I still pirate without a VPN

All web servers are servers. Not all servers are web servers.

If I’d seen your username, given no context, you would’ve been vaguely familiar.

But since I track votes I give to users, I can add that you’re at +35, so you must’ve done something right.

Keanu could probably kick my ass without drawing on the training from those two characters. But if I was maybe 10 years younger I might stand a chance.

If he added John Wick, no. I would need to be even younger than that, and even then my chances would be slim at best.

And if he were to add Neo, well, that depends whether he truly believes, or not.

Source?

Do you happen to enjoy boiling denim, foraging naked in the sewers, and playing nightcrawlers?

600-700 is around when the basic beginner traps stop working. Fried liver attack, etc, and not moving on past those traps is why so many get stuck there for too long.

Reading theory is helpful, but I’d say that’s more important at 1000+ ELO. For now, I’d say learning the basics of evaluating any position (king safety, long diagonals, weak squares, etc). Also, knowing many openers is good and all, but I suggest picking one and get really good at that. “I fear not the man who has practiced a million openers once” -Bruce Dickinson, or something.

My personal choice for openers are Kings Indian attack (as white) or Pirc Defense (as black). These are very similar, so if you know those two well, it doesn’t really matter what color you start as - they tend to end up with similar mid-games.

Also, around 700 it becomes important to spot which tactics are available to you in various positions. The puzzles at chess.com are really helpful for learning this.

As for the lichess argument, yes, it’s good. But I find that the analysis engine on chess.com is slightly better. And on that note, if you have a subscription, analyze your games afterwards, as it helps you understand what went wrong or right (yes, don’t just analyze your victories). Also, keep in mind that chess.com and lichess have different ways of calculating ELOs.

Also, use the time you have. If you’re playing 10min games, make sure to use your time accordingly. Don’t rush into a blunder because you didn’t see the revealed check or the fork. Personally I mostly play 10min games, as that gives me plenty of time to evaluate the board. Sometimes I do 3min when I’m less patient.

Source: 1757 day streak on chess.com, 1261 ELO while I’m writing this (Although, knowing myself, I’ll trip back to 1100ish soon)

While true, it’s important to keep in mind that the market can stay unrealistic longer than the ones betting against it can stay solvent. I don’t mean that as a prediction, but as a warning that “crashing any day now” can easily mean in ten days, ten years, or never.

Are you referring to how to manipulate files, or more what the various files and folders do?

EDIT, now that I’m typing on a keyboard (connected to a linux PC, obviously), and not on a phone:

Depends entirely on your definition of fun, really, but the way I learnt it was basically by breaking stuff, sometimes intentionally:

• Poking/editing files in /etc to see what happened
• read and write data from/to files in /dev (Careful, these are devicenodes. This is an easy way of overwriting your partition table). As far as I can see, /dev/dsp doesn’t exist anymore, but you could cat a .wav file to it and it’d play through the soundcard. I gues modern sound pipelines are a lot more sophisticated hence why I can’t find it
• Play around with redirects and pipes: > >> 2>&1 | 1>/dev/null
• Get comfortable with file permissions and how to use them. I had many users on this server I had, and I liked to (ab)use the group bit to grant access to various things.
• Poke every binary in /bin and /sbin to see what they do

:wq

I always keep mine back, except during meals and when it’s not allowed. It’s better for my back this way.

Some basic etiquette: Recline carefully - there are people with stuff behind you.

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Depends on where I am and what I’m doing. When on work travel, I VPN home. When I’m home I VPN to work. Outside of that, I don’t really use VPNs.

If I really want to cover my tracks, I have other means and methods

It’d probably work if they started killing the topmost million

No*

*: Distro dependent. A modern desktop distro might require slightly less than a modern build. But no matter what hardware you have, there are didtros that can run on it.

“Now over to Australia where a Note 7 battery exploded this morning. Another country has been added to the growing list of regions completely obliterated by a thermonuclear explosion”

Nice coc bro

And find a date with a large age gap

Sure, nothing wrong with running your own DNS. And quite useful in many cases. It is, however, more headache than it’s worth in many other cases.

Source: I used to be fluent in Bind9 zone files

Similar, but with less existential dread

Not sure. I often hear Bluey and Phineas & Ferb referred to as kids cartoons, but I find the humor surprisingly mature.