I've been getting Singapore traffic like crazy

Same. Not Wordpress, but Cloudflare tells me my main traffic (by far) is from Singapore and the US, and in numbers that are clearly bots.

Does that actually exist? I know there are reddit type clones, but I'm yet to see anything that allows me to setup a niche server and only that.

Yeah, there quite a few. Like old-school phpBB is still around[1]. Or, take a look at the list on Wikipedia[2].

Not sure if you're looking for a hosted solution, though. A lot of those would involve you running your own server.

[1] https://www.phpbb.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_s...

How I miss my script kiddie days of being 15, downloading "nulled" versions of vBulletin off of Limewire and throwing them up on pocket money paid cPanel web hosting account waiting for it to upload on my parents 56K.

Exploit ridden PHPNuke & e107 CMS too.

We had similar childhoods - though I did phpBB. Never had an audience for the forum, but it was cool just having and styling it. Good times.

Discourse also has a (first-party) ActivityPub plugin now!

Indeed! NodeBB is exactly that, and federates over ActivityPub.

I enjoy my 1:1s with my manager. It's pretty relaxed, open ended conversation. Recently she asked us all to just do a summary in OneNote of what we did for the week, so that kind of gives us things to talk about. Typically we talk about personal life, family things for about half of the meeting and work the other half.

Step 1....I'm assuming this is what's happening with my company too.

We announced April offices are back open.

Step 2. will be hybrid for supervisors/managers

Then returning everyone.

My guess is all back to normal by October.

That assumes that the great resignation in tech won't still be continuing as people jump around between companies, or more hard to say and probably less likely, yet another strain cropping up.

Our security software flags this as malware (Cisco Umbrella)

Carmel is nice, but man, they have some of the worst drivers ever.

A great argument for separated infra :-)

I like my job, my manager and the people I work with. I'm paid well and have good benefits. 2 years in and don't have any complaint

The town next to me in Indiana has giant oversized parking lots. I swear the Target parking lot is 3 times as large as the Target itself.

I would do anything for my dogs, doesn't matter what it costs, I love both of them so much and can't imagine not having them in our family. They are family.

ditto, and in our case, it's dogs and cats, one big multispecies pack.

The big issue of sports streaming still remains. Sites popup every once in a while that have apps, etc (HeHeStreams, BallStreams) but then get taken down. It's hard to find a good sports streaming site that does the following:

1. Has TV apps 2. No ads 3. Reliable

I've been doing the Kodi route, but it's such a PIA with streams not working consistently.

I also see live sports, or anything people gather to see debut as a frontier.

Time shifted content is under threat of leaks or hacks in the pipeline to release and gets duplicated once available.