Ah. Can’t really complain too much about them wanting people who are putting load on their servers to pay for it. Ideally, that should mean that the end user is not the actual product. Good to see more options joining Inkplate.

Check for HTTPS traffic as well as the regular let 53. They could be doing DNS over HTTPS to get around the block, or a static IP for a nameserver.

Generally, I’d look to these:

• https://sdf.org/?faq?BASICS?04
• https://mastodon.sdf.org/about

The rules are not Lemmy-specific that I’ve seen but the overall policies are:

1. Don’t be a dick (no harassment, discrimination, transphobia, hate speech, disinformation, etc).
2. No commercial activity (SDF is both a non-profit and philosophically opposed to spreading the rot of the commercial www - people need spaces that are not about engaging in commerce).

I’m hoping so but, it’s still early on the West Coast. I’ll be hoping on the pubnix this afternoon, if there isn’t a resolution to try to get attention on it. We’ve already had messages sent via Mastodon, email, Lemmy, and, I think the pubnix comms, so, hopefully making more noise will be unnecessary.

Black farmers in the US have a particular history, what with chattel slavery and independent black farmers in particular being targeted for hostile takeovers and anti-competitive behavior from racists running big AG conglomerates in ways that other ethnic and cultural groups in the US have not faced.

Thank you! I did not know that. Last news that I heard about black farmers was about then getting screwed by massive ag conglomerates.

Of course! I’m not letting some fascist chud take over my BBS nostalgia zone without a fight.

Thanks for posting! Wouldn’t have noticed this until tomorrow if you hadn’t. I’ve lit the beacons to get admin attention and instance users are reaching out as well. If we don’t see it addressed by tomorrow, I’ll be logging into the pubnix to make some noise (I’m not a mod or admin but an open-source and pubnix enthusiast).

SDF is decidedly NOT a Nazi instance but one leaning anarchist centered around a public unix server and open source.

We do and this guy is clearly violating them.

Ooooh! I like that approach. I used to get half-pints in brewpubs specifically so that I could drink more varieties. For homebrewing, I really recommend the looking into Milds and Bitters. If going full-grain for your wort, you can pack a ton of flavor in at a low ABV.

Alagash White is great. Have any other suggestions?

Originally from the PNW as well! I have chosen “fancy beer” most of my life. When I was younger and looking to get trashed, the higher ABV and better flavor made due a good bargain. Now that I don’t really tend to get trashed, I like to drink “fancy beer” because I enjoy the flavor still.

A little tip, if you still live in the area:

If you homebrew and have soda kegs, February is about the optimal time for “no-chill” brewing. Just rack the hot wort into a corney keg, seal, and flip it to ensure pasteurization. After letting it sit for a few mins to become sterile, flip back upright and put outside in the cold (ideally in a bit of snow if available) and you get a bit of a cold crash while still not needing to use a chiller.

American here: American Light Lagers, like those of the BMC brands, are both one of the hardest styles to brew well and one of the worst crimes ever committed against brewery. They’re hard to brew because there is so little flavor that the slightest off-taste can ruin a batch. That’s also the reason that they are so terrible; they are little more than ethanol delivery systems that have enough malt proteins to sometimes have a head.

Want to get fucked up without tasting much? They’re probably the next best choice after a very neutral vodka. If you have interest in anything beyond intoxication, like actually enjoying the beverage, then, pretty much any other American or European style is a better choice.

Part of that probably has to do with agriculture. A substantial share of the world hop supply is grown in the Willamette Valley.

As someone who grew up in South Canada (US PNW), The Red Green Show will always be special to me.

Simplest is to just bypass Reddit.

Yes, my edit was a bit hyperbolic. The point being that current AI/LLM companies have been, at best, encoding data that they do not have permission to use into their models.

It’s like baking a cake, you mix in flour, butter, eggs, and bake it. Once mixed and baked you can’t get the flour, butter and eggs back to their original form and the final product is completely different

It’s more like baking a cake with flour, butter, and eggs that you snagged from other people’s grocery baskets after they paid for them. Then, started selling the cakes made from said ingredients.

Ideally, none of that would matter because knowledge and data want to be free and everyone would benefit. However, we don’t live in such a world. Instead, the technology is being used almost exclusively to extract wealth from people and make the average human being’s life worse, both in the short-term by reducing their ability to support themselves and in the long-term by drastically increasing consumption of fossil fuels and potable water, putting more pressure on the biosphere.

I can’t recall a time when I downloaded an album, took samples of the entire thing, pretended I made it without making any actual alterations, and tried to sell access to it.

Forgot that they are only able to do so because the Western capitalists have been trying to snuff out domestic organized labor and thus dumping huge sums of money into Chinese production for half a century.

Sad. I was rooting for their weird-looking trucks, though they looked more and more like vapor-ware.