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  • That'd be the liberal indoctrination machine at work you see. No it has nothing to do with world experience and exposure to ideals outside the conservative bubble. That's just commie talk.

  • How can I get into the sailing scene?
  • Could just get a personal size boat to get accustomed to the feel of it. Be aware of the boom when you turn with the wind (jibe if I recall the term) lest you get whacked out the boat.

  • Downvotes should be transparent, so we can appropriately retaliate
  • Just what would the point of that be? Are folks really that concerned about some high score where they feel a need to engage in reciprocal voting?

  • What do you use to keep your media library organized and extract multiple archives?
  • https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/23648-tutorial-rar-playback-with-emby/

    I've used this kind of setup, not the cleanest and doesn't actually move/remove the rars but let's a media player import the contents directly from inside them. Doesn't make any notable impact on performance that I've seen.

  • FT: Ukraine, US, Israel in talks to send up to 8 Patriot systems to Kyiv
  • And with a major portion of US military aid grants coming with the condition that the purchased equipment come from US contractors you can argue which funding bucket it came from, but in all practicality Israel bought US systems with aid money granted from the US and then where willing to give the old systems they intended to decommission to someone the US is aiming to support.

    It really is just US aid to Ukraine with an Israeli sticker on it in that sense.

  • FT: Ukraine, US, Israel in talks to send up to 8 Patriot systems to Kyiv
  • Israel wants to get some gold star for agreeing to send systems the US provided to Ukraine now? What kind of PR lunacy is going on here.

  • 'Black Americans for Trump' event a 'major bust' that featured 'a sea of white people'
  • Something about 'I had a test done and it says I'm .000025 % black' would be my guess. Kind of like the folks that get all worked up about St. Patrick's Day because some long lost relative once visited Ireland.

  • This debate...
  • You must speak to a lot of party insiders to have such knowledge of the thoughts that went on...

  • 0.19.4 Prerequisites
  • I looked about for it and the PG update basically involves creating a new folder to initialize and then exporting/importing the old DB, but haven't successfully done so yet here.

  • Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?
  • They're a part of the mix. Firewalls, Proxies, WAF (often built into a proxy), IPS, AV, and whatever intelligence systems one may like work together to do their tasks. Visibility of traffic is important as well as the management burden being low enough. I used to have to manually log into several boxes on a regular basis to update software, certs, and configs, now a majority of that is automated and I just get an email to schedule a restart if needed.

    A reverse proxy can be a lot more than just host based routing though. Take something like a Bluecoat or F5 and look at the options on it. Now you might say it's not a proxy then because it does X/Y/Z but at the heart of things creating that bridged intercept for the traffic is still the core functionality.

  • Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?
  • It depends on what your level of confidence and paranoia is. Things on the Internet get scanned constantly, I actually get routine reports from one of them that I noticed in the logs and hit them up via an associated website. Just take it as an expected that someone out there is going to try and see if admin/password gets into some login screen if it's facing the web.

    For the most part, so long as you keep things updated and use reputable and maintained software for your system the larger risk is going to come from someone clicking a link in the wrong email than from someone haxxoring in from the public internet.

  • Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?
  • I have a dozen services running on a myriad of ports. My reverse proxy setup allows me to map hostnames to those services and expose only 80/443 to the web, plus the fact that an entity needs to know a hostname now instead of just an exposed port. IPS signatures can help identify abstract hostname scans and the proxy can be configured to permit only designated sources. Reverse proxies also commonly get used to allow for SSL offloading to permit clear text observation of traffic between the proxy and the backing host. Plenty of other use cases for them out there too, don't think of it as some one trick off/on access gateway tool

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    Isn't defederating with lemmygrad being as censorship as USSR is accused of ?(NO SIDE TAKEN, READ BEFORE COMMENTING)
  • Then if running a docker container isn't an option search through the multitudes of alternate instances and select one that agrees with your moderation policy. I'm sure there are plenty of 'freeze-peach' instances out there, for a while at least the infamous GAB was a part of the fedi, though I think they got pretty universally banished right off the bat.

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    Isn't defederating with lemmygrad being as censorship as USSR is accused of ?(NO SIDE TAKEN, READ BEFORE COMMENTING)
  • Fedi platforms have a key distinction putting them separate from most other online platforms in that you can literally create your own and have all the rights of a platform admin today, and have access to the very same content as you would having an account on another's node. In that regard there's much less room to complain about unilateral actions by the instance owner than there would be for other systems. As the size of an instance grows you run a greater risk any time you take such an action, but so long as it's consistent with past behavior it shouldn't be a major problem. Large instances like .world have made some cuts that ruffled a few feathers and then backed them off if people objected, but sometimes direct democracy isn't particularly viable in what might be a time sensitive situation.

  • The Dough Knows
  • Eat beaver and thine sin shall be forgiven, pretty sure that's what she said...

  • Why the heck aren't all the "old" series/movies available to buy anywhere?
  • Disney used to do that a lot, 'get it now before it goes back into the vault' in some effort to make it special/get-it-while-you-can.

    Having everything available all the time would leave them with little to put on a pedestal as a coming soon limited time thing. Just one person's theory though.

  • Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission
  • Should not, wonder if there's any adguard/pihole lists to smack OneDrive/box/Dropbox/etc domains and just take these services out before they can start.

  • Judge in Trump classified docs case questions government about funding for special counsel - ABC News
  • How long do we have to put up with this charade of her being an impartial judge? Hardly a day goes by that she doesn't entertain some absurd request to impede the case in whatever way possible.

  • All farts are funny. It's just a matter of degree
  • Someone pulled that formula straight out their ass

  • Ally in training...

    Hey all,

    So I'm looking to take an active step here to understand better some things that my straight/white/cis/middle-aged male brain has had a tough time wrapping itself around, particularly in the gender identity front.

    I'm working from the understanding of physical sex as the bio-bits and the expressed identity as being separate things, so that part is easy enough.

    What's confusing to me though is like this. If we take gender as being an expression of your persona, a set of traits that define one as male, female, or some combination of both then what function does a title/pronoun serve? To assume that some things are masculine or feminine traits seems to put unneeded rigidity to things.

    We've had men or women who enjoy things traditionally associated with the other gender for as long as there have been people I expect. If that's the case then what purpose does the need for a gender title serve?

    I'll admit personally questioning some things like fairness in cis/trans integrated sports, but that's outside what I'm asking here. Some things like bathroom laws are just society needing to get over itself in thinking our personal parts are all that special.

    Certainly not trying to stir up any fights, just trying to get some input from people that have a different life experience than myself. Is it really as simple as a preferred title?

    Edit: Just wanted to take a second to thank all the people here who took the time to write some truly extensive thoughts and explanations, even getting into some full on citation-laden studies into neurology that'll give me plenty to digest. You all have shown a great deal of patience with me updating some thinking from the bio/social teachings of 20+ years back. 🙂

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    And f*ck this guy in particular...

    Or, when you get a sudden windfall inheritance from on high.

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    ShellMonkey Monkey With A Shell @lemmy.socdojo.com

    Some dingbat that occasionally builds neat stuff without breaking others. The person running this public-but-not-promoted instance because reasons.

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