wagesj45

wagesj45 , 4 months ago

This is important. I dunno about scale, but backups. I started out hosting a chat room on a raspberry pi. It was a fun side project. But then, that became where my friends all hung out. That was the place, so it became important to me. And then the SD card got corrupted. I then moved on to a consumer laptop. It was way more stable, much faster. But if I messed up anything about the installation, I was hosed.

I very highly suggest using Proxmox, like you say, and setting up automatic backups. And occasionally transfer them to a hard drive. It doesn't matter what kind of virtual CPUs or services you install, [email protected], as long as you have a plan for when something you host becomes important to you and you lose it.

wagesj45 , 4 months ago

Good news.

wagesj45 , 4 months ago

Fair. The rest of the site is a lot more normal. More being a relative term, of course.

wagesj45 , 4 months ago

What makes you think that?

wagesj45 , 4 months ago

Just like we drew it up.

wagesj45 , 4 months ago

And hundreds of thousands of years of evolution pre-training the base model that their experience was layered on top of.

wagesj45 , 4 months ago

Proxmox on physical servers hosting a variety of vanilla Debian installations. I have a physical router running pfsense as well as two HP miniservers running OpenMediaVault.

wagesj45 , 4 months ago

That's never stopped us before.

wagesj45 , 4 months ago

The Taliban would like a word.

wagesj45 , 4 months ago

Which is exactly why the US isn't going to carpet bomb their own territory. One, ruling over a rubble-laden wasteland isn't very appealing. Destroying your own infrastructure isn't good for GDP. Two, soldiers are going to have a lot harder time bombing their own homeland, regardless of how well trained they are.

wagesj45 , 4 months ago

So then the citizenry and army would be fighting on equal footing then and the "we have all the guns here in Texas" argument goes back to making sense. Either the US uses their overwhelming military power or not, you can't choose both.

wagesj45 , 4 months ago

I'm saying that if you rely on having F-16 fighter jets and drones dropping bombs, you're arguing for wholesale destruction. If you don't rely on fighter jets and bombing raids, that means you're fighting a ground war against insurgents that are more or less equally armed, assuming they have weapons like AR-15s.

My point is that cruise missiles don't solve every problem; namely armed local insurgencies. What kind of third use-of-force scenario are you imagining?

wagesj45 , 4 months ago

And things have changed quite a bit since the civil war. We have a very interconnected country and world. Airplanes exist now. Nuclear submarines and cruise missiles. The destructive power of our weapons has increased ten fold. And we have instant access to 24/7 new media. I don't think we have the appetite for such a thing in this day and age. Not to mention how any number of hostile nations would be foaming at the mouth looking forward to us having our guard down.

wagesj45 , 4 months ago

Anything is possible I guess, even if I personally wouldn't bet money on it. Then again I'm just a guy and no one in power is gonna ask my opinion. They very well may surprise me and bomb Jethrow's compound or downtown Houston.

My original flippant response was triggered from the ease with which people think the US military is some unstoppable force and the Republicans that do this nonsense would easily be put down. I think it is a lot more complicated than that and no course of action would be easy and painless. That's wishful thinking on behalf of us lefties.

wagesj45 , 4 months ago

You're probably right, and I used overly broad language. I'm sure there would be targeted strikes. But any strike against infrastructure would be what I would consider a Big Deal™. Everything is so interconnected now that taking out the power grid, for example, would wreak havoc on all the innocent civilians in the area. Just look at how shit hit the fan when Texas lost power in the winter.

I just think it would be a much more complicated situation than either argument of "we have all the guns, libruls" or "we have Predator drones, conservatard". I'm used to conservatives making stupid arguments. It bothers me more when I see my side do it.

But hey, maybe I'm the idiot and it would all work out with targeted strikes. That's why I'm just some guy on the internet and not a general in the Army or whatever.

wagesj45 , 4 months ago

Do you actually figure that the remainder of the military which doesn’t turn traitor is gonna be outnumbered by the seceding traitors in this civil war scenario?

Not at all.

Did you also account for the metric fuckton of able bodied people who would enlist during an open war to stomp out Fascism at home in the open like that?

I'm sure there would a lot more than fascists willing to actually fight.

It would absolutely lead to much blood shed on both sides.

That was my actual point. Not that New Texas has any chance of actually winning.

wagesj45 , 5 months ago

The problems I've had with my RPis have all revolved around the fragility of their SD storage. I got burned one too many times trying to host something important in my house with these things, just for them to get corrupted and lose everything. Backing up these systems was its own nightmare, which failed as much as it succeeded.

wagesj45 , 5 months ago

Unfortunately it inevitable. If a publicly traded company exists, it will have to extract more and more and more until this kind of rent-seeking model happens. And if a company is private, it will eventually go public. And even if you truly believe in a company's owner to not sell out, eventually they will die and the company will go public or get sold. Eventually, money always wins.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

That Einstein guy sounds pretty smart.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

Cape is cape. [mr_incredible_pounding_table_meme.jpg]

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

If they could force you to pay a royalty every time you so much as thought of a book you once read, they'd do it in a heartbeat.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

Don't get me wrong, I love it here in Minnesota. I consider it my adoptive home. But house prices are at least double what they are in my home state of Kentucky. Maybe 2.5 or approaching 3x. I suppose it is doable if you get a job, there is no chance my parents could sell their home there and move here to retire and get anything approaching the size and quality they have there.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

Not a bad idea, and I've been keeping an eye out. Unfortunately they have hobbies that require space, e.g. a fishing boat, a trailer camper, and a truck big enough to haul both. They'd be fine with a smaller living space, but it's hard to find a smaller house on enough land to park/store that stuff. Luckily I have many years before it will become necessary to have them close. :)

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

And failing for as hard as they're trying. They may lose a few seats here and there, but not in the numbers they "should" because the Dems can't help but fumble the ball. You can decide for yourself whether that's purposeful or by accident. I can never make my mind up.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

Tomato, tomato, as far as they're concerned.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

Judging by the crash test videos of the Cybertruck, this does not surprise me in the least. Why make cars safe when you could just not save some money?

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

why tf they weren’t getting arrested

Because being an asshole isn't illegal in America. And you wouldn't want it to be, either.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

Can't prosecute people for what they think or want, only what they do. And again, you wouldn't want that to be the case.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

I usually hate being downvoted; it makes me feel dumb. But this is one of those opinions I'm very confident in, so I'll live with downvotes.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

Those things are bad and that shouldn't be a law.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

That is certainly a way to do it, but I don't think limiting public expression is good. Bad things done with noble intent are still bad things.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

what’s the upside

That all groups are equally protected under the law, whether you like them or not. I'm sure AIPAC would love to designate supporting the liberation of Palestine a hate crime. I'm sure that corporate lobbyists would love to designate unions as a violent and disruptive organizations.

Would you defend the rise of ISIS in the US for the same reasons

If they are committing concrete acts of violence, no. If they rise as a political body, then yes.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

I don't have to support a group's actions to still believe they have the same human rights of freedom of speech and thought that others do. There's a reason that human rights apply to everyone, even prisoners. Even monsters. Stripping away fundamental rights from the "right" people is not a moral stance.

I defend their human rights for the same reason I defend yours.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

And I would argue that if these ideas are gaining any kind of foothold broadly, the rest of the citizenry is abjectly failing to meet their social obligations. Society doesn't get to just coast; we all have to be out there every day expressing and pushing for what society should be. Make the public square so full of good ideas that the fringe ass holes are drowned out.

And the harassment that you describe is possible because too many of us don't engage and make clear by our actions and speech what isn't socially acceptable.

It is an uncomfortable idea that the rise in authoritarianism around the world is somehow our fault. No snowflake and avalanches and all that. But if we are sleepwalking into a world where garbage in the public square isn't fought against by overwhelming numbers of people, we kind of get what we deserve as a whole and everyone suffers, especially those that are disadvantaged. We are responsible.

And no, it is not good enough to simply hand over the responsibility to "fix" this to the state-sanctioned-violence branch and your local paramilitary police force. The hearts of men can't be legislated away; they must be won. With hard work and public display. And if we try to coast and just "keep it out of the public" these ideologies will definitely fester in private.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

I don't know what you want from me man. To say nazis are bad? No shit, that's obvious.

You ask where I draw the line. Between actions and ideas. I can't make this any more clear.

Nazi held a sign at a protest? Shitty, but not illegal.

Nazi hurts someone? Illegal.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

Surely you don’t propose atomising response to the individual level

I do.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

Death threats too?

Criminal threats are typically actionable. They indicate a concrete act is intended.

Shouting fire in a crowded theater?

A famously incorrect example of unprotected speech. It actually is protected speech, it's just a catchy phrase that people never seem to look into beyond a surface level.

it’s unfathomable to me that anyone would defend it

Because at least half of the country I live in would love nothing more to apply these same ideas of restricting the flow of ideas and speech to me. To their mind, my liberal lefty atheistic ideals are diametrically opposed to their world view. To their understanding of the world, I'm actively making the world a worse place just by being in it. I have actively benefited from the freedom of thought and speech that I support while growing up in a deep red and deeply religious small town.

What you should be asking yourself is why these abhorrent ideas get any traction at all. The public square should be filled with good ideas. Put your ideas out for how to make society better. Put out your critique and world view. The speech you hate so much should be drowned out by all the good speech. The fact that it's not, and has garnered any sort of appeal points to a failure on society's part, writ large. We have an obligation to push society forward and be proactive in guiding society where we want it to go. Like I said in another comment, the hearts of men can't be legislated away; they have to be won.

We clearly have different philosophies on the value of freedom of thought. I don't think we're going to get anywhere with this.

wagesj45 , 6 months ago

No, I don't think so.

wagesj45 , 7 months ago

You mean Chromium Brave Edition?

wagesj45 , 7 months ago

It's always a matter of degrees. The bigger the injustice, the more violence is justified to rectify it. It is in the disproportionality, in my view, where the problem arises.

Never forget that humans are just barely evolved apes. Sometimes a swift knock to the head is required to activate those neural pathways to discourage anti-social behavior. Not always, but also not never. Claiming otherwise is just self-aggrandizing moralization that people use to make themselves sound and feel superior.

wagesj45 , 7 months ago

This has amused me. Thank you for the amusement.

wagesj45 , 7 months ago

their pumps were constantly vandalized
good. as they should be.

wagesj45 , 7 months ago

Wikipedia just summarizes the primary sources.

Technically, I think they only allow primary sources to be referenced if supported by a secondary source. They have weird and complex rules around that,

wagesj45 , 7 months ago

You're right, but what would the internet be without a little pedantry and ignoring the point of the post? :D

wagesj45 , 8 months ago

I think it is more likely that its a result of an AI translation that just got it wrong.

wagesj45 , 8 months ago

Come on man, use some critical thinking and context here. He clearly is not saying that cars some kind of an issue here. He was making an idle point about traffic jams in the US with hurricane evacuations and how that doesn't apply in this situation. He's not even making a value judgement on anything here.

wagesj45 , 8 months ago

FYI, Publii is really good. It supports importing existing WordPress blogs and has a familiar interface. Great for those that don't need built in comments and can use something like Cactus (if you like Matrix).

wagesj45 , 8 months ago

And the article is making the case explicitly that this is bad. He is saying that 9/11 brought about terrible actions from us and that we should learn lessons and not repeat our mistakes. He's actually trying to convince the reader that we should not "swallow" another genocide.