Marketing gets people in the door; everything else about the experience determines if they stay on the fediverse or not.

I find that degraded performance is pretty much always preferable to playing Russian roulette with system processes.

I wish I could just buy more RAM every time I hit a memory constraint.

EDIT: There’s a more general performance reason for using swap at the default settings (doesn’t cover every case but is fine for lots of situations). At the default settings it will start actively swapping at about 40% memory used. This is because the system actively benefits from the fs cache mentioned in the article and performance suffers in low-memory conditions due to the fs cache not having free RAM to work with. You’re waiting more on I/O (which has a big performance hit even with fast storage) as opposed to getting files from the cache. As RAM use increases, you can swap some of the less-needed program code to disk to keep more free space available for the disk cache. The default swappiness parameter might not be optimal for your computer/RAM use patterns and you might need to do some experimenting to find optimal values, but overall some amount of swapping is probably a good idea

Why don’t liberals just spin up their own instance? Wasn’t that the point of making the code base open?

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Here’s another aspect of how crappy Lunduke is, as he literally always has been (seriously, I saw that guy speak at one of his first “Linux Sucks” talks IRL and he was fucking awful then too, I don’t know how people never picked up that he was a massive asshole). Danielle deleted those tweets because they contained sensitive information about Cassidy’s exit negotiations. It’s just crappy to both Danielle – on top of being a fucking transphobe – AND Cassidy to dredge them up from the Internet Archive anyway.

EDIT: I do like how Lunduke’s bootlicking ass admits at the very end that he can’t tell the difference between what’s right and what’s legal. Since the terms were published anyway – Cassidy has the legal right to do what he’s doing, but he’s still being an asshole about it. The first purchase agreement was totally reasonable especially for a project that’s likely to die. His revised terms make it clear he’s now just trying to bleed the project for money.

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We’re all going to be in for a nasty shock when we get the schematics and realize there’s simply no way to make those cards stable /jk

“Multi-polar” literally just means there are multiple “poles” of power. This is in contrast to the “unipolar” world order the US set up after WWII. Unipolarity is the real historical anomaly here.

There is nothing inherently radical about wanting a “multipolar world.” Do you know why we wound up with a unipolar world to start with? The capitalist international system was “multipolar” up until the end of WWII. WWI and WWII were the result of “multipolarity.” America took advantage of the chaos to position themselves as world hegemon. This is not an inherently stable configuration for capitalism so it’s now falling apart after a few generations. Now we have “multiple poles” again when in reality having multiple great powers competing for power, territory, etc has literally always been the norm.

It is plainly in the rational self-interest of every state other than the US to want a multipolar world, but in fact, all it means is the collapse of American hegemony. In itself, the collapse of American hegemony is fine, but we still should care about what comes after it.

As far as I can tell, the only real bright spot is that without American hegemony global capitalism absolutely will be significantly more unstable, although that is in itself pretty grim.

Users get to use networks on terms dictated by their ISP’s. My ISP blocks self-hosted email. They did so because it was not in their interest – spammers were using the functionality to run spam ops. They still allow for self-hosting, but as self-hosting becomes more popular, ISPs’ residential networks are going to become a security minefield and an increasing liability. They will tighten the screws on what people are allowed to self-host and how, or they’ll just make it painful to impossible.

You could do a “self-hosted” turnkey email VPS, I guess, but then the users have to rent and spin up VPS’s. You could run a VPS provider that provides an API to streamline the process, but now you’re positioning yourself to be the next big cloud provider instead of decentralizing the web.

There are political premises embedded in the framing. It’s an intractable question up until you ask homeless people. Dehumanization and exclusion of homeless people from discussions of how to help them are the norm.

You ask what “society” does with “homeless people” as though “homeless people” aren’t part of “society”

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See table “Email Hosting market share table” https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/email-hosting--23

Google, Microsoft, and Godaddy collectively control 79% of the email market. You effectively can’t deliver email if they – the first two in particular – say you can’t. So every other provider has to dance to their tune. This is, at this point, an economic problem.

If you want to re-decentralize email, and the web overall, you have to figure out what to do about the increasing concentration of Internet infra into an ever-smaller number of hands. I’m guessing there is not a technical solution to this.

This was honestly a terrible article. Social media is not now, and never has been, a genuinely viable way to organize. At best, organizers can use it as an auxiliary to spread info etc. This is what /r/antiwork was good for. But people tried to use it to actually organize. No. Organize in your community. Spread the word on social media.

The NYT’s basic thesis – this wasn’t going to make the leap to real organizing – was predictable even before the “collapse” (it still has 1.8m subscribers). Sorry if that bursts anyone’s bubble. Sharing content and consciousness-raising can lead to organizing, but how people were going about it on /r/antiwork was not realistic.

Of course, that’s to be expected. It was a lightning-rod for discontented workers. Almost none of whom have any organizing experience. It’s difficult to make good organizing decisions when you have no organizing experience.

The NYT’s way of exploring this, however, just amounts to a hit piece. After all, countless people reported standing up to their bosses in that subreddit and getting raises and improved working conditions. It does foment worker action and it was encouraging people to start standing up in their workplaces in a disorganized way.

The fact that the NYT didn’t cover this aspect and just focused on “quitting your job” and “hating your job” speaks a lot to their “journalistic integrity” in publishing this piece.

Most of the people I’ve met IRL who are boosting fintech and crypto are actually Gen-Xers

I’ve known like two Millennials who were enticed into it – by Gen-Xers, incidentally – and both got right the fuck out

Anyways, there are absolutely generational dynamics in class politics, although you’re right, the main thing going on is class stuff. For the most part, Boomers are just privileged workers who benefited from a social contract that expired a generation ago and are insulated from the struggles younger workers face, yes.

It’s class politics, and it’s generational, tbh

I always turn it off. It’s literally never reasonably accurate and it gets in my way more often than it helps.

Nope. Web tech is designed from the ground up to give the end user full control over how they render the documents they are sent. That’s why the pages are sent without DRM to your browser using a well-documented standard and every browser has extensive infra to let you write code that modifies browser behavior and allows you to automatically edit the pages you’re sent.

Content creators are free to bundle ads with their content, and content consumers are just as free to strip the ads out and refuse to view them. This is literally how the Web was designed to work.

You want something else, go help Google kill the Web and replace it with DRM-infested walled gardens and let Google tell you how and when you can communicate with other users as the inevitable price.

Under most circumstances you can’t even call adblocking a DMCA DRM circumvention violation because for most web documents there isn’t even any copy protection embedded in the page??? (Might be different for YouTube admittedly since there absolutely is DRM embedded)

It’s literally as if as someone was selling their novel as an unprotected Word document, included a bunch of paid product placement in their novel, and then got mad and called it piracy when readers opened the Word document and stripped it out AFTER the users had downloaded it.

Of course this is different with YouTube and streaming video platforms in general since they generally have TOS that cover adblocking and they do bundle DRM. However, it’s up to the video platforms to actually do the legwork of implementing DRM and enforcing the TOS, and putting up with irate users who inevitably get screwed out of money for one reason or another or just have the user experience degraded in the name of intellectual property.

Hostinger runs firesale first-year deals – like, under $5 – for certain TLD’s like .xyz or .online. The trick is that some TLD’s are also well-loved by spammers and you have to know which ones aren’t just going to get you auto-blacklisted. .xyz domains have caused me issues like this in the past.

Why does nobody ever stop to ask what the implications will be of allowing actually-existing capitalism to fuck around with advanced biotech?