teawrecks

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Both are good. Each behaviour is a response to a different problem. Refer again to my footrace analogy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  shouldn’t the selectivity be based on income and net worth instead of skin color?

  We should already be taxing proportional to income, and in the 60s when Affirmative Action was implemented, we were.

  But the problem isn’t just that there is a lower class at all, the problem is that the lower class is disproportionately filled with black people and minorities as a direct result of racism.

  If you think of it like a footrace, we ran the first half of the race giving black people a straight up disadvantage for no other reason than the color of their skin. Now most of the people in the back of the pack are black. We should already be helping all people in back to catch up to the rest of the pack, but this still means black people are disproportionately in the back as a direct result of that initial disadvantage. We could ignore it, and say that after another 300-400 years of equality, maybe things will even out on their own, but in the meantime you have a bunch of people who are living in poverty and dying, and we can scientifically say for an absolute fact that it’s a direct result of historical disadvantages targeting their ancestors based on race.

  It’s inhumane to look those people in the eye and say, “tough luck, we’d help, but we decided we don’t do racism anymore.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a remedial question, but that doesn’t make it a bad question. It is a hard problem to solve, and calling an advantage based on race somehow not racist does sound paradoxical at first glance. It’s important to be able to entertain the explanation without outright assuming you’re being attacked by a bunch of obtuse racists.

  Hopefully we agree that:

  • black americans are at a statistically significant socioeconomic disadvantage compared to white americans, both historically and to this day, and
  • this is a direct result of a history of systematic disadvantages specifically targeting them based on their race

  Let’s pretend the second bullet point has been solved, that systemic racism is over and done, and we’ve established a perfectly equal union. Even if that’s the case, we are left with the first bullet point as an ongoing problem. The challenge is now, how do you undo the very apparent damage that our history of racism caused, without specifically giving advantages to that group based on their race? And the short answer to a very complex question is: you can’t.

  So the US government instituted “Affirmative Action” the goal of which was to deliberately give a targeted advantage to people who have had a history of targeted disadvantages in this country. This catches you up to roughly the 1960s.

  But in the last 40 years or so, we continue to see lower class areas of the US disproportionately filled with black americans, and we also see widening wealth inequality affecting virtually everyone. So naturally we also see an increase of non-black people asking the same question as you: “I’m having a hard time too, why are they getting an advantage based on their race? That’s racism!”

  The solution was to tax the rich, reduce wealth inequality, and continue to normalize disproportionate demographics. Instead, the wealthy used populism to hijack the republican party, and convince white americans that the minorities recieving these benefits were their enemy. And after 40ish years of pushing this narrative, they succeeded.

  With the republican takeover of the federal govt, we can be virtually assured that any ongoing attempts to normalize these unfair demographics will be abandoned, at least at the federal level.

  But it’s still a problem, just now one for the people and the states to solve. If you want to support black-owned farmers in an attempt to help pull historically disadvantaged groups out of poverty, you can. If not, that’s fine, just at least please vote for legislation that intends to reduce wealth inequality. (Note that history has exactly two ways of reducing wealth inequality: high taxes on the rich, or war. The question isn’t whether wealth will get redistributed, it’s how).

  Tl; dr Yeah, it’s an advantage based on race to solve a problem caused by a history of disadvantages based on race.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *Besides the ones your instance has defederated from

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man’s exoskeleton useless⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Sorry, we can’t work on your machine unless your story goes viral. Just policy, you understand.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpacebarChat - a selfhosted, Discord-compatible communication platform⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooo I just found out element added support for drop-in/drop-out voice and video rooms. That’s the real killer feature they’ve been lacking I think. Will have to try it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpacebarChat - a selfhosted, Discord-compatible communication platform⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I saw that element is using jitsi under the hood for its screensharing. If that makes for a seamless user experience, that’s great. It’s been like 10 years since I last tried Jitsi, but it was not smooth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpacebarChat - a selfhosted, Discord-compatible communication platform⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TBH both disc and slack have their downsides, disc more so, so I’m fine if they just take the best of all worlds.

  But yeah, screensharing is the deciding factor for me. As much as all my friends hate discord, we use screensharing all the time (it’s just a bit jankier getting it working on Linux).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpacebarChat - a selfhosted, Discord-compatible communication platform⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This one is clearly made to look like slack, which is great I need to try this out. Just wish someone would make one that looks like disc. And then matrix needs screensharing support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpacebarChat - a selfhosted, Discord-compatible communication platform⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Discord compatible bots run on whatever server you run them on, they’re not owned or run by Discord.

  It says the client is compatible with both space-bar and discord.com, so yeah, if you use it with discord, expect all the downsides of discord.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I keep my forwarded port secure?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Normal for who? I wouldn’t expose SSH on 22 to the internet unless you have someone whose full time job is monitoring it for security and keeping it up to date. There are a whole lotta downsides and virtually no upsides given that more secure alternatives have almost zero overhead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full open source and private camera monitoring system⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see several Amcrest options that look like they have integrated AI object detection. Frigate on the other hand says you should get a “Google Coral Accelerator”. Do you know if Frigate (or RTSP, I guess) has a way to leverage the built in detection capabilities of a camera (assuming they are built in, and not being offloaded to the cloud)? Or am I better of looking at the “dumb” Amcrest cameras, and just assuming all processing for all cameras will happen on my Frigate hardware?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TriliumNext's first stable release is now available! 🚀⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hah I had the same thought. Trillian, though. Named after the character from HHGttG.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like this is the perfect place for Right to Repair legislation: the product is broken? And it’s outside your support window? Then give customers what they need to make the fix themselves. It’s not good enough to say “meh, guess you gotta buy one of our newer chips then 🤷”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I spent ~$35 on new cables and my LAN speed increased 6x⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I forget the order 5 times in the middle of crimping each side, so you’re doing better than me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich v1.109.1 released with optional paid license⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like having more ways to support the project, but I don’t think “license” is the correct terminology they should use, unless they intend to release paid-only features which I’m not a fan of at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now I have 1 GBit fiber and can't benefit :-(⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Something to look for besides bandwidth is actual packet routing throughput. It’s possible you enabled a feature (ex. Deep packet inspection) that is limiting how many packets can be routed per second given the speed of your hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have a IBM eServer xSeries 346, does anyone has experience with the ServeRaid-7k, to create a RAID array? Also, you can ask me anything about this 2005 beast!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is that? Does the motherboard effectively just not have enough inputs for all the disks, so that’s why you need dedicated hardware that handles some kind of raid configuration, and in the end the motherboard just sees it all as one drive? I never really understood what SCSI was for. How do the drives connect, SATA/PATA/something else?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pause alerts during the night⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern Android Do Not Disturb is configurable enough for you to do this. Allow your family contacts through, block the rest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My stupidity saved me from being hacked today!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re saying you see a bunch of login attempts on your router, but you don’t think they actually got into it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to auto-reboot if CPU load too high?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would assume that wouldn’t cause so much contention that the system is unusable, though, right? Unless they’re busy waiting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backblaze B2 vs other storage providers to store legally ripped media⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like OP is asking about file storage. Video streaming could be spotted using info leaked regarding traffic behavior. But uploading an encrypted file for storage shouldn’t leak anything except the size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your preferred method for backing up several TB of data?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using TrueNas with a nightly sync to Backblaze for years and I like it.

  It used to be called FreeNas and used FreeBSD. Now the BSD version is called TrueNas Core, and a new Linux based version is called TrueNas Scale.

  I would go with TrueNas Scale if I were starting a new one today. You probably won’t use the “jail” functionality immediately, but they’re super handy, and down the line if you start playing with them, you’ll run into fewer compatibility issues running Linux vs BSD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I bother with HTTPS over Tailscale?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I misread and immediately deleted my post lol. I think you were talking about tailscale VPN, and I was thinking something more like cloudflare tunnel.

  That said, the risk is still there that tailscale (or whichever middle company) can read your plaintext packets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I accidentally slowed down my nextcloud instance for months⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Good job debugging it. Where’d you get that list of IPs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Indeed and other job sites are saturated with scams⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is literally what public/private key signing was invented for.

  The person affiliated with the company signs their posting/emails with their private key, and the company maintains a list of all public keys corresponding to anyone working for them. That way, anyone outside the company who is allegedly talking to someone from a certain company can validate the signature against the public key to ensure it came from who they say they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open casting alternative (by Amazon?)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen Thread mentioned twice so far, but I don’t think I’ve heard of it, and apparently a name like that makes it impossible to find any information about it. Do you have a link plz?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open casting alternative (by Amazon?)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If something could cast from one of my devices to another of my devices using the cast button, that’s all I want. I can strap one of those devices to my TV and be golden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open casting alternative (by Amazon?)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks neat, though sounds like only the grayjay/futo app can cast to it, and I doubt any app would natively adopt it. Assuming it’s not just casting a video feed from your phone, my guess as to how it works is, it just copies the relevant cookies over to the fcast device where it can just pretend to be your phone as far as the server is concerned.

  This would be fine if it supports all the apps I use, and I’m the only one ever casting, but I don’t want to force guests to install and configure another middleware app to just to cast stuff. My hope is that Matter will somehow solve these, but I probably shouldn’t get my hopes up.

  I should try setting up fcast either way though, see how it goes. Thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open casting alternative (by Amazon?)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the same Matter afaik, but yeah, I had forgotten about the interop standard and originally thought “Matter” was specific to this casting spec.