Kata1yst

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Whataboutism? Really? That's the game we're playing?

Sure, okay, I'll bite.

Edward Snowden: He's a hero, no doubt in my mind. But from this perspective, no one has attacked him since his departure from the US. Formal requests have been made to extradite him and they've been turned down. Once on foreign soil the US respected Russian sovereignty.

Julian Assange: Okay personally I find Assange to be a piece of shit, but that aside, the extradition process has been followed legally.

Chelsea Manning: Broke the law. And while her initial imprisonment situation was absolutely concerning, it was legal. The legal process was followed, and the sentence given was far short of the maximum. Her sentence was commuted by a sitting president. No foreign governments were involved, so no sovereignty was violated.

Drake and Binny: Always were on US soil. No foreign involvement whatsoever. They were raided and Drake was changed with crimes. He received probation and community service. Once again, the legal process was followed and no foreign sovereignty violated.

Boeing Whistleblowers: What the fuck is this arguement? You think the US is happy one of it's biggest military manufacturers and transportation providers has serious quality issues? You think the US is taking action against the whistleblowers? Be serious.

Basically: you're saying the US charges people who violate the laws around information handling as criminals. Yes, that's true. Now, I personally am sympathetic to most of these cases. I assume you are too. Whistleblowers should be better protected, but at the same time some information, like the names and personal information of government assets abroad, reasonably should be protected. It's a delicate balance, and one I think the US could greatly improve.

However, these are not similar to the cases in question. The cases in question are actions by governments on foreign soil or against US citizens. This is an enormous violation of sovereignty, legality, and due process. That's the issue at hand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I host my own to avoid running into timeouts, fairly easy

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

MRSA infection following hospital admittance for Pneumonia. That shit is serious and way more prevalent than people think, it's just that it usually kills people who are already terminally ill.

Unlikely to be an assassination. But not impossible. Either way, looks very bad.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/glass-lewis-recommends-investors-vote-against-three-boeing-directors-2024-04-30/

The recommendation to shareholders from the independent advisor who proxies Boeing is to vote out several board members who are responsible for safety and QA. Crazy to see at a Fortune 100.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, this in particular is something they need to bring the hammer down on now before others see this as a valid strategy. After the first 10s penalty he was out of the points and obviously consciously decided that if he was out any way, more penalities wouldn't sting as much as his team bringing home another zero point weekend.

It was egregious and unsportsmanlike. And I say this as someone who generally likes KMag.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use FreshRSS. Can't say I love the interface, but with the open and standardized API, there are dozens of beautiful front ends to choose on any device.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For real? Damn it that's going to be painful.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never ask a man his pay, a woman her weight, or a data horder the contents of their stash.

Jk. Mostly.

I have a similar-ish set up to @Davel23 , I have a couple of cool use cases.

  • I seed the last 5 arch and opensuse (a few different flavors) ISOs at all times

  • I run an ArchiveBot for archive.org

  • I scan nontrivial mail (the paper kind) and store it in docspell for later OCR searches, tax purposes etc.

  • I help keep Sci-Hub healthy

  • I host several services for de-googling, including Nextcloud, Blocky, Immich, and Searxng

  • I run Navidrome, that has mostly (and hopefully will soon completely) replace Spotify for my family.

  • I run Plex (hoping to move to Jellyfin sometime, but there's inertial resistance to that) that has completely replaced Disney streaming, Netflix streaming, etc for me and my extended family.

  • I host backups for my family and close friends with an S3 and WebDAV backup target

I run 4x14TB, 2x8TB, 2x4TB, all from serverpartsdeals, in a ZFS RAID10 with two 1TB cache dives, so half of the spinning rust usable at ~35TB, and right now I'm at 62% utilization. I usually expand at about 85%

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I was like, where are the supporting vertebrates?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You found one video supporting your viewpoint. Kaspersky's role in Russian intelligence has been an open secret since the mid 2010s. This is Facebook Anti-Vaxxer "research" methodology.

[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Reminds me of the kid who I worked with who tried to convince me in earnest that Colbert was a champion of Conservatism.

I thought it was a joke for weeks and played along before I realized he just was that dumb and naive.

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