Some historians claim the Persian civilization died in 331 BCE. Alexander the Great and his army are to blame.

https://www.ourhistory.org.uk/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-persian-empire/

okay this is super fucking excellent:

https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/index.html

thank you @cR0w for letting me know it exists.

little snitch is fucking awesome. its the de-facto host-level firewall for macs these days and its impressively effective.

to have this for linux?

game changer.

Despairing at the state of the world? The ancient Greeks and Romans knew the feeling
https://theconversation.com/despairing-at-the-state-of-the-world-the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-knew-the-feeling-279566?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into PHILOSOPHY NOW @philosophy-now-SOLARISplanet

Despairing at the state of the world? The ancient Greeks and Romans knew the feeling
https://theconversation.com/despairing-at-the-state-of-the-world-the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-knew-the-feeling-279566?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Global Issues @global-issues-ConversationUS

hey it's that time again.

do you have data? that you like? is it backed up? do you have automatic backups you've checked are actually happening?

in multiple locations?

have you done a test restore to make sure the backups work?

*even an extra copy on a flash drive is better than no backups*

The oil crisis is about to get physical - Paul #Krugman

Uncertainties: We don’t know how much #oil will manage to escape the Gulf and how high must prices rise to choke off a given amount of demand?

If oil really does go to $200 or more, it’s all too easy to envisage a full-blown global economic #crisis, with an inflation surge and quite likely a #recession.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-oil-crisis-is-about-to-get-physical