i know it’s been a while since the og post but I ran across a very good explanation about the clearance stuff and wanted to pay-it-forward for the civil conversation before.

enjoy! 😜

https://theconversation.com/trumps-criminal-conviction-wont-stop-him-from-getting-security-clearance-as-president-243104

was going through some old pictures and decided I’d post a retro setup. pretty sure I took this picture with my android g1…so 2008ish?

here is a pic of one of my first selfhost setups. I began selfhosting for music and have never stopped. this iteration was stuffed behind a bar that was built in to the basement at my old house

the old fashioned was custom built and was running some flavor of windows server. the one on the floor was the first Linux server I had run to do something useful…torrents and subsonic IIRC. I pieced that server together with random parts, mostly donated from old family PCs. two UPS units were on the bottom rack of that metro shelf to battery back the servers and the tomato router out of frame.

nevermind standard felonies. if it were almost any other federal position with access to classified material he’d never get a clearance, along with many other politicians; strictly based on business deals with foreign powers, debt and erratic behavior. why these people don’t have to go through the same minimum, non-political checks for access as other federal workers is beyond me… at the very least, he just doesn’t meet the minimum qualifications for access to material needed to perform his job.