IIRC CF terms were about caching media not streaming media

Since https://blog.cloudflare.com/updated-tos it is not completely clear if you disable Cloudflare's cache indeed. Still the terms are unclear enough that they could cut you out, and I'd feel uneasy exposing a Jellyfin instance publicly, but that's just me :)

Like the past several decades of Linux problems, you find some stack overflow answer saying just run this command. Terminal is eternal, UI changes

Questionable use cases like hyperscalers housing confidential data of military operations? Use case is the same, private companies supporting military operations, as they have for ages.

Ask yourself if calling him a redneck offers your story anything or if you're just using it as a slur

Bill gates made more than a years salary programming his first priejct in grade school

Sounds like a consumer problem for their own choices of vendor lock in

There's an Android app that can find devices, make profiles, and you can track location for as long as they're connected. So you can profile passerbys and even get notified when the profile passes through again. I forgot what is was called

Are you thinking of BLE Radar?

https://github.com/BLE-Research-Group/MetaRadar

https://f-droid.org/packages/f.cking.software

Years ago when BT beacons were newish, I was talking to an AdTechBro that wanted to create the ability from Minority Report where the kiosk recognizes a user, not by eye scans but by recognizing mobile device, so they could offer a personalized whatever. The creepiness wasn't something they eased into. It was pretty much instant.

Asking to leave a federal contract? Wouldn't that have downstream consequences with future potential federal contacts? If I were the customer I wouldn't give them my business of they pulled out of a federal contract because of politics

I don't remember why but I had to download a separate notification app that pushed notis

Direct commission is a long standing practice, especially for technical fields like medical and now electronic warfare. Surgeons may direct commission to varying field-grade ranks as well, with bonus structure to be competitive with private practice. Military outsources these technical degrees to bring in blood in these voids.

Electronic warfare is typically done by employed soldiers.