SnotFlickerman
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- Comment on but i dont wana 6 hours ago:
I mean, it depends a lot on where you are I suppose. I am stuck in a backwards, conservative, largely MAGA hick town where all the white people seem super glad that we’re deporting a bunch of their friends and neighbors considering this a big farming town, and we have a lot of immigrant farm workers. They don’t seem to care that the white people left over aren’t strong or resilient enough to actually do the farm work nor do they want to because they think they’re above it.
I don’t have any friends here, and I am staying with family who while not MAGA is still very conservative in the economic sense, so I get a lot of grief for being broke and having cancer and acting like I should be worshipping the ground they walk on because I’m not on the street instead of that being the bare minimum you should do for family who did nothing to get saddled with an insanely costly disease.
So I huddle inside and try to avoid going out as much as possible because there isn’t much here for me. All the people with educations and thoughtful opinions leave this town in their twenties at the latest. I’m not going to suddenly meet a whole group of smart, thoughtful people. It’s also not even particularly good to look at, it’s a drab, dirty, desert town without a lot of trees and a bunch of concrete.
Like seriously, when you’re in a situation like mine, what the fuck is going outside even for other than being reminded that you live in fucking hell?
- Comment on cant take it anymore 1 day ago:
Me going outside:
- Comment on Trump FTC wants Apple News to promote more Fox News and Breitbart stories 1 day ago:
I don’t know if you’re ready to hear this, but trusr in US news was in the shitter before 9/11 and got flushed after 9/11.
Or did everyone forget the lies about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction repeated breathlessly by US media?
- Comment on Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT 2 days ago:
- Comment on Advertisements 2 days ago:
Also, for ad-blocking on your phone on the go, pair your Pi-Hole with a Wireguard VPN where you connect your phone to the VPN to pass your phone traffic through your Pi-Hole DNS. I have this set up for my phone, and it’s tits.
- Comment on TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms 2 days ago:
You’re very lucky. I lived 60 miles south of Seattle, 30 miles southwest of Tacoma, and was able to get a single channel with an antenna because my city was in a valley surrounded by mountainous terrain and so the broadcast signals from the TV towers were all blocked by the terrain.
I also worked in local television for a long time in the early 2000s and 3 out of 4 of the stations I worked at no longer exist and there are fewer and fewer rural stations, so unless you live in the big city or unless you’re in a very flat area where the big city signal can get to you, you’re shit out of luck.
- Comment on meal 2 days ago:
Swap codeine for a full bottle of 1990’s robitussin.
- Comment on meal 2 days ago:
Well you better fuckin’ believe it because some people live in actual poverty and even getting high is a luxury. The idea that I have ever had the money to piss away on food delivery is fucking laughable, but especially after I got really financially fucked being diagnosed with cancer three years ago now. Even during COVID I was busy getting a degree and had to budget super tightly to make it through and be able to afford weed once in a while. My budget has been so tight lately that I haven’t even smoked in a year and a half.
- Comment on Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT 2 days ago:
Yes, a matrix server is an “instance” of matrix on the larger federated service.
- Comment on meal 2 days ago:
I try to keep that kind of food out of my home so I don’t end up doing that, but yeah, sometimes it happens.
- Comment on meal 3 days ago:
I mean, honestly, for me, yeah. It distracts me and makes me too lazy to make a meal.
- Comment on In light of changes coming to discord: Sharkord 3 days ago:
Thought it was pretty clear. Matrix sucks.
LOOOOOLOLOLOLOL
I mean I wouldn’t say the original message was clear at all that you as an individual have had bad experiences. There are also people who may have things to say from a development standpoint beyond just “I have personally had bad experiences with it.” So, sorry you had bad experiences, but to be perfectly clear “LOOOOOLOLOLOLOL” doesn’t actually tell anyone anything at all. Thanks, however, for the clarification.
- Comment on In light of changes coming to discord: Sharkord 3 days ago:
LOOOOOLOLOLOLOL
Compelling argument.
That’s really not something to be proud of.
I suppose XMPP’s 27 years of development is embarrassing as well?
Or are you just shitposting without any concrete arguments for what you’re saying? I won’t argue well thought out arguments, but this shit is just childish.
- Comment on In light of changes coming to discord: Sharkord 3 days ago:
Personal opinion, Discord was already enshittifying before they did an IPO. The IPO just gave them an excuse to speed up the process.
- Comment on L O V E 3 days ago:
- Comment on In light of changes coming to discord: Sharkord 3 days ago:
Exactly this, that’s a client quirk, probably Element in this case.
- Comment on In light of changes coming to discord: Sharkord 3 days ago:
Exactly, this isn’t even a new problem… it just keeps happening.
- Comment on In light of changes coming to discord: Sharkord 3 days ago:
As someone who has been advocating for the use of the federated Matrix protocol for a long, long time now, the proliferation of new, competing options actually is frustrating to me. Technically Matrix is actually already fleshed out very well, has several different clients, and even has Thunderbird support so if you’re already using Thunderbird you don’t even need a separate client.
The beginnings of Matrix go back as far as 2014. I know Matrix has it’s issues, but it’s by far the most secure combined with being able to communicate with large groups of people via federation. There’s definitely slightly more secure options, because they lack federation, but I personally am ambivalent about them because some of them have a kind of crypto-bro feel to the companies behind them and I’m skeptical they won’t go down a path similar to Discord while Matrix on the other hand has been slowly but surely leveraging itself into a position of secure government communications all over Europe. So, to me, Matrix already has a game plan for staying relevant and staying solvent, while things like SimpleX or Stoat I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop and for the enshittification to begin.
- Comment on In light of changes coming to discord: Sharkord 3 days ago:
- Comment on Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT 3 days ago:
I’d actually love a reason to try Ansible and get used to it. So if it’s well documented, maybe a good starter project.
- Comment on Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT 4 days ago:
I have actually looked at this one before but the main reason I hadn’t done it is no experience with Ansible. Would you say Ansible is easy enough to pick up just for rolling this out? I have a lot of networking experience, building docker compose files from scratch for projects, and am used to editing json and yml files. I have only set up a reverse proxy with caddy once and have never tried nginx although it seems more fully featured. Any thoughts would be appreciated. I also knoe of some good Ansible security hardening playbooks but once again just haven’t used Ansible so never rolled them out
- Comment on Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT 4 days ago:
I used to roll on the main matrix server, but I’ve been toying with the idea of rolling out a server for just myself here at home for a while now, since I can federate with other servers. Just disable making new accounts after I set up my own account and roll out.
- Comment on TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms 4 days ago:
Most underrated Coen Brothers film.
- Comment on TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms 4 days ago:
I don’t know if Verizon of AT&T offer these but T-Mobile used to have small cellular sites you could basically rent them to plug into your wired internet and it would piggyback off your internet to make a small cellular hotspot to give you good cell signal. I had one when I lived out in the boonies for a while.
- Comment on x files 4 days ago:
I’ve seen this meme so many times and it fucking never gets old because it really does encapsulate how absurd your standard X-Files episode is.
- Comment on TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms 4 days ago:
Also, depending on where you live its a pointless exercise. I ended up throwing mine away not because I didn’t want access to OTA television, but because I lived in a valley on the other side of mountains where all the broadcast antennae in Seattle are. So even being on the top floor of a building with my antenna as high as I could possibly mount it I still got exactly one channel total that came through and it was still glitchy a lot of the time. God the digital changeover ruined OTA broadcasts, because at least when you used to have weak signal you could tweak the antenna until the picture looked halfway decent, but no amount of tweaking fixes the digital glitching that happens from dropped packets.
Anyway, yeah, if you live in an unfortunately placed area, you need a 30 foot tall antennae pole on top of your building to even maybe have the opportunity to catch some broadcast channels. Stupid.
- Comment on TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms 4 days ago:
Let’s just cut the shit and admit that over-the-air broadcast television is effectively dead.
This is why Net Neutrality mattered, because the future isn’t in old tech (radio broadcast) being consumed by DRM in desperate plays to stay relevant and/or profitable.
The future was always in things like YouTube, Netflix, and other online content delivery services. Which is why strict regulation of Net Neutrality and strict regulation of such services was and continues to be so important.
No, the infrastructure isn’t “open” like broadcast airwaves, which technically anyone with a license and equipment can jump into using, whereas internet infrastructure is all privately owned wired networking. The fact that it is different isn’t an excuse for any and all governments to have just effectively given up on regulation of those spaces when they’re where the media-consuming public happen to be.
I can almost guarantee you that nobody under the age of 30 gives a singly flying fuck about having an antenna on a television. They’re probably watching more than half their media on their phone or tablet anyway.
The real reason that this kind of change is happening to over-the-air broadcasting is because it doesn’t have enough viewers, and by extension, enough advertising, to sustain it as a model anymore.
I think the loss of over-the-air programming isn’t the best thing, but I also think it’s stupid to keep holding on to this idea like it matters very much in 2026 where if you asked a kid in their twenties if they even knew what an antenna for a television was they’d probably go “what the fuck are you even talking about?”
- Comment on Save as PDF 4 days ago:
My browser saves PDFs fine?
- Comment on You can either get away with everything, or you can't 5 days ago:
I can’t decide if this is the worst use of Drake or most appropriate use of Drake in this meme format.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Even though it’s a hair on an image, it still makes me retch slightly at the thought of the hair actually being on the delicious pie.
