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- Comment on Anybody out there self hosting Searxing? 6 hours ago:
I've been running my own, it's mostly automated now. I started a yacy instance as well so not only am I aggregating bigger websites, I'm including the sites I crawled myself and the other sites available on yacy through it's huge p2p search functionality. In this little way, I'm trying to make sure my search isn't totally dominated by corporate search.
Tbh, yacy is 1000x harder to keep running than searxng.
- Comment on LG Energy Solution says 3.9 trillion won battery deal with US firm canceled 5 days ago:
They're focusing on NFTs now.
- Comment on Copy of Grand Theft Auto that runs in a web browser gets taken down by DMCA 5 days ago:
ReVC and ReGTA3 were both taken down by take two several years ago. It makes perfect sense that they'd take down a fork.
- Comment on Wyoming ranchers want to transition to solar. The state stands in their way. 1 week ago:
Look, if you want to argue with me that the US healthcare system is broken, you'll get no argument from me.
The US government spends more public money per person than Canada, and yet most people in the United States need to pay for entirely Private health insurance. It's a fantastic example of the brokenness of the US system. For the amount of money being fought for in the US healthcare system, there should be one of the world's best single-payer options.
And you can't even get partisan on it because the current system was put into place by supermajority democrats. Most people forget that.
But that's the problem. When you're dealing with a corrupt government, it doesn't really matter what nice ideas are on the table. They take your money or the money from your great-grandkids, and they hand it to their buddies, you ain't in the club.
And that goes for healthcare, that goes for green energy, it goes for whatever you've got.
All you're seeing here is a changing of the guard where money stops being sent to one set of rich people who probably could have afforded to do something on their own so that it can be sent to another set of rich people who probably could have afforded to do something on their own.
- Comment on Wyoming ranchers want to transition to solar. The state stands in their way. 1 week ago:
You can't break even you can't break even.
How many guys shovelling shit for a living get taxed to high heaven so some farmer can have 800,000 in government money?
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 2 weeks ago:
Been picking up hot wheels games for my son recently. The monster truck game just came up for 70% off, putting it right in the zone I'm willing to pay.
- Comment on What are some unique Games to host server's of? 2 weeks ago:
I'm amenable to luanti with voxelibre.
Though I don't like the rebranding. Luanti sounds like a product you'd hear about in a drug commercial. "Side effects of luanti may include chronic flatulence, erectile dysfunction, and death"
- Comment on [Episode] May I Ask for One Final Thing? • Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai Shite mo Yoroshii Deshou ka - Episode 13 discussion 2 weeks ago:
This was a fun anime.
- Comment on “Everything has become shallower.” Tokyo Godfathers, Lain producer says the Japanese corporate mindset is why 90% of anime just adapts existing works - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I consider the Japanese ecosystem to be very healthy. You have low risk webnovels, turn them into higher risk novels, higher risk manga, higher risk anime, and finally highest risk movies and video games. In this way, new blood is always entering the ecosystem, compared to the stagnant Western ecosystem which lacks a low and medium tier to test risks.
- Comment on Donald Trump scores 'F' grade on economy: Poll 2 weeks ago:
Poll splits along partisan lines, proving that half of people agree with me. Film at 11.
- Comment on Everything is awful because the people who went to business school figured out how to fuck us over as hard as possible. 2 weeks ago:
The ruling class thanks you for hating their designated scapegoat. You will continue yelling about their pawns, paying your taxes, accepting their inflation, and voting for their chosen candidates and parties.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
That'll be one hundred and fifty dollars, please.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
That's been my experience too.
Plex came with my nas, and we never used it because it it was really fiddly and wanted to show everything except my content.
By contrast, my jellyfin is linked up with the jellyfin for android tv app on the big screen tv, and if nobody told you it wasn't a regular streaming service you'd probably never know because it's so straightforward. My wife is not techy at all -- she still daily drives her Android phone from 7 years ago because she doesn't want to change to her new one from 2 years ago -- but she can pick up the remote and play a movie at any time.
I use it every night on my phone to play videos that help me get to sleep, and the app works well.
- Comment on "Worthless Regression" S2 Ended with Chapter 106 3 weeks ago:
"Announcement Season 2 Final Announcement 25.11.06 Hello. This is Kidari Studio.
We would like to thank our readers for enjoying and for your continued support.
will be on hiatus for approximately one month. Please note that Season 2 will conclude with Episodes 105 and 106 on December 5th. After this, we will be on hiatus to prepare for Season 3.
Please look forward to the further growth of the main character, Lee Sung-min, in the next season, and we ask for your continued support for the hard-working writer.
Thank you.
-Kidari Studio Dream-"
- Comment on TRIGUN STARGAZE sets official January premiere 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, it seems like Stampede starts prior to the trigun anime. It goes through the events of lost July but not the fifth moon incident. Therefore, it could be that Millie can come in later as a bernardelli insurance girl and still fit.
- Comment on Crunchyroll is Officially Ending Its Free Ad-Supported Streaming Service on December 31, 2025 3 weeks ago:
Seems like they've been getting less and less of the good anime every season.
- Comment on FACT FOCUS: Trump says tariffs can eventually replace federal income taxes. Experts disagree 3 weeks ago:
To be clear, there was once a time that there was no federal income tax and most income came from tariffs and excise taxes. It was just prior to world war 1.
But it's going to need a fundamental change to the way that people look at the federal government. Constitutionally, a lot of what the federal government does makes absolutely no sense. In spite of the general welfare clause, it should be self-evident that federal government was supposed to be about providing for the common defense and dealing with conflicts between states. The idea that it would take a federal program to provide for example food stamps is really bizarre. The EU has a lot of things that people criticize it for, what is a similar amalgamation of states, it doesn't directly fund government programs like that.
Of course, changing what the federal government does does not necessarily mean that those taxes go away entirely. There are states was very low internal tax rates that are only able to be so because they rely on federal government funding, so in the event that they stop getting that revenue source they would have to start taxing their own citizens for the services that they provide.
- Comment on Ageing populations a 'ticking time bomb' for GDP growth, says EBRD 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, it's going to get really bad. People don't realize how much competence is about to die of old age in the next 10 years.
- Comment on Price correction "worse than 2008" coming to US housing market—analyst 5 weeks ago:
Yes, and they're unlikely to drop to where they should in the near-term. Even the 1990s housing crash was really mostly the market going sideways until inflation caught up.
- Comment on Price correction "worse than 2008" coming to US housing market—analyst 5 weeks ago:
In my own country of Soviet Canuckistan, house prices in some markets have already faced 50% drops from the peak. Not all, of course, but we're in bubbles that make US housing markets look sane.
Thing is, all the things politicians try to do to make housing "more affordable" just make it more expensive by making more money available to drop on a bid. Higher interest rates result in lower prices because people can't afford to bid as high for the same monthly payment.
- Comment on NoAuthority.social Goes Down After Hardware Failure 5 weeks ago:
Always sad to see a site down like that.
I've got redundancies and backups, but shit can always happen.
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 5 weeks ago:
Does Microsoft have less money than Valve?
- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, during the pandemic we discovered what happens when things are underpriced. Effectively, if you don't have the original company pricing their products according to the market, the scalpers all swoop in and buy up all the stock and resell it at market rates.
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 5 weeks ago:
Big question or not, we can only control ourselves.
Everyone always stares at other people's resources and imagine how great it would be if those resources were used how we like, but at the end of the day, we control our resources.
So is it a big question if it doesn't really matter because we can't do anything about it?
- Comment on UK wind farms generate a record 22.7 GW of power on a single day 5 weeks ago:
The only ones that seem to not be like that are hydroelectric and geothermal, since they're baseload. Which is why they're the two I advocate for the loudest -- why not use stuff that works?
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 1 month ago:
Big question is: how many of us are funding foss projects?
It isn't difficult, and with how popular some are, it wouldn't be long before the projects could hire one or more full time devs at good rates.
I support a few big projects I use every month through liberapay.
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 1 month ago:
Big question is: how many of us are funding foss projects?
It isn't difficult, and with how popular some are, it wouldn't be long before the projects could hire one or more full time devs at good rates.
I support a few big projects I use every month through liberapay.
- Comment on Wendy’s to close hundreds of restaurants as struggling customers cut back on dining out 1 month ago:
With capitalism proper being a decentralized system, the alternatives are all forms of central planning, so it is reasonable to assume that central planning is what is being referred to when someone says capitalism is a failed experiment. Rejecting decentralized coordination leaves planning as the remaining category.
If you think anything I wrote is a non sequitur, that simply shows you are missing the conceptual scaffolding behind the argument. The purpose of any economic system is to allocate scarce resources among humans who have effectively unlimited desires. Scarcity is the starting condition. Allocation is the problem. Economic systems are different strategies for dealing with that problem.
That scarcity does not come from capitalism or from any human institution. It comes from physical existence itself. There is finite matter, finite energy, finite space, and finite time. Scarcity existed long before humans ever appeared, and it will exist long after. Showing that scarcity is universal rather than human-created is not a tangent. It directly addresses the foundation that all economic systems must operate on. No system gets to escape trade-offs, because the trade-offs are not created by the system. The system exists because of them.
The system we live under that forces people to live with limited means is reality. Capitalism is one method of dealing with those limited means. Central planning is another method. Both are attempts to solve the same basic coordination problem. One distributes decisions through prices. The other concentrates decisions in administrative structures. Neither one abolishes scarcity. They only differ in how they respond to it.
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- Comment on Preparing for the hardware market disruption 1 month ago:
Glad I upgraded before it was too late.