“Here are our plans for genocide”

Mimi really is So Scary

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Some people plan out their self hosting. I did not.

I started with a free tier VPS i had no idea what to do with. I think i eventually ran irssi on it but i didn’t know how to use irssi so it was just a trial project that didn’t go anywhere.

Then, my mom wanted to record jeopardy and VHS tapes were getting annoying, so we made her a kodi system that could record it off the air.

Ads were getting annoying, so we made a pihole.

It was annoying having files scattered on all the computers and Google drive, so we made a nextcloud.

Et cetera.

Eventually i ended up with a handful of raspberry pis all doing something, spread sheets and network diagrams trying to keep track, and all plugged into various UPSes, and trying to figure out how to use NUT so they could all safely shut down automatically when the UPS is going down.

So no, i did not plan from day one to be struggling with the complexity of NUT, or any of my complicated bullshit self-hosting bullshit. But kind of like the process of evolution through natural selection, the complexity built up through of series of decisions which call made sense at the time for solving some kind of problem.

The distinction is that before Trump decided to hijack it for political purposes, the US government put a lot of thought and work into official names.

For big things like the gulf of Mexico, or lake Ontario, there shouldn’t be a lot of confusion. But what about the little creek by your house? A series of inlets on a coastline? What if you have dozens of places with the same name; how do you differentiate? What if you have regional local names that differ from the name that outsiders use? What if you have competing names in general parlance? When you type it into a gps, where will it send you?

The U.S. Board of Geographical Names handled all these issues and more, and had been a trusted authority on place names, that mapmakers, businesses, and other governments all trusted to do a good job.

Still today, you can check out the GNIS and find out all kinds of cool stuff. Try searching for “Sugarloaf” to find all the mountains people named after a common thing, or “Denali” or “Washington”; you can find a lot of cool stuff on here, including alternate names for places. (https://www.usgs.gov/tools/geographic-names-information-system-gnis)

It is disgusting that the republicans are destroying years and years of slowly building trust and doing good work that helps all Americans because (check notes) it would be funny if he decreed the name were stupider?

Thank you for taking the time to explain this – I’m learning there is a lot more to it than i thought.

That’s awesome! Do you have any videos you’d recommend for someone getting into it?

Good to know. I heard it was :/ i guess a lot of it must be, or it has a history of racism or something

Do you have to see if the application you want to host is supported, or is it pretty compatible?

There are some windows softwares i want to run, but they don’t work in wine.

Are we human, or are we Dancer?

I think it’s worse : Black (aka racist) metal

How does winboat work?

Blender is world class, but the CAD softwares are leagues behind, unfortunately.

I would want it for Google Earth or similar

Anyone play song of silence? It is like a modern homm3, i think, I’m too young for homm3

I’m not sure what you mean to say by posting this picture. Maria’s comment was,

yyyyyyyyes. god, the share buttons… who actually clicks those? instagram users?

Which, given the context, made me think of the “share on Instagram” buttons you see on other Web pages, but not this picture.

They should have programs that support them and do outreach, not bans.

Best case scenario : uber loses so much businesses that the taxi companies can roll out a unified ride hailing app and pay drivers decently.

“Get out of here, Stalker! Release the Epstein Files!”

I am an NPC in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Shadow of Chornobyl (2026 Remaster – (All we did in the remaster was fix the bugs, it is the same game you know and love except for this one NPC now reminds you of the Epstein class criminals!))

It sounds like you’re both talking past each other re: is it the “share on Facebook” tracking thing, or the smartphone “share” button that is just how you export a file these days.