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sunbeam60 ,

Yes!!

I’ve long argued that courageous states should radically reform their tax system. Rebase the entire tax system around carbon tax, setting the level to ensure the state has the same income base.

There’s a naturally progressive tax system built into that but we could make it even more progressive by laddering up the rates as the carbon emissions increase.

sunbeam60 ,

Source needed!

sunbeam60 , (edited )

There’s a reasonable argument to be made that if Putin uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine, we use similarly sized nuclear weapons on Belarus. It’s the only non-escalatory, tit-for-tat response we have.

sunbeam60 ,

Attacking Russia mainland or Russian leadership is an instant ticket to global nuclear annihilation.

We need an option that shows we are not afraid to use nuclear weapons, but nor are we willing to escalate. A proportional response in the only option we have, unless we believe we’ve reached the end-game, in which case there can be no precision strike or small escalation; then go all in, launch everything now, all at once.

So, what options do we have that mirrors what Russia might do in Ukraine. Can’t be North Korea, they are nuclear-armed themselves and would mean pulling Japan or South Korea into the exchange.

The only ally Russia have that are semi-implicated in the war, with Russian assets that at the same time aren’t full-bloodied Russian state-troops, are Wagner in Belarus.

So, two nukes in Ukraine from Russia = two nukes on Wagner in Belarus.

sunbeam60 ,

I don’t think nuking Russia is unacceptable. I think the step beyond even a single nuke landing inside Russian borders will lead to doomsday annihilation for all. So if you’re going down that route, go 110% all out. There’s no point thinking we can contain Russia’s response. They will then respond by nuking a western NATO ally, or America itself. After that we’re in, feet first. So if we go down that route I’m saying we might as well start where we end up as that will maximise our chances of having some/any population surviving the exchange.

My suggestion to respond with a nuclear attack on Belarus is based on reciprocal response if Russia uses a nuclear weapon inside Ukraine. They bomb an ally of ours. We bomb an ally of theirs. Same yield, same count, same distance to Russian border to bring about same consequences on Russia.

The aim in this case would be to show that we will follow Russia up the nuclear ladder but that we don’t intend to START a nuclear holocaust.

sunbeam60 ,

Baldur’s Gate. That game blew me away.

Google is working on essentially putting DRM on the web (github.com)

The much maligned “Trusted Computing” idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is DEFINITELY NOT worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google’s ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google’s...

sunbeam60 ,

Hogwash. Running Fedora on closed source nvidia drivers with secure boot disabled.

sunbeam60 ,

Please help me understand why this is such a huge issue.

sunbeam60 ,

What does that even mean?! Yes it works for me. That’s the whole bloody point of saying it. Someone was saying “it won’t work for anyone” and I was saying “well it works for me”.

“We can’t land at the moon!” “Eh, we already have” “‘Works for me’, so that’s not really valid”

Head_scratch.gif

sunbeam60 ,

Man this debate is so US centric - as if there is only two choices: Unhinged, raging, exploitative, robber-baron capitalism OR Bolshevik Communism.

Typing this from one of the richest, strongest market economies in the world, which provides free health care, free education and generous e employment protections in the world. Everyone is happy, everyone is healthy, broadly, and capitalism exists next to a system of government that regulates to ensure the well-being of their citizens.

Social democracy people, it’s for real!!

sunbeam60 ,

Calckey was a bloody awful name because it was hard to say and difficult to know how to say.

Firefish fixes that but is honestly quite generic.

Either way, I wish them the best.

sunbeam60 ,

With great respect, and speaking as someone who has used both very extensively, I would argue Total Commander (on Windows) has got the upper hand of all those traditional NC clones.

What got you into selfhosting and what was the first thing that you hosted?

For me, it was PhotoPrism. I used to be an idiot, and used Google Photos as my gallery. I knew that it was terrible for privacy but was too lazy to do anything about it. When Google limited storage for free accounts, I started looking for alternatives. Tried out a lot of stuff, but ended up settling on PhotoPrism....

sunbeam60 ,

A desire to set up a permanent download station that could extremely securely and very automatically keep track of all the Linux distributions (eg I really want to make sure I try every version of Mint Linux and with various arr programs I could ensure that as soon as a new version of Mint shows up, I automatically download it and get it shown in an interface where I can try the new version of Mint Linux. Linux distributions - I just love them!!

sunbeam60 ,

Unfair. JMAP is a official IETF RFC, a working standard powering a very large mail email service, a modern, open move towards a sort of open ActiveSync.

Fastmail has done a lot of work on this, for free, and no one has a better suggestion, so it’s the state of the art.

sunbeam60 ,

Ah, yes, Turkey, the dependable ally which still hasn’t agreed to Sweden’s accession to NATO!

sunbeam60 , (edited )

All I’ve seen are words from Turkey. First the words were “we won’t accept Sweden”. Then the words were “we will accept Sweden”. Still Turkey has not officially accepted Sweden and Sweden is not yet a member. Erdogan says a lot. His actions is what I count.

sunbeam60 ,

Is there a good guide for Mastodon in Docker? I’ve followed a few but they all get stuck at various points.

sunbeam60 ,

My local pub is older than the USA.

Has anyone used or contributed to OpenStreetMap?

I’ve tried using it over the years but I never liked it because there was no information. So last night I looked at my local city and there is almost no information at all. I spent a few hours last night adding buildings and restaurants and removing incorrect items. It was actually kind of fun and therapeutic and I plan to do...

sunbeam60 ,

I don’t think the aim is necessarily to compete against commercial alternatives but rather to have a backstop/fallback if/when they fail.

Also don’t forget LOTS of commercial providers use OSM data for their mapping. So eventually a lot of the data does make it into people’s hands.

sunbeam60 ,

I would need JMAP support before I would consider a native email client again.

sunbeam60 ,

I know - it’s a chicken and egg thing.

sunbeam60 ,

As a Dane, I’d like to welcome our old brothers in arms! Scandinavia is whole!!

sunbeam60 ,

I know lots of people will disagree with me, but I personally think it’s madness and will drive most people to use threads.net instead of any other ActivityPub instance. Also threads.net isn’t even federating yet.

sunbeam60 ,

PhotoPrims’s video support isn’t great. It’s good, in that it supports HW transcoding, reasonably well, but bad in that it doesn’t support streaming (ie it converts the whole video to transmit format before it starts sending it for playback). So depending on the length of videos you intend to share, this might become annoying for you.

Plex does support streaming, ie playback while converting.

sunbeam60 ,

One thing I forgot to mention is that once the video is converted to transmit format in PhotoPrism it stays in the cache and plays immediately. So you’ll just ending up eating HD space, which may be acceptable.

Plex offers personal tags on media IIRC. I don’t use it though (tags, plex I do)

sunbeam60 ,

There’s some collective bargaining in that, though. “You lose this person, you lose all of these persons”.

sunbeam60 ,

Docker and a Synology NAS. Everything is accessed though a wireguard VPN.

sunbeam60 ,

Never realised it was more of an IDE. Great article.

Your thoughts about PWA on smartphones?

Telegram Web, wefwef and Outlook (for work) are doing a fantastic job running on my iPhone SE. Do you think PWA on mobile are the future? Developers could get around the 30% cut for in-App-purchases and publish apps not even allowed in large appstores. Companies could sell phones with alternate operating systems and their users...

sunbeam60 ,

Tbf wefwef is by FAR the best PWA I’ve seen. It feels native.

sunbeam60 ,

I hope you’re right. Everything was a lot more wild. You’d discover a blog through some link and feel like an adventurer explorer a blank part of the map. It was much more fun.

sunbeam60 ,

It’s the app ecosystem for plex that keeps me there. There’s an app for my LG tv, an app for my in-laws’ Roku etc.

sunbeam60 ,

Yeah this is what I don’t get. They already hold your most precious secrets and now you don’t trust them with a telemetry system?! Seems an odd order of concerns to me.

sunbeam60 ,

Despite my willingness to self-host almost everything, e-mail remains the last frontier for me. Keeping abreast of standards, keeping up today, avoiding implications in abuse and many, many smaller issues abound … and that’s despite my fixed IP and ISP willing to set up a reverse-DNS for me.

Instead I’ve gone with a paid email provider that I’m REALLY happy with.

sunbeam60 ,

Got 2 24/7 runners in my home:

  1. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server on a tiny Dell Optiplex 7000 server (Intel 12700T), strapped under my desk, hosting everything in docker:
  • Plex
  • *arrs, on top of a Gluetun container for privacy
  • QBittorrent, to download big files, like … eh … linux distributions
  • NginX Proxy Manager
  • PhotoPrism (I subscribe, it’s awesome, cannot recommend it enough)
  • Portainer, as a management interface
  • Wireguard VPN server, to enable me to get into my LAN and prevent having to expose anything to the public internet.
  • Watchtower, for keeping things up to date.
  1. A Synology 718+ with 10 TB in a a dual SHR RAID.
  • PhotoPrism storage
  • Plex media storage

In addition, I’m hosting a couple of Wireguard VPS in the US and a Nordic country to give me access to regional content (I pay for a few regional services through friends living there - i.e. they pay monthly and I pay them yearly for an account on a region-locked service) - not sure if that counts as “self-hosting” :)

sunbeam60 ,

Ahh the old whataboutisms come out.

sunbeam60 ,

Ok.

Let’s be real about this for a second.

You are implying that the media in the US is as state controlled and state supporting as the media in China and therefore that neither is more true than the other, merely a viewpoint. Is that actually what you’re saying?

sunbeam60 ,

I don’t read very much US news. A bit of WP and occasionally CNN, but it’s certainly not where I get my news from. I don’t live in the US FWIW.

You still haven’t answered my question: Do you believe that the US press and the Chinese press is both lying to the same extent? Do you believe the US and Chinese press are in service of the state to the same extent?

I’m not disputing the press is influenced in the US. You keep speaking in absolutes though … I’m speaking about degrees. So let’s compare degrees, instead of saying “influenced” or “free” as some absolute binary measures.

sunbeam60 ,

We must live in two different worlds. If your view is that the Chinese media is more objective than the US media, I simply don’t think we have a basis for finding any consensus. I no longer know what to say. Have a good day and wish you the best.

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