And we know its forecasts will be very accurate, because we also looked into our crystal ball that tells us the actual future and both showed very similar outcomes. /s

No that’s quite accurate, they are against antifa. For example, Fox News hates antifa. They regularly call them a terrorist organization, use them as a pejorative or a bogeyman to dismiss protests or opinions. One could reasonably conclude they are very anti-antifa, making them anti-anti-fascist. This is indeed a double negative, which can be confusing and even misleading. If you seek to clarify the situation by removing the “anti-anti-” double negative, what does that make them?

… that’s correct, “fascist”.

Does that clarify things at all? Yes, I think it does. Interesting.

Canada isn’t the mighty hero everyone (including Canadians, including myself) want us to be. We do push back already. We are trying to be a leader in resistance and doing everything we reasonably can to undermine this evil movement. But if we push back too hard and too directly against them, we will get stomped. The things that have been going on make me worried we may get occupied eventually anyway no matter what we do, they’ve already started building the case and making the noises.

Canada is tough enough that we have traditionally, and figure we still can, get away with poking the bear on a regular basis, as long as we don’t poke any sensitive areas or cause any real damage. And we do, and it aggravates them, and that’s probably fine, and when they swing back at us they leave us with a few scars we are justifiably proud of and maybe a little resentful for and life goes on. But that’s as far as we can go. If we ever start knifing them instead of just poking, targeting sensitive areas and causing actual wounds, they are going to kill us with a single swipe of their claws and there will be no more scars just a casket, “Here lies Canada, who thought their vast territory and vast resources and plucky determination would protect them forever from being a constant aggravation to the biggest military and economy on Earth”.

It’s all in good fun as long as they also think it’s good fun. Now that we know they don’t, we’re just handing them more reasons to turn against us. We need to stop acting like we’re invulnerable. We aren’t, we’re actually extremely vulnerable.

We live in this huge collective, collaborative and willing self-delusion that, to be fair, was close enough to reality and worked pretty well for many of us for a surprisingly long time. I think there are too many cracks appearing in the illusion now though and thanks to the efforts of the hyper-ultra-wealthy the cognitive dissonance between what the illusion is telling us and what reality is showing us is becoming impossible to ignore.

…using this one simple trick!

Horrible idea. You’ll likely end up syncing a mess of unnecessary, incompatible and conflicting binary build files onto different platforms, you’ll end up with internal file conflicts that are impossible to properly resolve and will destroy your repo, especially if you’re still using git on top of it. Don’t do this. Git has its own synchronization mechanisms for a reason, they are extremely mature and specifically designed for maximum efficiency, safety and correctness for the task at hand, which is managing source code. Millions of people use git for source code every day. It is a solved problem.

Syncthing is literally the WRONG tool for this job. It is a great tool for many situations, but you are using it as a hammer when what you need is a saw.

You are correct, and I am still a bit sad about it, because gitea was a cuter name and logo TBH. But Forgejo is pursuing a technically superior design and socially better path at this point.

At the end of the day all governments are desperately afraid of making people angry (at them), from the healthiest democracy to the most totalitarian dictatorship, because the people are always the overwhelming majority, creating all the goods and services, creating the surplus that the rich and powerful exploit and enjoy, and therefore ultimately holding all the real power no matter how much legal, policing and enforcement structure is built around them. Some governments are just extremely creative at making people forget that or preventing them from learning it in the first place, while finding ways to manage their expectations to either convince them to be happy enough, or to make sure they’re always going to be angry at somebody else (or each other), or some combination of the two. They usually turn to the latter when they fail at the former. When they fail at both, it tends to become a revolution.

but I would not expect the stock prices too reflect that.

Agreed. One rule of the stock market is that while it might theoretically rely on sound fundamentals, it can stay irrational longer than you (or anyone) can stay solvent. It will inevitably fall screaming towards reality eventually, but there’s no guarantee it will happen within any reasonable timeframe and expecting it to is dangerous. It’s a rigged casino, the house always wins, and when they don’t their goons will grab you when you try to leave. At this point the billionaires own pretty much the entire house, and their goons are running the world’s largest military and police state. “Invest” at your own risk.

I love you, fellow champion of rational thought. Their money only exists by mutual consent. Their ownership of things only exists by mutual consent. We can revoke our consent. They have built many systems, of government, of policing, around us and around them to protect their money and ownership, but at the end of the day, even these systems are powered by people and only exist by mutual consent. Their defenses require us to be willing to fight each other, that is why they work so hard to keep us willing to fight each other. If we stop fighting each other for long enough, we might just realize they are simply frightened, selfish human individuals just like any of the rest of us. They may be billionaires, but they are not gods, we just cower before them and their systems as if they were.

We can change this, if we work together, instead of against each other.

Exactly. There’s a serious difference between what happened and simply applying tariffs, which I would compare as an analogy to an argument about who is going to pay the bill at dinner for someone’s birthday, which no matter how unreasonable and unjustified is not worth throwing away decades of close friendship or family ties over. This is an argument where one person says you’d better pay the bill at dinner or I’m going to kill you. That’s a death threat, that’s abusive, and that will not be tolerated, and the only reasonable course of action is to immediately and absolutely cut ties and file a restraining order. That is not a joke, and we will not treat it as a joke.

Redundancy. I have two independent firewalls, each separately routing traffic out through two totally independent multi-homed network connections (one cable, one DSL, please god somebody give me fiber someday) that both firewalls have access to. For awhile was thinking of replacing the DSL with starlink until Elon turned out to be such a pile of nazi garbage, so for now DSL remains the backup link.

To make things as transparent as possible, the firewalls manage their IPs with CARP. Obviously there’s no way to have a single public IP that ports itself magically from one ISP to another, but on the LAN side it works great and on the WAN side it at least smooths out a lot of possible failure scenarios. Some useful discussions of this setup are here.

Why bother hiding them when they can just convince everyone to carry them around. Social engineering has always been so much easier than nefarious hacking. We humans are incredible simple and predictable creatures.

I regret attempting to answer your question in good faith. I should’ve known you’d be an asshole about it. All your other comments on this thread are asshole replies too. Fuck off, loser.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Oppressors are control freaks and imagine they can completely control the reaction to every action. But there is always an undercurrent of change. It may not be visible, but that doesn’t mean change isn’t happening, that resistance isn’t growing. And eventually, given enough pressure, it will erupt like a volcano. Vive la revolution.

This is an overgeneralization. It is not always okay to insult someone for their state. In fact, I would argue that it is only rarely “ok” and that requires certain rather specific conditions to be the case.

People often do it without it being fully okay, because not everybody agrees exactly what these conditions are, and that creates an unwinnable situation where you’re guaranteed to offend somebody, and some people decide that is acceptable. Is this is a “majority rules” situation where if the majority are not offended it is okay? Not really, but many people (perhaps even the majority) treat it that way.

I would offer to describe some examples of the sort of conditions that apply, but doing so is fraught and dangerous, not just because nobody agrees universally, but also because anything I could possibly say about someone’s state, someone else will invariably chime in and try to apply the same logic to gender or race. They will use it as an excuse to justify racism and sexism as if they are simply being reasonable. It is a trap and I will not fall into it.

Instead I will offer you some questions that you can use for yourself to decide what conditions you might think should apply. And then you can feel free to apply them or not. I’m not your dad. None of these are absolute anyway, they are always on a sliding scale, there are always situational elements and not every situation is going to be the same.

• Does a person choose to live in a state? Were they born there, and did they have a choice about that? If they do live there, would they choose something different given the opportunity? Is it plausible that they might get such an opportunity eventually?
• Does a person sometimes insult their own state? Is it okay when they do it? Is it a joke when they do or are they serious? Familiarity breeds contempt, but sometimes we just need to vent about our own situation, and that doesn’t mean it’s automatically okay for others to do the same or double-down, or sometimes you are welcome to play along. How do you know the difference?
• Could the target of the insults be interpreted to be directed at the state’s government, law enforcement, education or other specific state-level systems rather than an individual or the state’s population as a whole? These sort of things probably qualify more as free speech rather than hate speech.

You’re absolutely incorrect about IRC. Would you like to learn? Open IRC federation is basically never used anymore and the few networks that exist are very stable (if not completely calcified), but it is a core feature of the design, and in the old days, massive interconnected networks of IRC servers like EFnet and Undernet spanned the globe, there were even some servers that allowed open federation (EFnet is actually named for it – eris-free-net referring to the last server “eris” that supported free federation), and at some points Netsplits were a frustratingly daily occurrence. Like with any federation, abuse is the reason we can’t really have nice things anymore, but IRC absolutely supports federation. Not very well from a modern standpoint since it didn’t really keep up with the abuse arms race, but when it was first conceived it was way ahead of its time.

“plaque” is what we call it in English. (which is ironically actually taken from Middle-Germanic/Dutch in the first place)

It does work, I have seen it working on another site. Again, I don’t have personal experience but I don’t see any reason to assume it doesn’t work. The comments including the comment closing the issue you linked describes how to get it working. When they say it is not “supported” they mean they are not providing tech support for it, but I can’t imagine it’s that hard or poorly documented.

IRC and XMPP are infinitely less painful, honestly, and both were designed around federation from the ground up, long before it was cool.