• 2 Posts
  • 817 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: October 24th, 2023

help-circle
  • “You can set up your own email server at home, for fun!”

    – The 90’s, Probably.

    Lol. I’m kinda sad I missed out on that expressive time of making websites when I was growing up. You’re right, now everything is very homogenized and there’s a billion botswarms just waiting for you to be 3 seconds late to a security update so they can zombify your site for…

    (Flips papers) Crypto somehow… it’s always crypto.

    Internet crime isn’t even cool anymore. Lol






  • Our ancestors didn’t defy kings, battle their own wayward countrymen, charge trenches, and rush fortified beaches headlong into the jaws of death. . .

    . . .for. This. Whatever the disgraceful hell this is.

    About now, every real patriot for what’s good about this country should feel a profound and gnawing agony at every passing day these monsters aren’t held to account and rendered incapable of further harm to humanity, whatever form that would take.

    We need to make it loud and clear that if “the other team” in places of power doesn’t use every single tool at their disposal to end this threat IMMEDIATELY, they are complicit fools and will be held accountable as accomplices to whatever untold horrors would await us, should we refuse to hold the line.



  • The good thing about YOUR homelab is that YOU’RE taking notes solely for YOURSELF and only YOU know how YOU work and how YOU organize YOUR thoughts.

    Normally I’d agree, in that it’s not some corporate production environment, but also I personally want to document my self hosted setup in a kind of document that can at least be accessed and understood by my closest family, if something were to happen to me.

    Convincing them to archive stuff on my Nextcloud instance for example, and them losing access because I’m not around, temporarily or permanently, would spoil the whole point of the endeavor.







  • Y’know when things were relatively less crazy with Russia, I remember lotsa military fiction (or maybe just Modern Warfare 1 idk) using "Russian Ultranationalists " as the “never-ending military bad guy goon-squad terrorist faction” that’s okay to fight and kill in an entertainment product while still saying “Any resemblance is coincidental.”

    …My point is that the highest offices of the U.S are controlled by a US “ultranationalist” terrorist goon squad faction. They’re such ridiculously overt bad guys that they’d be considered too outlandish for a Michael Bay movie.

    …and everybody’s like “Oh my! So shocking! Well, you know, this is just politics.”

    They just don’t want to believe that a violent fringe cult is right there in front of them, ransacking and demolishing centuries of progress.

    They must be stopped or they won’t stop.




  • Y’know…this. I might not like it, and many of their choices are… questionable…

    …but I think it’s good we have some effort coming from full-time career paid Linux developers, rather than just sponsorship money from FOSS-leeches like “mEtA” and “aMaZoN.”

    By simply not using Ubuntu, and ignoring the MOTD on my VM servers…I don’t really feel affected by their actions in any meaningful way. And that makes me happy.

    As opposed to having to just accept whatever new footgun Microsoft wants to blast users with next.



  • I can’t imagine writing something like that. Job security? Hah, I’d end up in an inescapable labyrinth of my own making if I named things something that wouldn’t be obvious to my 3-months-later self!

    Maybe that’s the play: He intentionally confuses himself so it takes extra paid time to remember what the heck “SOISOISOI” does, compared to “Whopwhopwhop”.