The monarchs were not the first to be beheaded in the French revolution.

Fun fact.

Didn’t they recently start allowing for 85 octane fuel? Just a thought

Then he has vacated the office and there would be an election held.

You can’t cover up a time of death, especially if you need to prove the office is not vacant.

Oh good. He doesn’t stand a chance against… Anybody, really.

He might be the least likable person in their lot. Not even maga likes Vance.

This theory is off base.

The law is for when the vacancy occurs, not when it is disclosed.

If he’s dead before the 2nd Tuesday in August, it doesn’t matter if they wait longer to announce that.

Basically they’ll need to prove he was able to do senator stuff the days leading up to their disclosure date in order to meet the no election deadline.

I blame the legacy media outlets. The very same that expressed grave concern for the violent tensions in Palestine but didn’t call it a genocide until like this past winter.

Death questions*

That’s where the teacher uses the skeptics guide to the king James Bible not as a way to profess but as a way to facilitate conversation.

The teacher doesn’t have to challenge anything. The skeptics Bible just lays the references to other parts of the Bible out bare.

Ask the class “how many sons did God have? What does the Bible tell us. Talk with your neighbor about what you think based on what the Bible says”

The Bible has several answers to this. So, they arguements come from the students understanding of scripture, not the teacher teaching it.

Source: catholic school in a blue state.

Right. And nor does Jason have enough info on OP.

So it comes across, as I said, as a “gatekeeper-ass” thing to say in the context of OPs journey to self hosting.

Where they are is in no way “sad”. Except if you’re being an adversarial gatekeeper dick about purity.

I think your life is sad.

Let me know how you took that.

Welcoming? Adversarial?

I’m not out here to Stan for cloudflare. It’s just a totally valid tool for the job, there are valid reasons to use it, and as we agree, it’s not productive to tell a newcomer that their choice of meeting their needs is “sad”

In fact, it’s an unwelcoming thing to say. If we want folks to stop using cloud services, we can’t shame the valid paths to get there.

this is sad

They literally led by throwing shame unto OP.

That’s how they opened their response.

It is not sad. Suggesting it is sad is a “gatekeeper-ass thing” to say.

I think you missed my point. You are mistaking your preferred architecture with moral superiority.

Cloudflare is not “gatekeeping” someone from self-hosting. It is an optional tool. A person choosing to use it because they are new, budget-conscious, or not ready to expose services directly is not sad, fake self-hosting, or somehow philosophically impure.

You can absolutely argue that Cloudflare has tradeoffs. That is fair. It adds dependency, abstraction, and vendor-specific knowledge. It is not magic security dust. No disagreement there.

But telling a beginner “this is sad” because they are using a mainstream protective layer while learning is exactly the kind of gatekeeping that makes self-hosting communities hostile to newcomers.

Also, “just use a VPN” is not a universal answer. VPNs are great for private admin access. They are not always the right solution when someone wants family members to access media or services without managing VPN clients, device support, troubleshooting, and onboarding. Different threat models, different usability needs.

The helpful response would have been: “Cloudflare can be useful, but understand what it does and does not protect you from. Don’t expose admin panels. Use MFA, strong auth, least privilege, good backups, updates, reverse proxy rules, and keep anything sensitive behind a VPN.”

That is useful advice.

“This is sad” is just self-hosting purity signaling.

I have tagged you as “selfhosting gatekeeper” for future reference.

There’s plenty wrong with shaming people en route to that path for not being 100% there.

That is all I said.

That’s a gatekeeper-ass take. It isnt sad in any way shape or form. What an elitist proclamation.

If you build your own infra internally and want a billion dollar industry to be your point of entry because you’re not confident in hardening a vps or don’t wanna pay for that on top of everything else (yet), so the fuck what?

REEEE YOU MUST OWN ALL OF YOUR INFRA

🙄

Get bent. If cloudflare goes down again (for another whole handful of minutes, the horror!!) they are clearly ramping to make the jump to a VPS when the finances and/or cybersecurity chops feel ready and the needs arise. “Sad”? Please. Get off your high horse. You make the rest of self hosters look bad.

Yeah. They make bibles for good folks stuck being forced to teach it.

It’s pretty good at making non-believers.

Nope. They’re on the payroll. Duh.

It is exceedingly evident that if a fully bought supreme court justice is the greatest threat to our democracy.

We don’t have a mechanism to say “wait wait hey who the fuck do you think you are?” To supreme court justices. Ostensibly, if you control them, you control the country.

Which is most easily accomplished by expanding the supreme Court. And senate.