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Anti-ICE protest draws massive crowd at South Portland facility, feds deploy tear gas

Yeah I was there. About 200 feet from the main flash point.

There were quite a lot of people as we were marching from the park to the ice facility and starting packing in tighter. It was a miracle there was no trample situation; everyone was calm and shuffled away orderly even though we could not see nor breathe.

Couldn't be prouder of my city for doing it well.

Unfortunately I passed by many children, pets, and strollers during the march. I hope they are all doing well and I haven't stopped thinking about you all (including the little girl with the sign made with paper saying "I hate ICE"). Stay strong and safe you all!

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They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed

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You joke but my old FJ Cruiser requires you to turn the key to accessory, turn it off, turn the key back to accessory, open and close the door three times, turn the key back off, turn the key to accessory while holding the odometer reset button for 5 seconds and then it will enter pairing mode for the remote fob.

It made me feel the same joy as pressing the option on my Android phone 5 times to enter development mode back in the mid 2010s but it gets old quick.

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Some Questions about the Fediverse

I find it's going to need to get even more convenient for the general public to be interested in it. Federation almost needs to be a 'background' process that the end user doesn't really need to deal with. Otherwise, it'll be a little too complicated or obscure to comprehend for most. I know it isn't rocket science but we're talking about the general public, here.

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Self hosted family archive

Have you heard of webtrees? Self hosted, similar enough to Ancestry and you can upload relevant media to their entry. Not sure if it can handle a few hundred gigs but you could probably host the media on a separate program to reduce the DB strain.

I've used it when my wife was getting into genealogy. Still running in the background for the last few years with little to no maintenance.