What he's saying is complete and utter nonsense anyway. Object storage needs to live next to your app / service / system, so there's always going to be a need for self-hosted object storage next to self-hosted services.

Backup? Maybe, if you trust the cloud provider. Primary? Hell no.

America has a puritanical obsession with sex and sex-related things, specifically hiding them / pretending they do not exist. Glorification of (gun) violence, mayhem and gore? Keep your naughty bits under wraps = no problem. Sex? Hell no!

Book bans are a particularily heinous intstance of this.

This is truly heartbreaking. I don't really remember my concerns, age 10, but I'm pretty sure surviving an armed assault was not one of them.

Darker read: maybe the endgame for jd is Ukraine's unconditional surrender, but he can't just come out and say it, so he uses this as a veiled metaphor.

Respectfully, no. I've lived behind the iron curtain long enough to know how easy it is for this power to be abused. Even with the best of intentions, sooner or later there's going to be the wrong person making use of it.

Just imagine Trump with access to this kind of power.

At this point The Laundry Files feels practically solarpunk.

Assistant to the regional manager?

That certain megacorp would be much better served by adding actual live acting to the Gentleman Bastards and turning the whole thing into a TV series.

Once you're past the border and on a trusted network, connect to your home VPN and restore your data - overnight should be fine.

Setting up the infrastructure for the above is widely documented, if you're non technical, ask a techie friend to help. You'd be safer for it.

"Recite the pledge of allegiance to continue."

Because whatever moral high ground the US was standing upon - real or imagined - it has now crumbled into dust. And I don't see it coming back in my lifetime.

I don't know what kind of benefits outweigh the US loss of allies, prestige and honour, let alone the sacrifice of a whole country. But it better be gods damned worth it. When US was attacked in 2001, a coalition of the willing stood with it. Now the best it can hope for is a cohort of the coerced.

The fact that it does not means that there is a benefit for this administration in withholding aid to Ukraine. And it's not rare earth minerals, as exploiting those effectively would require logistics and infrastructure in place that cannot realistically be there before Trump's end of term.

Why do I say this? Withholding military aid is one thing. Withholding critical intelligence is quite another. US would be able to effectively whittle down Russia's military capability just by uploading HIMARS target data to Ukraine, at no cost to itself.

What's even sadder is that the fate of nations is being decided by two angry "businessmen" and their hurt feelings over one brave man's refusal to kowtow, kiss the little ring and sell out his country.

Only if you inherit from it.