queerlilhayseed

Of course I have. That’s exactly what I’m talking about. That’s a fair description of most of my family and most of my hometown, I would be hard-pressed not to.

I guess it depends on what you call much. influence campaigns are clearly profitable, at least some of the time, but just because the profits are greater doesn’t mean the costs aren’t still significant.

And, I think the more active people are in countering propaganda, the more expensive it becomes to achieve the same effect. I think just believing the effects of propaganda are inevitable (and acting on that belief) has the effect of making deception that much more economical and effective for those who wish to deceive for their own selfish ends.

Why do you say it like it’s an eternal inevitability? Propagandists spend so much time and money on propaganda because it has to be maintained at a certain pressure to effectively change someone’s behavior. The solution to the propaganda problem, then, is to combat propaganda, not wring our hands in despair. We’ve been busting up propaganda rings since the dawn of the written word, it can be done. Just needs people to do it.

Pretty fun! Damn ELF is tearing me up, I’m getting like 10 attacks per year. Why won’t people just chill and let their benevolent dictatrix help them ?

I started playing around with RedHat Cockpit as a potential podman-based replacement to my disorganized docker server. Only got a jellyfin instance running on at the moment, sharing the same network disk as my “production” jellyfin server.

So far, I am not impressed. There doesn’t seem to be an easy way to preserve settings when I want to update the image, which is one of the main reasons I want to migrate. I’d like to have a weekly cron job that checks for new latest images, and updates them automatically, ideally without me having to intervene, but that doesn’t seem like something cockpit can do. If I want to update a container image through the GUI, it seems like I have to recreate it from scratch.

Consequence of living in the state that gave the world the KKK. It’s an official state holiday, so it shows up in a lot of holiday presets by default if your location is TN. Pretty shit situation all around, but I get why a TN resident would have it without wanting it. I’ve had it in my calendar before :/

I have a similar relationship with iptables. Like, I can do it, but it’s the boring stuff I gotta get out of the way to make the interesting stuff work.

I think it’s good advice for beginners. If you’re inside a VPN you get a little more breathing room to figure out how to properly provision and wire up your services without having do deal with all the security and scaling concerns that can come from public hosting. Also, new hosters are really likely to set up their reverse proxy and not patch it and leave it open to known vulnerabilities that get exploited months or years down the line… not that that ever happened to me…

Anyway, I think inside a VPN is a good way to get your feet wet. Setting up a public website is fun but I wouldn’t advise it as a first step.