walden @ walden @sub.wetshaving.social

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I never understood the hate against Raygun. Are there set moves in breakdancing? It's not like ballet where you have to do very specific things.

If I remember correctly, Proxmox recommends running Docker in virtual machines instead of LXC containers. I sort of gave up on LXC containers for what I do, which is run stuff in Docker and use my server as a NAS with ZFS storage.

LXC containers are unprivileged by default, so the user IDs don't match the conventional pattern (1000 is the main user, etc.). For a file sharing system this was a pain in the butt, because every file ended up being owned by some crazy user ID. There are ways around it which I did for some time, but moving to virtual machines instead has been super smooth.

They also don't recommend running Docker on bare metal (Proxmox is Debian, after all). I don't know the reasons why, but I tend to agree simply for backups. My VMs get automatically backed up on a schedule, and those backups automatically get sent to Backblaze B2 on a schedule

LOL

Oh ok

The media is treating it like a national tragedy

That's my point. The media runs on clicks, and people are clicking.

Do you not see that? The difference between how a wealthy person and a poor person are treated?

How could I not see that? In your top comment you blame the media for this. We're saying the same thing, but I'm just pointing out why the media acting like it is.

We're on the same page, but sometimes it's easier to be defensive and downvote. I hope you'll see what I'm saying.

People are interested in it (see Lemmy as an example), and news outlets publish stuff that gets clicks. What's so hard to believe about that?

Sounds bad I guess, but the USA has been spying on us for a long time now. Is the bad part that it's China?

Why would it be in a Russian newspaper?

This type of spruce produces needles instead of rings. So there are 9,000+ needles on the tree, and they add on a hundred or so years to account for people picking them off in passing.

Ok, then change it to 10% and do the same math. If it goes up 10%, loses 3% to inflation, and they're required to spend 5%, that leaves a 2% return. Next year they'll have 2% more money, so 5% of that is even more... etc.

I was just saying Adam in the video makes it sound like 5% is bad?, without saying why it should be higher.

RMDs for some personal retirement accounts are in the same ballpark of 5%. Should people in retirement be required to withdraw more?

Are the workers not poor? Isn't that the whole argument?

Anyway, maybe it's a mutual benefit. When people buy stocks, it's a quick infusion of cash to a company, and the company can then spend money on producing stuff, hiring people, etc.

Would you rather companies get loans from banks instead?

There are so many other solutions to low wages.

Meh, that's an oversimplification. Mutual funds don't go around taking money from workers, but the tankies (and whoever else they can convince) think it's clever to go around saying that. Simple minds, maybe?

It's a complicated system, and I'd like to see a LOT of change. There has been a lot of change in some states, but it'd be nice to get the national minimum wage increased.

The wrong guy was voted in. Anti-union, anti-worker, anti-everything. Just a big piece of garbage.

It's just annoying that of all the solutions out there, Lemmy users somehow decided to latch on to "uhhh, stocks steal money directly from workers! How else would the stock price go up?"

Lemmy, in general, thinks anyone with money is evil, and their money was sucked from the teets of the poor. It's sort of annoying. Not just super wealthy people, either. If you have any sort of investment that increases in value over time, you're a bad person. That money should have gone to poor people, somehow.

Good argument.

Meh. His arguments boil down to "isn't the government better at spending money?" and "Rich people are bad, they shouldn't be rich!". None of his points really have anything to do with these foundations.

The government isn't "better" at spending money. They have a LOT more of it to spend, though. If the US Government got some tax revenue from, say, inheritance tax when Warren Buffet dies, I don't see how Congress is going to say "oh nice, a couple more billion dollars to go in our trillions of dollars budget, lets spend it on education". They're going to spend it on military or whatever. People lobby congress to spend money and make laws that benefit their company/industry. So that cancels out more than half of his 5 minute video for me.

The beginning of his video talks about how the media portrays it, which is a different subject.

Rich people being rich is an entirely different subject. They are rich, and you can't go back in time and change that. So that cancels out another minute or two of his video.

He tries to make a point about how they only have to spend 5% of their money every year, like that's somehow bad? Compare it to a person in retirement: If someone starts with some money in their retirement account with 4% interest (and 3% inflation), if they withdraw 5% of their balance every year, they'll run out of money. The Gates foundation has a plan to spend a lot more than that after they die. They're not required to, sure, but why should they be?

All in all, I still fail to see how this strategy is bad for society overall. Argue all you want that there shouldn't be any individuals with this amount of money, but that's a different subject.

What's wrong with the Clinton Foundation?

Beginning in 2015, the foundation was accused of wrongdoing, including a bribery and pay-to-play scheme, but multiple investigations through 2019 found no evidence of malfeasance. The New York Times reported in September 2020 that a federal prosecutor appointed by attorney general Bill Barr to investigate the origins of the 2016 FBI Crossfire Hurricane investigation had also sought documents and interviews regarding how the FBI handled an investigation into the Clinton Foundation.[16] In May 2023, it was revealed that the Justice Department had continued to investigate the Foundation until days before the end of the Trump presidency, when FBI officials insisted the DOJ acknowledge in writing that there was no case to bring.[17]

Not Bill Gates, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "The primary stated goals of the foundation are to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty across the world, and to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology in the U.S.".

The deer isn't stupid, it knows it's hunting season. Orange would have been better, but if you find yellow laying on the ground, you just go with it.

It just comes down to personal preference.

We run ours using the Docker "method", but I sort of wish we had gone the Ansible route. What we have works, but the documentation isn't up to snuff. To do things in Docker (without ansible) you basically still have to reference the Ansible repo and use their lemmy.hjson and their Docker Compose, but they have lots of environmental variables that you have to change yourself instead of Ansible doing it.

I do enjoy just using my normal workflow, which is using Dockge/Portainer as much as possible, but it's a bit of work trying to figure out what Lemmy wants.

Toxicologist, toxicity, minuscule, fluoridated -- your big doctor words are just trying to trick us!