Saturday, April 25th, the day this was written, is the 125th anniversary of New York being the first state to require automobile owners to register their vehicles with the state.

That's right. Today is the 125th birthday of everyone's favorite government institution: The Department of Motor Vehicles, or DMV. //

New York's first plates were homemade, bearing only the owner's initials without any numbers. It was Massachusetts that actually issued its first license plates in 1903." //

In fact, the late adoption by the United States leads to one of the few examples of France being in first place in anything that didn't involve snails or surrendering to Germany.

We highly recommend the use of an email server (SMTP) because we could allow MeshCentral to verify user account’s email address by sending a confirmation request to the user to complete the account registration and for password recovery, should a user forget account password as illustrated below

In the domains section, you can set options for the default domain ("") in addition to creating new domains to establish a multi-tenancy server. For standard configuration, the root domain and other domains will be accessible like this :

🔗 https://servername:8080/ — Default domain

🔗 https://servername:8080/customer1 — Customer1 domain

🔗 https://servername:8080/customer2 — Customer2 domain

When a user setup many domains, the server considers each domain separately and each domain has separate user accounts, administrators, etc. If a domain has no users, the first created account will be administrator for that domain.

In general, doing --option value is the same as adding "option": value in the settings section of the config.json.

Here are the most common options found by running meshcentral --help

performing a full backup of the MeshCentral server is generally easy to do. For all installations make sure to back up the following two folders and all sub-folders.

meshcentral-data
meshcentral-files
If using NeDB that is built into MeshCentral, you are done. ////

If you have customized the MeshCentral web data, also backup
meshcentral-web

In my eleven years, I have processed disclosures from members of Congress who traded on:

Pending FDA approvals they learned about in committee.
Defense appropriations they voted on.
Trade policy they negotiated.
Pandemic response measures they drafted.
Interest rate decisions they were briefed on before the public.

None of them have been charged. None of them have been investigated by the Department of Justice. None of them have been referred to the SEC. The STOCK Act has produced zero prosecutions since it was signed on April 4th, 2012.

Fourteen years. Five hundred and thirty-five members. $635 million in trades last year alone. Zero cases. //

The soldier made $409,881 and faces decades in prison. Nancy Pelosi entered Congress in 1987 with a portfolio worth approximately $785,000. It is now worth $133.7 million. That is a return of 16,930%. The Dow Jones returned 2,300% over the same period. Professional fund managers who beat the market for three consecutive years are considered exceptional. She has beaten it for thirty-seven. If a hedge fund produced those returns, the SEC would subpoena the records on a Thursday. She produced them from a building with a chapel and a gift shop.

She announced her retirement last year. No investigation was opened. No disclosure was flagged. Her filings were on time. In my office, on time means compliant. Compliant means closed. //

The soldier used classified information to make $409,881 on a prediction market. He has been charged with five federal crimes. The Department of Justice announced the case on the same day I processed three disclosures from members who traded on committee knowledge worth a combined $3.8 million.

The difference between the soldier and the members is not what they did. It is the building they did it in. He did it from Fort Bragg. They did it from the Capitol. He used a prediction market. They used the New York Stock Exchange. //

The soldier flew to Caracas. He breached a compound. He put his body between a mission and a bullet. The people who ordered the operation were in a building with a credenza and sparkling water. They did not go to Caracas. They went to their brokerage accounts. The soldier made $409,881 and is now in federal custody. The people who knew what he was going to do before he did it made more and filed less. His prosecution is not a failure of the system. It is the system. One conviction per decade, at the lowest level, so the briefing slides can say enforcement exists. The $409,881 is not the crime. It is the cost of making $635 million look supervised.

In my field, we call this self-regulation.