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people keep spending too much time thinking about what a technology *is* and not enough about *who owns it and how they profit from it.*

and even less time thinking about *how they can destroy that property relation and liberate the underlying technology* if it's useful

@hazelnot Scan Tailor (or one of the forks) is very very good at this sort of thing

Just learned of this giant adorable fox sculpture in Rotterdam and now I must share it with everyone.

@joepie91 This is not an answer, but I really hope there *is* a good answer.

I'd love to have an "internet" VM that simulates a (small scale) global internet, with packet losses, variable latency, etc., in a configurable way, along with a way to hook up individual client VMs to the fake-internet (with simulated NAT etc. like you mention). A turn-key solution really ought to be possible, but I'm not sure one exists.

What's the easiest way to set up a simulated network with ISP-style NAT? Preferably without buying dedicated hardware for the purpose, and preferably reproducible for other developers.

Usecase: I am developing a P2P system, and need a reasonably representative environment to test my software in, and how well it deals with shitty residential networking configurations.

I'm a developer, not a network engineer, so my knowledge of networks is limited to a developer perspective and I don't have the spoons to learn it in-depth.

Boosts appreciated :boost_requested:

What. KDE's SFTP integration just broke, and frustration-F5ing my file browser actually worked to fix it???

subtoot 

Imagine being a journalist with a million followers and tweeting "SCOOP: SERVERS COST MONEY"

if you're a journalist and you're writing whole-ass articles about fediverse drama

stop
go home
rethink your life

re: rant, hair stuff vs cis people 

@akai I hated this *so, so* much growing up

re: shitty reasons for defederation 

@schratze I mean, to be fair, that's probably the least bad defed reason of the lot

I love how well my P100 mask goes with my Tali hoodie.💜 I am always masked bc I'm immunocompromised, disabled & chronically ill, the pandemic isn't over and I am not trying to collect any more illnesses, thanks 😂 Extra protection from COVID feels very Quarian to me 😌😷

is it bad if your VM is reporting a CPU temperature of -273 degrees celsius

day 7 - this was always going to happen:

likes are now florps

timeline goes sideways

(also, this is a client that uses htmx for reload-free updates and infinite scrolling)

mastolab.kal-tsit.halcy.de/day

#mastodev #mastodonpy #mastodonapi #python

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post.news bullshit 

Honestly, this is as large an inditement of the *vibe* at post.news as I could imagine: a white cis dude getting all self-important and pissy because of a moderation decision, then deciding to mansplain all of the fediverse while getting every relevant detail wrong.

If that's what the culture at post.news is like, I'm glad to have nothing to do with it.

mathstodon.xyz/@darius@friend.

Police discourse, rant 

What perhaps pisses me off most in discussions about "should we have police", particularly with liberals, is the incredibly patronizing "well, they are necessary to keep society safe".

Like, do you genuinely think that we have somehow completely failed to consider this extremely obvious argument that has been thrown at us literally since we were children, and that gets reinforced on a daily basis in pretty much every form of commercial media that there is?

How is it in any way respectful towards your discussion partner to make that assumption? That they must have not only spent zero time thinking about the topic, but are not even aware of the ubiquitous argument that "everybody knows", and it falls upon you to educate them?

If this is how you start that discussion, then I'm sorry to break it to you, but you're not actually trying to have a real discussion - you're just looking for ways to convince *yourself* that all is fine, and harming the people you're talking to in the process.

@thomas FWIW, they are a registered bank in Luxembourg for all EU customers, so you can hassle them to unfreeze your account because they can't just keep your money under banking laws here unless they have a good reason

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