Because it's self-hosted. If you don't want to host it, element.io's instance is probably more trustworthy than Discord.
Arsen6331
joined 3 years ago
I think it may be a good idea to move this off of Discord by hosting Jitsi or something similar, because I definitely do not want to use Discord if I can avoid it.
It feels like we're living in an alternate reality where The Onion is a serious, non-satirical news source
How do people live with unread notifications? My brain won't let me. If there's a number next to the icon, my brain will not calm down until I have read, and responded to if necessary, every single notification. If I was in a situation where I had >500 notifications, the entire day would be spent just reading and responding to every single one. The only way I can avoid it is to never see the notifications at all.
That's not the only one either, there's a sequel
So, essentially, there's a perception in the US that nuclear reactors are always at risk of catastrophic failure and that if this happens, it will be as bad as Chernobyl. Therefore, they oppose anything even remotely related to nuclear power. Of course, this perception has been very intentionally created by the fossil fuel oligarchs.
At this point, it's been so drilled into the heads of most people here that they just won't listen to anything you have to say that counters this point of view.
A while ago, I realized how pervasive big tech spyware was. It's everywhere. In search engines, word processors, even the OSes themselves. Upon this realization, I decided to try to get away from that spyware, and researched how to do that. This is when I came upon self-hosting. There are certain open-source programs that allow you to do the same thing the big tech services allow you to do, but you host them yourself, so you control them. There was just a slight problem: I had no servers.
This is when I learned about "the cloud" and how you could rent servers from companies and then use those to host your software. I tried it, but realized I was just hosting my own services on big tech servers, so it wasn't helping. I'd been wanting a raspberry pi cluster for a while at that point, but never had the motivation to get one, so I waited until my birthday, collected the money gifted to me by my relatives, and bought 4 raspberry pi 4s with just 1GB of RAM, as well as all the equipment to run them (an 8-port network switch, power cables, etc.). Since then, my cluster has grown. Little by little, I've collected money and bought new parts. Now, I have 8 raspberry pi 4s (four 1GB, four 2GB), a Pine H64, a RockPro64, and my old 2012 Mac Mini running Debian. I also have an old 2011 MacBook that I've revived and patched to run the newest macOS which I will use to compile and test apps for iOS and macOS, as well as a Radxa Rock5 Model B with 16GB RAM on the way that I will be adding as well.
Originally, whenever I wanted to run a new service, I'd just kind of find a server and stick it on there, then manually configure everything and hope I remember where it's running. Now, I have a Nomad cluster with Consul and Traefik handling everything automatically for me. If I want to run a new service, I just make a Nomad config for it, and Nomad finds a free server with enough resources, downloads it, configures it, runs it, and then publishes it to Consul, from where Traefik automatically picks it up, sets up routing rules, acquires a TLS certificate, and exposes the service. Everything happens automatically. If a server goes down, Nomad will run the services that were running there on a different server and Traefik will reconfigure itself to match.
This is what my setup looks like:
At the top is my Mac Mini, a WiFi antenna for Home Assistant, and a RockPro64, on the shelf under that, there are 8 raspberry pis, under that is a network switch and a Pine H64 running the reverse proxy, and under that is a UPS that lasts over an hour in the event of power loss. On the right is my 3D printer, which is connected to one of the Pi 4s for OctoPrint.
This has been very useful for me. Not only does it mean I own my data AND my services, it also means outages don't affect me and my services are always very fast and reliable. I've had numerous times where Github was down and most people couldn't do any work, except me because I have my own Gitea instance, for example. I think anyone with the expertise, time, and resources to do this should do it.
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South Korea accidentally hit its own base with missile while warning the North
(interestingengineering.com)
I kept calm for the most part because he is an American teenager.
That's not much of an excuse. I am a teenager born and living in the US. I am also an ML. Before becoming an ML, I never really thought about ideology, but I was anti-capitalist because I realized before I was even a teenager that the incentive structure of capitalism must lead to misery because it prioritizes capital over everything.
This one is worse than normal though. Most of them just say "Stalin bad" or something. This ingrate decided that they need to disrespect the people who died for them, and that is where I draw the line.
I'm getting angry myself just thinking about how this person must be proud of their utter disrespect for those who have died for them.
This piece of human waste has the audacity to disrespect the 27 MILLION people that died? What kind of disrespectful, ungrateful, arrogant imbecile must this person be to think that's a good thing to do? I bet they're proud of their disregard for the sacrifice made for them to be free from the Nazis.
Yes, Capitalism does in fact create innovation, in precisely the wrong direction.
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I've hosted the webm and a transcoded mp4 on my servers as well.