Backup is step one, or even step 0, of setting up a server. The amount of frustration and even job loss a backup can prevent is always worth the expense of time/money.

Backup can be setup scripts/config files/automation if the data doesnt matter, but you do need it. Also, even if they say the data doesn't matter, the data almost always matters. It may not now, but it will in 3 years when people use the server for real work and everyone just doesnt even begin to think about a backup until the server fails one day and they lose years worth of their grant and thesis data.

Backups can be simple, they can be complex. They can be free or pay, they can have gui or just be scripts. Settle on one that you can make work, and CHECK THEM OCCASIONALLY with test restores of at least a few files. If you dont test and find a working backup, you have hope, not resiliency.

What's "pushing the envelope" about run-of-the-mill sexual exploitation? Your own descriptor points out how common it is.

The ad execs published conversations they had with "syd." They asked explicitly if she was willing to "push the envelope" and she agreed that "they should go all the way lol."

Everyone involved in the ad absolutely knew it was a eugenics joke.

Jessica Alba went on to make a few hundred millions selling soap, so shes got that going for her.

This is called "bolting" in gardening terms, when a plant goes to flower or seed.

Because the car areas are too dangerous for them and there are no bike areas.

For anyone else curious:

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt3000/

Looks like it has built in wireguard vpn client support, so you can connect to an external vpn server and route all traffic to it automatically from all your devices.

I've worked in a heavy industry space where the "computers" were just slightly complicated circuit boards working together. No OS, no networking, nothing but circuit logic running hilariously important machines. The cabinets were locked in a small area deep in the facility that was manned 100% of the time, and were rarely accessed, so it would be a big event for anyone to interact with them. There were no windows for "someone with a clipboard" to just be waived in to mess with them.

There was no remote access, and no social engineering possible. Anyone who could work on them was well known by everyone who would be in the room. An insider threat was basically the only kind possible, but the only "hacked" output would just be a failed "off" state, which wouls be replaced.

There really are "unhackable" computerized machines out there, but only because calling them "computerized" is a stretch.

15k for several distinct hotspots in a city is pretty reasonable, depending on what equipment they are using.

Enterprise quality IT gear is expensive. Each access point can easily be 1k, and that excludes any routers/firewall/switching that you may need at each site. As an example, I've worked in places that had small retail locations that at a minimum had 8k of network equipment, with some locations pushing into the 100k+ range based on needs and size. That's per site. The above is all in USD, but just equipment. Labor can add 30% to the costs.

15k euro for a whole city that includes equipment and installation sounds very fiscally responsible.

One-stop-slop that is.

Fema, after announcing that, revoked it after backlash and claimed it was never an "official" directive, even though it was offically announced by Fema.

Absolute clown car, but probably good enough for the conservatives to fall back in line entirely.