Notices by sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net), page 2
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 09:49:10 JST 
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"Trump Shooter Cause of Death Revealed" -- I found this news headline unintentionally hilarious.
Was it the bullet to the face? I bet it was the bullet to the face. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 11:51:24 JST
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Everyone should really try to set up a searx instance on their machines. There's only a few hundred users right now. If enough decent folks started running it and scraped a little piece of the Internet they care about (you can even set it up as a proxy server to scrape any site you've been to) then we'd have a search platform that, while imperfect, would at least actually have all the sites places like Google refuses to show. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jul-2024 22:06:17 JST
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Yes, the conception of a nation as just a geographical area and a democratic government slapped on top is I think a product of the modern period's colonialism, resulting global empires such as the English, Spanish, Portuguese, and to a lesser extent powers like France, and existing nations like the United States that don't have those long histories and relatively unified ethnicity. In that sense, premodern states were effective ethnostates.
I'm using the word in the modern sense since that's how we use it today because it helps people (including myself) who were confused by the concept of national socialism in a postmodern world that doesn't see nations that way colloquially anymore.
I'm hypocritical in my distaste for the use of the word neoliberal in such a way that it represents an effective growing of government while pretending to do the opposite by reducing public services. I recognize that that is how it is come to be known now, however.
Something a lot of leftists don't seem to realize is that the social liberalism is just a tool for the destruction of capitalism. In every example on record they'd open up to degenerates until they're in power then they call that behavior anti-revolutionary and crack down. Every time. I could see a winning ideology that proposed socialism but also was against the absolute degeneracy of the Weimar Republic being tempting for communists who want to get closer to socialism and see what the Weimar republic showed them as capitalist decadence and decline suggesting all capitalism was about to collapse. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 23:23:24 JST
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Follows directly. The PRC may not be "your guys" but in that moment while doing the thing you want them to do and you apologized for and you defended, that guy is "your guy".
Besides, it's looking increasing like it's a far left American. Which it would make sense for it to be. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 23:22:55 JST
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I deleted the post moments after writing it because I don't really feel like getting into a dumb political argument.
But it's pretty simple: If you're sitting there cheering for an attempted assassination, or apologizing for it, then the assassin is one of "your guys".
I hate a lot of politicians, and joking aside I don't want any of them assassinated. I want Justin Trudeau to lose in disgrace and go live out his days in California, not painting the steps of parliament. If someone tried to kill Trudeau, even with all he's done, I'll condemn that guy because once assassinations hit the table, they stay on the table, and it won't take 80 years for republics to end. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 16:21:45 JST
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Most people don't realize just how fucked up the world economy is right now. Capitalism is long over. You don't have capitalism when 50% of GDP is the state in most countries, or when blue collar workers pay 50% taxes on the last dollar they earn. By contrast, my great grandparents paid no income taxes and the government was about 10% of the economy.
"But look at all the super-rich people!" Yeah, that happens every time the state becomes massive because the powerful people in government make sure their friends and allies are taken care of. It has gone on for millennia in every region of the world because power corrupts.
We're living in a totalitarian civilization because at some point we decided that "everything is political" and thus under the purview of the government. Of course there's corruption and greed. We used to have culture, and community, and even religion. We gave it all away.
And the worst part is that people can't even recognize something as simple as a guy who got rich on subsidies and fed money printing cranking up his stonks isn't a libertarian. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 20:25:56 JST
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Come on... It's only happened every single time. Just every single time though. But I'm confident this time will be different. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 17:53:45 JST
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When discussing French politics it's always important to remember that they're French.
"svp Napoleon! We got rid of Le king in a bloody revolution but we are le retarder so become our king!" -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 11:47:10 JST
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lol the only reason you might have to fear threads.net on the fediverse is if they've already got you by the balls. They're too weak to join us. Which I called a long time ago.
https://www.threads.net/moderated_servers
It's hilarious: It keeps on going and going and going, it's a list of everyone. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 03:25:22 JST
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Besides the story itself, I appreciate the connection you make with deterioration of the society and the people.
The wealth of nations isn't just stuff, and it can and will disappear in a heartbeat if that fact is neglected. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 21:33:53 JST
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To be honest, we've probably very much don't.
Takes a lot of money in order to prove a material reserve. For that reason, companies won't prove everything that they think they might have, they will claim they've got a relatively small fraction of what's probably there because in order to go to the market and claim that you have something you need to have things pretty well dialed.
As an example, many mines claim that they have 5 years of reserves, but then a lot of those mines will go out to run for 50 years. I'm reasonably confident that the same is true in oil and gas. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 07:43:28 JST
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Oh thank goodness. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 10:29:06 JST
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I've had an automated weekly repack for a year or two now, it has a big impact. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 10:27:36 JST
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The database cleanup was just running a couple of built in pleroma scripts that clean up old data (cleaning out 25GB of remote posts!), but the real issue seems to have been a number of faulty packets with invalid addresses being aimed at fbxl social in particular (once I stopped accepting packets for fbxl domains the server came back and once I started again)
My hypothesis so far is that either intentionally due to malicious attack or unintentionally due to a misconfigured server a bunch of these malformed packets were sent my way, and filled up connection slots in the kernel, locking up not just http but telnet and icmp. Once I added some configuration changes to increase the number of connection slots and also to filter any packets with bad addresses (sysctl calls them martian packets since they come from "alien" address spaces) the connection issues ceased. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 10:27:13 JST
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[admin mode] completed some maintenance tasks on the database(hence the inaccessibility today), it shrank the database a shocking amount so I'd call that a win. Should improve performance, I've still got more to do later but it's fine for now. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 00:51:37 JST
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I see a lot of people.talking about water consumption by data centers.
Big question is whether the water is consumed or just used.
Water is a renewable resource, so you can take it out if a river, run it through a heat exchanger, and return it and the water isnt consumed, it's just used and returned.
It seems that one major way of cooling is evaporative cooling. So the water is evaporated into the air, and eventually will fall as rain, and whether that's consumption becomes really complicated since it depends on local weather patterns and the like.
I do think there's an argument to be made that there's environmental effects from injecting Olympic swimming pools worth of water into the air every month. I would fully expect that to change the local climate.
Rest assured everyone that the parts stolen from a roadside sign that run my social media empire use not a drop of water for cooling! -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 22:38:39 JST
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Anyone have any suggestions for good domain name providers who might support a dynamic DNS script? I obviously need something new now that godaddy decided to shut down their API...
And for people about to go "wow you're so stupid didn't you know godaddy is shit", I started using them 20 year ago and they were basically the first guys I found and they worked ok for me for most of those 20 years... -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 21:44:32 JST
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Just finished the adventures of Tom Sawyer with my son, we just started the Hobbit.
I read Tom Sawyer in college and remember enjoying it, but it apparently was long enough ago that I forgot many of the plot beats so it was kind of like enjoying it again for the first time.
I've never been a fan of Lord of the rings or Tolkien -- not saying it's bad, rather than that I just was never a fan -- never had access to the books, and I was aware that the movies were very popular and highly regarded, but I ended up watching the trilogy one day with my brother, and it was like the super long director's cut where the last movie was like 7 hours long, and then probably just wasn't a good way to experience that movie. Regardless, I'm pretty interested in seeing how the book plays out. I've got a giant monstrous tome containing all three Lord of the rings novels for when he's a little bit older.
I think The Hobbit is 19 chapters, and as a general rule of thumb I try to do a chapter a week, so whatever I read next day assume I'll be starting it before the end of the year. I'm kind of giving bullfinch's mythology the side eye, apparently it's a really good mythology book. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:38:59 JST
sj_zero
The darkest Day in Canadian history.
I remember passing by the 8-ft tall sign that said "the land of rape and honey" and it brought me so much joy. But now, it's gone probably forever.
Truly dark days. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 20:21:26 JST
sj_zero
Even if taxes don't change, the inflation tax goes up every year for 2 reasons.
First, your wage loses X% of its buying power every year so if you don't get a wage increase you just lost X% of your earnings forevermore.
Second, higher wages are taxed at higher rates due to progressive taxation, so despite having the same buying power on your new wage you're taxed more.
Third, inflation causes nominal capital gains that aren't real. Let's say that you bought enough stock to buy a basket of goods in 1980. If you sell the stock, assuming it kept up with inflation it should buy the same basket of goods. The problem is that the number of dollars it takes to buy the same basket of goods doubled (even if you believe the "inflation has been 2% lie) so the stock doubled, and so now you owe taxes on a 100% gain, even though it didn't actually gain value. In that sense, inflation *is* a wealth tax because the government gets a cut despite your wealth not increasing.
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