th3raid0r @ th3raid0r @tucson.social

One foot planted in "Yeehaw!" the other in "yuppie".

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Does the violence of Doxxing accomplish that? I see no evidence that Doxing has done anything but embolden them. For me, if I look at the actual impact of these sorts of things, it doesn't seem that Doxxing is effective at actually fighting back, and is, in fact, making things more dangerous for folks like you and me, not less. Sure we get that rush of dopamine when "Karen the Racist" is fired for her own stunts when revealed to the company, but we don't check back in within 6 months to see that these people have largely recovered.

Retribution only begets more retribution. Personally, I'm more for restorative justice - even for those we find reprehensible.

Heck if the purpose is to "defend ourselves", going the route of retribution seems counter to that goal.

As for social costs - they already exist. I wouldn't be a friend with a proud neo-nazi, nor would most people. But this level of Doxxing is amplifying that social cost to unproductive levels - and I fear it serves as nothing more than a leftist/liberal virtue signalling performance.

If a drug dealer should receive compassion because of the systemic inequities that led him to "offend" - thus deserving restorative justice, why are closet Nazi's that much different? We already know that retributive justice doesn't work, and many of us would rather see it dismantled. Is every Nazi unfixable? I think the only people that can really answer this question are Germans. (And if anyone from Germany is here now, I'd love to hear your view on this - if it worked, what didn't work, etc)

I never claimed the article to do that. I claimed that despite the article not doxing anybody that the comments in the thread were.

And It was just one of many issues with the thread. It was very much. Also a hostile and toxic place to be. It stood head and shoulders over other similarly distasteful posts which is why I had issue with it.

As on Reddit, no one really cares about the not so popular posts. But this post was top of the all feed drawing in more distasteful discourse.

My position is that doxing is a form of violence. Violence in this definition is anything that restricts your choices. (Source: Philosophy Tube). Thus doxxing is violence since it forces one to move, react, or retaliate in response to the leaked information.

It is never acceptable to me - full stop.

The only entity with "Doxxing" permissions are government agencies with robust oversight such that this violence is only used when it's the lesser evil over not.

It seems that more and more people feel justified in their doxing. And that's what scares me. More more people feeling justified to perform a form of violence.

Because that's what doxing is, a form of non-physical violence.

I agree, I really preferred S1 for a lot of the "softer" aspects of character building. We really got an impressive look into a character I grew up admiring and it just made me admire Picard more. S2 and 3, while fine, definitely reverted a bit towards the "Star Trek" formula.

I don't! I personally love all the new Trek's. Even the ones folks love to hate. I'm just well aware of their contentiousness when writing the post.

I mean, the last time there was a sort of science fiction renaissance (arguably the 40s to 70s) people felt better about their lot in life - well besides the whole cold war thing.

So I'm not sure that tracks as much?

By the same logic one could argue that we should see more fantasy stuff. And, sure, kinda - but not the same level as the post-LOTR fantasy boom. I know Amazon is trying to do their thing with the Tolkien universe, but it doesn't seem to be sticking in the same way as it's sci-fi contemporaries. HBO has their other GOT universe franchise and even that seems to be falling flat on audiences.

Why would Sci-fi be preferable to Fantasy if it's just about escapism? I certainly wouldn't know, but it's definitely a curious thought.

Qobuz is unfortunately the only HiFi service worth anything ever since Tidal went with the MQA sham.

But yeah, purchasing music is overly complicated by the use of 2 distinct applications one to stream, the other to buy.

Not to mention that I'm outright insulted by how little care they put into organizing their library so that duplicate artist names don't result in a single chimera artist where you need to sift through the non-related artist stuff yourself.

What they did to VAST is a damn shame... Tried reporting it multiple times now via email and support tickets, but those assholes don't care.

Lucky! I wish I had symmetrical fiber with all the ports available.

I totally have a server capable of hosting a LOT of things but lack the upload to make use of it. I'm considering transferring to a rack mount and sending it to be colocated at a datacenter within driving distance.

You missed one:

ISP - Internet Service Provider

Eh, but then he won't learn anything. I've never found that response acceptable. It just perpetuates the problem. To each their own though!

On a technical level, user count matters less than the user count and comment count of the instances you subscribe to. Too many subscriptions can overwhelm smaller instances and saturate a network from the perspective of Packets Per Second and your ISPs routing capacity - not to mention your router. Additionally, most ISPs block traffic traffic going to your house on Port 80 - so you'd likely need to put it behind a cloudflare tunnel for anything resembling reliability. Your ISP may be different and it's always worth asking what restrictions they have on self-hosted services (non-business use-cases specifically). Otherwise going with your ISP's business plan is likely a must. Outside of that, yes, you'll need a beefy router or switch (or multiple) to handle the constant packets coming into your network.

Then there's a security aspect. What happens if you're site is breached in a way that an attacker gains remote execution? Did you make sure to isolate this network from the rest of your devices? If not, you're in for a world of hurt.

These are all issues that are mitigated and easier to navigate on a VPS or cloud provider.

As for the non-technical issues:

There's also the problem of moderation. What I mean by that is that, as a server owner you WILL end up needing to quarantine, report, and submit illegal images to the authorities. Even if you use a whitelist of only the most respectable instances. It might not happen soon, but it's only a matter of time before your instance happens to be subscribed to a popular external community while it gets a nasty attack. Leaving you to deal with a stressful cleanup.

When you run this on a homelab on consumer hardware, it's easier for certain government entities to claim that you were not performing your due diligence and may even be complicit in the content's proliferation. Now, of course, proving such a thing is always the crux, but in my view I'd rather have my site running on things that look as official as possible. The closer it resembles what an actual business might do, the better I think I'd fare under a more targeted attack - from a legal/compliance standpoint.

A similar thing happened to me as a kid!

One of my favorite substitute teachers saw me trying to play a homebrew RPG with typical d6's - all because I couldn't afford the actual D&D books. After a few times, he came with his old 1st edition AD&D stuff and gave it all to me.

Now, sure, it was the early aughts and folks were playing 3.0/3.5 and he gave me 1st edition books, but still!

He also gave me all of his dice. Every single one. I still have (most) of them.

I've already had a couple of chances to pay it forward a few times myself!

I dunno, my OLED panel has some notable image retention issues - and a screensaver does appear to help in that regard.

Eh, I went back to screen savers due to my use of OLED panels. Better than a static lock-screen image for sure.

I'm over 30 and I have both older and younger acquaintances and family that engage in this macho culture. For the younger ones, I have sympathy, I was much like that too as a young adult - or tried to be anyways. I never really fit in though and I grew up and grew out of trying to "fit in" so hard.

For the older ones however, it's quite puzzling. I don't get it. How much lived experience does one need to ignore to figure this out? Is the quest for a male approved identity really preferable to growing into a well developed, emotionally mature man that is actually required to maintain relationships?

It's stories like those in the article that make me understand the hostility that more extreme feminists react with when presented with things like the "male loneliness epidemic". (My second reaction, though is that if you think the "alphas" are the lonely ones, you might be mistaken - if that's the norm, then the "good ones" must be the REALLY lonely ones.)

I met my wife on OKCupid before it went to crap. She just kept telling me how I was so "respectful" compared to literally everyone else she met in years. I didn't understand then, and nowadays I can only explain so much of that behavior. I suppose it's a mix of the dominant media culture and internet culture being amplified by actors who either are ignorant of, profit from, or take advantage of it all.

Yeah, ever since the pandemic, I just don't see any reason to go to theaters anymore. I tried my best to go see Oppenheimer and 70 mm here in Tucson, and found the experience so sub par that it was insulting. Remind me why film is somehow better again? What I saw was absolute garbage.

The movie industry will get what it deserves. After all, apparently the director knows better than everybody else. The customers don't matter.

This article is ancient. We have more recent elections to go off of.

And according to basically everything I can find, "Moms For Liberty" and related groups suffered major losses basically everywhere the last cycle.

I'm not at all suggesting to not worry, after all, it's worry that got us to ensure they didn't win. But I am suggesting that your information is very out of date and that you should do a better job of finding recent points to support your claim.

Also, I think this is off topic for this community and seems far more like political bait as some have pointed out.

I very much agree. I self-identified as a socialist for a long while before actually getting on the ground and building things. And you know what? I found that online "socialism" or "communism" is absolutely nothing like the folks you meet in real life.

Turns out that the loudest on the left doesn't always correlate with who shows up to their community. It's easy to be loud these days, after all. Not so easy to build.

I find that those I help clean the streets with or building new community spaces with are far more pragmatic than any of the "chronically online" socialists/communists - and that pragmatism is derived from a deep experience of what does and doesn't work. What does and doesn't build power and community solidarity.

See, I fear that the chronically online "socialism" is largely insular, idealistic, and uncompromising - and so that's what many see it as.

Just like the "good Christians" are basically invisible right now compared to the authoritarian bible thumpers - so too are the "pragmatic socialists" because we're being hidden behind the loudest, craziest, and dumbest at the behest of corporate owned media.

So yeah, it doesn't really matter what ideology you subscribe to, the most important thing is getting out there and building with other like-minded people and figuring out the path to power in your area. It requires pragmatism, patience, and lots of really hard and unforgiving work with no assurance of making the change in your lifetime.

"Your application" - the customers you mean. Our DB definitely does it's own rate limiting and it emits rate limit warnings and errors as well. I didn't say we advertised infinite IOPs that would be silly. We are totally aware of the scaling factors there and to date IOPs based scaling is rarely a Sev1 because of it. (Oh no p99 breached 8ms. Time to talk to Mr customer about scaling up soon)

The problem is that the resulting cluster is so performant that you could load in 100x the amount of data and not notice until the disk fills up. And since these are NVME drives on cloud infrastructure, they are $$$.

So usually what happens is that the customer fills up the disk arrays so fast that we can't scale the volumes/cluster fast enough to avoid stop-writes let alone get feedback from the customer in time. And now that's like the primary reason to get paged these days.

We generally catch gradual disk space increases from normal customer app usage. Those give us hours to respond and our alerts are well tuned. It's the "Mr. Customer launched a new app and didn't tell us, and now they've filled up the disks in 1 hour flat." that I'm complaining about.