Prosody (XMPP server). Setup takes an hour at most even if you have never worked with Lua. Easy to interact with (it has a built-in shell), easy on system resources, and easy-to-understand config. Support for groups, E2EE, attachments including videos and voice recordings, among others.

That depends entirely on your definition of ‘success’.

Israel is a failed experiment in statehood. It’s about motherfucking time for every decision maker in virtually every government in the world to acknowledge that - and correct course.

Text book example of “I know what I am doing is stupid, but everyone else is doing it and I’m smarter, so when consequences arrive, they’ll affect everyone except me”.

During each American war of aggression, I think about this quote from ‘Lord of War’. I know it’s fiction, but it also describes reality and it hits very hard each time.

Yuri: But in the Iran-Iraq War, you sold guns to both sides.

Simeon Weisz: Did you ever consider that I wanted both sides to lose?