PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @ PorkrollPosadist @hexbear.net

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Looks one of the processes got stuck. Possibly Redis. I rebooted the server and it appears to be working now is broken in a different way. I'll try to diagnose the problem.

Update: Tentatively, it seems to be working, but there is still a backlog on events that the server needs to catch up on. It looks like the Redis process got reaped by the OOM killer seconds after midnight, when some automated daily process was triggered.

Boo

Facebook isn't real. Discord isn't real.

A distraction from what, Nancy? What are we supposed to be paying attention to in particular? Some evil policy that will be maintained by the next Democratic administration?

Might as well liquidate my 401k and take it to Atlantic City myself.

I think at this point you just activate it electronically. You can download the installation media straight from Microsoft.

(Not to pick on you specifically)

for mass adoption someone's going to need to figure out how to make it as easy to install Linux as it is to install Windows.

No. This has been true for a decade already. Install Windows from scratch and it sucks too. It will be missing essential software and drivers. It will have tons of absolutely STUPID default settings selected. For mass adoption we need to seize the factories where consumer electronics are produced. There is no alternative. Until then, computers and mobile devices will ship with this garbage and that is what people will use.

The sticking point is not how easy it is to install, or the quality of the software (or how difficult to use and shitty the stock software is). The sticking point is that people are spending hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars on a machine and want it to work "as intended." They don't want to do anything they are conditioned to think might void the warranty. They'll just tell themselves "oh, it works fine I guess."

It is easy (enough) to spend $1,000 on a laptop, unbox it, set the instruction booklet on fire, and wipe the drive before even peeling the plastic film off. Most people simply consider this a ridiculous thing to do.

Dual boot is totally viable, but much less necessary than it used to be. I did it for a long time and finally stopped about a year ago.

If you choose to dual boot, I recommend partitioning the disk using the Linux installer first (leaving space for Windows), then installing Windows, then actually installing Linux. Also, Linux and Windows will fight over whether your hardware clock is in local time or UTC. The path of least resistance is to configure Linux to use local time (this is an additional step to setting your timezone). Finally, Windows has a feature called "fast start-up" which effectively hibernates the OS when you shut off the computer. This will make the NTFS (Windows) filesystem inaccessible on Linux. You should disable this feature.

Cracks are mostly just a cosmetic blemish. It will still taste fine.

If there is one universal constant of pirate media, it is that nothing is ever labeled correctly or consistently ever.

Well, they ain't proper. They still can't make up their mind what gear they want to be in somewhere around the middle of the magazine, but there is no chain rub on the derailleur cage any more. Shit rides spooky quiet.

I think the rear derailleur is just janky. It skips the same gear on the way up and on the way down. The limit screws are set pretty well and any adjustment on the barrel adjuster just makes the rest of the shifting worse.

I just realized can probably use my car bike rack as a "pro stand" to properly tune my bike's derailleurs.

Two (me)

Dimestore gourmands.

Folks, am I going to catch the gay?

This shit is so annoying. They don't cite any research at all. Just dig up a couple cranks with credentials who are willing to confirm their biases. It's like digging up a "historian" who argues Hitler is misunderstood.

That's the biggest issue I have with the FSF, it's all posturing with no substance. They should absolutely spearhead a project that would be an alternative for what Anubis is currently doing, or I don't fucking know try and find one to support and endorse?? Their inability to compromise for a limited time is way too annoying.

This sums up my opinion of the organization as well. The whole thing gives me the feeling of learned helplessness. The state of the World Wide Web is a fucking disaster. The browser duopoly is a disaster. Mozilla's position as the only 'competition' to Google, while being completely dependent on funding from Google is completely farcical and untenable. We are all Wile E. Coyote, standing 10 feet past the edge of the cliff waiting to look down.

I wouldn't describe the FSF as Trots though. They are 100% dyed in the wool market liberals. The archetypal flaw of the Free Software movement under their guidance has been the messianic belief that the market will sort everything out, and the only work which needs to be done is to produce (tautologically) superior products and services. While this has had some positive aspects (the software and services generally are superior in many regards due to this fixation), it has left us in a situation where Free Software is still out of reach, and essentially invisible to the vast majority of end users 40 YEARS after the publication of the GNU Manifesto.

The movement has completely failed to engage with the process of production whatsoever, and the results are dire. Across the board, consumer electronics are manufactured exclusively by monopoly capital and shipping with proprietary software which is more invasive and abusive than ever before. Only one or two percent of end users appear to have the means, know-how, or desire to help themselves. We succeeded only in building a commune in the middle of the woods, surrounded by an entire continent of surveillance capitalist decadence which pays us no mind. Free Software itself has proliferated, but it hasn't freed the users. It runs on billions of consumer devices around the world. But it comes in the form of an operating system kernel for Google's cursed ad-tech mobile operating system, or some audio codecs and shell utilities buried like fossils under several layers of proprietary SDKs on an Apple iPhone.

The situation is a total crisis, like most other aspects of advanced Capitalist society. The situation calls for bold action. A reassessment and change of tactics, at least. But the FSF seems content to remain in this meek holding pattern indefinitely.

This rant doesn't have very much to do with their statement about Anubis, but in this statement specifically there is another thing that rubs me wrong. You can make a technical argument that mandatory JavaScript puts considerable limitations on system accessibility (not specifically in a disability sense). They should stick to that argument. It is ideologically sound, if pedantic (pedantry is one of the FSF's redeeming traits, though). This comparison to malware goes beyond the pale for me. The FSF has guidelines on the development of free, non-obfuscated JavaScript. It is news to me that the use JavaScript in and of itself is disqualifying for Free Software infrastructure. Additionally, the comparison to malicious crypto-mining malware just because it implements a basic proof of work algorithm is absurd and disingenuous. Again, a rational objection could be made about the distributed energy costs, battery drain, etc. of requiring clients to perform a proof of work computation, but that's not what they're doing.

Depends on what you're looking for. You won't find western social media posts in the results the way you do on Google / DDG, but if you are trying to research technological / academic subjects you will probably do fine.

Got three inches of rainwater in the parking lot

Update: Per police dispatch radio, people nearby are being evacuated due to flooding

"Mom, can we have socialism?"

"We have socialism at home."