Eldritch
@Eldritch@piefed.world
- Comment on 18 hours ago:
I mention in the Linux space only because it's what I'm familiar with and didn't want to make assumptions about groups I'm not familiar with. Unlike you who's looking for a way to take umbridge and talk passed people. I went to college for IT and have done it for 30 years.
In network and IT planning. The cloud is the wider network outside your own. That you don't have mapped. Often depicted by a "cloud". If I have a personal data pool on one of my own networks. And need it from another. It may transmit via the "cloud". But it isn't IN the cloud. It's on a personal server. If the server is in your house, and you can point exactly to where your data is. Then the rule of thumb is that it is in your house. Not the cloud. If it's hosted on a system you couldn't directly point to on a network you have no knowledge of. Especially a shared system. Then things literally and figuratively are getting cloudier.
That said, marketing as it often does. Appropriates and misuses words based around buzz. And I am not about to admonish hobbyist who use it in the marketing sense. I understand, I get it.
If you host in OSX on Apple Silicon, that's great. If you host on a 68k Mac or Amiga you're a fucking mad lad! If you're hosting under Windows, any TCP port in the storm mate. If you are hosting from a Linux distribution that is not God's chosen, cool how is it working out? If you are hosting from BeOS. or Haiku, you are a glorious oddball and absolutely my sort of person. And if you are hosting from an appliance that you really don't know what it's running, welcome to the hobby. It's a good starting point. And a lill data in the cloud isn't a crime. We all have some. But if you can't easily point to it. Can you really know you have it?
- Comment on 20 hours ago:
It's fine. But yes in the Linux space. We tend to want to host ourselves. Not have to trust some administrator of some cloud we don't know/trust.
- Comment on 20 hours ago:
Yep, I found her through YouTube. Her and action retro's content is always great.with some Adrian black on the side.
- Comment on 21 hours ago:
And I generally enjoy Veronica's presentation. Knowledgable and simple.
- Comment on WoW dies with the Lich King 2 days ago:
Yes, I started in Vanilla/BC. Wow isn't for everyone. But right now, between the deluge of content it's built up historically and currently. The current system respects player time and desire much more than any in the past. If you want to just do Battlegrounds and PvP while gearing, you can do that. If you want to do world content while gearing, that's becoming more and more viable as well. Plus you can always do the old path of raiding. And in this next expansion, PvE play and gearing is going to get even better.
- Comment on What is happening? 1 week ago:
What's Ralph Bakshi gotta do with it?
My money is on heavy scraping.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
because online had to be very different meaning back then.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Bwang!
- Comment on 600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet 2 weeks ago:
There's no use in reading theory when you refuse to think critically about it. Plus no where in Marx's theory does it call for or justify brutal dictatorial authoritarian regimes. The dictatorship of the proletariat was a philosophical and rhetorical construct.. Not a litteral one. Which makes the tanky squealing of "read the theory" even more hillarious. You're worse than the liberals you hate.
- Comment on 600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet 2 weeks ago:
The fact that anyone could think the flavor of authoritarian dick to suck is what matters. Rather than, you know,; admonishing both as they deserve. Never ceases to baffle.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The group behind it or others similar. When you are on a small self hosted instance. You are at the mercy of a hobby admins time and skill. Which is no dig at them. Sometimes it just becomes too much.
I have had a number of Mastodon accounts since 2017 with the groups Mastodon servers. They run themselves as a serious organization. Providing services of a quality absolutely worth paying for. All with donations.
- Comment on What are you guys using to sort and name music? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, 100% this. I use both of them regularly. A lot of new releases are on band camp and not even on discogs anymore. But combined with music brains Picard, they are awesome.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 5 weeks ago:
Firearms are a double edged sword. Maybe they help, maybe they hurt. But when society turns against you, and no place is safe for you. All the guns in the world even in the face of an unarmed populace won't save you.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 5 weeks ago:
Violence is the answer for authoritarians. But it never lasts. Because it's just a tool. The answer is respect, justice, and consent.
Without them you end up in inane cycles of violence like we have now.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 5 weeks ago:
And even there. There's no guarantee. Going to Europe where fascists in Russia, Hungary, etc loom? Maybe you'll be safe a little longer somewhere on the Asian continent with the currently slower rolling fascist forces there. But it's only temporary. You can't ultimately escape.
The question is. Where well the breaking point be for most people. What event will cause the public to drag these fuckers from their homes and hold them responsible. Because that's what it's going to take. For them to remember that they rely on us. Not only for their wealth. But continued existence. Only when that fear has been driven into them, will things even start to get better.
And it might surprise us. It may just be a red state that does it. One of these Republican sycophants getting dragged from a town hall. Assaulted by a whole community for their rolls in making things worse for everyone. Police are going to have a hard time locking up a whole town. And these elected ghouls that love to ignore their constituents will reel in terror. To be clear, violence isn't the answer. Fear is. The fear of knowing we far outnumber them. That they could be subject to violent accountability at any moment. Dragged from their safe beds even.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 5 weeks ago:
Sometimes there's family or other things you just can't take with you. Support structures you might not have somewhere else. Friends and neighbors. Mutual aid.
There can be circumstances that override that. But honestly, the more that flee. The easier it is to get what the fascists want. And at best you're only helping yourself short term. Because no matter where you go. They will come for you if they can.
- Comment on House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 5 weeks ago:
Yep. The United States was one of the bigest inspirations for Nazi Germany. It goes back to the countries founding unfortunately.
- Comment on House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 5 weeks ago:
Yep back in the 1930s.
- Comment on Anyone have the new c64? 1 month ago:
That always depends. But, if you want an experience that supports all hardware and software. You can buy it cheaper than building yourself. And you're supporting Chris/Perry as well as the designers who I believe are all now official commodore.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 month ago:
Define people. Because obviously people don't here. The average person I talk to IRL on a daily basis don't know what it is, have never used it, and likely never will. And a system where the people currently pushing this wouldn't exist would certainly change things.
Your argument basically amounts to "nu uh".
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 month ago:
Yes, I have seen posts on it. Sufficed to say, despite being an anarchist. I don't have an account there for reasons. And don't agree with everything they do.
The situation with those bans I might consider heavy handed and perhaps overreaching. But by the same token it's a bit of a reflection of some of those that are banned. Overzealous and lacking nuance etc.
The funny thing is. They pretty much dislike the tech bros as much as anyone here does. You generally won't ever find them defending their actions. They want AI etc that they can run from their home. Not snarfing up massive public resources, massively contributing to climate change, or stealing anyone's livelihood. Hell many of them want to run off the grid from wind and solar. But, as always happens with the left. We can agree with eachother 90%, but will never tolerate or understand because of the 10%.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 month ago:
The point is, most wouldn't. It's of little real use currently, especially the LLM bullshit. The communities would have infinitely better things to pit resources to.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 month ago:
And the point of anarchist or actual communist systems is that such scale would be miniscule. Not massive national or unanswerable state scales.
And yes, I'm an anarchist. I know DB0 and their instance and generally agree with their stance - because it would allow any one of us to effectively advocate against it if we desired to.
There would be no tech broligarchy forcing things on anyone. They'd likely all be hanged long ago. And no one would miss them as they provide nothing of real value anyway.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 month ago:
I see, so you don't understand. Or simply refuse to engage with what was asked.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 month ago:
While you aren't wrong about human nature. I'd say you're wrong about systems. How would the same thing happen under an anarchist system? Or under an actual communist (not Marxist-Leninist) system? Which account for human nature and focus to use it against itself.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 1 month ago:
Oh I have no issues with it being relevant in the same sense the Z80 68k or 6502 still being relevant. Just not part of a controlling duopoly.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 1 month ago:
Or, what if it just became irrelevant. It's had a great run. But honestly ARM has shown plenty of versatility and power. While being licensable unlike x86. And things like riscv have similar of not better potential.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 1 month ago:
Contacts are about control. When fascists are in charge. Everything is politics
- Comment on Why isn't Mbin more popular? 1 month ago:
Yep, reliability and popularity. There's still plenty of space for it. But I think piefed has kind of come in and sucked up all the extra oxygen in the room for the moment.
- Comment on ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results 2 months ago:
That and conservatives abhor thinking. They need someone or something to defer to. And LLMs can give them all sorts of moderately intelligent bullshit they've come to expect . From their leaders and politicians. But better and faster. With possibly even less accuracy.