ninjan @ ninjan @lemmy.mildgrim.com

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The stickied posts get a bit weird and I've experienced them staying wrong until new ones are set. But this was last summer, unsure if it works better now or not.

The only thing I find concerning is the post "feedback on design and Firewall options" which you don't have and really should have unless there's something odd with that specific post. I have noted some issues with federating content from kbin/mastodon etc users but I saw that post on my self-hosted Lemmy instance...

Foreign Legion 2.0

• Takes time and effort or you need to create an organization that handles it for you, maybe they should hold elections? Oh, wait, now we've created privately owned/financed shadow governments...
• People will always bitch and moan about it either being the wrong thing, not enough, only for the press etc etc so doing it won't help them in the slightest. Whereas being taxed will at least take heat off in the form of the specific campaigning that has been ongoing for many years now.
• It won't be as well utilized as if the government gets it to distribute. Now this is a contentious statement of course but a private individual no matter how rich can't give their money the legs the government can which already has the costly structure to dispense it in place. For a specific purpose a specific organisation might vastly outperform the government of course but if you generally want it to benefit the population of your nation then taxes is the best system we have to ensure it benefits all as much as possible. And the most fair in that we can vote for how it should be used.

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This said I still believe it's firmly for selfish reasons they want to be taxed more:

• Reduce the mentioned heat on them
• Better wealth distribution help create more of the circumstances that got them this wealth, i.e. it's a sound long term investment.
• Most of them have kids and they see how fucked they will be if societal and environmental problems aren't solved
• Most have wealth tied up in assets that will lose value if things get more skewed, if noone can afford a house they will lose value until they are "affordable", as a basic example.

Oh look it's one of those rare instances where the truth really is somewhere in the middle (and not massively skewed to one side) of the two opposing sides. And that's because both sides are so unimaginably horrible, yay...

The only downright true thing in there is the statement about hypocrisy regarding condemning civilian deaths during Oct 7 but accepting the massive civilian deaths during Israels occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. It really is crazy how some think Oct 7 was inexcusable for the civilian deaths but somehow the thousands upon thousands of dead kids is just "the awful realities of war" and hand-waved away as unavoidable.

Wow, that's one hell of a naive mind-set. He basically bet it all on red and since it paid of he's going to be hailed as a genius. But in reality with that kind of "plan" it was a gamble that could just as well have ended in the company going under and everyone out of a job. I'm actually most interested in how he sourced the money, who loaned them the cash? (Or invested in the company). I very much doubt they had that kind of money laying around after their previous, rather niche games.

Yeah, unless there are features hidden that are hardware based and doesn't rely on KIA servers then this is not a problem in the slightest.

It's vastly different from the paid unlocks of Tesla or subscription for hardware of BMW.

Don't group them under one banner and muddy the waters because if we do then all it will do is normalize what Tesla and BMW does and allow it to spread. Either that or make it so we won't get the features listed or the features will have an exorbitant cost attached when new to ensure they don't lose money from maintaining the service for the service life of the vehicle (or do Tesla shit of not letting the feature transfer when resold effectively impacting resell value negatively which is bad for the original buyer).

You're at this from the complete opposite of the right angle.

Your reaction is emotional and thus you need to face the emotion and dig at its cause. Emotions aren't bound by rationality but they're the core of the human experience, to try and suffocate away emotion you don't find rational is a sure way to never find happiness.

You felt hurt, why? Why was this argument important to you? Did you feel anything more than hurt? Can you guess at why you felt like you felt?

Feelings are never right or wrong, they just are and will be no matter what you think of them. So you need to accept and acknowledge their existence and learn to understand them, to coexist with them, because they are you. Even more so than your skill in reasoning, your rationality.

Cool, but I'm guessing that ain't especially cheap right? I pay $60 a year for 4 cores and 8 GB RAM (400 gb storage). Which I consider a pretty OK price. $5 a month.

... Touché

Congratulations on the job, hope you find it tolerable and that it pays well!

Only doing resolution for your own domain and dnssec solve pretty much all those issues and is pretty darn easy.

And I did say that the web gui is what you need to lock down, DNS has no vulnerabilities exploitable through port 53 that lets an attacker take control of the server.

I'd say a few of our largest Cathedrals are good candidates. The Jesus statue in Rio naturally. The problem really is that it's only ceremonial/ornamental buildings that have any likelihood of standing through the rapid modernization of our cities and most we've built in recent years aren't very robust nor interesting since we consider expensive, large, massive ornamental structures a waste of tax payer money these days.

You can setup a tunnel from your Hetzner VPS to your home with say Netbird and then run stuff that would be a bit to expensive to run on rented hardware. Like say Nextcloud, Matrix or game servers, on your RPi while still having them web accessible thanks to the tunnel.

Yeah, much better to, if she protests the money, go "no no but we might need some help in the garden..." And then say she can consider it a down payment on that if that feels better for her but that really it's just that you care for them as you should care for your neighbors.

Worth noting that for new releases far from everything gets released online, and overall the arr focus is on lossless which is the gap in the market. So if you're a (digital) Audiophile with high-end DACs and Headphones then yeah sure, but if you're not and just want to listen to music then no, it's not worth it in my opinion. It's harder to share a banger with a friend, you'll be late to the party when someone new is discovered and you'll need to curate your own playlists all the time. Not to mention filling up your drive with album tracks you're going to listen to once at most.

But he was detained and fined due to not declaring the watch. Likely he hadn't opened his credit card to that kind of spend on another continent, or he had an Amex which tends to work poorly in many different places in Europe. I'm also sure he could've gotten an invoice as well but likely just wanted it sorted out directly.

Rich and famous people always act shocked when the rules apply to them as well...

Lithium is still going to be king in small batteries, i.e. for appliances, laptops, phones, toys etc and those uses are only growing and won't be replaced by Sodium-Ion unless we see even more breakthroughs there and none in Lithium-Ion.

And I explicitly said "unless you want to rely on a big player".

Personally I'm very fed up with AWS, Cloudflare and Google virtually owning the modern Internet. I selfhost to get away from their spying and oligopoly so routing DNS through them is simply out of the question, for me.

And really it's not that hard these days with pre-packaged Docker containers. I have a fairly complex setup and while I have put hours into it it wasn't rocket surgery by any means. It's also quite healthy to understand how DNS actually works if you work with the Web imo.

Unlikely, perfect 20/20 vision last check-up (which I did due to said migraines to rule out deteriorating vision as a cause).