But isn’t it obvious that if a presidential candidate promises some legislation, that it is contingent on the legislative branch?

Didn’t pursue codification into law in his first hundred days j

As (again) a non-american, doesn’t that require both chambers to support the legislation?

I’m not even american, so I’m not sure what you arw on about right now. All I asked was how Roe v. Wade being repealed was Biden’s fault, and the answer apparently is that he did not pack the court.

How genocide fits into Roe v. Wade, or how callling me names somehow helps I’m still unsure of.

Never let it be forgotten that Roe v. Wade was struck down during a Democrat administration

Ok, but what does that have to do with said denocrat administration? What say did they have in the matter? What could they have done to change the outcome?

They can, and are being made. E.g. the state of accessibility on Gome.

What about security updates? What about monitoring? What about the underlying infrastructure? What about even picking what software to use and configuring it?

I haven’t heard of docker compose up guess-what-i-want-and-just-do-it yet, but I guess there is some LLM that can hallucinate one for you.

There is a big difference between “is unable to maintain bots due to lack of skills” and “is unable to maintain bots due to lack of time and motivation”.

Good question.

The light output would be the same because there is still only one light source. But as you note, some of the “light” would be absorbed by the wall, so the room would be brighter if you had a mirror. Not twice as bright though, because the wall also “reflects” light, otherwise you would not see the wall.

So, would it make sense to have mirror walls to maximize room brightness? Maybe not, because what the walls end up doing is actually scattering the light, meaning light is spread out evenly, wheras with the mirrors you would have some bright areas (corresponding to the lamp) and some darker areas.

Why host it locally in that case, and why host it on a Pi? Seems rather restrictive for that usecase.

any website can trivially configure their own firewall in the same way without CF.

How many websites can handle the amount of traffic that CF can handle? It’s not just about configuring your firewall, it’s about having the bandwidth. Otherwise it’s not much of a DDoS protection.

I see CF keys.

As I don’t have an account there I can’t see which requests containing credentials use which cert.

And also, just because the cert is verified by cloudflare does not mean they have the private key.

AFAICT, CF’s role is mostly useless if the SSL keys are held by the site owner.

It seems like a lot of your points hinges on this being true, but it simply isn’t. There is a massive benefit to preventing DDoS attacks, and that does not require keys. There is no indication that banks are handing over client ctedentials to CF.

Well, it seems people are prepared to pay quite a bit for cloudflare DDoS protection. Maybe you are right, and they are all wrong. But it does not really matter, because they cmearly have convinced people that it is worth paying for it, even if you disagree.

Without TLS termination Cloudflare is still useful for e.g. DDoS protection, and serving content that do not contain client information.

Caching client data globally using Cloudflare would be pretty pointless and help very little and probably even be harmful to performance, so them having the TLS key for it would absolutely not be worth it.

I’m well aware that Cloudflare holds the TLS keys. I’m also well aware that that does not equal having access to credentials.

Banks certainly can not outsource willy nilly. Or well, I suppose they may in some jurisdictions, but the context here is Europe, where the banks actually are regulated.

Surely you are not suggesting that Cloudflare has access to end user credentials? Why would you say thay? Do uou have any hint of proof that that is the case? It would be a massive no-no, and heads would roll. If you hate electronic banking, here is your chance to take them down.

Be the change you want to see. The API is there. Go build that FOSS phone app.

I don’t know much about Belgian banks, but the first one I found is Ing, and here is their documentation: https://developer.ing.com/openbanking/home. I’m sure searching for " bankname PSD2" will give you results for other banks.

Thanks to PSD2 most european banks have APIs, so there isn’t actually any requireent to use the bank’s apps anymore.

For number 4, consider switching to e.g. KDE which is an alternative desktop environment you can install in Debian.

If you reinstall, consider Kubuntu, which is Ubuntu but with the KDE desktop. Search for screenshots first so you know if it is somwthing you like.

Number 2 is by design. Running as root is extremely dangerous, and passwordless sudo is not much better. You can, of course, allow sudo without a password by editing the /etc/sudoers file, but be concious of the security implications (any program you run would essentially have full access to everything, without you ever knowing).