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I personally find it quite easy to like parts of the government while disliking other parts of it.

My position on police is complicated. I don't speak to police. I don't like interacting with police. I've met some officers that were real dicks. I don't like our justice system.

I still can donate to the police retirement fund and the shop with a sheriff program, the latter of which is really about the kids, and the former of which falls in line with my some of my other beliefs.

I don't believe in the hate-motivated politics going around right now.

I don't personally feel very confused or conflicted by this situation, although I could see how others might view it as cognitive dissonance--largely because they're working with like 0.01% of the relevant information about me used to form my decision.

Edit: also, thanks for revealing your method. I confess I know a few usernames by heart, and recognize yours as familiar, but there's only maybe 2 commentors here I could nail down to an specific comment. I figured it was probably just some search-box wizardry.

2nd edit: Time to change usernames again, haha. I cycle them sometimes to avoid all the metadata.

What a weird flex. Can we talk about how you managed this? I really hope you didn't go back and read pages and pages of my comments to find a gotcha.

This is HN, so I assume you've built a tool to do it. I'm really curious to hear about the method.

I don't "really enjoy sticking it to the government." First of all, I just chimed in on the other guy's comment. I made a joke about FPV drones.

Second of all, the guy who is supposedly sticking it to the government didn't make that claim himself. He was accused of that by the next comment. I think he probably just wants to check stuff out before it becomes illegal, and that doesn't make him a crank.

I'm just tunneling, really. I prefer the logs on my WG box vs the local ISP and whoever else in-between. I don't think my webhost is really in the business of tracking down VPN users and selling out their browsing history, although it's possible. I do think my ISP probably is cashing in on people's browsing history, though, in some form or fashion.

I use a pi-hole as well to block the trackers etc as much as possible, and so I don't leak DNS requests to the ISP either.

You made up the "pounds" part, he didn't say that. Also, buying things before they disappear is hardly "sticking it to the government."

Yes, it's my VPN triggering it. I run my own Wireguard on a DigitalOcean box, and I'm the only user--so not exactly a lot of bad traffic coming off of my IP (may have in the past, though).

With the prevalence of Cloudfare now, it's pretty onerous to captcha every visit to a new site just because VPN. You would think Cloudfare could at least give me a "session" that persisted across the web, if they're going gatekeep the whole fucking thing.

It occasionally crosses my mind while I'm having the time of my life flying my FPV drone.

Length doesn't make it harder to crack, entropy does.

Length is a good way to add entropy if the characters are not predictable.

"Ava234ncqli3h23rn2f" is a lot stronger than "Ava234ncqli3"

"DonaldTrump" is barely stronger than "Donald"

Hopefully that makes sense.

Half the web has a CAPTCHA just to view content. Thanks, Cloudfare.

That's what I've always done, with an upper limit of 1.

More seriously, this just kicks the can a little bit.

"Already people can chuck a + in the user part...so really there's not much point trying to maintain a 25:1 user to email ratio"

I bought a surface for that reason. I like the portability, and it is just a normal PC with a pretty bad keyboard.

I've already decided the same, and my current vehicle is a 2015, before they started this new wave of nonsense.

I drive a truck. I think I'm going to get my favorite body style of F150 (late 70s/early 80s) and put a brand new engine in it, and whatever else it needs to make it 100%. I don't need any tech except one of those things that turns AUX into FM radio.

When I bought this truck, it replaced a 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee with 318,000 miles (512,000km). I can live without luxury. I'll miss my heated steering wheel, though.

I collect my rainwater for household use. I must admit, until this moment I had never considered that I interact with space dust on the daily.

NFTs commemorating assassinations of important targets available at the gift shop after conflicts.

What's a nomad? You caravan around and settle new tiles?

I vaguely know that's possible, but I don't venture out a lot honestly.

I still play vanilla. I've never beaten it.