I was new to the city so I guess I get to swing because I don't have a bunch of friends to vouch for me...
Probably more than you'd think. My little server hosted on parts scavenged from a roadside sign claims to be connecting to 8251 peers. I would imagine that number would be quite a bit higher on a server with 1000 times the users.
If we can teach the upcoming generation that "Free" doesn't mean free, that'll be a good thing we've done.
Wow, you must have a seriously nice collection to be filling not just your local space, but such a large hard drive!
I can see both sides. On one hand, I had a lot of fun trying to figure out how to do everything in 640k back in the day, but on the other hand, being able to just use the memory you need and focus on solving the problems is nice sometimes as well.
I ended up putting all my movies in digital format using handbrake, and now I host them on a plex server.
My first adult relationship ended up being really abusive, and once I finally left after lots of nasty stuff, she started going to the police constantly for months accusing me of all sorts of stuff while stalking me at my new apartment, at my workplace, leaving threatening letters, all sorts of stuff.
Over all those months, the cops dutifully came to harass me every time she came up with a new conspiracy theory. I just wanted it all to be over, but it didn't end for a long time. I can only imagine how things would have turned out if I didn't ensure I had a good alibi from the moment I left her house that night.
Privileging anyone with an presumption of victimhood is dangerous. Particularly once those people realize they have that presumption, they can use it to turn the tools meant to protect abused into tools of the abuser.
That's one of the reasons why there needs to be an impartial process, because in the passion of the moment sometimes your lynch mob gets it wrong.
Over all those months, the cops dutifully came to harass me every time she came up with a new conspiracy theory. I just wanted it all to be over, but it didn't end for a long time. I can only imagine how things would have turned out if I didn't ensure I had a good alibi from the moment I left her house that night.
Privileging anyone with an presumption of victimhood is dangerous. Particularly once those people realize they have that presumption, they can use it to turn the tools meant to protect abused into tools of the abuser.
That's one of the reasons why there needs to be an impartial process, because in the passion of the moment sometimes your lynch mob gets it wrong.
This is absolutely true. The entire world economy has solely been propped up on money printing and debt, which has been really good for a small number of people who have managed to gather up all of that debt and all of that money, but there's been stagnation in true productivity meaning that the average person's quality of life has been dropping like a rock.
The sad thing is that people who need to know better don't. Like children, they think that the answer to people not having enough money is to just give them more money.
The sad thing is that people who need to know better don't. Like children, they think that the answer to people not having enough money is to just give them more money.
If you think about it though, it's the danger of being wildly successful. If you end up creating a car company larger than every other car company on the planet combined, and then and a claimed space company, and you have a bunch of other things that seem to be doing fine, the message that the entire universe is sending you is that you're something special.
That's how you overextend yourself, and we really do see it with a lot of these really successful people.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure Elon works very hard and makes a lot of good decisions, you don't get to be in the spot that he's in without doing some things right, but there's an awful lot of stuff that was pure chance as well. Just happened to be the guy running the company that all the investors decided to dump all their money in during an era of unprecedented money printing. Just happened to become the darling of the environmental movement. Just happened to become super rich in the com blow up, and be one of the few people to keep their wealth.
Once you temper your view of yourself as an infinite genius with the reality that no matter how infinite your genius and how virtuous your life is, you only get the opportunities that you get, and if you're the best it's probably because you got some opportunities someone else didn't, then you stop imagining that everything that you do is going to be immediately and automatically successful.
Now getting away from all that stuff for a second, seems to me that if you wanted to produce an open ecosystem, it would make a lot more sense to support the existing open ecosystems. Instead of making a brand new operating system, pay some people to contribute to the existing open operating systems such as mobian, and if you're going to make a new phone, figure out how to make one that's powerful enough to run the software that already exists. Pine phone is great, but it's like a 15-year-old phone and that is immediately apparent once you load Android on it.
That's how you overextend yourself, and we really do see it with a lot of these really successful people.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure Elon works very hard and makes a lot of good decisions, you don't get to be in the spot that he's in without doing some things right, but there's an awful lot of stuff that was pure chance as well. Just happened to be the guy running the company that all the investors decided to dump all their money in during an era of unprecedented money printing. Just happened to become the darling of the environmental movement. Just happened to become super rich in the com blow up, and be one of the few people to keep their wealth.
Once you temper your view of yourself as an infinite genius with the reality that no matter how infinite your genius and how virtuous your life is, you only get the opportunities that you get, and if you're the best it's probably because you got some opportunities someone else didn't, then you stop imagining that everything that you do is going to be immediately and automatically successful.
Now getting away from all that stuff for a second, seems to me that if you wanted to produce an open ecosystem, it would make a lot more sense to support the existing open ecosystems. Instead of making a brand new operating system, pay some people to contribute to the existing open operating systems such as mobian, and if you're going to make a new phone, figure out how to make one that's powerful enough to run the software that already exists. Pine phone is great, but it's like a 15-year-old phone and that is immediately apparent once you load Android on it.
It's really interesting having a server with way too much memory for what you're using it for. I started with a server with 2 gigabytes of ram, then bumped it up to four, and then eventually ended up with 16. So at this point I have more memory then I had memory and swap at various times, and it's surprisingly challenging trying to force the server to keep things in memory rather than hammer the hard drive. I had my swappiness down to one, now I'm trying zero to see how that works.
The implied conspiracy theory that people saying that have is hilarious.
"All kinds of people went on to a platform that I wasn't on years and years and years ago, and created multiple communities running across thousands of servers in dozens of countries on a platform they had absolutely no idea that I would come to, and this is all been a massive conspiracy theory to attack me personally in the unlikely event that a billionaire that I don't like by the platform that I prefer using and I tried to migrate"
Talk about the pettiest 15 dimensional xanatos festival!
"All kinds of people went on to a platform that I wasn't on years and years and years ago, and created multiple communities running across thousands of servers in dozens of countries on a platform they had absolutely no idea that I would come to, and this is all been a massive conspiracy theory to attack me personally in the unlikely event that a billionaire that I don't like by the platform that I prefer using and I tried to migrate"
Talk about the pettiest 15 dimensional xanatos festival!
The thing I find most baffling is the fact that these people who are complaining about how hard things are aren't even running their own instances. They're just coming to a website someone else is running for free without any advertising and complaining that it doesn't cater to them.
I hate to swing around the e word, but it kind of seems super entitled. "I have been here for 37 seconds, let me tell you what you are doing wrong on the platform you have been happily enjoying for the past few years"
I hate to swing around the e word, but it kind of seems super entitled. "I have been here for 37 seconds, let me tell you what you are doing wrong on the platform you have been happily enjoying for the past few years"
Completely different application of rules is a huge one. Over 150 days of violent riots causing hundreds of millions of dollars and including explosives attacks on courthouses, an attack on the Whitehouse that sent the president into a bunker, buildings burned down with innocent people inside, and occupation by a group claiming to be autonomous of the government were "mostly peaceful protests" and most people involved were released immediately. Contrast with j6 or the trucker convoy, it's clear not all people are treated equally under the law.
People leave corporate big tech for a place that is literally its opposite, and then they bitch that it's not big tech.
Guys! Big tech is that way! 👈 If that's what you want you can go back and have it!
Guys! Big tech is that way! 👈 If that's what you want you can go back and have it!
I find when I go into an exclusively right wing space I start to think "oh, I must be left wing" and when I go I to an exclusively left wing space I start to think "oh, I must be right wing"
Honestly, I would prefer not to throw in with either one entirely because you end up getting a whole bunch of weird baggage. It's like, if you agree that the government should really be balancing budgets then you also have to agree that children should be forced to pray to a religion they don't necessarily follow in schools. On the flip side, if you agree that we should be doing more to help the poor, you also have to believe that we should be trying to destroy the family. I'm sure that that works out very well for certain people who don't really want to have to think a whole lot about their political ideology, but I actually do want to think about my political ideology. I want to make decisions about what I support on the case by case basis and sometimes the things that I'm going to support are not going to be on the same "side".
So there's a fallacy out there saying that because you don't support one side or the other you don't have any strong opinions about anything, I think that's completely wrong. Just because you aren't walking in lockstep with a certain complete ideology that someone else developed does not mean that you don't have your own ideology consisting of strong opinions.
The thing is, if you look at the world and make your own decisions, you make a very poor pawn. Nuance and discussion amongst many people may come up with very good ideas, but it doesn't build an army -- and the powers that be want an army.
Honestly, I would prefer not to throw in with either one entirely because you end up getting a whole bunch of weird baggage. It's like, if you agree that the government should really be balancing budgets then you also have to agree that children should be forced to pray to a religion they don't necessarily follow in schools. On the flip side, if you agree that we should be doing more to help the poor, you also have to believe that we should be trying to destroy the family. I'm sure that that works out very well for certain people who don't really want to have to think a whole lot about their political ideology, but I actually do want to think about my political ideology. I want to make decisions about what I support on the case by case basis and sometimes the things that I'm going to support are not going to be on the same "side".
So there's a fallacy out there saying that because you don't support one side or the other you don't have any strong opinions about anything, I think that's completely wrong. Just because you aren't walking in lockstep with a certain complete ideology that someone else developed does not mean that you don't have your own ideology consisting of strong opinions.
The thing is, if you look at the world and make your own decisions, you make a very poor pawn. Nuance and discussion amongst many people may come up with very good ideas, but it doesn't build an army -- and the powers that be want an army.