Technically, Caliphate. Calafia was the queen of the made up kingdom of California in a 16th century novel. The name comes from there.

The name of Calafia was likely formed from the Arabic word khalifa (religious state leader) that is known as caliph in English and califa in Spanish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calafia?wprov=sfti1

Windsurf boards and razor blades? Yes Bic makes those.

I think he truly deeply wants to go to Mars. It’s his dream. His one mission. His destiny. I think he actually believes he is the only person that will be able to get people there. In his head, he’s space Jesus. Everyone else is an NPC. He sees government, the left, regulations, workers rights every thing as a barrier for him to move along on his goal. He’s breaking everything appart to build himself a runway. He’s doing one last grift, one last pump and dump to say goodbye and take off. He doesn’t care if the US doesn’t exist in 50 years since he will be off planet.

I personally don’t really like that analogy. With email, you can send and email to anyone who has an email address. You can only see emails you have received after creating your email account. It’s simple and clear. With the fediverse, for past posts, you can see some: only if it was posted on your instance or if someone on your instance was following them when it was originally posted or has interacted with it since, meaning there is some technicality that prevents you from seeing everything you think you should be able to see.

In terms of account creation, I agree. Just pick a provider (instance), if you don’t like it you can create a new account somewhere else later.

The official Reddit app and new Reddit layout drive me crazy… The amount of suggested content and the confusing algorithm for best sort really turned it into facebook. I find myself much happier here on Lemmy. I understand the algorithm. I’m even pleased to see that posts can last more than a day at the top of the “active” page. I think it means that Lemmy encourages discussion and going back to a topic even if it is a few days old. Probably better for our collective attention span.

Welcome! Hope you like it here. I’m happy to see people are jumping ship despite the “it’s too complex to switch to Lemmy” false narrative.

I hope all the lemmy instances are ready for a surge of users. Let’s encourage redditors to join Lemmy and learn the kinks and quirks by trial and error. Let’s be kind to the newcomers.

Replace the egg by a croissant, add a cigarette after each meal. Become condescending. Move to France. Blend in.

I remember and that’s why I’m here reading your comment 🫡

The floor is lava. The ceiling as well.

Says dude on social media

😒 I am chronically late

😎 I work efficiently and well

It thought that Vegas was an abomination, a testament to the vanity of mankind but that book made me understand that Phoenix has twice as many people, is bigger though sure, is a little wetter on average and should hold that title.

How is this one of the cheapest cities to live in in the US? Why are we moving the micro chip industry there?

I do believe that a lot of aspects of The Ministry for the Future by K.S. Robinson have chances of becoming true.

The deadly heatwave in south Asia, governments going rogue and playing with geo engineering on their own, climate refugee camps and the general sense of too little too late.

But the book is fairly optimistic, so hopefully, people of the world getting together and accepting a new paradigm will come to be true.

I’m sure more instructions await you on the back side 👀

Two Dudes One Cup: the not so White House edition

The beauty of the civil rights movement was that on the one side you had the peaceful protests, the disobedience pointing at the other side where activists wanting the same thing and more weren’t so peaceful. The peaceful protesters were the compromise. The alternative was a black revolution, the black panthers, Malcom X etc.

Even those who don’t want a full French Revolution right now should at least push for peaceful protest. We need this “or else” approach. We shouldn’t let it go to waste.

What does your little voice have you do? Mine is a movie director and you are ruining the plot…

Alright everyone, thank you so much for your thoughtful recommendations! To sum it up, here’s what I have done:

• I used let’s encrypt’s Certbot to get my SSL certs and setup https, auto-renew every 3 months and I setup a reminder to update Certbot every month.
• I setup a permanent redirect from http to https in Apache
• I installed a firewall on the Pi, only 80, 443 and [22 from my computer to the RPi] are open. I couldn’t find the firewall settings on my router but I assume they exist since I had to forward 80 and 443 there.
• installed the following plugins: WordFence and WP Fail2Ban
• changed the user password on the pi to a better longer one

I think I should be all set, shouldn’t I?

Sweet thanks! Will add that ASAP