myrmidex
@myrmidex@belgae.social
- Comment on Anarchists and Tankies could benefit from a Codex Alera 'Gadara' relationship a.k.a. trusted enemies 2 days ago:
Juat one more 5-year plan bro, I swear!
- Comment on If Bill Gates get involved in a scandal, is it now called a Billgate? 4 days ago:
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 6 days ago:
I love wireguard for this. If they can’t get that working, then no jellyfin for them. Filters out the PEBKAC people wonderfully.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026) 1 week ago:
Cloudflare Tunnel error here :eyerolling-the-irony:
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 1 week ago:
Where truth isn’t censored
Self-hosting seems your only option then. You might be cut off from other instances, but at least on yours, you’ll be able to enjoy free speech.
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 1 week ago:
politically neutral <> pirate party
Pick one
- Comment on Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die? 1 week ago:
Same here. I don’t see how she would manage, she’s not THAT technical. I told her she’d probably be good for another few years barring breaking updates. Beyond that, she’ll need to find someone to retrieve any content she wants to keep. For this reason, I keep all photos with a paid service (ente) as I don’t want to risk her losing those.
- Comment on With the current situation with Tiktok, it's time for the Fedivers to rise. 1 week ago:
It truly is! I’m seeing some politicians move away from X, gamers away from Windows, now the TikTok exodus. A ray of hope in these troubled times.
- Comment on Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users 1 week ago:
In the past gods absolved kings. Nowadays money absolves capitalists. Very convenient indeed.
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 1 week ago:
They have 20~25% in Belgium so far. Let’s hope Trump sufficiently shows these voters that fascism isn’t all that great.
- Comment on How did Zohran Mamdani win conservative voters over without using the terms "socialism", "communism" or "capitalism"? 2 weeks ago:
A book I’m currently seems to agree:
Obama began his re-election year with the certainty that he knew the name of all 69,456,897 Americans whose votes had carried him to the White House. Of course, these votes had been cast secretly, but Narwhal’s data was so detailed that the analysts were able to identify the Obama supporters in every district. Each elector was given a probability rating between zero and a hundred. Zero meant they would vote for Romney. A hundred meant they were a guaranteed Obama supporter. The trick was to ignore those voters and focus all the campaign’s resources on voters in swing states with scores betwen forty-five and fifty-five.
- Comment on Without vowels there'd be no singing 2 weeks ago:
and birds also don’t have official vowels. I’m starting to see the flaws in my thought :)
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- Comment on EU explores €93B Trump tariff retaliation over Greenland threats 2 weeks ago:
on top of their bazooka right?
It’s so easy. Day one: ban X. Should have happened already. Tell turd Facebook follows in a week, week after that microsoft, week after that google, week after that apple. Let’s see how long orange turd stays in power after this.
- Comment on I’ve hit a wall with tech. 3 weeks ago:
Not to mention the way the minerals are mined needed for all this tech.
- Comment on Two-tier pricing, invasive demands: Korean travelers dismayed as U.S., Japan grow unwelcoming to tourists 3 weeks ago:
$60 per night in tax alone??? My, they must really hate tourists.
- Comment on An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million users 3 weeks ago:
If you haven’t already, it’s always a good idea to turn on two-factor authentication and change your password. Even better, you can review what devices are logged into your Instagram account in Meta’s Accounts Center.
That is not the most obvious safety advice here engadget…
- Comment on Karl Pilkington was a mainstream “lolcow” 4 weeks ago:
As a huge fan at the time, I agree with OP.
However, I cannot agree with other commenters that Karl would be an actor or “in on the joke”. In the early XFM shows he seeps into the show ever so slightly and awkwardly. Ricky tries to pull him in, but his contributions to those first 5 to 10 episodes seem hesitant, timid and minimal. It just does not feel scripted or even discussed beforehand.
- Comment on Danish PM Warns US Attack on Greenland Would Destroy NATO - News From Antiwar.com 4 weeks ago:
Oh ffs, don’t threaten him with a good time…
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never had an issue knowing which side was up on a floppy though. Once USB-C sticks become prevalent, that annoyance will finally be lifted!
- Comment on Are hierarchies inherently bad in all aspects? or are there domains where heirarchies are good to have? 4 weeks ago:
Perhaps the lower strata of the hierarchy experience nothing but downsides, whereas the top likely experiences minimal to none. This might be where narratives come into play to make the lower tiers believe the hierarchy is good for all.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 weeks ago:
Ok I’ll bite: en.wikipedia.org/…/United_States_invasion_of_Pana…
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 5 weeks ago:
I was too quick, missed mention of the lid, that makes more sense 😄
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 5 weeks ago:
How is it more hygienic? I can’t imagine that extra brim holding off a lot of the shit particles launched into the room upon flushing.
- Comment on Finding hair in your food is much worse than finding food in your hair. 5 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t eat it either way.
- Comment on Do rich people in landlocked countries have yachts? 1 month ago:
The only port of registration for ocean-going yachts in Switzerland is Basel
- Comment on Do rich people in landlocked countries have yachts? 1 month ago:
~1500 sea-going yachts registered in Switzerland, so I’d say yes.
- Comment on Trump sues BBC for $10 billion over documentary speech edit 1 month ago:
Another article I came across said ‘10 million dollars’ and my first thought was “Isn’t that chump-change for Trump?”. It’s billion, now it all makes sense.
- Comment on Recommended email providers? 1 month ago:
I second migadu. I’ve been with them for about a year, no problems so far, works nice with thunderbird and K9-mail.
- Comment on Best "screwing around" Game Request 2 months ago:
Anything Elder Scrolls kept me busy much longer than the main story, most notably Morrowind. Also, I replayed GTA IV last week, was heaps of fun, especially compared to GTA V which I played a few months back. Read Dead Redemption 2 is a good one for this list as well, I enjoyed that one immensely, but I mainly focused on the main quest during that run-through, so this is a good reminder to myself to pick this up again soon (sadly I fell back into the pull of Satisfactory so it might be some weeks/months/… before I get to it)