nickwitha_k
@nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Pakistan to nominate Donald Trump for Nobel peace prize 23 hours ago:
Because it pisses him off that a black man got the award and that’s a beautiful thing.
- Comment on *tap tap tap* 1 day ago:
All woodpeckers are just really good at functioning with chronic brain damage.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 2 days ago:
That’s some eco-fascism-adjacent thinking, at best. You’re using your negative opinion of humanity to justify mass murder.
- Comment on Gold Phone and Mobile Service Blasted as Latest 'Trump Family Profiteering' 3 days ago:
Leveraging his office for profit? Yes. By definition it absolutely is
He’s already been violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
- Comment on Gold Phone and Mobile Service Blasted as Latest 'Trump Family Profiteering' 4 days ago:
The FCC, which licenses radio spectrum and makes the rules for device certification is part of the Executive branch. So are the CFPB and the SEC, or what’s left of them. He’s literally, corruptly leveraging his office to benefit his cons and preventing regulations from applying to himself and his cronies.
- Comment on Gold Phone and Mobile Service Blasted as Latest 'Trump Family Profiteering' 4 days ago:
Besides the naked corruption?
- Comment on Tips off the cops 5 days ago:
I recommend Kinoite, if you’re doing anything graphical. Gnome support for DRM leases hasn’t been great. Saying that really does pain me as I still think that Gnome 2.x is my favorite DE that I’ve used.
- Comment on Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them” 5 days ago:
In a world not dominated by unfettered capitalism, sure. That’s not the one that we live in however and this tool has both been built on stolen and unlicensed intellectual property as well as being used explicitly to harm people’s livelihoods while replacing their work with objectively inferior plagiaristic amalgams.
AI companies also refuse to obey the rules of the Internet and continually DDOS sites that request crawlers and scrapers not do so, necessitating creation of whole new types of software to defend against their malicious behavior.
And on top of all that, they have substantially increased greenhouse gas emissions and are actively consuming potable water in a manner that makes Nestlé execs hard. Putting the planet’s biosphere at greater risk and unnecessarily increasing water scarcity.
Nah. Simping for AI companies is the irrational take. The value that they provide to humanity is, outside of some niche use cases, marginal at best and will likely never come close to making up for the harms that they are causing to humanity for a quick buck and to increase worker oppression.
- Comment on Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them” 5 days ago:
With GenAI being used primarily as a cudgel against labor, especially organized labor, it’s a pretty accurate take.
- Comment on Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone 6 days ago:
100% guaranteed. The US does not have the manufacturing infrastructure for such products as a result of half a century of off-shoring to avoid organized labor.
- Comment on 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft 1 week ago:
You love to see it.
- Comment on We have to solve the money problem! 1 week ago:
Yup. As jerry illustrated, this shit isn’t free.
- Comment on We have to solve the money problem! 1 week ago:
Donations, subscriptions, etc are definitely fine. They are not invasive fuckery that inflict themselves on people without consent, nor do they seep into the space in a commercial manner. Ads do not respect consent and they fundamentally force commerce into every place that they touch.
- Comment on We have to solve the money problem! 1 week ago:
Abso-fucking-lutely not. People need to be able to exist without having hypercommercialism forced on them everywhere.
- Comment on 3D Printer Simulator could take the guesswork out of printing — Virtual 3D printer mirrors physical machine's quirks, like stringing, supports multi-color printing 1 week ago:
But, does it accurately simulate PLA spaghetti?
- Comment on Nuclear family 1 week ago:
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 2 weeks ago:
When playing Forbidden West, I pretty quickly concluded that Faro was based on him. And the Zeniths were very much Bezos and friends.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 2 weeks ago:
I get it but didn’t “get it”. I suppose I tend to think in terms of small groups rather than manipulating rubes that have been keeping in a state of perpetual outrage through decades of right-wing talk radio and TV, and are so desperate to be told what to do that P. T. Barnham would say “Hey now, that crosses a line.”
I’d still suggest that it might be less charisma and more an audience so primed that they’re near auto-ignition being subjected to a Hitler-fanboy who picked up a few things from professional wrestling.
Then again, I also don’t “get” celebrity worship and numerous other NT things.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 2 weeks ago:
He’s also had a lot of help due to being born with an emerald spoon in his mouth.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s being neurodivergent but I have never understood his “charisma”. He’s always been a vile, crass, babbling, moron whose only “secret” to deal making had been finding rubes that didn’t think his lifetime of theft of service, as well as just plain theft (that for was never prosecuted as it should have been because white collar crime) magically wouldn’t apply to them.
- Comment on Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve done a lot of SysAdmin and DCOps stuff in the past so, thought I’d give you some plausible suggestions (haven’t dug deep into Lemmy DB stuff and DNS/Federation of the stack, so not sure all is practical).
Scenario 1 - Preserve and merge when access is restored
Setup
- Spin up two VMs/VPS (or one that has enough grunt for two Lemmy servers). Call them
robak.slrpnk.netandslrpnk.netand point DNS appropriately. - Pull federated content from other instances and place it on robak, set as read-only.
- Sync important comms to (new) slrpnk.net without content.
- Allow users to sign up, vetting as possible (all mods). Keep a list of those that are vetted (call it vetted.list). Inform all users that any non-vetted users will have their content dropped when access is restored.
Merge!
- Once access is restored, ensure that (old) slrpnk.net is set to read-only.
- Schedule a maintenance window (announce more time than you are likely to need).
- During the maintenance window, put (new) slrpnk.net into R/O, or just block external access.
- Query the db on (old) slrpnk.net for all users.
- Subtract the vetted users from vetted.list from the list.
- Drop all records from the resulting list of non-vetted users from (new) slrpnk.net.
- Insert the records from vetted and new users (those without conflicts) into the DB on (old) slrpnk.net.
- Validate that everything is working
- Cut over DNS and spin down the new VMs/VPS.
Scenario 2 - Server is in DC or Admin able to facilitate access
- Get a db dump/backup.
- Spin up temporary slrpnk.net on a VM/VPS.
- Use backup of temporary server to restore data to original, when possible.
- Spin up two VMs/VPS (or one that has enough grunt for two Lemmy servers). Call them
- Comment on Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed. 2 weeks ago:
That sucks.
- Comment on If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better? 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. The actual cost of durable goods tend to be pretty consistent, when corrected for inflation. It’s just that wages are so terrible compared to what they should be, if they were not completely divorced from the value created by labor.
- Comment on If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better? 2 weeks ago:
An oft-overlooked part of this is the fact that it is also a socioeconomic issue. Due to half a century of wage suppression, the diminished purchasing power of the majority of the population would not be able to handle the shift to more durable goods. Wealth/income inequality is a major hurdle for reducing single use plastics and disposable goods.
- Comment on Happy anniversary of the day absolutely nothing happened at nowhere square! 2 weeks ago:
I do think that you’ll eventually be held up there with the likes of Ken M. for your contributions to the art of classical trolling.
- Comment on Ukrainian carriers are leasing their IPv4 addresses to stay afloat - sometimes after being overrun by Russia 2 weeks ago:
Hah! It’s way easier than it looks and has so many advantages. Like not needing to NAT and making it harder to seek rent on IP addresses.
- Comment on Ukrainian carriers are leasing their IPv4 addresses to stay afloat - sometimes after being overrun by Russia 2 weeks ago:
So, another reason to switch to IPv6 globally
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 2 weeks ago:
We’ve already kinda got that: !retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Guess I'm on the right track 😌 2 weeks ago:
It predates that, actually. Goes back to the USSR sending tanks into Eastern Europe to put down rebellion.
- Comment on Guess I'm on the right track 😌 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, I’m getting to the point where I suspect a fork or alternate compatible platform may be needed.
