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The thing is, he has so much money that the amount of money isn't really important any more.

Surely after you've been the richest person in the world you start thinking about power and legacy more than money.

Additionally, I'm quite sure that Musk sees the current situation as temporary, and setting the scene for whatever future he envisions.

I mean, the future is going to be bleak with extinctions, climate change, water scarcity, famine. I think these assholes have just given up on avoiding an apocalypse and instead they're working on ensuring that they and their progeny end up ruling over the ashes so to speak. In short, they're trying to establish an autocracy with the least possible chance of rebellion.

Yeah I got a bit side tracked talking about how fires have been more intense in recent years and now "big, old, trees" are dying in fires where they didn't in the past.

Still, and I don't know how applicable this is to other places, but here in Australia fires are an important part of plant life cycles.

First Nations people used to burn areas for a variety of reasons, one of which is that it would attract marsupials in the coming weeks and days coming to eat the new shoots bursting through the ground after a fire. So you could burn an area within walking distance from your camp, and over the next few weeks have a ready herd of kangaroos hanging around from which to cull a few.

Not really relevant but firehawks aparently spread fires. Also a lot of Australian plants are stimulated to germinate after being exposed to heat and smoke.

I guess my point is, spreading seeds after a fire isn't a problem that needs solving. Fire is a natural process and the bush generally bounces right back quicker than you'd expect.

Well, you don't need containers for wireguard the same way you don't need containers for anything.

I personally prefer docker containers for everything that can be containerised because it provides a consistent abstraction layer. As in, I always know how to find configurations and paths and manage network infrastructure for anything that resides in a container.

In the case I outlined above with the wireguard containers, I'm more confident I'm not going to upset any other services on my server, and I understand the configuration.

Maybe it's a bit like using ufw to manage iptables rules, unnecessary but helpful.

Of course, I freely admit that my way is not necessarily the best way and if someone wants to run wireguard on the host then great.

Yeah. Hardships won't dissuade Trump supporters, it's just fuel for fascist agendas.

I want to see Trump fall on his face as much as the next guy but, is there any chance this is actually going to work? Even in isolated cases?

The US' own industry groups are saying it's fucked.

Most countries seem more determined to hunker down the harder they're hit.

Canada for example seems to have suddenly lurched back to the left and are ready to stand their ground just on principle. I presume Mexico is the same.

Certainly this stuff isn't helping conservative politics in Australia and in fact will possibly or even likely cost our conservative party the next election.

“Manufacturers are scrambling to determine the exact implications for their operations,” National Association of Manufacturers president and CEO Jay Timmons said in a statement on Wednesday. “The stakes for manufacturers could not be higher.”

The tariffs, which Trump continues to erroneously claim will mean other countries paying the U.S., will in fact “threaten investment, jobs, supply chains, and, in turn, America’s ability to outcompete other nations and lead as the preeminent manufacturing superpower,” according to Timmons.

That's pretty black and white honestly. You can do all the analysis you like but the president of the National Association of Manufacturers would know.

The hubris here is breath taking. We've all known since 2016 that Trump is an arrogant idiot but this seems to be an order of magnitude above anything that has come before.

I keep looking for the master plan, "what are they actually trying to achieve", but then something like the signal shitstorm happens and you realise - they really are just hapless idiots.

Sure mate.

I've been playing around with networks for decades. I'll happily admit that my understanding is rudimentary at best, but configuring routing rules with IP tables or whatever so your device will act as a NAT seems a few levels beyond "basic networking".

that's why you chimed in with your comment. Stupid me.

The honest to god reason I chimed in was because your response seemed derisive, and I thought I might be able to soften a bit by either showing my own ineptitude or challenging your solution.

So in summary you have your device A and services running on B, you connect to a vpn service using A, and you want the services running on B to use the same vpn connection?

I encountered this problem with torrenting and private trackers.

I solved it the other way around, by having the remote connect to the vpn and routing traffic from my device through that remote.

• get a mullvad subscription because they do wireguard
• create wireguard-outbound container on server and connect to mullvad
• create wireguard-inbound container on server and attach it to the network stack of wireguard-outbound
• attach any other containers on the server you want using the vpn to the network stack of wireguard-outbound
• install wireguard on your various devices instead of connecting to mullvad directly just connect to your wireguard-inbound container

For bonus points you can create a squid (proxy service) container and attach that to wireguard-outbound, then create a firefox profile that connects to that proxy. That way your device isn't routing all traffic through the vpn, only the traffic from that firefox profile.

I've had this set up for several years now and for the most part it works very well. Occasionally I have to restart the containers but for the most part it's great.

IDK anything about "routing" but I don't think it can solve this problem without additional services.

If my laptop is A and I want all outbound connections to go through server B then B needs to be running some kind of service whether it's merely a NAT router or VPN or proxy.

In this case OP actually want's B's outbound connections to go through A but it's the same problem.

Yeah. I'm absolutely opposed to unnecessarily "smart" devices.

I have a strong aversion to voice activated anything. Smartphones have had voice assistant's since forever but whenever I've tried it I just find it to be a clunky awkward imprecise user interface.

Why do something in a few clicks when 10 minutes of miscommunication will do?

In-house toilet facilities are more or less a solved problem. These idiots un-solved it.

Oh for fuck sake.

If a child drowned at swimming lessons, that would be an absolute tragedy... but mandating some kind of safety device, with the outcome being fewer kids receive swimming lessons, is obviously going to increase the risks to kids.

Bike helmet laws are also demonstrably a huge self-own for public health. All the data we have shows very clearly that helmets don't reduce the severity of injuries and impede a cycling culture.

Not an expert on this but...

Forests usually recover just fine after a fire. They're a natural process after all. You don't need to go throw seeds around to help it recover.

Of course, with the advent of climate change that's no longer true in all cases, with drier areas burning hotter than previously and destroying old growth forests.

The thing is, you can't just throw around "big old tree" seeds - you raise seedlings / saplings and then plant them in appropriate places.

Additionally, even if you were trying to spread seeds around, IDK whether a dog could achieve an even or even a random spread. Unpredictable yes, but not random.

So, cute dogs and stuff, bit I think this is a pretty niche application and not often required in forestry.