I know some of those words.

He says, small treats in the lab are fine. Also big treats.

The actual worth of the prize could be the publicity, to stand out and be recognizer as a scientist in a flood of publications. I’m just guessing.

the fucking Nobel Prize?!

No, the Ig Nobel Prize:

The Ig Nobel Prize monetary award is given in a solitary banknote for the amount of 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollars ($0.40 USD)

That guy may even choose his house. : )

hermit crab

Hermit crabs … have adapted to occupy empty scavenged mollusc shells to protect their fragile exoskeletons.

Thanks. That swimming squid penis was news to me.

Um. Let’s say, if you decided to google for duck’s penis, you’d be in for a surprise.

Edit: oh that just means they’re above the required threshold already.

Thanks for the clarification. I needed that.

or to attract mates.

Like a butterfly collection?

Wiggle your big toe… fin.

It’s not black and white. Renewable energy is better than burning oil, agreed.

But i.e. there is no recycling process for old wind turbines (carbon fiber) - they need to be replaced after 30 years or solar panels (composite material). And e-cars need batteries which need lithium (mines). Also rare earths are needed for generators and electric motors - rare earths are… rare and the production requires lots of energy and produces toxic waste (in China… which has kind of a monopoly on it. )

Maybe solvable problems in the long run but currently these are unsolved issues…

Whale… I wouldn’t know. :)

Of course! It’s a can not a can’t.

It’s not blank anymore, whether it was on porpoise or not.

Elefants have them too!

I’m sure there is an exception for creatures made from fabric and foam, somewhere.

What is Dolphin? Dolphin is a GameCube and Wii emulator with high compatibility across the majority of titles for both platforms. It was first developed as closed source in 2003, and as open source since 2008.

I had to look it up.

He could ask for clarification and discuss word definitions if the situation indicates a misunderstanding.

Thanks. I thought it was about counting. It all makes a lot more sense now. (And it also doesn’t.)

How?

Yes, if you push the circles down a bit, it forms a 7 by 7 matrix. But if pushing the circles into a square matrix is not allowed: how?

Edit: I get it now. It is about (efficient) packing not about counting. I also get the 4th panel now…

One aspect is how interesting you are as a target. What would a possible attacker gain by getting access to your services or hosts?

The danger to get hacked is there but you are not Microsoft, amazon or PayPal. Expect login attempts and port scans from actors who map out the internets. But I doubt someone would spend much effort to break into your hosts if you do not make it easy (like scripted automatic exploits and known passwords login attempts easy) .

DDOS protection isn’t something a tiny self hosted instance would need (at least in my experience).

Firewall your hosts, maybe use a reverse proxy and only expose the necessary services. Use secure passwords (different for each service), add fail2ban or the like if you’re paranoid. Maybe look into MFA. Use a DMZ (yes, VLANs could be involved here). Keep your software updated so that exploits don’t work. Have backups if something breaks or gets broken.

In my experience the biggest danger to my services is my laziness. It takes steady low level effort to keep the instances updated and running. (Yes there are automated update mechanisms - unattended upgrades i.e. -, but also downwards compatibility breaking changes in the software which will require manual interactions by me.)