assaultpotato

@assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Some guy” in this case is Trump during the interview with NBC btw - that’s exactly his (first) plan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My humble experience so far: kcross.engineering/blogs/matrixandmautrix/

  Biggest thing so far is “go slow on federation”. Large federated servers are where you get into trouble with resource requirements and needing to spin up workers, etc. Small, private servers are relatively easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My humble experience so far: kcross.engineering/blogs/matrixandmautrix/

  Biggest thing so far is “go slow on federation”. Large federated servers are where you get into trouble with resource requirements and needing to spin up workers, etc. Small, private servers are relatively easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can try to write some stuff up, it’s not super complex. Core requirement for my setup is Docker + a domain. I recommend Linux host but you can make Docker Desktop work.

  Let me write some stuff down this week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m running a Matrix server with a FB Messenger bridge via mautrix-meta and that makes it a clear winner. Half my group chats have migrated entirely since I’ve set my close friends up with accounts in my server and they also use the bridge. The fact that people can slowly migrate chats without losing messages or groups is killer for adoption imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, a new study finds.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the economy. You, the American, should blame corporatocracy and private interests. Other economies may blame government corruption or government enforced inequality. Aparthied South Africa, for example, may want to blame the government for their inequality.

  The paper is just “economic inequality begets democratic backsliding” and is not prescriptive about where that inequality and backsliding comes from.

  Again, the world is not the US, and going after these authors for discussing the general case and not staying US-focused is pretty dumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, a new study finds.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Buddy not everything is about the US. They studied multiple economies. Just because the US is devolving into a corporate hellscape doesn’t mean other countries aren’t devolving into an auth-right government hellscape.

  It’s not cognitive dissonance if they’re discussing a situation other than your personal perspective and experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, I’d have voted for him again over Singh or PPboi but between the blackface thing, the SNC affair, etc. he’s definitely had his fair share of indirectly political scandals over basically his entire tenure.

  He didn’t do everything he promised, played some net-zero impact political games but also accomplished some meaningfully positive things (childcare, forced rezoning, carbon tax, etc.) that people seem to totally ignore. My only meaningful complaint with him is the electoral reform and the lack of antitrust action, but I otherwise think he did “fine” over his tenure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My brother in christ you have less than a TB of storage. you’re very far from being a hoarder.

  I still have my first 512GB HDD from when I was in high school and I’ve got over 32TB on my latest build, plus my archive of old drives I leave off until I need to access them. Join us, it’s better.