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[–] wheresmysurplusvalue@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pretty cool, I found this explains the math behind it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffon%27s_needle_problem

[–] wheresmysurplusvalue@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know if this is possible or even advisable, but theoretically maybe the NIC could be hardware passed through to a linux VM, and then configure the host to use the guest VM as a gateway? It'd be kind of a nuts solution but it'd get points for creativity. Guest VM takes hardware control of the NIC and the host connects to the VM like it's a separate device on the same network.

Something like the question posed here

You'd have to solve a few separate problems that might not be worth it, unfortunately I don't have these answers:

  1. Hardware passthrough to the guest (does it require any special drivers on windows/is this idea already dead in the water?)
  2. How to configure VM networking properly so that the host can use the connection (is it enough to configure the connection as bridged?)
  3. Performance
[–] wheresmysurplusvalue@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

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Libertarian counterpoint: If businesses are governments, and government is just a business, then a government is basically a monopoly which is too big to fail. So a small government with each function operated by the market allows each function to fail independently or be voted out with your wallet.

So these are the counterpoints:

  1. "Modular" government is less prone to complete failure than a single monopoly government
  2. Small government is more democratic because of how you use your wallet to vote for all the different social functions

Counter-counterpoints:

  1. Capital tends toward monopoly. (Read Marx and Lenin.) Small independent companies fulfilling various social functions will eventually combine, and now you've got a few big private companies offering government packages bundled together. Now you're in the same position you were trying to avoid with "big government", except without any democratic input at all.
  2. You'll have shitty access or no access to functions which don't generate profit. Could maybe go off about ableism here.
  3. Voting with your wallet means people without money don't get a vote, and people with money get several votes. This is anti democratic.

What do you mean? It's 12:30 in Moscow

[–] wheresmysurplusvalue@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago

Only a few countries haven't signed the treaty banning cropduster munitions

[–] wheresmysurplusvalue@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Disregarding that his premise is false, I mean it used to be more popular (or maybe it's just my own stereotyping) to get married at age like 20 after knowing the person for only a year or two. Then they stay married for the rest of their lives, for better or worse, and when they're 65 they're sharing boomer memes on Facebook about hating their wife. Why is that preferred?

[–] wheresmysurplusvalue@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Regardless, Soviet sweets like syrniki are delicious. Smetana gets translated as sour cream but to me it's not the same as sour cream you find e.g. in the US. More neutral and fatty tasting by comparison.

[–] wheresmysurplusvalue@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Unfortunately I suspect the name Beryl will quickly become outdated

so-far

There's a free pdf on the publisher website if you don't need a physical copy:

https://www.iskrabooks.org/stalin-history-and-critique

[–] wheresmysurplusvalue@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

May she recover quickly and good that you were there to help :rat-salute:

[–] wheresmysurplusvalue@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hope this happens, but something tells me that even if the war in Ukraine ends, the Finnish government might continue their anti Russia policies for a while. I agree it sounds like an awesome trip if you can make it!

 

In Russian they don't say "I love you" they say "пожирать плоть капиталистов" which means "we are one and the same" and I think that's beautiful

[Screenshot of google translate]

Query: Пожирать плоть капиталистов
Result: Eat the flesh of the capitalists

 

No clue what they're saying but I'm enjoying the instrument selection and dance

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by wheresmysurplusvalue@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net
 

Recently I've been reading a lot about the topic of mesh VPNs (tinc, Nebula, Tailscale, ZeroTier, Netmaker, Netbird, etc) and find them pretty interesting. Is anyone here using these in some capacity at home or maybe at work?

My problem so far is that many of the options seem to be aimed at corporate use, understandably, so the developers can earn enough to keep doing it. This means the focus is on a centralized control plane, one server which knows everything about the entire network and manages firewall rules for all of it.

This is why I'm leaning towards Nebula, since I think the decentralized design just makes more sense. There is some centralization for issuing certs though. How do I go about setting up PKI? Is there some open source solution for managing certificates and automatically renewing them?

There's also the option of using vanilla WireGuard. This is my current setup, but I really like the idea of meshing, since it means I don't need to care if my devices are physically on the same network or not, the best connection will be used. Basically the layer of abstraction is a nice convenience that lets me think about hosts or services independently of the physical network topology.

I'm interested to hear your thoughts on this topic! What's your setup like and what do you use it for?

 
 

Запою я как старуха
От меня мило(а́)й далёко
Ой, залётка, дорогой
Дорожиночка (дорогой) моя
Все уйдут, а ты дождись
На тропиночке меня

Проводила за лес тёмный
Только видя́ костюм чёрный
Ох, чёрный костюм, помешал меня у
Его карие глаза, да режут сердце без ножа

Ай, скажите, добрый люди
И где старость продаюти (продают)
И где старость продаюти (продают)
А молодость ку-куют(ъь) (куют)

Я б сто рублей отдала, свою старость продала
Миллион бы я дала, а молодость купила́

I sing like an old woman
You're so far away from me
Oh precious, dear
My little dear
Everyone will leave, and you'll wait
On my path

I ran the dark forest
With just seeing a black suit
Oh, a black suit, prevented me from
His brown eyes, which cut a heart without a knife

Ay say, good people
And where old age is sold (sold)
And where old age is sold (sold)
And youth is forged (forged)

I would give a hundred rubles to sell my old age
I would give a million to buy youth

 

Considered one of the most important intellectuals in Latin American social thought, Ruy Mauro Marini demonstrated that underdevelopment and development are the result of relations between economies in the world market, and the class relations they engender. In The Dialectics of Dependency, the Brazilian sociologist and revolutionary showed that, as Latin America came to specialize in the production of raw materials and foodstuffs while importing manufactured goods, a process of unequal exchange took shape that created a transfer of value to the imperialist centers. This encouraged capitalists in the periphery to resort to the superexploitation of workers – harsh working conditions where wages fall below what is needed to reproduce their labor power. In this way, the economies of Latin America, which played a fundamental role in facilitating a new phase of the industrial revolution in western Europe, passed from the colonial condition only to be rendered economically “dependent,” or subordinated to imperialist economies. This unbalanced relationship, which nonetheless allows capitalists of both imperialist and dependent regions to profit, has been reproduced in successive international divisions of labor of world economy, and continues to inform the day-to-day life of Latin American workers and their struggles.

Written during an upsurge of class struggle in the region in the 1970s, and published here in English for the first time, the revelations inscribed in this foundational essay are proving more relevant than ever. The Dialectics of Dependency is an internationalist contribution from one Latin American Marxist to dispossessed and oppressed people struggling the world over, and a gift to those who struggle from within the recesses of present-day imperialist centers—nourishing today’s efforts to think through the definition of “revolution” on a global scale.

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