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Can anyone explain why people are calling the Republican party the "GQP"?

(Not the "GOP". I recognize that one from long usage.)

If they just wanted to make random shit up, they would do so, then point to the lack of license as the reason why they had to.

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The fact that Amazon has officially licensed _The Silmarillion_ and _Unfinished Tales_ means that they're probably trying hard to make their story link correctly to extended lore.

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I've now run into two tools that were unhappy with being used in a node project with {type: module}.

Both of them were meta-tools that loaded their config file via require. One was okay wen I renamed the config file to a .cjs extension. The other wasn't.

(For the record: this is all correct, but was a mirage in front of my real problem. My actual problem was that Chrome was hanging while trying to use the GPU, because the GPU isn't virtualized. All the sandbox problems were caused when I tried to see what was happening.)

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So when you try to run Chrome in a Debian Docker instance, it doesn't work.

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Chrome thinks unprivileged user namespaces are a good way to sandbox their processes.

Debian thinks they're a serious security risk and disables them by default.

Docker relies on them, but doesn't allow them to be used recursively.

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Which means that I can't run Chrome inside a container, because it needs to be able to make new namespaces, and that's a privileged operation.

And I'm not the sysadmin. I only have (pseudo-)root inside the container.

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There's something seriously wrong somewhere in this chain:

Chrome wants to sandbox its renderer processes so they can't wrote to the file system. To do this, it uses a tool, chrome_sandbox, that requires elevated privileges. (Used to be setuid root, now uses namespaces.)

A discussion the massive reduction of bullying in school makes me wonder if it's economic. The iconic bullying is to beat someone up and _take their lunch money_. I wonder if economic changes have led to kids not carrying money on the regular, and if that's why bullying dropped.

Please, without spoilers...

Did _Wonder Egg Priority_ drop the ball on its ending?

Hi [First Name]:
* overly familiar
* implies friendly, reciprocal relationship

Yo, Teach:
* Highlights their replaceability
* Focuses on formal, client relationship

Epistemic status:

Trying to bootstrap from opaque intuitions to legible principles.

(It's a real business. He was a Doctor. It's not one of those <cabs but with an app that lets me get paid when you work> disruption things, nor a <online service that let's me get acquihired by a FAANG then gets shut down.>)

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My uncle's business went public. He hired a lawyer to give his kids the <you're rich now. No, actually rich. Here's how to defend yourself against grifters> talk.

That's a talk you can hire someone to give your kids.

(Those cousins are all adults, FTR.)

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