It would be accurate to say that the Internet reached a critical mass of user in 1995. I was here in 1992, and 95 is when media started talking about the internet as a necessary thing for businesses etc to get onboard with, and by extension, when loads on servers started to get wild. A communal pool of servers for the web community to lean on during times of extreme demand is still an excellent idea that can solve a lot of problems, but not if we let capitalists run it for profit. Never work.

Windowpane is LSD, but like I said, mostly marketing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsV-VV-u1Lk

Thai Sticks are probably still available in Thailand and still probably amazing. And in the 70s when Mexican ditchweed was all you’d find in North America, it was worth the peril to import the amazing stuff.

Nowadays, anyone with a light can grow equally amazing stuff. I would love to taste some real Thai herb, but it won’t get me more stoned than my homegrown. Thai smugglers are welcome to come to Manitoba and call my bluff, DM me baby.

Windowpane was more or less a marketing label on the same Shakedown Street sheets that made their way around the country in the wake of the Dead. They arrived up here via letters sent home. You can still get sheets but I have no idea who’s making em, probably dodgy Russian chemists whose families are held hostage…

I know almost nothing about ludes.

If it’s punk yer wantin, you’ll want Dead Kennedys and MDC - both old bands (MDC is still kicking as I understand it, tho) but lots and lots of highly relevant stuff.

Notable: on their first LP, Millions Of Dead Cops, which came out in 1984 if I recall correctly, there is a trans-positive tune called America’s So Straight. You wanna talk ahead of the curve…

This is the guy who wrote “867-5309” and “Perfect World” by Huey Lewis. He’s also a friend of sorts, I got my dog from him and his wife. It’s not famous but it’s a decent tune, and anti-ICE as shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evwhdPn8ONk

It’s rather deliberate at this point. They are at war with general purpose computers, because we depend on those in order to have GNU/Linux, just as we depend on a free and open Internet to have this platform. If they can get the herd to fully embrace these locked-down infernal machines, that will be it, on a certain level. We will have RISC-V and the ability to deploy to FPGAs, but the voice of Little Brother will be heard only on their whim.

Someday, everyone will have always been against this.

It’s a question of people caring. Many do not.

My response was clearly addressed to people who give a shit, which by your own words, you do not. Why are you bothering me?

“FOSS” is itself Newspeak.

RMS created the concept of Free Software, which has an ethical basis regarding freedom, community, and your ability to use your hardware in any way you like.

“Open Source” was invented by a corporate scumbag who noticed that Free Software was taking over all the server rooms and desperately needed to keep things on a profit-seeking basis. So he lifted the methodology and jettisoned the ethics, and called it Open Source.

If you give a shit, don’t go along with the gaslight. Never say FOSS - software is either Free as in speech, or Open as in corporate bullshit.

This: https://mwl.link/run-your-own-mail-server.html

I don’t have this book by MWL, but, when I got my first Sysadmin job in 2015, I took over a network almost entirely run on FreeBSD, and I was gifted a couple of other books of his, in particular his ZFS volumes with Allan Jude, and I can say that his work is easy to read and good at giving you the most basic raw facts of the matter. If you really want to understand email, read this book and I guarantee you will get all the information you need.

I am not his marketer, just a person who was helped immensely by his work. He’s on the Fedi as well, you can search in Mastodon.

Understand what a Reverse Proxy is, because you will not escape reading that phrase.

Host things with Docker for now. If you don’t start hosting until you understand everything, you won’t start for a long time and that is silly.

Use Cloudflare for now, because they handle a lot of security stuff for you that you definitely don’t want to screw up. If you don’t know what Cloudflare is, read up on CDNs and why they exist. Their Zero Trust Tunnel is the easiest and safest way to go, as long as you don’t plan to do anarchy or sedition on it, just talk about your household plants and dogs and what not and you’re fine.

Hi Trey. Stop punching down.

The very first time I debated a christian about this, in 1992, I asked them what about back alley abortions, and he said he would charge all concerned, the conceivers and the abortionists, with murder.

They’ve been telling us the whole time this was their ultimate intention.

Canadian here. Usians: make sure everyone you know understands that this is no joke. I live rural, I’m a socialist pinko but I live surrounded by rednecks, and we have conversations about insurgency on the regular. We have many, many Ukrainian refugees here.

He’s gonna go full Buggin Out

I think the thing that’s shifting attitudes these days - aside from the fact that stability has long since arrived on the Linux desktop - is that Microsoft has taken a nosedive in terms of functionality at the same time, with little to indicate that the situation will improve on their end.

A fully stable desktop that never breaks is not really on the table, but Linux is by far the most stable and user-centred one, at this point.

(GreenKnight23’s Internet goes out) (Lambo stalls and blonde turns into Steve Ballmer screaming DEVELOPERS)

😂

They know that whatever their money religion’s ministers say, at street level, NYC will be a great place to live, if Mamdani gets his way.