cecilkorik

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[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

On a similar but unrelated note, Lemmy also displays the two-hyphens as an em-dash, but unlike the trailing slashes, it does not encode that into the comment, so on piefed you still see the two-hyphens in both comments.

Fun!

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

And posting from piefed, is the result the same?

https://piefed.ca/ -- has a trailing slash https://piefed.ca/ -- does not

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They should be treated like the violent gangs they are, we have lots of experience dealing with motorcycle clubs and these groups are almost exactly the same except they connect sports and racism instead of motorcycles and racism.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 5 points 1 day ago

That is kind of the UNIX philosophy at work and you'll find that in a lot of open-source and self-hosted projects. The goal is to do one very specific thing really well in a small and streamlined package that integrates into other processes in a clear, defined and transparent way, not to be one of these super-convenient but bloated "it does everything and the kitchen sink" behemoths. It's a different style of software development but it's popular in the open source community for a lot of reasons, for example it's a lot more maintainable by a single person or small team with limited time. You'll find most of these large complex open source projects are organized and developed by companies (like Pangolin is), while the smaller UNIX-style projects are often written by individuals or very small teams volunteering their spare time. There are tradeoffs in either direction, but for self-hosting I think following the UNIX philosophy has a lot in common with a typical goal of self-hosting, reducing your dependence on for-profit companies that have a financial incentive to enshittify or otherwise try to squeeze money out of you.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 45 points 1 day ago

That's some damn fine work, sir.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 13 points 1 day ago

Those were the web-techbros. Then came the crypto-techbros, now we have AI-techbros. Very different styles, as you can see.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes, that's exactly who I voted for. This is what attitudes like yours have wrought. They lost my riding to the Conservatives. Because they're a fucking disaster of a party right now. Don't blame me. I didn't fuck them up. Their lack of credibility comes largely from their own members, organization, and choices. Not from voters nor any other external factors, and if you're blaming external factors you're wasting your time. Yeah there are some, but this was mostly self-inflicted and utterly predictable (in fact it was predicted). I'm a Peter Kormos/Charlie Angus style NDP supporter, and there's a reason the people with actual grassroots support always get sidelined and marginalized. The NDP is a sucky choice too. The people who would represent me very well are out there. Unfortunately, I'm not given an opportunity to vote for them.

First Past The Post is part of the problem. The NDP is another part of the problem.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

George Carlin already expressed most of the thoughts I share about golf so I won't bother expressing them here. Nice work.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 18 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I have been spending the last few decades bottling up my anger into a very, very large tank. Let me know when you need me, I'm hoping I'll be able to supply enough for everyone.

I always knew Carney could potentially turn this way. I was expecting it. I still would have voted for him (if PM was a position we voted for and I was not voting strategically, which my riding lost anyway) but my vote for him was mostly a vote for a pro-Europe alignment, which I still think he'll deliver, albeit probably not in the size or shape I was hoping for. But with really only two choices, it's really hard to pretend we're still able to call this actual democracy. We need electoral reform, and badly, and I'm not sure if we'll really get another chance. We're on a bad path and I don't see any escape routes.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 15 points 5 days ago

Do it the other way around then. All devices have youtube blocked by default UNLESS you have a reserved DHCP where it is allowed. I imagine if the former is possible, the latter should be possible too.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 4 points 6 days ago

A fair government will regulate fairly. A corrupt government will regulate corruptly. Unfortunately it's not within living memory of any Americans to have a non-corrupt government, so they hate all regulation since all regulation they are familiar with is corrupt pork barrel politics and industry protectionism. They are, of course, missing the target. The corruption is the problem, not the idea of regulation on its own.

The more innocent bystanders they kill as a consequence of the rampant corruption of their government, the happier they are because they think it means they're killing the corruption. Meanwhile the corruption is having a great time looting the pockets of the dead and dying.

 

Or more accurately, some kind of blend of a bizarre neo-mystical cult steeped in a wide variety of utterly nonsense conspiracy theories.

How long will it take for this cult to have its first mass casualty event, I wonder? We truly live in the stupidest timeline.

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