> the notorious Erdstalls

It seems quite strange that they could be that prolific while requiring that much manual labor to construct yet there's no written reference to any of them.

As long as it's equivalent to a camera on a tripod, why not? Outside of impeding traffic flow or museums that want to charge you for it being bothered by that seems entirely counterproductive.

> For anyone wanting to conduct their own forensic analysis to determine how thoroughly their hotel room has been cleaned, for example

Probably more effective to bring a UV flashlight with you.

> to the point I wonder if I should just use the providers directly.

How many account credentials, balances, and tokens do you want to maintain? Even without automatic failover services such as openrouter are still incredibly useful.

Personally I pin a single vetted provider in the interest of minimizing risk.

HN is rife with slopphobia.

Yes, a shared understanding of the rules. Common context. Culture.

There are in fact expectations of your behavior and that is not a bad thing, despite western popular culture attempting to tell us otherwise.

In an industrial society, too many rule followers results in people being reduced to cattle. We need a subset of our society to be ungovernable in order to stave off tyranny, because historically, smart people aren't trying or succeeding at that. As another commenter in this thread stated, though under different context, our bodies wouldn't make the venom if we didn't need it to survive.

eating a smelly pizza in a cinema doesn't make you one of the Tolpuddle Martyrs

End stage capitalism is itself a result of shamelessness.

If the consequences become a step function it makes intuitive sense that the gradual downstream behavior would go away.

How so? It's a one time setup procedure of only a few steps to create a tiny "protective" ext4 (or whatever) partition at the front. Thereafter you configure crypttab to mount the partition via UUID with an offset and key. If you don't need to hibernate you can read the key from /dev/urandom.

And since you should probably be running a modern CoW filesystem then you probably shouldn't be using swapfiles ... is the conclusion I arrived at anyway. Either install multiple times more RAM than you need and enable zswap or else set aside a swap partition as has always been done.

Truth be told—- I don’t use swap and set `vm.swappiness=0` but in these difficult times, swap may be the hero we need.