As it happens I also live in a van (a VW T25 camper) because it's economically-efficient and convenient, and I don't have any urge to buy a million dollar house with a bunch of shiny crap to keep up with the Jones' (my grandparents devoted their lives to this empty pursuit in Los Gatos ahead of learning about the world, themselves or other people). But because marketeers have convinced enough people [0] that homelessness and poverty are such "fatal" pejoratives in the petty, judgmental, status-climbing West, people with alternative lifestyles learn to whom they can share this information...
It's nice to be able to go to the beach, or up the coast or inland whenever one wants and cut down to the real, minimal necessities. Plus, it's not much that much of a stretch to go to Burning Man.
[0] just as many Americans have been radicalized by the perverted mind of Roger Ailes' Faux News.
This one instance might be so (unions are imperfect human endeavors), but this article comes across as thinly-veiled MSM/establishment strawman/false equivocation via the pernicious, irrational, data-free worldview which completely ignores the net positive force unions had in the bloody struggle for worker pay and working conditions in the 19th and 20th centuries.
See also: "Inequality for All" and "Where to Invade Next?"
Abstractions-on-top-of-abstractions which promise to reduce complexity by adding more levels of indirection, when the UX of the underlying tools need to be better.
(Having wrote a multihypervisor disk-cloner in Ruby.)
According to the JRuby dev repo[0] the truffle branch[1] was merged into master and blog[2], Truffle may be bringing cexts back and higher performance to JRuby. If this could be ship production-worthy as default, it would be awesomesauce!
French culture has some inconsistent, fascist, illiberalisms, especially in the differences of making fun of Christianity vs. making fun of Judaism, or similarly with Christianity vs. Islam. (govt demanding firing of Sine). Actual progressive liberalism should at least include listening to other viewpoints, being open to new ideas and generally being sensible and constructive. But narrow, identity-politics labels aren't all that useful in reality and end up inventing wedge-issues and false dichotomies. (There are some people looking for common ground while others are looking for Sayre's law fights.)
That is still your problem and you need to take responsibility for it. It is wiser to learn and know what you're talking about, don't just add ambient, useless, incorrect noise.
Compress, encrypt and then MAC. If MAC fails, don't decrypt. If decryption fails, don't (and can't) decompress. If decompression fails, throw away data, because compression-to-encryption time corruption occurred.