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"I don't hide from that. I was certainly skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016, but President Trump was a great president and he changed my mind. I think he changed the minds of a lot of Americans," Vance told Fox's Sean Hannity in a friendly interview

Translation: I was against him before I was for him, now that I'll be the number 2!

Oopsies! My bad! Tihi.

Also, she should get over it.

Isn't that what he said about the shooting in Perry, Iowa?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-tells-supporters-get-iowa-school-shooting-move-forward-rcna132610

OK fine, we are mid-neocolonial. Accepted.

Do we have any reason to believe there's giant blocks of pure, rare metals on the moon or asteroids?

So far there's no evidence to the contrary. Speculative interest says "keep digging, there's bound to be one out there" among the rocky asteroids. Heck, even "comet water might" bring a price, given trends.

There's no brown people on the moon you can give a dictator weapons to in exchange for keeping the people selling their labor and resources for peanuts.

If you think the next wave of neocolonialism wouldn't consider indentured servitude and/or conscription, well... I guess we shall see. You don't need indigenous people, just poors.

Edit: ...when you can just turn off their air.

Lemma: Earth lodes are assumed to be limited supply.

Find a Smaug-scale lode of d-block transition metal like gold or palladium on the Moon or a near-Earth asteroid. Crash the market. Buy other metals at fire sale prices.

Also, own the silicon semiconductor market.

Profit.

We did neocolonialism. It was profitable. Nobody forgot that.

More, shelter.

There's no atmosphere to attenuate hard radiation, so rock overhead is the next best thing.

There's no gravity to contain an atmosphere, and domes are expensive and time consuming to build. Meanwhile the crews are exposed to radiation.

There's nothing but regolith on the surface of the moon-- finely powdered rock of unknown (and likely poor) assay for vital ores and minerals useful to bootstrap a colony.

A cave provides shelter, more assay-ably dense ore resources, potentially water in the form of subsurface ice, and potentially a vitrable (melted, glassified rock) cavity to contain a viable, pressurized atmosphere on the quick.

A cave on the moon is a find. Given the potential for neocolonialism in the next decade or three, it's a boon for whatever program discovers one.

edit: typos

Oh you... 🤣

Unbound will take updates via API. You could either write exit hooks on your clients, or use the "on commit" event on isc-dhcp-server to construct parameters and execute a script when a new lease is handed out.

I used to selfhost more, but honestly it started to feel like a job, and it was getting exhausting (maybe also irritating) to keep up with patches & updates across all of my services. I made decisions about risks to compromise and data loss from breaches and system failures. In the end, In decided my time was more valuable so now I pay someone to incur those risks for me.

For my outward facing stuff, I used to selfhost my own DNS domains, email + IMAP, web services, and an XMPP service for friends and family. Most of that I've moved off to paid private hosting. Now I maintain my DNS through Porkbun, email through MXroute, and we use Signal instead of XMPP. I still host and manage my own websites but am considering moving to a ghost.org account, or perhaps just host my blogs on a droplet at DO. My needs are modest and it's all just personal stuff. I learned what I wanted, and I'm content to be someone else's customer now.

At home, I still maintain my custom router/firewall services, Unifi wireless controller, Pihole + unbound recursive resolver, Wireguard, Jellyfin, homeassistant, Frigate NVR, and a couple of ADS-B feeders. Since it's all on my home LAN and for my and my wife's personal use, I can afford to let things be down a day or two til I get around to fixing it.

Still need to do better on my backup strategies, but it's getting there.

Forkyz is awesome

I use Porkbuns API. It's not sophisticated, but it works.

Gandi changed their TOS and price structure last year, so I ported everything over to Porkbun for a small savings, but mostly as a big middle finger to Gandi.

If you're gonna get banged that kind of cash for functions you're already using, you may as well look at better registrars, and get better value for your spend.

Shop around.