The worst problem in this world is that we will all be endlessly told to just work on ourselves and make ourselves better every time we have to deal with cretinous motherfuckers who will never spend a single moment of their life working on self-improvement or being a better person.

Some days I really wish that China’s social credit score thing was real, but actually effectively applied at real anti-social people. Like right-wing fucking thugs who chose to cough all over people during COVID because they decided they were smarter than scientists and doctors and it “must be a hoax!”

I wish there was a system to force these people into doing some basic fucking self reflection and choosing to be better.

Genuinely, my entire life has been spent being prosocial and trying very hard to be a good person, and every time I fall apart because I’m surrounded by selfish fucking asshole idiots, it’s my job to get the fuck over it, never their job to become better people.

As for you, specifically, a healthy workplace is one that doesn’t judge people for being different but instead sees the hard work they do and accepts that every individual has their own needs and can be healthy and productive in the workplace without being just like everybody else. I am so sorry you’re experiencing this, because you don’t deserve to. Your accomplishments at work should be the measure of whether you matter, not whether you are sociable enough that’s just silly.

If DNS gets blocked, can’t sites still be accessed as long as you know the IP or Socket of the server?

It’s not even a lot of work, it’s standard IT backup.

How do you think Google does it? With lots of redundancies and backups.

They’ve got millions of failover servers and millions of backups, but even they’re not perfect and data gets lost. 99% uptime is great, but lots of people still lose data or get locked out of their accounts. That’s not a new thing with Google. They absolutely do their best to retain customer data, but even they are not perfect.

You call it “a lot of work” but it’s literally the bare minimum you can do to ensure you actually retain copies of your data. Just basic backup redundancy. Those kind of redundancies that allow Google to pull a 99% uptime, but that doesn’t mean all their redundancies are enough when it comes to your data.

Lots of people who placed all their faith in Google have either lost complete access to their accounts or have had significant amounts of data lost. It’s not a guarantee that your data is safe with Google forever and ever amen.

Because the best way to ensure you always have a copy is to have multiple copies in multiple mediums.

A live copy you can access on your computer stored on a local drive.

A “cold storage” copy that lives on some kind of removable media, usually USB thumbsticks but can also be full but disconnected drives.

And finally a copy in “the cloud.”

It’s about distributing the failure points so if any one fails the others are all still available.

Like, for instance, if your house burns down you still have your cloud copy if the ither two got burned. (I personally would put cold storage copies in a fireproof safe.)

On the other hand, if your cloud copy gets deleted, and your local copies are fine… All you have go do is create a new cloud copy at a different cloud site and you’re back in business.

Lubuntu has always been solid for me for low spec machines.

With only 2 gb of RAM it will be slow, there is almost no avoiding that part.

This feels like wishcasting. As long as they can fake their numbers, I guess it doesn’t really matter because nobody calls anyone out on anything.

Tesla’s stock price seems unaffected by Musk bullshitting the most recent earnings call, or not enough to matter. Its still above $400 a share and this is after he finally admitted current hardware can’t actually do FSD.

The market is full-on irrational and invested in being irrational. Capital always aligns with fascism in the end. They will believe the bogus metrics fed by these companies for their “engagement.” The same people who fell prey to Elizabeth Holmes can’t see that all those profiles on Facebook and X are AI generated and automated.

Patrick Stewart with hair is somehow unnerving.

I know he had hair at one point in his life, but it just looks wrong on him.

Shout out to Brokep, nice to see folks using Njalla.

Like all techbros it is an affectation to cultivate a certain sort of appearance. A type of mad faux intellectualism.

You literally have to be a tryhard to do all lowecase on a phone, for example.

Bibliotik baybeeeee

Don’t sleep (yuk yuk yuk) on this. Get blood tests. Mine was cancer.

If you also have night sweats and are constantly tired?

Get checked now. Don’t wait.

Another common symptom is swollen or “hot” lymph nodes. (back of neck, under armpits, etc)

Hey they did support it until they were getting difficult legal contacts because some users were abusing it, and getting turned away by different hosting providers.

They shut it down to protect the rest of us who use it without abusing it.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-ports

Unfortunately port forwarding also allows avenues for abuse, which in some cases can result in a far worse experience for the majority of our users. Regrettably individuals have frequently used this feature to host undesirable content and malicious services from ports that are forwarded from our VPN servers. This has led to law enforcement contacting us, our IPs getting blacklisted, and hosting providers cancelling us.

The result is that it affects the majority of our users negatively, because they cannot use our service without having services being blocked.

I know the port forwarding thing can be a deal-breaker for some people, but it’s not Mullvad’s fault that they needed to remove this to be able to continue providing quality services for the rest of their customer base.

This is sadly one of those “this is why we can’t have nice things” type deals because when enough people abuse it, it becomes a problem. I have no ill will towards Mullvad for taking it away when it became financially and legally foolish to continue doing so.

Further, they’re hosted in Germany, so they must still follow German law and court requests.

God damn it these fucking techbro loligarchs and their dipshit nerd humor.

Hurr hurr we’re making a fork of the US government code hurr durr.

What a bunch of juvenile fucking delinquents.

SimpleX is taking a lot of venture capital money which makes it just slightly suspect, imho. Those guys usually want a return of some kind on their investment. I simply don’t trust the motives of technocrats like Jack Dorsey.

The Matrix Foundation, on the other hand, seems a lot more democratic in governance and stewardship of the protocol.

Blahaj.zone runs on AWS not Cloudflare.

Blahaj.zone is a smaller instance with less than 3000 users.

There is no character limit that I see.

At least on lemmy.blahaj.zone Ada has blocked nsfw instances, I assume she did the same on blahaj.zone. EDIT: I just double checked and for sure a lot of NSFW instances are blocked by blahaj.zone.

Finally, as the instance for transfolk, it has never at any point federated with Threads

Fair enough, sorry to be confusing to you.

Privacy good, corporate privacy invasion bad. Corporate media underreporting of privacy violations bad.

We never had an argument other than you keep positing that people don’t agree with this while they’re busy explaining to you that yes, they actually do, and you keep choosing to ignore that. “Corporate media underreporting of privacy violations bad” is literally what I spent several paragraphs explaining that you took as “yelling” and “disagreement.”

…but keep on arguing with people who actually agree with you and telling yourself they don’t.

You’re literally talking to people in a privacy forum hosted outside of corporate social media… and you think people don’t agree with you. We wouldn’t fucking be here if we weren’t already on the same page about such issues.

That’s on you, dude.

I literally explained it pretty clearly.

At this point its clear you want to misunderstand.

Interesting that you took a few paragraphs with a handful of explitives thrown in as “yelling.”