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Great write up, thank you! Looking at your blog post, it seems that once I've followed your guide, I only need to forward port 51820 from my router to the WG server. Is that correct?


Sorry, that's incorrect. Shortcuts are available independent of Siri being enabled - I've just checked this by disabling Siri on my phone.


UK Scouting is fully non-gendered for all ages; see Scouting for All and the Equal Opportunities Policy: http://scouts.org.uk/about-us/key-policies/equal-opportuniti....

UK Guiding allows girls and young women, but fully supports gender self-identification: https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/making-guiding-happen/policie....

Scouting and Guiding in the UK are refreshingly progressive organisations. Source: current Scout leader.


So what your saying is: as a self-identified male, I can't be a UK Guide? Sounds gendered to me.


God only knows what those boys would get up to if they had freedom of association! ;- )


No, you can't. Because girls need a safe space to be girls (without any boys around) a lot more than boys need any more spaces where they can be boys without any girls around (there's enough of those).


> No, you can't. Because girls need a safe space to be girls (without any boys around) a lot more than boys need any more spaces where they can be boys without any girls around.

Please substantiate this.

> there's enough of those

Name one that isn't a sports team.


What an incredibly toxic, and factually incorrect, mindset to hold.


"all ages" - but everyone beavers is male only, right?


No, anyone can join any of the scouting age groups.


I suggest you read Robert Kagan's "Dangerous Nation". It skewers the idea that America is not an empire, and demonstrates that America has always been aggressively expansionist.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dangerous-Nation-Americas-Earliest-T...


The US clearly hasn't always been aggressively expansionist. It isn't today.

America has had the most powerful military on earth for 70 years, along with a large population. List all of the vast amounts of territory it has annexed using that extraordinary military power. There are endless opportunities to do so, and the US is the sole military with global projection.

Some people point to military bases. Which doesn't work in any regard. A few critical differences being: taxing power on the local population, or vast plunder. Neither of which America is known for. And US military bases around the globe overwhelmingly exist by permission.


You don't necessarily have to annex territory to control it, either politically or economically.


But why bother to control territory unless one gets some benefit from it? Throughout history, nations have sought more territory because most wealth came from land and its use. Annexing territory was the fastest way to grow the tax base.

Controlling territory but not extracting wealth is pointless. The U.S. doesn't extract wealth from its foreign bases; in fact it injects wealth because the bases are paid for by U.S. dollars but the downstream spending goes into the local economy.

And you might think "well the U.S. extracts the wealth through trade." But trade is mutually beneficial (unlike taxes) and the U.S. runs a foreign trade deficit anyway.

The things that the U.S. gets for its projected power are peace and stability. These are things that benefit any nation, though.


This is nonsense - there's nothing about a Node.js re-write in the 4.3 kickoff post: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/04/28/wordpress-4-3-kic...


Came here to say the same!


Would also be very nice if someone set up an auto-deploy such as the one Tinfoil did for VPNs: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/vpn/new


I've just tried to update to stable using the instructions there, and when I ran apt-get install nginx, it returned:

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nginx_1.4.4-1~precise_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/sbin/nginx', which is also in package nginx-full 1.1.19-1ubuntu0.2 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/nginx_1.4.4-1~precise_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any suggestions on how to fix this? Ta.


What I did to fix this error was first back up my configuration, then uninstall packages nginx, nginx-common, and nginx-full. Then I installed nginx again and there were no problems.


That's done it! Where's the HN tip jar? :)


Icon Slate is pretty good too. Mac only.

http://www.kodlian.com/apps/icon-slate


There is an alternative to managewp.com: https://wpremote.com/ (not affiliated, etc.)

It's free, and UK-based - so benefits from EU data protection. By @humanmadeltd.

EDIT: Running on EC2 AFAIK, so subject to Safe Harbor, FWIW.


And again, out of the user's real control... Sure, the security seems sound, but you still put all your eggs in someone else's basket, so to say, with any such cloud service.


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