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21 hours agoWorked for Henry VIII, but Henry wasn’t going to be out of office in less than three years, either…
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But it wouldn’t be as funny as excommunicating Vance.
Mmm…debatable. I would be laughing if Trump managed to get a national interdict from the first US-born pope.
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It’d create a stupendous political shitstorm. Like, back when Catholic immigration to the US started to increase, there used to be a national frenzy from the (then-much-more-Protestant) American population worried that the Pope would control the government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Catholicism_in_the_United_States
Puck, 1894:
Harper’s Weekly, 1871:
https://thomasnast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/15TW-TheAmericanRiverGanges.jpg
I’d venture to say that starting a Protestant-Catholic split would be an extremely bad move in terms of the Republican Party’s fortunes, given that it’s presently the social conservative party.
In all seriousness, while I am confident that it wouldn’t get to that level, if the Pope and Trump actually do get in a pissing match…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdict
In Catholic canon law, an interdict (/ˈɪntərdɪkt/) is an ecclesiastical censure, or ban that prohibits certain persons or groups from participating in particular rites, or that the rites and services of the church are prohibited in certain territories for a limited or extended time.
France
Pope Innocent III put the whole Kingdom of France under interdict on 13 January 1200 to force Philip II of France to take his wife Ingeborg of Denmark back. After a reconciliation ceremony, the interdict was lifted on 12 September 1200.
England
Pope Innocent III also placed the kingdom of England under an interdict for six years between March 1208 and July 1214, after King John refused to accept the pope’s appointee Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury.[15]
Like, it isn’t the Middle Ages any more, but the Pope could probably put a considerable amount of political pressure in if he really wanted to.
especially as their tax refunds get eaten up by higher prices.
To the extent that those are driven by tariffs, those are taxes. It’s the importer paying the tariff rather than the consumer, but it’s the consumer’s money that goes to the importers, who then sends it to the government.
Canda:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2y7969gyo
Mark Carney’s Liberals have won Canada’s federal election - riding a backlash of anti-Trump sentiment to form the next government.
It is a stunning political turnaround for a party who were widely considered dead and buried just a few months ago.
- Trump’s threats became the defining issue
There is no doubt the US president’s tariff threats and comments undermining Canada’s sovereignty played an outsized role in this election, suddenly making leadership and the country’s economic survival the defining issues of the campaign.
Mark Carney used it to his advantage, running as much against Trump as he did against his main opposition rival, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.
Australia:
Donald Trump’s stinging trade tariffs may have helped Australia’s left-leaning prime minister snatch a resounding election victory on Saturday, analysts say.
Unlike Canada’s Trump-swayed vote three days earlier, the US president was far from the biggest concern for voters who backed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, academics said.
But some said Trump nevertheless appeared to have a significant impact on the governing Labor Party’s late turnaround in the opinion polls, and the emphatic election result.
Then there’s the elevated fuel prices reducing carbon emissions…
Others are more sanguine. Paul Eckloff, a former Secret Service agent who served on Trump’s detail and previously on Barack Obama’s, argued that what has emerged in court so far does not amount to a ‘genuine security breach,’ saying operationally sensitive information remains classified.
He was more worried about the practical effect of having a giant dig site inside a secure perimeter. An open pit next to the Executive Residence, he said, inevitably alters the calculus for agents tasked with keeping intruders out and the president alive. ‘The longer this is an active construction site, the more concerning it is from a general security posture,’ Eckloff said.
I don’t think it matters much from a national security standpoint, specifically because of this:
Judge Leon has not hidden his scepticism. At an earlier hearing, he dismissed the idea that Trump’s safety required the ballroom to go ahead, describing the ‘large hole’ next to the White House as a ‘problem of the President’s own making.’
We don’t protect the President because the President is some sort of exceptional, irreplaceable figure. The President is just some guy. If Trump gets shot, then Vance gets dropped into the slot and things keep on trucking. Hell, personally I think that the US would very probably be better-off with just about any other major politician at the wheel.
We protect the President because we don’t want it to be viable to coerce the President via physical threat. We don’t want a country to say “do X on Policy Y or maybe we kill you” and have that be something that can affect the President’s policy-making.
In this case, Trump decided that he was going to go right ahead and create the security risk, so he’s probably not especially concerned about it. If he wanted it to stop, which presumably he would if he were worried about being killed, he could stop it. Ergo, cocercion isn’t a factor.
If Trump decides tomorrow that he wants to go wingsuit BASE jumping or something, I mean, okay, sure, whatever. The Secret Service can just sit around and munch popcorn and watch him face-plant into a hillside, as far as I’m concerned. The problem isn’t the President dying, but him being affected by threats of him being killed.
That’s also why we have lifetime Secret Service protection for the President after he leaves office. It’s not like he’s being President then, not like we’d lose whatever he’s bringing to the table. But you don’t want other parties to be able to threaten the guy in office with retribution after he leaves office.
so I figured that using pipewire to co-ordinate this would be the easiest way forward, except it turns out that it’s a (GUI) user space process, which doesn’t make sense on a server with no GUI users.
I’m not entirely sure what you mean by “(GUI) user space process”, but if it’s that it’s a systemd user process (e.g. it shows up when you run
$ systemctl --user status pipewirerather than$ systemctl status pipewire, which appears to be the case on my system, where there’s one instance running per user session), then you probably can run it as a systemwide process, where there’s just one always-running process for the whole system. IIRC, PulseAudio could run in both modes. I don’t know if you have concerns about security on access to your mic or something, but that could be something to look into.searches
Sounds like it’s doable. Not endorsing this particular project, which I’ve never seen before, but it looks like it’s possible:
https://github.com/iddo/pipewire-system
PipeWire System-wide Daemon Package (Arch Linux)
This package configures PipeWire, WirePlumber, and PipeWire-Pulse to run as a single system-wide daemon as the root user. This setup is optimized for headless media servers, HTPCs, or multi-user audio environments.
every hardware website I’ve checked so far, either don’t have any mini pcs, nucs or similar, or they have zero information about the hardware.
Well, if they give you the manufacturer and model number, you should be able to look them up with the manufacturer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_vult
Robert the Monk, who re-wrote the Gesta Francorum c. 1120, added an account of the speech of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095, of which he was an eyewitness. The speech climaxes in Urban’s call for orthodoxy, reform, and submission to the Church. Robert records that the pope asked Western Christians, poor and rich, to come to the aid of the Greeks in the East:
When Pope Urban had said these and very many similar things in his urbane discourse, he so influenced to one purpose the desires of all who were present, that they cried out, ‘It is the will of God! It is the will of God!’ When the venerable Roman pontiff heard that, with eyes uplifted to heaven he gave thanks to God and, with his hand commanding silence, said: Most beloved brethren, today is manifest in you what the Lord says in the Gospel, “Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them.” Unless the Lord God had been present in your spirits, all of you would not have uttered the same cry. For, although the cry issued from numerous mouths, yet the origin of the cry was one. Therefore I say to you that God, who implanted this in your breasts, has drawn it forth from you. Let this then be your war-cry in combats, because this word is given to you by God. When an armed attack is made upon the enemy, let this one cry be raised by all the soldiers of God: It is the will of God! It is the will of God![18]
I’m not saying that I approve of Hegseth’s deus vult tattoo, but I would point out that it’s quoting one of your predecessors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil
The problem of evil, also known as the problem of suffering, is the philosophical question of how to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with the notion of an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God.[1][2][3][4]
For purchases that can be deferred without it being too painful, it’s probably a good idea on purely financial grounds, since some of purchases now are going to go towards taxation, paying tariffs. Trump’s earlier tariffs were overturned by the courts, but now courts are looking at the new, global, 10% tariff. Assuming that a future administration will roll back tariffs (or, I suppose, if courts overturn this and later attempts by the present administration at imposing tariffs) the same money would go further then.
I’m not on there, but you might have more luck in !localllama@sh.itjust.works
You might also want to list the hardware that you plan to use, since that’ll constrain what you can reasonably run.
The University of Michigan’s latest consumer survey released Friday showed that sentiment declined 11% early this month to a reading of 47.6, lower than anything seen in the post World War II era, including during the Great Recession, the pandemic downturn and the historic inflation surge afterward.
That’s actually kind of amazing. I mean, yes, double-whammy from tariffs and fuel costs from the war, but I wouldn’t have expected it to go that far.
Ah, so I bet what they’re doing is looking like a single VPN from the Android OS level, setting a default route into that, and then doing routing in userspace.
I have not used such a configuration, but I believe that it’s fine to have multiple WireGuard VPNs concurrently up, at least from a Linux client standpoint. I have no idea whether your phone’s client permits that — it could well be that it can’t do it.
Your routing table would have the default route go to a host on one of them (and your Internet-bound traffic would go there), but you should be able to have it be either. Or neither — I’ve set up a WireGuard configuration with a Linux client where the default route wasn’t over the WireGuard VPN, and only traffic destined for the LAN at the other end of the WireGuard VPN traversed the WireGuard VPN.
From Linux’s standpoint, a WireGuard VPN is just like another NIC on the host. You say “all traffic destined for this address range heads out this NIC”. Just that the NIC happens to be virtual and to be software that tunnels the traffic.
EDIT:
It sounds like this is an Android OS-level limitation:
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/261526/are-there-technical-limitation-to-multiple-vpns
In the Android VPN development documentation you can find a clear statement regarding the possibility to have multiple VPNs active at the same time:
There can be only one VPN connection running at the same time. The existing interface is deactivated when a new one is created.
That same page does mention that you can have apps running in different profiles using different VPNs at the same time. That might be an acceptable workaround for you.
2·7 days agoI have additional sound deadening material if I need to apply it but I’m not there yet.
That’s probably a pretty good idea in terms of cost. I checked earlier when I made the comment to see what the price difference these days was, and IIRC a non-isolated 18U is ~$800 and an isolated 18U is ~$1800. They aren’t putting anything like $1k of sound-absorbing material into the rack.
I don’t believe that they actually need to pass a resolution against; rather, it’s not passing an AUMF prior to the expiry of the 60-day deadline that restricts the administration.
However, if I were the Trump administration, I’d probably try to make the same case that the Carter administration did in Goldwater v. Carter to see if I could get the the Supreme Court to effectively say that Congress not passing something against could be more-or-less treated as Congress not objecting. My guess is that SCOTUS wouldn’t buy it, but it closes off that avenue. Plus, from a political standpoint, if I were the Democrats, I’d probably rather force Republican legislators to go on-record as opposing a Trump administration policy or on-record as supporting an unpopular war; if I were a Republican legislator, I’d probably prefer to avoid either.
Heh. Someone else in this thread posted an image that has three disconnected Elitedesks just stacked on each other on the bookshelf housing their homelab, another powered-on one, and what I think might be two or three more Elitedesks that are partially-obscured.
I think you might be confusing Martin Luther, a priest who lived in what is now Germany in the 15th century and started the Protestant Reformation, with Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist minister who played an influential role in the American civil rights movement in the 20th century.