Sure ok. I’m not going to defend my parents behavior, but I will point out that this type of thing is probably more prevalent than you think.

When half the world are “idiots” you have to wonder what is supporting that attitude.

It’s anti-intellectualism, which arises from being treated like idiots by intellectuals.

I don’t think we’re conditioned to respect others beliefs, rather we’re conditioned to ignore them provided that they’re not harming others.

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about anti-vax “wellness” bs over the last few weeks because a colleague is has been in my face about their “beliefs”, and I have a chronic illness whereby common illnesses like colds and influenza can be a big deal for me.

The thing is, it’s all fun and games until it’s not.

For example, my parents are in their 80s and they’re big into alternative therapies. Like they don’t want a covid vaccination but they’ll take a course of ivermectin. They don’t want to take prescribed diabetes medicine but they’ll take Cinnamon or whatever other woo-woo they’ve seen on facebook. However, when they think they might be having a stroke it’s straight up to the emergency department at the hospital for some science based life saving medical intervention. It’s amazing to me that they don’t acknowledge the discrepancy in their behavior.

It’s easy to dismiss mRNA vaccines because of the prevention paradox. Because lock downs and vaccines worked so well, it seems like the underlying problem wasn’t that much of a problem. Sure there are some legit risks with the vaccines but they’re much better than the alternative of an unvaccinated population.

Since covid, I haven’t been able to shake the feeling that another pandemic is just around the corner. If something more serious and deadly than covid arises people will be scrambling all over each other to inject anything that purports to reduce the likelihood of infection.

He also has a super annoying voice.

… and he looks like he’s wearing someone elses face.

People paying reddit aren’t training their models by scraping the web ui.

The original comments are still in the database, which is what you’d pipe into an LLM.

It does and it doesn’t.

Think of it like, there’s dozens of different ways to get your location data, and maybe 90% of people will be exposed by one or other method.

This is an amazing idea.

I’m sure manufacturers will have e their new supply chains and manufacturing plants ready to go in a few weeks.

I don’t use tailscale or gluetun. They’re probably good options I just wasn’t aware of them when I was setting up and what I’m doing now has worked great for years.

My home server has 4 containers you’re interested in:

wireguard_out

this is a wireguard instance which is connected to a mullvad server on a paid subscription.

For any containers I want to “use this vpn” I just attach them to this container’s stack. it’s one of the network options in docker. Notably these containers include qbittorrent and squid (below).

Wireguard configurations look unapproachable at first but it’s one of those things where messing around with it for an hour or so will serve you well for a lifetime. There’s not heaps more to learn. LLMs are great at writing wireguard configurations.

squid

This is a http proxy attached to the wireguard_out stack. You didn’t ask about this and may not need it but I’ve found it super useful.

One of the private torrent trackers I use will only let your torrent client connect to the tracker from the same IP address you used to download the torrent file - so when browsing their website you need to use the vpn connection. Using squid makes this really easy.

In firefox (librewolf) I have foxyproxy addon which allows you to specify a proxy to use for specific urls. So when I navigate to mytracker.com firefox automatically routes the connection through squid > wireguard > mullvad on my server.

wireguard_in

This handles my “road warrior” set up so I can access services on my home server while I’m away.

This container has a separate docker network to most of my other containers, in the ip subnet 10.0.2.0/24.

traefik

this is a reverse proxy

it’s on the same network as wireguard_in with the ip address 10.0.2.2

I’ve configured a public dns “A” record *.home.mydomain.com to point to 10.0.2.2, the private ip address.

The configurations I use for the wireguard connections on my phone or other devices only route requests for this subnet through the wireguard connection. so if I’m away from home and my phone requests lemmy.world that goes through the public network, but if I request photon.home.mydomain.com that goes through my vpn. This way you don’t need to turn off / on the wireguard connection.

I use file based configurations for traefik. It can do docker label configurations but they’re just awful IMO. The yaml configurations are much more readable and manageable.

As an aside, you can replicate this structure many times on one host. I have several incoming wireguard networks for different purposes. You configure the traefik container to sit across all the networks, like a spider at the centre of a web.

A well crafted and witty retort indeed. Well done.

Yeah, you’re right in that wealthy people are heavily motivated to capture the value provided by new technologies.

However, I don’t think that’s always the case.

Roof top solar is one example. Really high rates of adoption here in Australia. The cost of the equipment has reduced dramatically and it’s a bit silly not to install at this point. It’s good for the planet and it reduces costs for individuals and families of all kinds.

Food production is another one. Yes a lot of farms are owned by large corporations, but a lot of farms are also family operations. If they make more food they make more money and secondary industries can charge farmers more money. In my area this agricultural production is the primary industry and although there might be $100k people in my city almost all employment is in supporting industries, whether that’s maintaining equipment, transporting goods, financial services, et cetera. While there’s always some concentration of wealth it doesn’t seam particularly problematic for the moment.

I don’t really know anything about this but it’s possible that in the future you’ll be able to make synthetic meats at home in a bioreactor.

I guess I’m just saying that while I agree the implications of climate change are bleak, emerging technologies might mitigate the impact on human-kind to some extent.

Firstly, free anything sounds very un-american.

More generally though, that doesn’t really solve the problem.

People living in poverty often just don’t have the time, access, and / or mental acuity to attend to this type of personal administration stuff.

If you’re living hand-to-mouth, it’s just not a priority… you can’t eat your ID.

If you don’t have a home it may be difficult to obtain an ID, and if you have one it might be difficult to keep it.

Because it’s a barrier to voting that disproportionately disadvantages poor people.

Don’t bother. This guy doesn’t live in your reality.

nostr

I guess it’s subjective.

Sure, climate change is starting to have an impact and more people might die due to malnutrition which is related.

My predictions within 5 years are something like :

• intensifying weather events like floods, storms, cyclones / hurricanes, to a point where insurance becomes a real unavoidable problem, putting trillions of dollars of real estate at risk.
• intensifying weather events like droughts where some traditionally viable agricultural areas no longer are, maybe a 10% reduction of arable land in any given region.
• localised famine events generating a few hundred thousand climate change refugees per year.
• increasing commercial interest in arable land in regions less likely to be impacted, farm values doubling in some areas
• increasing political interest in arable land in these same regions, with escalating political tension

I think societal collapse is still a decade away at least. However, the poor and impoverished are certainly going to start to feel the burn.

On the one hand I have a left leaning progressive mind set and have with young children - I’m heavily motivated to try to change our trajectory. On the other hand I’m 43 years old and I don’t remember a period where people weren’t predicting societal collapse in 5 years.

Climate change is bad. Mass extinctions, severe weather events, and famine, are all a certainty in the coming years. However, this needs to be balanced by technological advancements that are going to mitigate the effects. Just as an example, we can produce more food from less land than ever in history.

I’d never heard of the XY Problem before.

I get it - big opportunity to waste lots of time.

However, while I’ve never posted a question on stack overflow or similar, a common complaint is that it’s a toxic community because of responses related to this problem - a user asks about X and is accused of asking about Y and most responses undermine the premise being question Z.

I have been fiddling with trying to build a Dockerfile and container

I disagree.

I dont think its particularly likely there will be famines in the next 5 years or so on a scale that can’t be countered by aid.

Sure, economies might start to feel some very serious consequences, shit might start to get very real, I just dont think we’re quite at the point where people start dying.

I’m sure most plugs have identical features.

I love watching politicians try to understand the internet.

VPNs have loads of vanilla use cases.

It would be infinitely more productive to regulate the predatory practices of stream providers and reduce the incentive for piracy.

Thats a generalisation.

It depends what the objective of your protest is.

Obviously people standing outside a politicians house with a sign are ineffective, thats just not how politics works.

Obviously large scale protests aren’t going to make Trump change his ways or resign.

However, I think large scale protests might activate a lot of apathetic people, and get them connected.

America doesn’t need Trump to resign and Vance to take over. You need societal change. You need your population to realise that your trajectory is pretty awful and that it doesn’t have to be.