I call the dog "Dog" and if I am talking about a dog, it's a "dog", or I say "the dog". But if I say "I'm going to see if Dog threw up again", that's capitalized. "Lucifer" is always a proper name, "God" is used as the name of a specific god but is also a class of entities. There is an example of both usages of capitalization in II Co., 4:4.
@sjw@Terry@colonelj@iamtakingiteasy@lanodan@mint It should be easy to tell if it fixes it because the vast majority of incoming POSTs (including interactive use) are from bae.st, and another ~15% are from ryona.agency, so I wonder if that patch is on there. 80+15=95, so 19 out of 20 requests are from two instances that I am fairly certain do not, when the software is working correctly, send enough activities to swamp the server. everything_is_baest.png
> Wonder if it's related to recently introduced priority queue.
Sounds likely. I had a look at the diff (https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/merge_requests/4004/diffs) and it looks like it just uses the "cc" attribute and doesn't distinguish by type, which matches what I'm seeing: a big flood of "Like" activities. publisher.ex:141 and :217 and there's some discussion around the problem. When I did the dump, it was Likes getting delivered to specific people and to followers addresses. (e.g., Terry smashed that like on a post on some other server, but https://bae.st/users/Terry/followers was in the CC field.)
I was just talking to @lanodan (who did the merge, according to https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/merge_requests/4004 ) about some unrelated stuff (periodic "PL complaints" thread :terrysmoking:), but I'm not sure there's enough information even to file an issue. Code seems a little shaky (I have only had an initial look at it, I could be wrong), it does seem like it matches the behavior I'm seeing here. The dedup is trivial string match on line 258, maybe should dedup by host. I'm not sure that I have read the bit that handles shared/private inboxes correctly.
> None of that would've been an issue if sjw didn't shit his instance up with hundreds of bots reposting images from Danbooru.
I think they're responsible for a small amount of the actual traffic, probably just a lot of people following each other on both servers.
I disagree, it is a fun typeface. I have it laying around somewhere, like a TTF version, and I had been meaning to convert it to use it on Plan 9 (because hilarious). I'd done this with Chicago (the old MacOS font) and results exceeded expectations.
@mint@Terry@colonelj@iamtakingiteasy@sjw Well, I have verified that there is double-delivery going on after dumping some of the traffic. I do not know why. FSE indicates a successful result and then bae.st keeps trying to re-deliver and then it gets 5xx responses starting with the second time.
I wish @sjw would take an interest in this because bae.st today has been responsible for 6.8% of *all* requests hitting FSE, and 63.6% of the 5xx errors, and yesterday it was 10.7% of all requests and 80.3% of the 5xx errors and the server keeps getting flooded because everything on his server is getting re-sent repeatedly. bae.st is responsible for 53.54% of the POST reqs. It is enough traffic to affect the ping times. I am going to start just knocking /16s off the wall until my pipe is no longer saturated because I have to work. screenshitter.png
> [it turns out it is another build system] > [another dude has decided to make the nth "incompatible way of expressing a dependency tree"] > "Fuck everyone running a source-based distro. Play 'figure out how to build the build system' if you want to run this program."
NazBol, unironic "Stalin good". I'm speculating, I don't know if everything I have read about him is a lie or not, or how these things were received locally, or if he's just a mouthpiece for some kind of FSB glowop of what. For example, wikkypeeja says he invented invading Ukraine, and I don't think he invented that. It's a common trope in the media (spit, spit) to paint a guy as reckless and stupid and then, when people can't rationalize the "evil master plan" with "short-sighted idiot", you solve that by insinuating that someone else is pulling the stings. (I think it's safe to say that, given his career trajectory, if Putin were reckless or stupid, he would have been dead 20 years before he made it into the newspaper.)
> Ayan Rand was a nutjob from beginning to end.
She seemed like her main idea was "That was terrible...I want exactly the opposite of it." I can understand it on a personal level but I don't think it makes a coherent philosophy.
I think she was sort of propped up over here because the Cold War loved defectors and often misrepresented because the lefties hated anything that could be construed as anti-Soviet.
> It's the completely deranged Western politics of the past decades that make Dugin seem somewhat radical.
I think anyone saying "Stalin was *basically* correct, you just need a couple of tweaks" is radical even outside loopy US/EU politics. Not to sling mud at Dugin, who I can't say I understand outside being able to get the joke sysrq made, but I don't think it's a stretch to say he sounds pretty radical.
> Any form of Russian nationalism should accept the positives of the Communist past.
I don't know that this needs to be the case, but in general it's better to recognize real things and this is not something that typically happens in politics.
> I don't know where you are getting this from.
Like I said, I've seen him mentioned maybe three times and everything else comes from me reading between the lines on Wikipedia. I have no dog in this fight: if he didn't say that, he didn't say it.
> I took a look at wikipedia's source from 2012 about Dugin saying "we are for Stalin and for the Soviet Union" and came up with this:
It sounds like he didn't say it.
> I have been on and off reading his posts for some years now
Well, you could proceed with pointing out areas where I am incorrect, or you could back up a little bit and explain Dugin. I think the latter is a better approach, because I started off by saying I'm not a Dugin expert and he is somewhat obscure.
> This is a very bad way to think
I don't require any convincing on this point. Full agreement.
> I just don't like Ayan Rand at all, both what she expressed and how she went about realizing it.
Well, I think she discarded some universal principles. Like "Altruism is the worst!" is a terrible philosophy, especially if what you saw was not actually altruism but compulsory redistribution.
> He mostly talks about Greek culture, Othodox Culture and how Russia is/should be the natural continuation of them, rather than the West which to him is a false embodiment of them.
Yeah, a claim to inheriting the Romans' or Greeks' or ancient whoevers' tradition is a popular thing.
> Other than that he is very pro-current regime. Probably that's where the supposed Ukraine invasion stuff come from.
The journos claim that it was his idea and he is Putin's secret advisor or something like that. He doesn't seem like he's got Putin's ear to me, I think what Putin is doing makes sense geopolitically without recasting it as some quest to fulfill Russia's destiny, right? Any idea anyone has, you can find someone that suggested it.
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