Malou Johansen

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Morning all! Hope you're all well. Please use this thread as a place to discuss what you've been reading the past month. * Have you gotten stuck into any good n

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Malou Johansen

@crazybear494948 · Jan 12, 2026

Shantie Ellens

@silverostrich449305 · Jan 11, 2026 6:44 pm

CMV: Current admin doesn't care about reelection

\*\*EDIT/TLDR\*\*: Wish I could've worded the title better. By reelection I mean chances for the next Republican candidate. My thesis is they (trump obviously but also the current faction of Republicans who control all the keys to power which includes many potential 2028 candidates) care about is staying in power now, but not beyond 2028. The midterms just need to be not catastrophic. The idea is permanently shifting the political/economic/power landscape is more powerful than one or two elections. There's dirt to do, and until Trump there has not been a president as willing to push the boundaries and have the base to survive it, so the main goal is to take advantage of the window now, not after 2028. There is no long term thinking, no decade long plan to "restore Monroe doctrine" or "economic nationalism". Those are just narratives used to gaslight to make it seem like all of this is done for some eventual greater good (which has a stabilizing effect at least in the short term since it preserves the base and leaves a lot of moderates confused of what to make of the situation). There is no 4-D chess game with China, or at the very least that is nowhere near the main motive. The onl

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Malou Johansen

@crazybear494948 · Jan 12, 2026

Best AI tool for visually appealing flyers/brochures etc?

I am trying to turn text documents into pretty, appealing, visually illustrative documents like flyers and handouts etc.
Is anything actually good at this? I can provide all the text I just need something that can help me put it all together in a visually appealing way, maybe with diagrams etc.

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Malou Johansen

@crazybear494948 · Jan 11, 2026

Colocation Quote - Is it as good as I think it is?

3U
360 Watts 208V
3 Outlets
/29 IPv4
350TB Bandwidth on 10Gbps Port
Overages @ $0.0025/GB
Free rack and stack
12 Month Commitment
Location LA
FREE Setup
Price: $100/m
Just need a quick sanity check as this will be my first Colocation for off-site backups and running a handful of hosted services. Usage patterns are around 100TB/month so I’m not worried about metered usage, I specifically wanted metered instead of p95 so I wasn’t charged for bursts at 10Gbps on a 1Gbps commit. I’ll be colocating a 1U firewall and a 2U server.
Any gotchas I should be keep an eye out for?

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Malou Johansen

@crazybear494948 · Jan 10, 2026

Are branded neck gaiters/face masks worth purchasing or do random ones work just fine?

I cycle a lot recently and I'm looking for a face mask to cover my face from pollution and UV. I don't actually know what these things are called, chatgpt told me it's called "neck gaiter", [these things](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcROrpjOCXuDaB-99OOB7S5NKkUcfXvP1Qm2kA&s).
My friends who love hiking and cycling told me that I should buy from at least Decathlon and not get the cheap random ones from department stores. I know nothing about technical stuff and I was thinking to just buy cheap ones because it's just cloth.
Should I buy these branded ones like Buff that are around 20 EUR / 22 USD? For me this counts as rather expensive because I'm not from a developed country, but I understand if they're good they can also be a good investment.

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