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uspol meta, "you" 

Like, if you're still waffling on to this day about how you want to see what the 'rule of law' does first, and aren't already planning your own actions, you are *too late* and I do not believe that you are *ever* going to take the necessary action

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uspol meta, "you" 

I'm going to be blunt here: how ignorant do you have to be to still believe that 'rule of law' is going to solve the shitshow in the US, and so you don't need to take direct action yourself? Where have you been for the past decade?

@StellaQuasten Ze zijn er zeker wel, maar de media hoor je er niet over, dus als je geen mensen in die bewegingen kent of volgt dan zul je het waarschijnlijk nooit tegenkomen.

(Dat is overigens in Nederland vaak niet anders, maar dat terzijde.)

Interestingly, two days before Oracle deleted my account and all servers associated with it, I publicly criticized Oracle's CEO in a viral post for promising dystopian AI surveillance technology to his investors.

mastodon.de/@ErikUden/11387936

What a weird coincidence.

This is a public service announcement to never ever use Oracle

domain names, asking for advice 

@Byte It's not impossible for e-mail services to do that, in theory (and if anyone, I would expect it to be Microsoft doing that, who are notorious for having inscrutable spamfilters), but I have never heard a single report of this happening so I don't think that is currently a thing.

domain names, asking for advice 

@Byte Addendum: there are probably smaller companies doing domain registration that aren't owned by shitty people, but the problem is that they almost always are just reselling one of the big guys with a markup, so your money ends up going to the shitty companies anyway...

domain names, asking for advice 

@Byte I've had good experiences with internetbs.net over the years, though I don't know if their most recent acquisition has changed things since. I've had very few issues and whenever I did have one, they always resolved it and communicated personally (ie. no canned answers).

(They also don't immediately hit the "suspend" button as soon as any abusemail comes in, genuine or otherwise, like certain other registrars do...)

It may or may not meet your "not owned by shitty people" bar. Their main target demographic is domain squatters (ie. bulk customers), which are mostly shitty people though nowhere near as bad as blockchain/"AI"/etc. stuff. That having been said, the entire domain industry seems to be shady that way, these guys are just a bit more obvious about it...

ranty, stalebots 

@thcrt I decided a couple years ago that projects using stalebots don't actually want to know about issues, and so I just don't file them anymore when I find them. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there are usually a lot of bugs I run into in those projects...

I hate stalebots with the intensity of a thousand suns. There are *so many* better ways to handle task prioritization and communication to contributors, and yet projects insist on telling their contributors that they don't give a shit about fixing issues or respecting people's time.

Geld, Community ---, offensive to wealthy eyes 

Ich hoffe dass wenn ihr das nächste Mal wenn euer 350€ Kickstarter Projekt dass ihr nicht selbst gemacht habt ankommt und ihr euren fetten Server den ihr nicht benutzt ausmacht um mit eurer 3200€ Bahncard zu eurem ersten von 14 200€ teuren Event ins 300€ Hotel einspart ich finde dass ihr richtige heuchlerische Wichser seid wenn ihr bei dem ganzen scheiß nicht einmal 50€ einsparen konntet damit es einer anderen Person die ihr kennt deutlich besser ergeht. Nein, erzählt der Person von eurem tollen neuen Job, und wie viel Kerne ihr doch mehr habt und fühlt euch gut weil, ihr habt den Antifa Sticker und mehr für das Ticket ausgegeben, damit seid ihr nämlich frei von jeglicher Verantwortung und müsst nicht mehr darüber nachdenken und diese Werte bedeuten euch so viel und ihr habt wirklich Verständis darüber was das alles bedeutet. Das merke ich wenn ihr dann ankommt und mir ein Ticket anbietet, wenn ihr überhaupt nicht begreifen könnt das ich mir weder die Fahrt noch ein Hotel für einen Tag leisten kann weil ihr so fucking weit entfernt davon seit und euch nicht damit beschäftigt, weil ihr leid vom Kapitalismus nicht erkennt wenn es vor eurer scheiß fresse passiert und nicht bereit seit irgendetwas zu tun was euch von eurem sorglosen leben auch nur annähernd in die Quere kommt, da hört Solidarität und Verständnis plötzlich auf. Wenn man mit einer mitfahrt, bei einem Umzug, mit alter Elektronik und Werkzeug, alten Möbeln oder einem geteilten Schlafplatz für das ganze Jahr oder langwieriger für eine Person etwas ändern könnte. Das geht zu weit, wenn es mehr als das extra Ticket klicken ist und man eventuell nicht das tolle überteuerte neue Projekt anfangen könnte wenn man endlich von dem Event zurück kommt, die Person die es sich nicht leisten konnte dorthin hinzufahren und das Ding was ihr toll neu basteln könnt der Person die in Armut lebt in die Fresse halten könnt. Wenn das überhaupt stimmen würde dass es irgendeinem von euch es so viel kosten würde dass ihr das merkt, be it an Zeit oder Gelder, die Menschen in unserer Community die unter dem System am meisten leiden, zu helfen

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Stukje wijsheid uit de werkplaats: "turning right oppresses, turning left liberates"

i wonder if there will come a day when i realize i can recall people's pronouns with clarity but i still blank on their names even after i've known them for years and shit

warning regarding uspol and data archiving (2) 

@joepie91 Thanks! I'll look into both. I've been looking into solutions where groups of individuals can pool their resources for a project like this and it seems like it's needed now more than ever.

@silvermoon82 Seems so! I found out about this because of the Wikipedia article for CDRWIN mentioning that it would allow setting up this device to use it from the program.

warning regarding uspol and data archiving (2) 

@KuJoe That could certainly be a useful option here!

Garage may also be worth looking into, though it has much weaker protections against malicious nodes - it's more useful if you control all of the storage systems involved and just want to distribute the data among them.

TIL about the Kodak Disc Transporter, which seems to have been a peripheral you could connect to your computer back in the day to automatically load and unload CD-Rs from your computer as you were burning them?

warning regarding uspol and data archiving (2) 

Also, more generally, consider that institutional organizations are *much* more vulnerable to hostile action than chaotic local collectives which do not have clear operators or representatives.

It pays to store a copy in some obscure organization that's difficult to figure out as an outsider, even if they don't have professional infrastructure to support it. Deliberate censorship is the bigger risk right now, not accidental data loss.

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warning regarding uspol and data archiving 

Hey, so uh, please keep in mind that the Internet Archive is located in the US. While they are an independent organization in principle, that sure isn't going to stop a fascist like Trump or Musk, who definitely has physical access to their facilities and the impunity to go with it.

All of which is to say: make sure to also back up the data you're archiving in a place that is *not* in the US or its direct sphere of influence! There is only so much the Internet Archive can do to insulate themselves from fascist actions.

US politics, the coup, and data scrubbing 

Apologies for not CWing the original post. Consider boosting this here toot so that people can choose to engage or not.

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