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This just in: not everything is a conspiracy against your favorite browser with a sliver of marketshare.

This applies to Brave and Firefox users.

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Pin worms dude.

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Literally nobody’s ass is that clean.

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Welcome to the Corporate Internet.

Get ready to play by Their Rules on Their Services.

Good thing a lot of them are useless fucking Dinosaurs like CNN that need to die anyway.

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I think you might just straight say “management skills” because that’s bare minimum part of their fucking job to organize a schedule well enough so they don’t have to have people running into overtime to get the job done. That is time management, too, because you’re supposed to know how long it takes each employee to do shit, and you should be fucking organizing based on that.

I’m so fucking sick of skeleton crews. I’m pushing 50 and the last 25 fucking years has been nothing but skeleton crews where if one person calls out sick everything falls apart. Sorry, that’s inefficient as hell. If one person calling out wrecks everything, then that means you’re doing it fucking wrong and maybe you need one or two more people to help cover the gaps. I’m sure it makes them beaucoup bucks in the short term, but the profits from ruining your relationship with your customer base won’t last. Eventually customers do get sick of being treated like shit. (Corporations are banking on all of them similarly treating you like shit so you won’t have any real options that are better.)

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Have you heard of this idea called “taxes?”

More than that, are you familiar with the idea of taxes being spent on more than just bloated military and police?

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I think that’s a valid take, and I think Valve has sort of re-evaluated it, because if I recall correctly, they kind of had to “put on hold” the “do whatever you want” bit to get Half Life: Alyx out of the door. So, imho, it seems like they’re capable of doing both. They managed to produce a high quality VR game by putting the “flat” on the backburner, and them coming back to it later.

Although, to be fair, I hadn’t heard anything similar about the SteamDeck or any Valve hardware, really. So if they can make a SteamDeck from scratch, an entire new product category, with the flat management structure, I bet it’s not holding them back half as much as some folks at GlassDoor seem to think.

I'm new to networking and self-hosting and have no idea where to start.

I’ve been slowly working my way though a list of skills to learn, both to put on my resume and as personal growth. Networking is the next thing on this list. I am not sure what I am looking for, but I want to start another project. I have built many a personal computer, but the world of networking is a pretty foreign concept...

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Not necessarily in this order:

  1. Learn the OSI and TCP/IP layer models.
  2. Learn the fundamentals of IPv4 and IPv6. (Absolutely learn to count bits for IPv4)
  3. Learn and understand the use-cases for routers, switches, and firewalls.
  4. Learn about DNS. (Domain Name System)
  5. Learn about DHCP. (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
  6. Learn important Port Numbers for important Services. (SSH is Port 22, for example. The range of port numbers from 1024 to 49151 are “registered ports” that are generally always the same)
  7. Learn about address classes. (A, B, C are the main ones)
  8. Learn about hardware addresses (MAC address) and how to use ARP to find them.

And more! This is just off the top of my head. Until you’ve studied a lot more, please, for your own sake, don’t open your selfhosted ervices to the wider internet and just keep them local.

And just for fun, a poem:

The inventor of the spanning tree protocol, Radia Perlman, wrote a poem to describe how it works. When reading the poem it helps to know that in math terms, a network can be represented as a type of graph called a mesh, and that the goal of the spanning tree protocol is to turn any given network mesh into a tree structure with no loops that spans the entire set of network segments.

I think that I shall never see

A graph more lovely than a tree.

A tree whose crucial property

Is loop-free connectivity.

A tree that must be sure to span

So packets can reach every LAN.

First, the root must be selected.

By ID, it is elected.

Least cost paths from root are traced.

In the tree, these paths are placed.

A mesh is made by folks like me,

Then bridges find a spanning tree.

— Radia Perlman Algorhyme

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

This might be funnier than all those Facebook accounts with warnings about “I do not authorize anyone to use my photos!”

Because they’re trying to copyright an internet comment that they posted on a service hosted by someone else, with a creative commons license attached. It’s like a step up in knowing how shit works, but still not knowing enough.

If you really want ownership over what you say… don’t post it on the fucking internet.

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The reason for the season is banging babay.

theguardian.com/…/risk-of-penile-fractures-rises-…

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I would never, ever suggest anyone get into crypto. It’s far too volatile for any type of reasonable investment scheme.

The only reason I even have crypto is so I can donate to the private torrent sites I am on.

Crypto isn’t outright evil, but you really should only use it if you have things to use it for, and aren’t trying to game the system to get rich quick.

Honestly, anyone playing such “get rich quick” investing games with crypto needs to be honest with themselves that maybe they’ve got a gambling problem.

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I would say that there isn’t currently a “best alternative” but rather there is a small group of alternatives that each seem to have “use cases” as it were (shocker, kind of how it used to be in the 90s/00s before Google dominance). But even from person to person, people disagree on what the best use case for each is.

There’s some focused more on “privacy” like DuckDuckGo and searX.

I’ve heard Bing has pretty good results for anything AI related for all Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI.

I’ve heard good things about Qwant for music searches.

Someone else here in this thread just brought up Mojeek, which is supposed to be also privacy focused but includes searching by “emotion.”

Presearch is decentralized, but I haven’t looked “under the hood” of how its decentralization works.

Startpage is Google search results but behind a proxy so Google isn’t getting your info when you search.

I mean, it seems like there’s a lot of decent alternatives. I wouldn’t be surprised if what’s left of the shell of Yahoo! started investing in trying to outperform Google at this point.

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I don’t need a 27-page novel to know the temperature and time to cook something.

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/recipe-filter/

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Beer is just liquid bread.

When you’re half dead and need to be fed: Liquid Bread!

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I fully believe this conversation works better when it’s Data and Lore, with Lore taking the role of Dennis.

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Poor people can’t afford lawyers to fight back.

Rich people can.

Ergot Ergo, they aim at poor people way more often.

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This isn’t an entirely “new” feature, in a way.

You always had access to see what your friends were watching on your own server. This is a consequences of being an admin, you kind of have to have access to that kind of data to manage your system and streams.

This seems to just extend it to showing you what they’re watching on other servers, as well.

Anyway, if the concern is that Plex, the company, has access to this data, then yeah, you probably should have read the privacy policy a little closer.

Jellyfin is there and doesn’t have a parent company to “phone home” data to.

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RIP Bill Hicks, taken from us too soon.

I do like the conspiracy theory that he and Alex Jones are the same person though, that ones funny.

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Surprise, your local cops are authoritarian pieces of shit who think the law only applies to citizens, who they view as an invading force here to harm cops.

All Cops Are Bastards, and the systems that uphold them as well.

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For what its worth, it seems like the board is claiming that Altman’s constant wheeling and dealing of the technology, including giving Microsoft a minority stake in the LLC, rubbed them the wrong way, and they felt that his increasingly transparent desire for profits was antithetical to the original purpose of the OpenAI Non-Profit, which was to safeguard AGI, not to market and sell it.

Honestly, I felt that way too, so I’m on the boards side with this one. It felt pretty clear that Altman had tossed out the “beneficial for humanity” goal in favor of “beneficial to me and my wallet.”

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And what else will I complain about when I go downtown? I want to be able to complain about how we need to clean the riffraff of the streets, but it gives me no joy if we’re actually getting them off the streets! I need something to fucking whinge about!

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Exactly. I fucking live downtown and I have more to complain about businesses that operate down here than the damn homeless.

The only “thugs” I ever see downtown is the posse of ten cops it takes to shoo one homeless person out of a park.

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this isn’t a meme, it’s just someones fetish.

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In this episode of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VokGd5zhGJ4, our Roman friend here learns the necessity of Not Being Seen during war.

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