That is correct. My Forgejo instance has some read-only public repos. But I do not give write-access to the public to the Forgejo instance. For that, they need to use either Codeberg or salsa.debian.org. I can pull and merge from either of those and push to all the mirrors.

I have a cloud VPS that costs me $3.50 per month and is more than capable of running Forgejo. Sure, it would probably collapse under the weight of Gitlab, but Forgejo is extremely lightweight.

Debian is the answer. While a decade or so ago, Ubuntu was easier to install and more polished, Debian has pretty much caught up in terms of polish.

The PCI nonsense is easy to get around by configuring the relevant daemons not to report any version at all, or even to lie about the version.

PCI testing is a giant BS scam anyway; the scanners are way too simplistic to catch actual problems and so rigid that they report many false-positives.

Well, I'm just going by my own experience from when I was in school, many decades ago.

It was useful to me to have some homework to practice things that needed practicing, like times tables when I was in the early grades and more advanced mathematics in the later grades. But any day where I had more than about 20 minutes of homework, I became very resentful and fed up.

OK, if you're employed, please sign up for two hours of extra work on the weekend. Thanks for volunteering!

But the whole point of GitHub is collaboration. If GitHub is down, it becomes hard to collaborate on PRs, etc. with people from outside your organization, and maybe even with people within your organization if everyone's checked-out git repo is only accessible from their machine.

(I removed all of my repos from GitHub a while ago and use a self-hosted Forgejo instance, along with mirrors on codeberg.org and salsa.debian.org.)

2 hours of homework on the weekend is excessive. Should be zero. And maybe 10-15 minutes on weekdays.

I certainly don't think kids should be loaded down with an hour or more of homework every single day. But I think 10-15 minutes per day of drills or practice exercises is fine.

Also, do not give kids homework they can't handle, especially if they have to rope parents in to help them or do it for them. That's just nonsense.

No, I was not poor. I was decidedly middle-class, a thing that used to exist in the old days.

I think asset taxes do make a bit of sense at the high end, because super-rich people can and do play all sorts of games to make it look like they have a very low income.

I think any assets owned or controlled by a single person should be tax free up to some pretty high amount, let's say $50M. That's certainly high enough to encourage entrepreneurship. And yes, we can index it to inflation so the poor dears are not too disadvantaged.

After that, it's just excessive and I would support an annual asset tax of around 0.1% to 0.2% of the total value of assets above $50M, and this should include any assets effectively controlled by the individual such as assets in trusts, holding companies, etc. If someone with a net worth of $500M gripes about paying $450K in asset taxes per year, too bad. That's not even a first-world problem.

I've hired probably 25 people over the 18 years I ran my company, and I was nowhere near a billionaire.

But if it wasn't legal to obtain the cell phone data in the first place, then none of that is admissible as it's fruit of the poisonous tree.

Video evidence shows people who are near the video camera. And lets face it: When you're out in public, you don't have much expectation of privacy.

Cellphone location data shows where you went anywhere in the world. That's a lot more information about you than can be gleaned from a few video cameras near the location of interest.

And if you're out in public, you can wear a big hat and a face mask (relatively normalized since COVID) if you're worried about being identified on video. There's no analogous masking possible with cell phone location data.

I meant airplane mode above, obviously. D'oh.