosting

https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/installation/

as a reverse proxy may work. The VPS will do the work of verifying requests and stopping bad requests from hitting the target resource. Though certainly if the DDoS is a matter of a massive botnet raiding your domain it may not work as well as something like cloudflare

Yes but have you considered

$607 million in 2025 accounting for inflation

Because he wants to run for president and basically doesn’t want to alienate anyone except the super die hard Trump supporters he couldn’t win anyway. For everything else he’s spineless and a career politician

Sort of the point though. If they take a small creator to court, they can just bankrupt them through expensive legal proceedings, and because they do have the patents the judge is unlikely to throw the case out

Either that or it will secretly fund gang activity or drug smuggling or something so that it can “catch the bad guys” and secure more lucrative government contracts

I don’t care what anybody does to make money unless it puts someone else at risk. A car is a method of transportation, but more importantly, a weapon. Focusing on getting the right angle or right clip or whatever for your meme puts other people at risk as you control a 5500 pound piece of metal. My criticism is on the choice of using a moving vehicle as a recording studio.

Lol there was definitely an AIM mobile app for flip phones that I installed soon after getting a flip phone like freshman year of high school and then my parents realizing the bill I had unknowingly built up

Good call, I missed the grey on grey seatbelt. Edited my comment

it’s been a hard day making TikTok posts so I’m gonna drive around in my luxury car without my seatbelt on and film with my left hand and maybe probably not hit anyone while I check if the angle looks good

TV and movies I’m totally good with 1080p. If I want a cinematic experience, that’s what the cinema is for.

But since switching to PC and gaming in 4k everywhere I can, it feels like a night and day difference to play in 1080p. Granted that means I care about monitor resolution rather than TV resolution.

But as an aside, as a software engineer that works from home, crisp text, decent color spectrum support, good brightness in a bright room, all things that make your day a whole lot better when you stare at a computer screen for a large chunk of your day

Appreciate it but no apologies necessary. You shared a story, I shared a story. Better done over a beer or coffee, but for now Lemmy can do. Absolutely don’t feel bad about your comment, I just wanted to spread a little awareness of the opioid epidemic in the US and how it was mostly caused by profit-seeking corporations. Cheers from across the pond and wishing you the best

Edit: forgot, totally reciprocating that hug!

Hey thanks! It was quite a long time ago, and I’ve since grown to using that experience to try to help others where possible. No trauma ever fully goes away, but healthily addressing it is key. Wishing you the best, friend, beating an addiction like that is no easy feat, always feel free to shoot me a message if you feel like it

My biological mom died from an overdose of a “speedball,” e.g. mixing heroin and cocaine at the same time.

And that was years after she went into the hospital for pancreatitis, and they just blanket prescribed her opioids. From there the doctors kept bumping her prescription up, and then from there she sought pills on the street, and then finally she moved to heroin. I guess if she was alive today fentanyl would have been the next jump.

She was a byproduct of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic

And I blame the pharmaceutical companies like Purdue who profited off it more than anyone else.

This was exacerbated by the aggressive and misleading marketing of drug makers, e.g. Purdue Pharma. Purdue trained its sales representatives to convey to doctors that the risk of addiction from OxyContin was “less than one percent.”

I miss when headlines weren’t almost all Onionesque