CosmicTurtle @ CosmicTurtle @lemmy.world

Due to lemmy.world blocking pirating communities, I will now be using !Cosm

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One side of the political spectrum has proven that they are willing to kill to get what they want.

Not sure how it will turn out but there's already bloodshed.

The question is how much bloodshed are we willing to see before we do something about it.

Troubleshooting I could see being in discord. But it shouldn't be the only option.

I got the feeling this is mostly niche stuff or very new developers that don't have GitHub experience.

You can integrate GitHub issues with discord. I imagine similar integrations exist with gitlab

I haven't seen this either. OP, you got a link? I'd love to see what kind of software is doing this.

It shouldn't be done at all. If you're updating discord, you're writing something. That something should be, at the bare minimum, in a README file.

If you can't be bothered with Markdown, just do text.

I've never encountered this in the wild so I can't say for certain why a FOSS project would choose to do this.

Maybe they are trying to get more people on their server?

The vast majority of my open source projects, I'm the only user. I release it open source because back in the day, GitHub only allowed open source projects if you want to use it.

But another reason is the hope that someone will find it helpful. If not the project itself but maybe the code.

I have one project that has a significant following and honestly it's sometimes very scary because I might not want to keep it updated because of my own interests changing.

Rodent Shakespeare

RIF had a great feature that you could block posts by topic. I added I think it was "Pet Loss" and immediately the problem disappeared.

I really need this feature in lemmy

Remember it's not about being perfect. It's about making the next right decision. So long as you do that, you'll be fine.

I don't understand how the immigrant caravan magically disappears the Wednesday after election day. It's like they start making their way to the border the January of an election year and then poof they are gone after the polls close.

Honestly, it's the story of conservatives literally everywhere.

Conservatives in UK: We want all of the benefits of being in the EU but not pay as much into it as those other countries, use our own money.

EU: SIGH Fine!

(Later)

Conservatives in UK: We want out! We can't stand the fact that non-white people can enter our country whenever they like. And we don't want refuges.

EU: Fine!

(Later, after brexit)

Conservatives: why can't we just travel to Europe like we used to?

"Not like that! I want all of the privilege but none of the responsibility. Why are you being so unreasonable?!"

• Republicans

Not sure if these instructions work. First result from Google.

You have to set up a proxy.

Even for those who are technical enough to set up a pihole, it's annoying to set up a proxy and some apps simply won't work with it.

It reminds me of the interview that Jordon Klepper did with MAGA voters in 2016.

MAGA woman: A woman can't be president! If she has a hot flash or gets emotional, she could start a war!

Jordon: Haven't all wars been started by men?

MAGA woman: pause

Given the determined nature of the MAGA party, I honestly wouldn't put it past them.

I'm not saying it's easy or even likely. I'm just saying it's possible. None of what I said should discourage anyone from voting by mail.

Remember that the long term goal of the alt right is to make seem voting illegitimate so that they can just install whomever they want.

Discrediting mail-in voting is just one part of their campaign.

Multiple studies have shown that mail-in ballots have a very very low incidence of fraud and does not favor any particular party. That said, I'm going to put on my black hat for a moment.

1. Voter registration doesn't always involve a signature. It can be done online in many jurisdictions. So point 3 doesn't always work.
2. Voter registration doesn't always confirm your address, because homeless people are permitted to vote.
3. Mail Forwarding can be set up by a third party, without your consent. Ballots can be then be forwarded to someone wanting to vote on your behalf.
4. When setting up absentee voting, you can specify an address unaffiliated with your actual address.
5. Mail-in ballots can be intercepted before voting takes places or before they are picked up by a postal worker. Ballots can be intercepted at the post office prior to final delivery.
6. Coerced voting can occur if someone is able to influence someone else's vote.

With the exception of point 5, at the end of the day, you're changing one vote with the penalty being a felony and prison time. And it's absolutely a lot of work. So if I were trying to change the results of the election, the best place to do it would be as a postal employee that delivers to the registrar.

Again, the rate in which voter fraud happens is so low, this should be a non-issue. Does it happen? Yes. And the last few election cycles, it's been performed by people in the party screaming voter fraud, who have been caught.

I subscribed to pro with a throwaway email so I'm okay with it generally speaking.

But 5 instances is not enough, not even for home personal use. If you're running VMs for other tasks, you quickly hit this limit.

• Ubuntu desktop
• kubuntu VM for yarr
• xubuntu VM for testing questionable programs
• Ubuntu on raspberry pi
• Ubuntu in AWS

I donate to Ubuntu annually but I'm at the point of foregoing that donation if I need to subscribe to their subscription model.

If the attack was carried out over one IP address, they should have been able to detect it.

There is no real reason why 7 million different accounts access the site from one location.

I don't know how sophisticated the attack was but the future threat is instead of DDOS attacks would be distributed ACCESS attacks where millions of controlled devices attack a site with known credentials to download small bits of information over time. Even better if you can work out ahead of time the account's general location and then assign devices in the area to access that account.

Yup. I used ansible for a good year, maybe two, and found myself asking, "Why the fuck am I maintaining some abstract thing when I can just write a shell script and deploy that?"

Cloud orchestration is better done with other tooling. Honestly don't see a use case for ansible beyond physical data center deployments.

Unironicly yes.