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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I don’t think you’re who they’re targeting - at least not with this.

    This is targeting the large portion of the population that may have difficulty obtaining identification through a somewhat arduous process.

    • Anyone who is not a citizen, even with proper documentation of residency.
    • Anyone without a secure way to store documents long term. Not everybody has access to birth certificate and Social Security information. Someone in an abusive relationship, for example.
    • Anyone without permanent housing.
    • Anyone with insecure or unusual housing - they require current utility bills in an individual’s name. Think of a large family of 10 or 12 people. How would they each separately provide two proofs of address?
    • Anyone with limited English language skill, including native speakers with poor education.















  • I think that’s a great way to start. It is surprisingly easy to add remote access at a later date.

    The dead simple way is to set up a shared folder with Syncthing, although you will end up with all of the files copied onto every device.

    If you want the files to live on your home server to be accessed as needed, then you will want something like Nextcloud or OwnCloud. Personally I found ownCloud easier to set up, but it has far fewer features.

    If the focus is on pictures and videos, then you should probably start with immich. It is very simple and incredibly powerful. You can more or less set it up once, and not think about it too much other than running an update from time to time. It supports multiple users, etc. Note that if you are adding photos from a Google Takeout, you will want to run a one time script to rescue the metadata (date, etc.)

    Any of these are accessible on any device.






  • There were also many Israeli children who were murdered, maimed, or kidnapped by Hamas and she went 2 years without mentioning it. This is also in a climate in which people are invalidating the suffering of those children. I don’t think it’s wrong for someone to make a principled political stand, but it is intellectually dishonest to say “I just care for ALL children” and then ignore a large group of them.

    Again, I am not saying that I think she is in the wrong, which I have already made explicit. The people whose suffering children she ignored are also not wrong to be confused about her position.

    She has commented primarily about Palestinian children because there are more of them suffering. Enough said.