Subscript5676 @ Subscript5676 @lemmy.ca

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Yo, you just reaffirmed my idea that I thought was too wild! I have to replace this old phone of mine soon cause the battery’s dying, but I guess this thing will have to stay up for a bit, or much, longer.

The fact that this is listed for fast-tracking, or even considered a candidate at all, is, frankly, disgusting.

AFAIK, the author isn’t anti-proprietary. His goal with the newsletter is to share news that relates to self-hosting, which isn’t limited to FOSS, which is something he mentioned in one of his recent newsletters (it’s a common criticism he gets apparently). And there’s the reality where the vast majority of the source for selfhosted software are hosted on Github.

Two or three years sound somewhat optimistic to me. It’s quite likely that it’s a really rough estimate. Fact is, AWS has a crap ton of little features that they add over the years, displacing smaller players or outright buying them, so that they can lock you into their service. I reckon that there’s also the need to re-engineer some of these services to rid themselves of those lock-ins.

Oh the old Comedy certainly died. This new one has another name: Real Life.

While what you said is true, this case is rather different from your regular cases.

The killer was already prepared to face the law when he killed Abe for personal vengeance, not against Abe but the Unification Church. Killing Abe would send a strong message to not just the church, but more importantly to the public. But if he doesn’t admit his crimes, then there would be no message; he has to use his background for the message to come through. And he’s been pretty successful. Attention and criticism of the Unification Church intensified and there are now more people who call it as a cult, and politicians have distanced themselves from the church as well.

STFU and GTFO Porkstra

I think that’s making Carney seem like the only politician who’s playing this game; that’s not true at all. Many of the less developed Asian economies have become more reliant on China over the years, and IS playing the realpolitik game, and we’re only seeing Carney trying to play a similar game here.

Why am I saying that? If you look within many of those ASEAN countries, you’ll notice that China has been putting investments into and through their countries at various levels, and they’ve been happy (if reluctantly) to take them despite how many of them are in a conflict with China esp over the South China Sea.

Ideally, we shouldn’t feed the beast that would claw our faces, but this beast stands in the way of accessing various critical minerals and even technology (China is no longer playing catch up; they lead in certain sectors now), and Canada is in a position where we need to progress lest we be crushed by the times.

Western countries like the idealist approach to foreign policies, which is fine, but you can only play that game when you’re not being threatened. The so-called Global South has never had that privilege, and has thus generally resorted to more pragmatic approaches. Unfortunately for Canada, those days to being pure idealists is over, and it’s time to learn to be pragmatic, and how to play that game safely.

So it’s “Wake the fuck up” really. Those stable times are over, and we’re in some of the most turbulent times since WW2 and the Cold War, and given who’s fanning the flames, it’s only going to get worse from here. Fingers crossed that we keep voting in politicians that know what they’re doing, especially if we’ve not been doing that at all in the last several decades.

Oh boy! This is so good to hear!

You read that wrong my friend. It says “Spend ¥6000 or above (implies that you spend this much at The Poutinerie) and get this magnet for free”

Literally had one such old person checking out my shared house the other day and telling my younger housemate, who’s struggling to find proper work, to “try harder”. Guess who didn’t get to stay in the house.

Not in my functional language with no nulls :P

While I don’t disagree with the comment you replied to, just saying that you’re hearing similar complaints these days just reminds me that a lot of “complaints” are controlled and disseminated strategically to flood the zone and make issues seem more serious than they are. While it’s still a useful way to get a gauge on certain issues, when it comes to politics or politically charged issues, it’s no longer a reliable source for any kind of personal judgement. Just my 2 cents.

Am trying to build my first NAS here (and no I’m not buying one off the shelf, cause where’s the fun in that when I drive Linux on the daily?), and I do have some spinning drives. I wouldn’t lose important work; this is just for my personal use, but it would pain me to lose some of my personal stuff. My important docs are already backed up on a personal cloud, and my side projects are on some public git.

But yeah, my plan is to have just enough power in the event of a power outage to gracefully shut down the NAS. Would be really nice if I could automate that, in case I’m not around.

Back in university, it was an iPad mini 5, using Notability. Notability has enshittified badly though.

These days (I’m no longer in university so I do write a lot less), I write on a Kobo.

Ahh, a little too late to know about the event.

That said though, how are these people? Am a little hesitant to meet a whole bunch of strangers at once, and especially when it’s over an ideology, cause I don’t feel comfortable with pushy people.

It does. I vastly prefer writing notes by hand than typing em. But my handwriting sucks when I have to write quickly, and I also don’t like lugging around giant stacks of paper. And so I settled on a digital writing pad, and just do the work to type my notes later. Acts as revision too.

pp’s comment doesn’t even make too much sense. Does he think people believe that governments can change the course of literal macroeconomic trends in just less than a year, and especially in the face of an aggressive economic threat from a large trading partner?

Oh wait. His supporters would believe that.

Fuck off pp

Every time I see someone recommend this at work I die a little inside. Like… C’mon!

I wonder if we could just build out that infra and trade or sell the know-how or tech to other countries. I’m sure a lot of countries out there are pretty darn interested in replacing AWS. Displacing them would be hard, cause it takes a lot of money, and so years, to procure all that hardware, but it’d already be a big win if people would even consider hosting their business sites or apps outside of AWS/Azure/GCP.

One of the main seeking points of those services, however, is that it’s easy for software businesses to expand to different geographical locations by just deploying the same thing they build to the new environment, and that’s an enormous barrier for cloud providers, easily separating the smaller fishes from the big ones. Being able to share that tech with friendlier countries or countries with sufficiently cordial relations, would make it easier for businesses to do that.