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Rowan Thorpe

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  • What happened to Cromite website/ F-Droid repo?

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  • I uninstalled syncthing-fork when I first heard "foul voices on the air" (LotR ref) because I haven't needed it recently, & decided to reinvestigate when I next need it (& the dust might have settled itself by then). In the meantime someone commented that you can configure & use vanilla syncthing on termux instead. I use termux for so much already that it is the obvious choice (for me) if actually true. If you hadn't heard that either it might be a viable choice for you too...

  • Effective tax rates before and after the Trump tax law

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  • Related: Someone commented the following gem on another Lemmy thread a month or two ago - "They get to choose their business model, I get to choose my customer model".

  • Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services

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  • It's always DNS.

  • Posing

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  • The one I'm really hoping for is a torch-song sung by Darth Vader in the style of Adelle's "Hello". In the video, Darth stands in a warrior-pose, fist raised to the heavens, fan-generated wind billowing through his cape, singing "hello from the dark side"...

  • Bands

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  • Inflected Mushroom

    I love this typo/autocorrect. In fact, I think it's a better name for the band. They should definitely add that "L".

  • Need help with VPN

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  • Anyone who knows enough about Wireguard, iproute2 tools, iptables/nftables, etc (firewall-marking certain packets based on criteria, then directing them through alternate route-tables based on that) can hand-roll split-tunneling, internal point-to-point tunnels/meshes, etc. For (most) people who want to achieve this in a less painful/fragile way, from what I've understood it seems Tailscale just does exactly this under the hood in a less arduous and more intuitive way for users, while also providing a static internet-facing ingress point when needed. Headscale exists for those wanting that but with their own static ingress (self-hosted at their own IP) instead of Tailscale's.

  • Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway

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  • Very well said. I will make a concerted effort to inject "hypernormalization" into my speech more often going forward. For decades I've been saying to friends that the reductionist obsession with "normal" (whatever the hell that means) is a cancer to modern society.

    In particular it already sounds creepy when you replace usage with its verb-form, e.g. changing "all my friends are normal" to "all my friends have been normalized". It's common practise to use a re-encoder to normalize a "background" playlist of songs to the same dB threshold so no single song sticks out and distracts us from what we are trying to focus on while listening. Similarly, authorities of an authoritarian ilk try to normalize populations so none of them stick out and distract from the primary focus (centralization of power and money). Hypernormalization involves taking that to its logical conclusion, telling the vast majority of people "stay in your lane" - meaning "shut up and consume, and when we tell you what to buy you buy it", AKA be "normal(ized)").

  • First Time Self Hoster- Need help with Radicale

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  • Just a heads-up to anyone who - like me - thought this was about Radicle and got confused about mentions of caldav/cardav/LDAP... Radicale != Radicle

  • Alternative to github pages?

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  • Although I agree with the implied sentiment that "the Perfect is the enemy of the Good Enough" (especially for low-profile personal web-presence) and that naval-gazing about protocols can become a counterproductive rabbit-hole, sometimes it can also be risky to oversimplify in the other direction without at least parenthesizing the caveats too. For example this "HTTP/1.1 must die" site points out how desync attacks make HTTP/1.1 robustness a bit of a game of Whack-a-Mole. For certain sites (even some personal sites) this can occasionally matter.

  • Silky Smooth

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  • The URL includes "-lets-learn-everything-" so I guess that is it.

  • France shows how Europe can survive Trump - YouTube

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  • For those who might skip this video thinking it will be in French which they don't speak, it is actually in English.

  • Email hosting over NNCP

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  • I hadn't even heard of the underlying protocol NNCP yet, and it seems to solve out of the box several things I was trying to do in some of my own hobby-projects. I'd been battling with automating and integrating Tor/I2P, Openssl, Tox, GPG, Wireguard, etc. If NNCP lives up to the hype it will be a big shortcut, when I next get time to work on stuff :-)

  • Is it possible to design a (pen and paper) cipher that is secure against government cryptanalysis for at least 10 years?

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  • In-band periodic key-exchange. Pre-arrange that keys expire every X messages, and that the last (Xth) message is dedicated to sending the new key encrypted by the previous one.

  • Tails no longer recommending balenaEtcher

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  • Thanks, that's good to know, but for raw-writing a bootable image to a device do you (or anyone reading) know if there are also straightforward powershell commands for mapping devices at the block level? (as opposed to mounting at filesystem level)

  • Tails no longer recommending balenaEtcher

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  • The article at the end mentions they suggest dd as alternative for MacOS (due to Unix user space). It seems the balena -> rufus decision is about the easiest-onramp Mac+Win-portable option, for those uncomfortable dropping to low-level device-writing CLI tools in their current system.

    Side-note: Last time I was on a friend's Windows I installed dd simply enough both as mingw-w64 (native compiled) and under Cygwin. So for Windows users who are comfortable using dd it only requires a minor step. When I once used WSL devices were accessible too, but that was WSL1 (containerized), whereas WSL2 (virtualized) probably makes device-mapping complex(?) enough to not be worth it there.

  • France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes

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  • In America, the rich controls the government. In China, the government controls the rich.

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  • So you confirm that we agree our most recent comments don't constitute a constructive discourse (we agree for our own differing reasons, but that's beside the point). So rather than itemising the hows and whys of disagreeing with your latest comment I will instead just wish you well and say goodbye. If you reply and don't hear back from me, please know that is not out of concession or rudeness on my part, just that at some a discussion needs to stop (especially when all agree it is not constructive).

  • In America, the rich controls the government. In China, the government controls the rich.

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  • ...cruelty is state policy in China.

    That is a very causatively specific thing you are claiming I said, which I didn't. Again.

    Your comments are frustrating to me because they're born out of ignorance. You have not spent the time to actually understand how Chinese system works

    ...if you bothered to learn a bit of history you'd see that...

    I urge you to actually spend the time to learn about China instead of regurgitating demagogy.

    That's making quite a few assumptions and accusations about someone you've never met and know nothing about. Have you genuinely considered that many of those assumptions and accusations might be wrong? And no, I won't (and shouldn't) fall into the same "courtier's reply" trap by itemising first-hand experiences, interactions, etc here because A) that would be inappropriate and should be irrelevant to a healthy discussion-focused dialogue - free of such "appeal to authority" logical fallacies, B) as stated before it is clear you keep arguing past what I'm actually saying - to how you reinterpret what I am saying, and C) after working through your false assumptions, false accusations, ad hominems, and misreading it seems you didn't actually say anything else for me to reply to.

    I made statements about various global systems of government, in general, and when you redirected and contextualised every statement to being consistently only about China, at first I did you the debater's courtesy of addressing that, but unfortunately that courtesy has a limit, especially when you don't reciprocate. As much as people displaying Said's concept of Orientalism irreparably bias and taint global-context discussions, Occidentalism is also harmful for the same reason. Both of them often veer discussions into two-sided, one-dimensional (and often zero-sum) arguments to be "won", rather than multivariable, multidimensional, fallibilistic and constructive debates. I have only been here for the latter but you are either only able or only willing to participate in the prior, so I say again it makes sense to just agree to disagree and move on. Anything else is just browbeating.

    Lastly, I would have thought those ad hominems alone should be delete-worthy due to rule 1, no?

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  • I'm glad that wording got clarified, otherwise people's mental images could have taken a disturbing turn. :-D

  • What's the longest internet argument you have had?

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  • This little exchange felt so wholesome in a deliberately counterintuitive way. :-D

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