There is a similar dynamic at play with black people. White people don’t like hearing that something in their mouth signifies differently than something in a BIPOC mouth

But it does. Deal with it.

Yep, 70s Winnipeg kid here, that’s what they taught us to sing.

Nah.

For starters, who will pay for the hosting and bandwidth of a monolithic Reddit knockoff? How do we prevent it from becoming another shitplug of capitalism? (We don’t, it goes exactly the way every other profit-seeking platform has gone)

And, MOST importantly: content moderation is impossible at scale; every Instance operator takes as many users as they can afford, in time and effort as well as money. The operators of monolithic sites end up doing things like hiring people in Africa and making them look at CSAM posts all day, so we don’t have to.

No, giant scale is bad. It was always bad. I have been here since 1992, you are really peddling terrible and ignorant ideas here.

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I know that I have liked everything Waititi that I’ve watched, so I’ll give it a chance on Jellyfin, probably. I loved The Remains Of The Day, in complete defiance of its non-SF nature. Have not read any of the writer’s books but I have one of them on my phone right now, on the recommendation of some random blogger’s post. Not this one.

But boy have I heard some vicious opinions about it.

You almost murdered me just now with a tuna fish sandwich.

With you on everything here, but responding to ask you, please don’t use the term “Epstein Class”.

Reason: good people like you and me read it as “Scumbag Billionaires,” but nazis and nazi-friendly people read it as “Jews”. I have a lot of Jewish friends, I’m talking about people not afraid to call a genocide a genocide here, who do not need any more grief right now.

edit: turns out I was addressing a (now blocked) actual nazi.

Regular middle-class Canadians are the ones that voted for racism the other day.

Moreover, the question in your mind should be why and how our systems have all become so threadbare and lacking in any amount of resilience. Hint: “finding efficiencies”.

But mostly, housing-as-investment-vehicle is straight up evil. There are empty apartments and houses sufficient to give everyone a place to live right now in most large cities. Government could be spending Billions on new, non-commercial public housing right now, and we know they could because they’re handing that over to Venture Capitalists instead.

Housing is a problem for damn sure, but it’s not the immigrants to blame. Nice try, but from a Middle Class Canadian who pays less than $500 per month for his mortgage while his friends live in warzones and pay three times as much for the privilege, you need to stop and look at Capitalism. Over time, you will see this more and more clearly, as your racist approach fails to make society any better, and in fact things just get worse and worse as long as you recommit yourselves to the dead future.

I don’t buy it. If Datacentres were the powersipping butterflies you suggest, why all the new fossil power plants everywhere? I would probably not have given a shit about the datacentres, if not for all the new fossil pollution that is part and parcel of the construction.

Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

I think yall have a massive racism problem that has just been brought to the surface, like a boil for the rest of the world to see on our nation’s face. If you want be angry at someone, be angry at the racists who showed up, and the “good” people who could not be arsed.

But make no mistake, you have humiliated us all. Fuckin’ Alberta.

Let’s blame immigrants for the fact that rich people have been using housing as investment objects for decades. So much easier than facing the facts about Capitalism.

I said Alberta is racist - you are the one who introduced the idea that they did so because they were too dumb to understand what they were voting for. I’m not saying they’re stupid, I’m saying they’re racist, and are on the record as such.

They voted for racism, full stop. If they thought they were voting for not-racism, they are not smart. One or the other is true.

Are you suggesting that a significant portion of the people who voted for racism, didn’t understand the questions, or thought they were answering yes to questions they didn’t understand?

Which is it, is Alberta proudly racist or is Alberta stupid as fuck?

I love how even though she’s committed not to bring up separation again “while she’s Premier,” people are basically demanding that she step aside for a fresh homonculus who has made no such commitment, and can have another vote next year.

Strictly speaking, I’m barely an acolyte; the cultists are the devs.

I endorse TrueNAS, mainly because ZFS. You want ZFS, I will go so far as to get on a video call with you and go over why, if I need to convince you. I used FreeNAS, the old name for the gratis, BSD-based TrueNAS, and it was brill. There are some very good videos on Youtube made by Allan Jude at Klara Systems if you want to dive in yourself.

I run my two servers on old PCs, and I echo that recommendation. You want room to expand your disk pool when needed, and you want as many cores and as much RAM as you can afford. If you don’t have ECC ram, it’s not a big deal for your files, as long as you’re running ZFS, but I would stick to containers rather than full VMs for your services. I have been using Docker, saved as Compose files, for most of my self-hosted stuff for years, and it’s nice cause I can basically nuke the server anytime Iike, import the zpool, and go start the services right back up.

I run straight Debian & FreeBSD nowadays so I cannot say what exact features are on TrueNAS these days, but ten years ago they had an easy GUI for setting up Jails (the BSD version of containers, sorta, it predates them I believe…), so I would assume that current TrueNAS does the same for Docker on some level.

Old PC running TrueNAS, that is the way.

I meant the generals of both opposing sides.

And they appear to have voted yes on all the “should we continue to be the worst motherfuckers in the universe and rededicate ourselves to balkanizing Canada?” questions.

I’m fascinated by all the humans dunking on the obvious LLM trollbot, over and over again, elsewhere in this post.