They almost certainly have in house legal teams and those lawyers are salaried.

I view the term “social media” as a continuum and not a box. There are degrees of “social media” with the extreme being sites built around using people’s “real-life” identities.

Defense in depth – maybe I’m paranoid, but just because something is unlikely doesn’t mean an extra layer of security isn’t advantageous. Particularly when I already have a VPN, so there’s little reason not to use it.

Plus, my logs are easily checked as a side effect.

I don’t get why people leave interfaces the public doesn’t need access to open to the public – especially SSH.

Use a VPN if you need access to those interfaces from the “outside”. They’re stupidly easy to set up these days, particularly with Wireguard.

I was working with a buddy on a “startup” that was more of a hobby than anything (and didn’t go anywhere). The early prototypes were controlled by Arduino and Pis early on – ease of software development was key as we experimented with and dialed in the hardware. The later prototypes used an ESP32 though, because we’re aren’t idiots.

I’m a hobbyist at best: it kills me that there are well paid “professional embedded software engineers” out there that can’t work with actual embedded hardware. All I could think of was this article on electrical engineers that can’t solder. The complete lack of real world, hands on experience with the hardware blows my mind.

I wouldn’t go that far, but he does make great indie music

The trick is not engaging him in a way he wants you to. Laughing at how ridiculous he is and blowing him off are fine. Making fun on him in a way that gets across you don’t take him seriously is also ok.

He doesn’t deserve interactions with anyone/anything that legitimizes him, but casual mocking is a good thing. Treat him like like the clown he is so others start seeing him as such.

They’re just lying about pirating to look cool.

I highly doubt there are any actual pirates on here, it’s just users being edgy. A bunch of dorks that don’t even own a boat role playing badass pirates.

Because we owe the younger generations a better future. The rallying cry of narcissists and fools is “I suffered and therefore so should you!” – we’re better than that.