Where do all the lovely self-hosters here turn when they want to chat networking or server hardware?

I know this might seem like a strange answer, but… IRC channels on private torrent trackers. Many of the people on these sites actively have large and complex setups running. There often is a lot of talk about hardware for servers and networking in those IRC channels. Or at least there is on the trackers I am on.

I know that’s not necessarily a helpful answer to anyone not already in the private torrent tracker community, since its often quite a task to get involved if you aren’t already. However, it’s one that I have had great success with, personally. To anyone who already is on a private torrent tracker, if you haven’t checked out the IRC, give it a shot and see.

Oh and don’t forget you can self-host The Lounge for a self-hosted web-based IRC client.

Democrats have always been a center-right party.

I’m sick of hearing this. Hillary Clinton was roundly disliked by a lot of people, not just conservatives. Remember when she tried to ban GTA San Andreas over the Hot Coffee mod? She literally went out of her way to center Trump in the media and used her media connections to promote Trump and Cruz as whackadoos, unintentionally giving Trump more media coverage. She thought for sure she was gonna be running against Jeb Bush in the general, which put a lot of people off who didn’t want another Bush or Clinton in the White House. She was rude to her constituents. She told a young black woman who had spend $1000 to be able to meet with Mrs. Clinton that she should stop complaining and run for office herself. Why are we going to continue to ignore a historically unpopular choice as a candidate and someone who doubled down on her worst takes, like being proud of her friendship with war criminal and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Maybe it’s not women as much as that specific woman.

Harris was a better candidate, but because Biden wouldn’t step away we didn’t get a primary, and that left a lot of voters feeling very much like we’ve had candidates forced down our throat by the DNC that weren’t really chosen by the people for 10 fucking years running. Why can’t we consider that maybe treating your voters like shit and constantly swinging to try to capture Republican voters instead of, you know, getting their own voters excited just isn’t that big of a draw. For real, bringing out Dick “Darth Vader” war criminal Cheney was fucking idiotic because the shit him and GW Bush pulled helped set the stage for Trump. I think this attitude that “America won’t vote for a woman” is a poor and honestly sexist misreading of the political climate.

People didn’t want a political dynasty with Clinton, just like they didn’t want another Bush (Jeb) who happened to be a man in the same election. Americans generally are against political dynasties because Americans are generally fickle and want to be able to kick out the last bastard. The conservatives for whatever reason are just too fuck stupid to see that Trump is breaking every system that allows them to do so.

Anyway, bottom line. I don’t believe that America won’t elect a woman. I firmly believe that if AOC actually ran on the platforms she actually cares about that she would walk all over the competition. I believe our last two women candidates were wrong place, wrong time, wrong situation and that this idea is the wrong conclusion to take from the outcomes.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398528748_Exploring_exceptional_minds_Political_orientations_of_gifted_adults

EDIT: Oops, originally just linked to a figure from the document, heh.

Amicable, but simple

Meanwhile, me:

*holding triangle block piece

…and you know what hole that goes in? That’s right, the square hole.

Believe it or not some people are quiet, reserved introverts.

To shreds, you say?

I may be wrong, but I think there’s a way to export subtitle files from mkv files using mkvtoolnix / mkvtoolnix-gui and then import them alongside the film itself if you import the source video file and source subtitle file into kdenlive. At least on Ubuntu, mkvtoolnix is available in the Ubuntu default repository. Kdenlive looks like it has AppImage and Flatpak as installation optionshttps://kdenlive.org/download/.

EDIT: Here’s a video about importing subtitle files into a kdenlive project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KiIc0OFn0w

What format is this video? Is it a file or is it like a DVD on your laptop? Or is it on a streaming service? Are you on Windows or Linux? This was a very good first attempt but there are some relatively simple (and free!) open source tools available that can allow you to edit the section you want to share more easily (unless it’s streaming, don’t actually have simple solutions for that). I would love to help impart some info on where to start.

Arguably, all cults are for dumb people, but that’s not that important right now.

Well and despite how quickly it has grown, Asahi is still a work in progress and has not been updated for M3/M4 processors yet, even when the M5 has just released. I honestly feel like old Intel macs are a waaaay better bang for your buck if you want a stable server box, all of them handle Linux pretty flawlessly, in my albeit limited experience.

…and they had only embraced PowerPC maybe 12 years earlier in the early 90s, if I recall correctly.

Hell, Linux runs great on my nearly 20 year old 2007 iMac. Gonna miss the Intel Mac era.

Unfortunately, we would love to be civilized with these people, but their way of operation requires being dragged down to their level to solve. Their only goal is overwhelming power, so our goal should just enough overwhelming power to stop them.

The modern world desperately needs government designed to deal with people operating in bad faith and being able to more easily prosecute people for bad faith politicking. We shouldn’t have to sink to their level, systems should be in place to prevent this kind of horseshit getting traction to begin with, “free speech” be damned. It shouldn’t be free speech to be lying, duplicitous, have an ulterior motive, gaslighting, or speaking publicly about perceived enemies with dangerous hyperbole.

I just don’t want to be playing the stupid mind games with these people because it never stops. I don’t want to be having to get down and dirty because they can’t be negotiated with. If they can’t be negotiated with, they shouldn’t have a seat at the democratic table to begin with, because they obviously don’t like the concept of democracy. Which of course they will accuse us of hating democracy from taking their abusive use of it away, but fuck them, they’re using it abusively and controllingly, not because they want to make a better world.

Probably seems old hat, and seems unaffordable but perhaps take in a play, or a musical, or if you’re lucky enough to be close to one still operating, take in a drive-in movie.

I always found that finding a reason to dress up at least a little and go do something fun together as a shared activity helped alleviate the boredom of the norm.

The TV show on HBO wasn’t, which may be what they’re referring to here.

…because of course it is.

I mean, at this point, they’re not entirely wrong. We can’t count on this obscenely broken system to save us by “voting harder” like we’ve been doing for 3 solid decades with nothing but things getting worse and corporate democrats barely fighting back against the worst excesses of the Bush and Trump administrations (and frankly being part and parcel to the worst excesses of the Clinton administration).

It’s time to follow the lead of groups like the Black Panthers. They understood the assignment. We cannot count on a system designed to be anti-democratic with anti-democratic institutions like the Senate existing to actually resemble a functioning democracy. We have to turn to Mutual Aid and helping one another.

I get it, a lot of those Trump voters would be shitty candidates to bring into Mutual Aid groups, but their broken cynicism is part of being left behind politically for decades coupled with lack of education. Some of them may still be redeemable and find their skills valuable in Mutual Aid and may start to grow in positive ways that they themselves would have never dreamed.

The citizen observers watching ICE are by and large average citizens, they are not our politicians, who more likely sit in comfy warm offices while the citizens freeze their asses off trying to protect one another. That’s the reality, is even though we have a handful of good politicians fighting for us, they are fighting within a broken non-functioning system. That is not their fault and that does not mean their fight is pointless, but we cannot expect them to do the fight alone, we also must protect and support each other… and that means trying to find the least shitty Trump supporters and bring them into the community fold.

Well, looks like we got ourselves a reader!