That’s right. People want a firewall. Maybe on the devices and/or on the router. But NAT isn’t that. It’s address translation. Predominantly because there aren’t enough addresses available. It’s a workaround. And it kills things like VOIP, videoconferences, direct communication etc. And then you need a workaround for the workaround to work around that… If you just want to drop incoming traffic and not expose clients, that’s what the firewall is for.

We also have the Snowden revelations… They also snoop on regular “normal” citizens, non-citizens and about everyone.

And concerning the “why”: I guess if your job is to spy on people, and you have a big budget available, you do just that. And it’s “better” to do more surveillance, than to miss something. Ideally you’d do total surveillance. Only thing stopping that is law and maybe some supervisory board.

A standard DMZ still does NAT. You get a private IP and the router "nat"s you, just that it forwards all incoming traffic to that device by default. I think technically, that gets you disqualified for no nat november. Though, you’d end up exposing the ports of the machine to incoming traffic, that’s correct.

By your definition an english teacher also can’t be better than a 3 year-old, because they’re both native speakers. So the 3yo would babble something and by definition no one can be better at english.

And I’m not sure if you can smash your forehead on the keyboard and say, this is now an english sentence by definition… Due to lack of a state authority… It’s some consensus what is accepted as english language and what’s not.

It’s certainly correct that there are multiple variants. There is more than one english.

Well, either you drop the All from ACAB… or your friend.

If I’m in a country where police mostly do what they’re supposed to do. I don’t live in the USA and I’ve called the cops for unclear and probably dangerous situations, traffic accidents, people sleeping at the bus stop when it’s too cold and they don’t respond to me yelling… So far everything turned out well. I mean I don’t call them for fun, though.

Hmmh, I was more loosely applying that to the issue at hand. Not saying capitalism is inherently malicious… But that it comes with downsides. Like precluding collective progress for individual gain. And being inherently unfair. And that an external observer might not necessarily attribute that to morals. But maybe think we just can’t do any better. Probably because of intelligence or psychology/human nature. That’d be far more likely and prevent any further discussion. I.e. we could strive for fairness, but be intellectually unfit to do it.

And I forgot the word for it, but there is a difference between how something is supposed to be and how it actually is. Maybe humans know/like other morals, but for some reason they don’t apply. That’d be hard to judge. On the other hand you certainly can tell things about people by how they act…

I think it’d be like one of the Star Trek TNG episodes where Q tests their moral judgement and concludes humanity is not ready yet. I think they did a good job picturing this. Q sets arbitrary and incomprehensible standards and benchmarks. At least from human perspective. And that’s because an alien is very different. And we can’t understand the reasoning of a higher intelligence. So either way, a higher intelligence alien will likely attribute something unintelligible to us.

I think because we don’t use “first do no harm” as a first and higher-order law. It gets overridden by religion, vengeance, something might seem threatening or unfair more due to subjective perspective and then you’re doing harm to defend something (unrightfully)…

And what’s with situations where you can’t avoid harm? And if you can never do harm, you also can’t defend something against malicious actors?! I mean that might be alright in your scifi universe, but that’s definitely not how our world works. We have malicious sentient beings around. And it’s necessary to act against them.

I’d say they first question our intelligence before jumping to speculation about our morals. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity might be an universal concept.

I think because true communism never existed. All the previous attempts were flawed, people got corrupted, misused their power and it’s difficult to overcome human nature. It might work in theory (or not). But so far the attempts weren’t that many and they were all flawed for different reasons.

Well that’s kind of baked-in to social media. If you’d otherwise talk to lots of different people in person, read much etc and now come to the internet and choose any of the mentioned platforms… That’d be bad. You’re now in a smaller filter bubble. If you’re already in some echo chamber and for example switch from mastodon to bluesky… that’s a minor change. The situation is a bit different if you change from a nazi platform to a regular one. It’s still not good. But better.

Yeah, unfortunately the US needs to be fixed.

Had that happen, too. We all try to educate users to NOT click on some dubious phishing/scams and put in qute some effort to explain it over and over again, and then there are companies doing things like that. It’s just sad.

I seriously doubt USPS bought a domain like gflrml dot cyou for their business. It’s 300% a scam.

We have separation of powers? Checks and balances? Supervisory boards?

Mind that in addition to the filament itself: your printer (extruder, nozzle, heat bed etc) should be food-safe, too. The filament is in touch with all the gears, PTFE tubes, brass nozzles, … before it becomes your finished item.

And you’ll always have issues with the layer lines. Equipment that touches food, is supposed to be easy to clean. I.e. have a smooth surface. Otherwise residue, bacteria and mold could stick to the surface. Which is the case with 3d prints unless you make them very smooth or coat them with something else.

And you generally can’t put 3d printed items into the dishwasher or clean them with hot water. Meaning you’d have to do other things to kill bacteria.

I’d say it’s quite some effort to get an 3d print food safe. I use them for dry and packaged things. Not for direct contact with loose food/ingredients.

That’d be a post for !TIL@lemmy.world

With “drama” I was going for the built-in drive towards negativity and sensationalist stuff. Like people complaining and sharing outrageous news that stirs them up. I think it’s well established that people are more incentivised to engage with content they disagree with, rather than nuanced or positive things. I’m no exception. I’ve had a superb weekend, did a day trip with some friends, sports (climbing) etc. But somehow I don’t talk about that on the internet but end up painting a dark picture about the near future. And my real-world conversations aren’t like that. In face to face conversations I also talk about mundane stuff, what made my day, recommend positive things to friends… I think we have some unhealthy dynamics baked into internet talk, due to the way our platforms are set up and due to how attention works.

Sure. The internet killed newspapers. And there is no easy fix. We’d need easy payment methods, value the labour of the journalists… And that wasn’t available when this happened. And nowadays we have a few other issues on top. Originally, the internet wasn’t supposed to do any of that. It was supposed to connect people all around the globe. Make information available to everyone…

I think a lot of the unhealthy dynamics aren’t baked into the internet itself, but due to people making everything about money and advertising. I think we (theoretically) could do without. And make the internet a very different place. It doesn’t seem this is happening. But I still got some places (Linux forums etc) with a very different atmosphere. I’m not sure where we’ll end up in like 15 years. Maybe after reaching rock bottom. I’ve also watched and read too much science fiction. Currently it looks to me like we’re headed for the 2006 movie Idiocracy. But H G Wells is fine, too.

I have a library card and they have plenty bluerays and audiobooks there. I think I’d download all Debian packages and maybe some pornography? Because that seems to be missing in the city library for some reason.

Yeah, judging by your comments, you’re not a classic troll. I couldn’t judge from your original post, because you could either genuinely not know about the global modlog and the text area at the top to put your username in… Or post this for another reason. And I mean I was right and you got quite some reaction and attention specifically to your person. And that’d be something a troll would feed from.

Idk. I think things like posting something out of ulterior motives, like not meaning literally what you write, but instead writing something to make people (re)think something… Or playing advocatus diaboli… Or other things like that are closely related to trolling. It’s not the same. But everything is a spectrum anyways.

And in that regard idk why I got downvoted. I didn’t say you are a troll. I said think about OP, they could have a hidden motive like if they were a troll…