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The Stoned Hacker @ erev @lemmy.world
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  • I also tend to be a bit long winded. I enjoy using a diverse diction and try to maintain some grammatical consistency. Neither of those things are well expressed on short-text platforms. Like even this comment feels too long for Twitter or Mastodon.

  • Glad to hear! It's a lot I won't lie, but I look forward to it. I finally have everything i need in place.

  • I want more control than those platforms offer me. I also want to separate out a lot of components like dns and other stuff. I want to more deeply integrate it into my existing infrastructure. And my current mail server was built before a lot of my now backbone infrastructure. It's time to retire the server and replace it with what I need now. They're VPS so i don't feel bad, that's part of the point. I have a harder time retiring actual hardware

  • Thanks, all of that was stuff I had learned years ago and forgot. Thanks for helping jog my memory!

  • Chiming in as another email self hoster; yes it comes with headaches but I can't imagine it any other way. I use Mailinabox but am working on migrating over to the ISPMail setup. I don't think that there's any issues with self hosting mail and we need to stop discouraging it. There AIO solutions genuinely work well. If you're concerned about stability then hold updates back until you can confirm that the newer versions are stable. Yes it is difficult and I don't think most people should do it, but self hosters should be encouraged to do so if they feel capable and willing to take on the workload. We need more diversity in email hosting to prevent making it impossible. I also have no issues sending to large providers like gmail and the builtin nextcloud Integra is really nice. Unsure I'll rebuild nextcloud but i might.

  • They also denote etymology differently. I learned (3 years of high school japanese, got to like a 1st graders level if that but i did learn a lot) that hiragana is used for words that were originally Japanese, while katakana is used for words adopted from other languages. That's why you see English translated into katakana, not hiragana. Iirc, kanji might've also come before wither hiragana or katakana, and unlike Chinese there is a way to understand kanji based off of its original components (there's a name for them I can't remember)

  • I think maintainability has a lot to do with it as well, and what you consider maintainable. I see a lot of interesting setups on here but some of the bigger ones I'm iffy about because authentication or some other critical, lower level protocol is outsourced. To some that sounds great and is easily maintained, but I don't personally consider those super maintainable or sustainable for my setups. I prefer to take the greybeard method and do it all myself. As such, when time comes to do maintenance yeah I have more burden on myself but it's a burden that I explicitly put on myself and that I enjoy.

  • inb4 shitty person makes a shitty comment: you can be against anti-Semitism while also being against Zionism. Not supporting bigotry does not mean i support ethnostates.

  • There's a very common anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that a Jewish cabal runs the world from the shadows and manipulates/is the world elite.

    There are a lot of ways to disprove this but I think the easiest is to just look at the world currently: there is a "cabal" that "runs the world", but no they are not all Jews nor are they secretly plotting all the bad things to happen. Really it's a disparate set of individuals and organizations that have their own goals and agendas but who all have a shared, vested interest in maintaining the status quo and it's trajectory. And some are in contact or proximity with others, but it isn't usually some massive overarching "world order". Yes you do see the individuals or organizations conspiring together, but it isn't some massive syndicate. It's people with shared interests trying to utilize every advantage they can. Or they just shoot the shit, who knows. My point is that while there are "shadowy" figures at the top who hold important positions of power, wealth, influence, and status, they're just people and groups trying to maximize on their opportunities, as is the unfettered nature of capitalism. And no they aren't all Jews.

  • I agree with your controversial take, however it's important to note that a lot of this fascist rhetoric relies on misinformation which is spread far quicker and further than the truth. And the neofascism that has taken hold is very in-group oriented (i.e. the concepts that the in group is by definition morally virtuous and thus can do no real harm, whereas the out-group is the opposite) which is difficult to break down with logic and rhetoric. That's not to say it can't be done, but in terms of conversion (purely as a metric, i don't mean to be oberly reductionist) it will always be one step forward three back. And if they people don't approach a conversation in good faith it can be downright impossible to get them to even fathom a differing perspective. What I'm saying is that the new breed of fascists rely solely on dogma and groupthink, and have been trained to reject any rebuttal or outside perspective. They took what the old fascists did well and optimized it and trained people in it for the past 70+ years.

  • Yeah before getting my current laptop I looked into the Linux compatibility. I went Thinkpad though this time and it honestly works amazingly. I can't use all the features (fingerprint mostly) but thats moreso because my setup doesn't have any way to rather than support not existing. And biometric ID can be less than useless when used as the sole security measure, such as unlocking your phone with your fingerprint. If someone wants the data on that device bad enough, they now have a means to get it.

    And in response to XKCD 538, good luck getting me to clearly say my complicated ass password correctly after being beaten lmao. If I could I probably would

  • Not unstable nor unreliable, just a bit buggy. Every so often you gotta do a quick qq to exit and wait up to 5 minutes for it to let go of the ram. On occasion I've had to terminate the process as it was doing something wacky.

  • Yeah i only get near 100% when I'm doing a lot of virtualization or running nyx for a long time since there's a memory leak in there.

  • well obviously as the treat distributor, you skim a treat off for yourself. And as the treat deliverer you get one too. As the treat consumer, you already are getting your treat. and the corruption and embezzlement only expands from there. soon you're consuming entire bags at a time but you need to keep the system fed. everyone has more and more mouths to put cookies in. eventually the system will need to collapse.

  • Come to Chicago. Rent is fucked I won't lie, but you can still find some cheap places. Depending on what you do (or are willing to do) there's plenty of work here. Our city is a far cry from perfect but we have a mayor who actually has the people's best interests in mind, we're politically active and quite progressive, there aren't enough free community resources but far more than most places, we have multiple forms of slightly shitty but fully functional mass transit, and weed is legal. Also, portions of the city are extremely walkable and bikeable.

  • I disagree for one reason.

    My uncle was being homophobic and transphobic so I started to misgender him so he could see what its like.

    Unsure if he's less bigoted now but he definitely got quite upset and it made the point to everyone else around at least.

  • that's what im questioning. if he was a more flamboyant queer person would people have laughed it off? based on the comments i suspect they would have. it's the fact he was "aggressive"; which i agree he may have been a bit forward and i wouldn't recommend opening like that but he was also mostly respectful when rejected. I don't think he's trying to hurt anyone nor was anyone in any danger, he just probably knows the type of people he likes and they probably know him.

  • Yeah I agree he came on strong but it seems that's his vibe in the scene and he was mostly respectful when rejected. i think some people's biases are showing

  • I agree with your points. I just want to add that what OP was talking about is that the existence of a deity or higher power is not falsifiable and thus is impossible to logically disprove. I'm sure many, many, many people have tried on both sides.

    My favorite proof against any higher power is from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:

    Now, it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some have chosen to see it as the final proof of the NON-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:

    "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

    "But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that You exist, and so therefore, by Your own arguments, You don't. QED."

    "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

    "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

    Edit: changes "logically prove" to "logically disprove" as that's why the concept of a higher power cannot be disproven.

  • I accept your logic and see the error of my ways. Thank you.