BlueÆther

There is a small piece in Te Ara (The Encyclopedia of New Zealand) about sexuality in the pacific, that you may find worth a read.

https://teara.govt.nz/mi/gender-diversity/page-4

I must say its 20 odd years ago that we went, I’m sure the world was a simpler place

Oh, you will still be able to get the data, you will just have to subscribe (at some exorbitant price point) to a private corporation that will also be charging the US government a huge mark up to gather the data…

There was a clip of (I think it was) Trump saying some thing along the lines of ‘we have to reduce the wastage in public spending and grow private investment’

He is stripping you country and raping it for his and his billionaire buddies pocket book

Good luck

For me it was Russia when I spent aroubd 9 days there (in and around Moscow). The people were genuinely friendly and there we not the scammers/tourist traps like in most of Europe and Asia.

The markets were as interesting as any I’ve been to in Asia/North Africa.

Is that why Trump is so for them?

I do, mostly for my self but I do allow registrations. I’m generally the only user though.

The communities that I do have get a little trafic - but they are very NZ and niche

I had that problem once, just had to delete a duplicate db function

Email… My wife really wants to further de-google, this means moving custom domains off gsute.

Do I move to proton/tuta or go back to self hosting email again like I did for years until about 2010?

If I self host, do I do it at home or on the server that runs my lemmy instance?

didn’t he laso being his son in on ‘top secret’ meetings?

well that’s not good

From the outside, if this can be done, I would have thought this would impact Red States more than Blue

I suspect that we may be looking back with rose tinted glasses, but the main stream internet is pretty crap atm

I beg to differ, when Opera had its own engine and wasn’t Chinese owned - back in the early '00s.

let us know how it works

That is very true.

The toy we had was from around 2010, I think that there may have been less risk back then, but your point still stands (PS I was using linux as a desktop)

We’ve had one like that, you could even plug it into a computer and access it as a usb flash drive and change the sounds